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Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick
May 17 – September 14, 2008

For decades, Marjorie Schick has been a pioneering force in the craft field. Her vibrant, energetic pieces break through traditional barriers of form, texture and color while sparking the human imagination. Sculpture Transformed incorporates 67 “body sculpture” objects that exemplify 40 years of Schick’s experimentation with form, texture, and color. Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick and its tour are organized by International Arts and Artists, Washington, DC in cooperation with the curator, Tacey A. Rosolowski, and Marjorie Schick.

The Machinery of Heaven: glass sculpture by Steven Easton
May 17 – September 14, 2008

Glass artist Steven Easton will use Fuller Craft's Merton Tarlow gallery as an environment to explore his ideas about portraits, classical antiquity, religion, science and the natural world. This exhibition has challenged Easton to take his ideas–which up to this point have been manifested in individual objects—to a larger, more inclusive, and ultimately more compelling scope and scale. As Easton explains, “Nature and its beauty is the foundation of my work – energy and matter, in myriad forms, whirl in a complicated dance that is a celebration of life. Celestial bodies, moving inexorably through the heavens, hum in rhythm with the beating of our own hearts. Everything is connected and has meaning. This belief is infinitely reassuring as we humans move through time.”

Wendy Wahl
Arboreal Anatomy
Paper
Photo: Erik Gould

Arboreal Anatomy: Sculpture by Wendy Wahl
May 17 – September 14, 2008

Rhode Island based artist Wendy Wahl will create an installation constructed from discarded and deconstructed encyclopedias in Fuller Craft's Lampos Gallery. As Wahl writes, “Arboreal Anatomy is the third iteration in a series of work that considers the associations between the tree of life and the tree of knowledge. I am describing the relationship of our natural and cultural realms in an attempt to understand the sources and structures that bind us together. By using familiar materials of learning, this exhibition addresses a set of ideas including accessibility and accumulation. Each installation has unique considerations and challenges that allow for an unexpected experience.”

Majorie Durko Puryear
Ancestry- Address Book 1(Detail)
Photo: David Carras

Majorie Durko Puryear: Woven Notes and Memorabilla
March 15,2008-July 20,2008

Using old handwritten documents, including diaries, letters, personal adress books and business ledgers, textile artist and UMass Dartmouth Professor Majorie Puryear creates narrative wall works, using digital design, and eletroic jacquard weaving techinques.

Folded Light,Folded Shadow: Paper Relief by Nishimura Yuko
May 3– July 20,2008

Using her skilled fingers as tools for folding, emerging Japanese artist Nishimura Yuko transforms single white sheets of a special Japanese paper know as kyokushi into wall panels with complex geometric patterns. Co-curated by William T. Thrasher and Keiko Fukai, this will be Nishimura's first solo exhibition in an American museum.

Gina Kamentsky: Mechanical Confections
February 2 – November 9, 2008

Gina Kamentsky, sculptor, animator, designer and teacher, has spent most of her life creating objects and media for the amusement of children and adults. During the 90s in her career as a toy and game inventor, she developed a worldwide reputation creating products for companies including Mattel, Milton Bradley, Fisher Price and Parker Brothers. In this exhibition, Kamentsky combines fantasy and reality in one of a kind mechanical toys and kinetic sculptures.

Art ASPIRE
June 14 – November 2, 2008

Fuller Craft's Art ASPIRE program connects local youth with professional artists who are actively creating and exhibiting in New England. Through this community outreach program, participants receive attentive instruction in hands-on workshops. Art ASPIRE helps young participants to develop important life skills such as self-expression and problem solving. Students are rewarded by seeing their work transform from an inspiration into reality and finally in the halls and on the walls of Fuller Craft Museum's Community Gallery.

During the 2007-2008 school year, students from Brockton's Champion Charter School, Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School, the Plouffe Elementary School in Brockton and their student mentors from Stonehill College, the Old Colony YMCA Girls Secure Unit and the Cape Verdean Association, all participated in programs and will have their work featured in this year's Art ASPIRE exhibition.

Thank you to Bank of America, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Target for generously supporting Art ASPIRE.

Micah Sherrill
Keeping the Faith
Acrylic, steel, polyester resin and aluminum leaf on wood.

Micah Sherrill: A Language of Faces – Portraits and Icons
August 2, 2008 – March 8, 2009

North Carolina-based artist Micah Sherrill is predominately self-taught and has developed a unique palette of techniques and methods in his mixed media wall works.

Xenobia Bailey
She bop she boom

Harlem-based artist Xenobia Bailey’s aesthetic is decidedly funk, a fusion of Afrocentrism, feminism, spirituality, communion with nature, drumbeats, motion, and energy. Her exhibition will include large scale wall mandalas crocheted in vivid colors and patterns made of cotton and acrylic yarns and plastic pony beads

The Exhibition:

Brockton, Massachusetts, once known as the shoe capital of the world, will revive its legacy with The Perfect Fit – Shoes Tell Stories. Curated by Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, who has strong family ties to Brockton’s shoe industry, this exhibition will explore how shoes can tell stories, addressing topics such as gender, history, sexuality, race, class, and culture.

Exhibition Dates:

The Perfect Fit – Shoes Tell Stories will be on exhibition at Fuller Craft Museum from June 6, 2009 to January 3, 2010. Starting in February, 2010, the exhibition will travel to exhibition venues around the country.

Submission Criteria:

Artists looking to apply for this opportunity should review the recent and upcoming exhibitions at Fuller Craft to understand the mission of the museum (e.g. we do not exhibit photography, paintings, or prints, and our focus is contemporary craft). Objects made in 2004 or later by artists working in the United States will be considered. Any size is possible. Any craft medium is possible. Any extraordinary concept is possible. If accepted, artists will be responsible for all incoming shipping, crating and transportation costs.

Submission Deadline: October 3, 2008

How to Apply:

Applications will only be accepted online at: www.callforentry.org. There is a $10 application fee