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Joe the Quilter: Modern Musings
On view at the Craft in
Opening reception and artist talk on Saturday March 31, 2012 at 6PM
“By origin, quilts are blankets that are meant to be useful. You can use them to
wrap yourself up, in case of the apocalypse.” -Joe Cunningham
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Joe the Quilter’s creations prove that quilts can speak as powerfully and effectively as the painter’s canvas. His quilts carry a multi-layered allure that is much deeper than the transfixing colors, patterns, and designs he scribbles across the cloth. Using landmarks of 20th century art as reference points in much of his work - Franz Kline, Abstract Expressionism and John Cage have entered into Cunningham’s approach - he pushes the craft into new realms.
Originally a rock and roll musician, Cunningham found his voice as a quilt artist when he learned and started experimenting in 1979. He soon poured his uncovered passion into researching, teaching and writing about quilts. Typically a female world, rare is the man who has ventured into these waters. Somewhere along his way, Cunningham learned about an 18th century male English quilter named Joe who inspired Cunningham to create a one-man musical quilt show which he will perform at the Study Center when the exhibition is on view.
Craft in
The Craft in America Study Center is located at 8415 West Third Street, 2 blocks East of La Cienega. The
Craft in America is pleased to present a lecture by Richard Olsen and book signing for Handmade Houses: A Century of Earth-Friendly Home Design
March 24, 2012
5-7pm, lecture at 6pm
Craft in
ABOUT Richard Olsen: Working as an editor, Richard spent a decade conceiving and shaping books on residential design for others. His credits include Treehouses of the World, Living Large in Small Spaces, The Abrams Guide to American House Styles, The Abrams Guide to Period Styles for Interiors, Craftsman Style, Bungalow Nation,
Handmade Houses: A Century of Earth-Friendly Home Design
By Richard Olsen
What if you could not only build your “dream house,” but you could both find desirable cheap land on which to build—land that you secured without the involvement of bankers—and design and construct it entirely on your own creative terms? During the international back-to-the-earth movement the 1960s and 70s, a time when the trying political, social, economic, and environmental circumstances had prompted a global face-off with the status quo, all of this was possible. Not easy, but at least possible. In the
From deep in the redwood forests of
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CRAFT IN AMERICA is a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and advancing original handcrafted work, through educational programs in all media, accessible to all. The CRAFT IN AMERICA project includes a national primetime PBS documentary series, a 300-page companion book, traveling museum exhibitions, and an extensive website with teachers' guides and video clips of artists at work. The
