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Lecture by Ezra Shales
Presented as part of CCA's Design and Craft Lecture Series
Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 7:30–9:30 pm
Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
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Ezra Shales is interested in the productive confusion at the intersection of design, craft, and art. He has worked with visual culture from multiple perspectives, as an artist, educator, and author. Currently he is an assistant professor at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, teaching design, decorative arts, and material culture. His first book, Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Municipal Identity in the Progressive Era, published this year, looks at experimental exhibitions organized in Newark’s public library, museum, schools, and department stores between 1900 and 1916, considering craft demonstrations as civic performances, metaphors, and spectacles.
Shales's own artworks have been exhibited at numerous venues, including the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, Art in General, the Queens Museum of Art, and Artists Space in New York. He has served as director of education at the Katonah Museum of Art, New York, and director of art education for New York City public schools. He holds a doctorate from the Bard Graduate Center.
His lecture will be titled "Anonymous Craftsmen in the Empire State."
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
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