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Crafting Resistance

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Start:
Aug 19, 2023
End:
Jul 14
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ASU Art Museum
51 E 10th St, Tempe, AZ 85281
Tempe, 85281
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Phone
480-965-2787
Crafting Resistance looks at the ways in which we understand and view the term craft and its relationship to fine art. The exhibition seeks to flatten the western European art historical cannon and hierarchy and unhinge the binary that often places ‘fine art’ and ‘craft’ at odds with one another. Artists in the exhibition utilize materials and modes of production that are often relegated to what is historically viewed as craft, mediums such as glass, textile, felt, miniature, and wood, and instrumentalize them to make commentary about some of today’s most pressing issues, including climate catastrophe, representation, geo-politics, and migration.

Special thanks to artists Sama Alshaibi, Merryn Omotayo Alaka, Andrew Erdos, Maria Hupfield, Yasue Maetake, Jayson Musson, Eric-Paul Riege, Curtis Talwst Santiago, and Sam Frésquez, with additional thanks to the exhibition’s community of practice, Joe Baker (Delaware), Bonn Baudelaire (Cocopah), and Sharah Nieto (Yucatec Maya).

Curated by Erin Joyce with support from Abby Sutton, ASU Art Museum Windgate Intern.

Sponsors:

The Edward Jacobson Fund

Kevin and Alexis Cosca

Theresa M. Shoemaker

Christian and Allison Lester

 

Image credit: Eric-Paul Riege Diné, b. 1994; based in Gallup, New Mexico blankets have warmed us for a long time, why not keep making MORE. a blanket for a blanket. they get cold 2, 2021 mixed fibers. Image courtesy of Stars Gallery.

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