Hello summer time!
In the news:
Annie - from Collect 2009: the international art fair for contemporary objects, held this year, May 15-19 in the UK.
Arthur and Jane Mason - from the Summer 2009 issue of American Woodturner: the Journal of the Association of American Woodturners, the Masons received the Collectors of Wood Art Lifetime Achievement Award. Previous winners include Robyn Horn. Congratulations to the Masons! They describe one of the three "magic moments" of their lives as "when our gift of 120 pieces was opened at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design . . . We could have flown home from Charlotte without an airplane."
Ted Noten - one of the 10 - is featured in the latest issue of CRAFTS out of the UK. Wonderful examples of his work. Read the article online or see with images in the actual magazine in the library (soon to be at MMCD!). And of course we have his monograph in the library!
And also new in the library, courtesy of Seattle Art Museum publication exchange, the catalog from the exhibition S'abadb The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists, a gorgeous and informative volume with an extensive dialogue with Susan Point - another one of the 10! This catalog is soon to be available on your library shelf!Upcoming library news: An upgrade to our library software Polaris (MARCO to you) is being scheduled for later this summer. Should be pretty transparent to everyone, and will likely just require MARCO to be down for a day. More on this later.
AND we're making a book! It's a special project for a special person and you all will be the first (or at least the second) to see! Hush hush, more on this later too.
A summertime list
- Favorite thing 1:
Getting excited about Passionate Journey: The Grice Collection of Native American Art exhibition! Love those COLORS! Baskets, textiles, ceramics and masks! Yummy. And the exhibition catalog is due out soon!
Favorite thing 2: DOCENTS! As if they weren't already spectacular, many thanks to Verna (here's one of her teapots) and Frank Witt for hosting a get-together for Education staff and docents pool-side at their house/studio/woodland oasis, and to Bruce Kelley for starting to pull together what hopefully will become the Michael Kampen O'Riley Drawings digitization project!
- Favorite thing 3: Little movies! Great animation (and audio) Thanks Design Sponge!
Firekites - AUTUMN STORY - chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo.
- Favorite thing 4: Treasures from the stacks!
- like Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 from a summer 116 years ago! I love the cover of this guide! And below is a picture of the building itself 
- Favorite thing 5: Unexpected Mint artist news/summertime love story!
and best of all
- Favorite thing period: New Mint family additions: welcome to the world baby Wade - pix to come!
Cheers all and happy summer.
