University of Oregon
Spring 2021Â Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Glenn Adamson: “Craft in America: Real and Idealâ€
Co-sponsored by the MFA Applied Craft + Design at PNCA
Thursday, April 8, 3:00 p.m.
Free, via Zoom, with registration.join a livestream on the Department of Art Facebook.
Drawing from his new book, Craft: An American History, Glenn Adamson will engage in conversation with Anya Kivarkis. They will discuss the implication of race, gender and class in US craft history, and focus particularly on the relationship between craft’s economic and material presence, and its rich symbolic dimension. There are important differences between real and ideal, yet each influences the other in a complex exchange.
Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design; Head of Research at the V&A; and Curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. Adamson’s publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007); The Craft Reader (2010); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011, co-edited with Jane Pavitt); The Invention of Craft (2013); Art in the Making (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan-Wilson; and Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018). His newest book is Craft: An American History, published by Bloomsbury, and he is co-host of the online interview series Design in Dialogue.
Above images : 1.) FISK poster design  2.) “Craft: An American History” by Glenn Adamson
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