The New Materiality exhibition moves to the Arkansas Art Center for a run through August 5, 2012.
http://www.arkarts.com/exhibitions/current_exhibitions/meteriality.asp
http://www.arkarts.com/exhibitions/current_exhibitions/meteriality.asp
Writer and curator Liz Glass profiles me in Art Practical, an online magazine that enriches critical dialogue for the Bay Area visual arts. The profile coincided with my talk at the California College of Art as a part of their Craft & Design Lecture series.
http://www.artpractical.com/profile/fo_wilson/
http://www.artpractical.com/profile/fo_wilson/
Fo Wilson: Uncommon Adornments opens at the Wisconsin Museum of Art in West Bend and runs through May 22. Hair finds curious residence in furniture forms in artist and maker’s Fo Wilson’s work. In Uncommon Adornments, she incorporates hair as both a material and conceptual means of adorning and dressing furniture and other domestic objects. The work imbues object and form with a presence both familiar and surreal.
Sneak Peak: Friday, April 29, 10:30AM
Reception: Sunday, May 1, 1:30 - 4:00PM
Sneak Peak: Friday, April 29, 10:30AM
Reception: Sunday, May 1, 1:30 - 4:00PM
I discuss my exhibition The New Materiality with Milwaukee Public Radio host WUWM's Bonnie North.
http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/le_sgmt.php?segmentid=7294
http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/le_sgmt.php?segmentid=7294
The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft
Milwaukee Art Museum
March 10 - June 12, 2011
http://www.mam.org/exhibitions/details/new-materiality.php
Milwaukee Art Museum
March 10 - June 12, 2011
http://www.mam.org/exhibitions/details/new-materiality.php
Progeny Two: Deb Willis & Hank Willis Thomas + Fo Wilson & Dayo opens at the new Harvey Gantt Center in Charlotte, N.C.
October 8, 2010 and runs through January 23, 2011.
http://www.ganttcenter.org/web
October 8, 2010 and runs through January 23, 2011.
http://www.ganttcenter.org/web
Review of Progeny II exhibition at the Harvey Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC in the Daily Serving, January 12, 2011
Interactive Object Lab
Join me along with Leah Buechley from the MIT Media Lab this summer at Haystack in Maine for this workshop June 12 -21, 2011. This course is for those that want to extend the purview of crafted objects by adding interactivity to make objects that are sensory and/or responsive to human interaction or to each other. We will introduce students to the Arduino physical computing platform made for artists and non-engineers, and basic electronics and sensors that you can use to create interactive experiences and sensory behaviors in wood-based objects.
http://www.haystack-mtn.org/wo
Join me along with Leah Buechley from the MIT Media Lab this summer at Haystack in Maine for this workshop June 12 -21, 2011. This course is for those that want to extend the purview of crafted objects by adding interactivity to make objects that are sensory and/or responsive to human interaction or to each other. We will introduce students to the Arduino physical computing platform made for artists and non-engineers, and basic electronics and sensors that you can use to create interactive experiences and sensory behaviors in wood-based objects.
http://www.haystack-mtn.org/wo
Makers Without Borders: Furniture Makers, Sculptors and the Artists Who Have Contributed to Their Creative Lives
I was invited by curator and fellow furniture maker Gail Fredell along with eleven other makers, to collaborate on a piece with someone who inspired us. I choose to work with my son, Dayo Harewood, a filmmaker in New York.
May 19 -July 12, Penland Gallery at the Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina
I was invited by curator and fellow furniture maker Gail Fredell along with eleven other makers, to collaborate on a piece with someone who inspired us. I choose to work with my son, Dayo Harewood, a filmmaker in New York.
May 19 -July 12, Penland Gallery at the Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina
Hiptser Adam Carr from RadioMilwaukee talks to me briefly about life and art.
http://unifiedmilwaukee2.wordp
http://unifiedmilwaukee2.wordp
National Council Celebration
This panel discussion on contemporary art will be moderated by Dennis Scholl and includes artists Chris Gustin, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Amy Stein and myself. Cocktails and a lively dinner at the Anderson Ranch campus Saturday July 24th, 2009.
