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Lecture by Fo Wilson
Design and Craft Lecture SeriesWednesday, February 22, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Fo Wilson uses the language of furniture to investigate ideas around identity and culture, and to re-present histories that counter dominant Western historical narratives. She is an educator, curator, writer, and maker of objects, spaces, places, and ideas. She advocates a progressive agenda for the future of craft and design, maintaining that makers and designers must not only keep pace with the digital age, but also take part in inventing it. Wilson is currently an assistant professor at Columbia College in Chicago. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in art history, theory, and criticism. Prior to her graduate studies she ran her own graphic design consultancy with offices in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her furniture-based work has been exhibited nationally, and her design work is in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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Lecture by Del Harrow
Design and Craft Lecture SeriesWednesday, March 7, 2012, 7–9 pm
Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
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Del Harrow is a sculptor and educator based in Fort Collins, Colorado. His work in ceramics explores the intersection of digital design with manual and skill-based fabrication processes. His production covers a vast range of scales, from the architectural to the minute, and his conceptual considerations range from the natural landscape to fractal geometry. Harrow is an assistant professor of art at Colorado State University and taught previously at Penn State University and the Kansas City Art Institute. He has taught a number of workshops (recently at Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Cranbrook Academy of Art) that address digital and parametric modeling in conjunction with analog fabrication and "hands-on" work with clay. He has exhibited recently at the Denver Art Museum, Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia, and Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City.
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
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Lecture by Mia Maljojoki
Design and Craft Lecture SeriesWednesday, March 28, 2012, 7–9 pm
Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
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Mia Maljojoki's artwork employs unconventional materials to produce wearable objects that refer to personal and world events. She exhibits these works of art through multimedia and performance installations that explore how objects in context can transmit a range of meanings and emotions. Maljojoki currently lives and works in Munich; she was born and raised Joensuu, Finland. She holds a BFA in small metals from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She continued her studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künst München under Otto Künzli, and in 2010 was awarded a Diplom degree as a Meisterschulerin, the highest possible academic honor. In 2010 at Schmuck in Munich, she was awarded the Herbert Hofmann Award, a prestigious contemporary jewelry award.
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
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Lecture by Roy McMakin
Design and Craft Lecture SeriesWednesday, April 4, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Roy McMakin works on architectural, art, and furniture commissions. He began his career as a visual artist, earning his BA and MFA degrees from UC San Diego and making work that engaged issues of domesticity, memory, and the conventions of furniture construction. Interested in the concept of making similar objects as true furniture, McMakin founded Domestic Furniture Co. in 1987. He opened a showroom in Los Angeles and developed a line of furniture for the home. He simultaneously took on custom furniture commissions, which eventually led to projects encompassing the transformation of entire interiors. In 1993 he moved to Seattle with the goal of establishing a furniture production workshop that could take advantage of highly skilled local woodworkers and high-quality local hardwoods. In 1995 he started Big Leaf Manufacturing, the workshop that continues to build all McMakin furniture and sculpture, and in 1996 he founded the interior design firm Domestic Architecture. He is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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An Evening with John Waters
Co-presented by Cinema Visionaries and the Design and Craft Lecture SeriesWednesday, April 25, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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This evening, the legendary writer and director John Waters will be presenting his film A Dirty Shame, then speaking afterward about his filmmaking career and answering audience questions.
Waters's filmography includes Pink Flamingos (1972), probably the most notorious film of 1970s American independent cinema; Polyester (1981), a comic melodrama starring Divine and Tab Hunter filmed in glorious "Odorama"; Hairspray (1988), starring the then-unknown Ricki Lake, Deborah Harry, the late Sonny Bono, Jerry Stiller, Pia Zadora, and Ric Ocasek; and Cry-Baby (1990), a juvenile delinquent musical comedy satire starring Johnny Depp. Waters subscribed to Variety at age 12, and a teenager began making 8-mm underground movies influenced by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Walt Disney, Andy Warhol, Russ Meyer, Ingmar Bergman, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. Waters is the author of six books, a photographer represented by Marianne Boesky Galley in New York, a one-man spoken-word lecturer, an actor, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was a juror for the 2011 Venice Biennale.
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
The Cinema Visionaries series is made possible through the generous support of Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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