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CRAFTBOSTON - Holiday
Boston Westin Waterfront
Boston, MA
November 14-16, 2008

Making it’s debut, CRAFTBOSTON Holiday features 110 innovative craft artists, showcasing one-of-a-kind and limited-edition pieces in baskets, ceramics, decorative fiber, art-to-wear, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper and wood.  CRAFTBOSTON Holiday follows the success of the original CRAFTBOSTON show, which will return to the Seaport World Trade Center for it’s eighth year in March.  Read the rest of this entry »

Technology Driven Design by Doug Bucci & Gabriel Romeu
Wexler Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
November 7, 2008 - December 27, 2008

The Wexler Gallery is an internationally recognized gallery exhibiting some of the world’s most esteemed artists working in the fields of contemporary glass, ceramics, jewelry, and studio furniture.  Their latest exhibit is Technology Driven Design by jewelry artist Doug Bucci and furniture maker Gabriel Romeu.  Read the rest of this entry »

Washington Craft Show
Washington Convention Center
Washington, D.C.
November 7 - 9, 2008

A premier national event of contemporary American craft, the Washington Craft Show transforms D.C.’s Convention Center into a showcase for 190 leading craft artists and their latest work from 34 states and D.C.

Celebrating its 21st year, this major fall show includes 41 new artists among established and emerging talent selected by jury to present their signature collections for home and to wear. Each piece is one-of-a-kind or limited edition, made with vision and mastery in the artist’s studio. Read the rest of this entry »

Traditional Craftsmanship, Nontraditional Education:
Works from the North Bennet Street School
Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, MA
October 18, 2008 through January 25, 2009

This exhibition features the traditional craftsmanship the school is renowned for with new and exciting work from the students and alumnus of North Bennet Street School’s cabinet and furniture making program.  North Bennet Street School has been training people for employment since 1885. It pioneered the concept of intensive instruction in a classroom/shop setting for the sole purpose of learning a trade.  Woodworking has been part of the school’s history since its founding. The traditional, two year, hands-on program has trained woodworkers, committed to the highest standards of the craft, from around the country and the world. Read the rest of this entry »

The 9th Annual Texas Furniture Maker’s Show
Kerr Arts and Cultural Center
Kerrville, Texas
October 23 - December 2, 2008

The Ninth Annual Texas Furniture Makers Show is a juried statewide competition featuring 75 handcrafted pieces by the best custom furniture makers in Texas.  Work on display, available for sale, will range in style from Shaker, 19th century German, retro  ‘50s, modern Cedar log, Southwest Mesquite, and turquoise, to classic with a twist and mixed media eclectic. The show will be accessorized with quilts, hooked rugs, paintings, gourd art and turned wood.

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Garry Knox Bennett: Call Me Chairmaker
Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton, MA
October 4, 2008 - February 8, 2009

Curated by the Bellevue Arts Museum, this unique exhibition features 52 one of a kind sculptural chairs by one of the foremost contemporary studio furniture makers in America. Inspired by well-known furniture designers and architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, George Nakashima and Gerrit Rietveld, Bennett’s chairs use bold new forms and expand traditional boundaries to demonstrate furniture’s importance as an art form. Read the rest of this entry »

Maker’s Perspective
ARTBOX
Indianapolis, IN
October 3 - November 4, 2008

The first solo exhibition of artist, teacher, and furniture maker Cory Robinson is now on view at ARTBOX in Indianapolis. This show features 20 pieces mostly created in 2007 and 2008. The work ranges from the obvious functional surfaces of table tops and drawers to wall hung mirrors that embrace the artist’s aesthetic pursuits. Read the rest of this entry »

Realisations
American Irish Historical Society
New York, NY
October 17-November 2, 2008 extended until November 30, 2008

Following an invitation by the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS), Irish Designer & Artist Joseph Walsh is presenting his first major solo exhibition of Design Art & Functional Objects. The exhibition honours Walsh’s achievements to date, presenting some of his most significant work created over the last 10 years. Featuring work that has successfully crossed the borders between design and art, engineering and craft, Realisations is a celebration of artistic communication through design, making and material.  Rich with conceptual thought, aesthetic value and structural resolve Walsh has, since he began his career, created a body of unique work.  He began making at a very young age, establishing a Studio and workshop in Ireland in 1999.  This has been developed, over subsequent years, into the unique environment it is today. Read the rest of this entry »

Legacy of Talent: A Moser Reunion
Messler Gallery
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship
Rockport, Maine
September 12 – November 28, 2008

The latest exhibit at the Messler Gallery, presents contemporary pieces by Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers in conjunction with work by seven accomplished furniture makers who passed through the Moser workshops early in their careers. These are Jas. Becker Cabinetmaker from Wilder, Vermont; Green Design Furniture from Portland, Maine; Huston & Co. from Kennebunkport, Maine; Kevin Rodel Furniture & Design Studio from Brunswick, Maine; Peter Thompson from Cornville, Maine; Vigneron Design Studio from Housatonic, Massachusetts; and Stewart Wurtz Furniture from Seattle, Washington.
In 1972, Tom Moser left a teaching career to rediscover the art of furniture making in an old Grange Hall in New Gloucester, Maine. Today, Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers employs nearly 100 craftsmen to produce an extensive line of residential and institutional furniture, yet the work retains Moser’s original commitment to the natural beauty of wood, enduring construction, and simple, unadorned, graceful design. Read the rest of this entry »

Garry Knox Bennett: One of Each
Gallery NAGA
Boston MA
October 3 - November 1, 2008

This small, 13 piece survey of work from ’70s through 2008, represents the range of objects characteristic of this premiere studio furniture maker.  This show includes works never offered before from the personal collection of Garry and Sylvia Bennett. The variety of objects made by Garry Knox Bennett – from massive and complex chests to tiny, curious boxes, from rock-solid utility to the amusement of ideas expressed as pure sculpture – and the range of his materials – just about any wood, metal, or plastic you can name, as well as found objects, paints, watercolors, enamels, beads, bone, and more – is just plain unmatched.  Read the rest of this entry »