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.
Making Art: The Fundamentals
Join me this summer at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado for this workshop. What is art and design? What are the formal terms we use to describe form and space and how have these conventions evolved in the post-modern world of making? How do we include meaningful content in our work, while at the same time sharpen our understanding of the fundamental nature of form, and our ability to successfully manipulate it? This one-week intensive offers the student a formal understanding of two- and three-dimensional form and space, and introduces various creative processes to help students identify the best means by which they can imbue their work with compelling ideas and content.
July 20-24, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado
Join me this summer at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado for this workshop. What is art and design? What are the formal terms we use to describe form and space and how have these conventions evolved in the post-modern world of making? How do we include meaningful content in our work, while at the same time sharpen our understanding of the fundamental nature of form, and our ability to successfully manipulate it? This one-week intensive offers the student a formal understanding of two- and three-dimensional form and space, and introduces various creative processes to help students identify the best means by which they can imbue their work with compelling ideas and content.
July 20-24, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado
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.