4:30 – 6:00 pm, Panel Discussion
6:00 – 7:00 pm, Cocktails
7:00 pm, Dinner
This panel discussion on contemporary art will be moderated by Dennis Scholl and includes artists Chris Gustin, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Amy Stein and myself. Cocktails and a lively dinner at the Anderson Ranch campus Saturday July 24th, 2009.
4:30 – 6:00 pm, Panel Discussion
6:00 – 7:00 pm, Cocktails
7:00 pm, Dinner
From Sara Baartman to Li'l Kim: Bodily Politics of Black Female Sexuality
I presented a paper about my work "The Baartman Diaries", (2008) at this conference. This body of work includes furniture-based installations that have writings and mixed media and imagine the voice of Sara Baartman, the South African woman who became known as the "Hottentot Venus" in early 19th-century Europe. I discussed the history of Black female objectification and its continuing presence in contemporary culture.
April 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I presented a paper about my work "The Baartman Diaries", (2008) at this conference. This body of work includes furniture-based installations that have writings and mixed media and imagine the voice of Sara Baartman, the South African woman who became known as the "Hottentot Venus" in early 19th-century Europe. I discussed the history of Black female objectification and its continuing presence in contemporary culture.
April 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I participated in the Foundation in Art: Theory & Education's 2009 Conference in Portland, Or., co-chairing the panel: Focus on Creativity: Approaches to Intra- and Cross-Disciplinary Learning and Teaching with Lari Gibbons from the University of North Texas. This session explored how intra- and inter-disciplinary projects revitalize foundation-level methodologies and curricula. Panelists showcased established and evolving models and discussed how their projects were created, implemented and evaluated.
April 2009, Portland, OR.
April 2009, Portland, OR.
The Baartman Diaries
Using furniture-based installations that include writings and mixed media, I represent Sara Baartman, the South African Khoikhoi woman who became known as the “Hottentot Venus” in early 19th-century Europe with fictional diary entries that cross time and space and speak to other historical and contemporary figures such as Josephine Baker and Lil’ Kim. These installations seek to bring to light the ensuing complexity and complicity in the objectification of Black female bodies and the fetishizing of Black female sexuality.
June 2008, The Richard & Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, New York.
Using furniture-based installations that include writings and mixed media, I represent Sara Baartman, the South African Khoikhoi woman who became known as the “Hottentot Venus” in early 19th-century Europe with fictional diary entries that cross time and space and speak to other historical and contemporary figures such as Josephine Baker and Lil’ Kim. These installations seek to bring to light the ensuing complexity and complicity in the objectification of Black female bodies and the fetishizing of Black female sexuality.
June 2008, The Richard & Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, New York.
The State of the Craft
Panelists: Bruce Metcalf, metalsmith, author; Michael Podmanicsky, furniture maker, furniture conservator; Fo Wilson, maker, writer, educator; and Andrew Wagner, editor-in-chief, American Craft Magazine.
Moderator: Paul Harper, writer, educator
Craft is rooted in a world of experience, of materials and processes, of things and the life of things. There is an honorable and virtuous tradition of silence in the crafts, of letting the work speak for itself, notes Paul Harper. “Craftspeople may work all of their lives to say something through their materials. But we live in a literary culture that values the word over the deed.” Harper says, "It's time to speak up."
June 18-21, 2009, Purchase College, Purchase, New York.
Panelists: Bruce Metcalf, metalsmith, author; Michael Podmanicsky, furniture maker, furniture conservator; Fo Wilson, maker, writer, educator; and Andrew Wagner, editor-in-chief, American Craft Magazine.
Moderator: Paul Harper, writer, educator
Craft is rooted in a world of experience, of materials and processes, of things and the life of things. There is an honorable and virtuous tradition of silence in the crafts, of letting the work speak for itself, notes Paul Harper. “Craftspeople may work all of their lives to say something through their materials. But we live in a literary culture that values the word over the deed.” Harper says, "It's time to speak up."
June 18-21, 2009, Purchase College, Purchase, New York.
