An update to the update!From Leslie Strauss:
Wanted to share this picture from a recent visit with artist and photographer Bobby Hansson. This photo shows Wayne Werner, Maryland jewelry artist and good friend of Bobby's, Bobby in center and Allie in our conference room poring over old magazines. Wayne is holding a Craft Horizons magazine from our archives featuring cover photography by Bobbie. As you can see, Bobby is a colorful character! He is an artist and author of The Art of the Tin Can, but also was very involved as a supporter and photographer of the craft movement. Wayne and Bobby were traveling through town to go to SNAG in Savannah, where Bobby was a featured speaker, and decided to visit us to see the museum collection and go to lunch with Allie and me. Wayne did an Extreme Craft demo for us a few years back, and also exhibits at ACC.
When I mentioned at lunch that we had the Craft Horizons magazines in our archives, Wayne insisted on pulling Bobby up to take a look. Though Bobby at first joked that he'd "just wait in the car," he actually really got into it and enjoyed finding his work, and sharing lots of great stories about working with some of the folks who are now 'art stars'. He told us that he was paid $5 each for many of the photographs we saw in the magazines!
Below is an excerpt from an email from Wayne after the visit, FYI. Just wanted to share with you how much all the museum's hard work in keeping archives available meant to someone. Thank you!!
Les
From Wayne:
Words can not describe how much Bob enjoyed coming to the museum and meeting you both, it is all he talked about for two days. I think that he decided that he finally got the payment he deserved for his photography work. He made the comment that he was proud to be a part of preserving what was going on in the Craft movement. He said that at the time the Art world could have done without it, that it was more a Hippie idea. .... So I just wanted to thank you both and let you know how much it meant to Bob.
When I mentioned at lunch that we had the Craft Horizons magazines in our archives, Wayne insisted on pulling Bobby up to take a look. Though Bobby at first joked that he'd "just wait in the car," he actually really got into it and enjoyed finding his work, and sharing lots of great stories about working with some of the folks who are now 'art stars'. He told us that he was paid $5 each for many of the photographs we saw in the magazines!
Below is an excerpt from an email from Wayne after the visit, FYI. Just wanted to share with you how much all the museum's hard work in keeping archives available meant to someone. Thank you!!
Les
From Wayne:
Words can not describe how much Bob enjoyed coming to the museum and meeting you both, it is all he talked about for two days. I think that he decided that he finally got the payment he deserved for his photography work. He made the comment that he was proud to be a part of preserving what was going on in the Craft movement. He said that at the time the Art world could have done without it, that it was more a Hippie idea. .... So I just wanted to thank you both and let you know how much it meant to Bob.
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