:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The
Wood Turning Center of Philadelphia and Yale University
Art Gallery of New Haven collaborate in staging and documenting the
first critical history of the craft and art of wood turning in the twentieth
century
Slides
available
Philadelphia, PA The Wood Turning Center and Yale University Art Gallery
(YUAG) and its Department of American Art, Garvan and Related Collections, have
joined together to create the traveling exhibition and publication Wood Turning in North America Since 1930.
This curated exhibition, to be accompanied by a milestone publication, will document the
variety and beauty of turned wooden objects and will provide the first critical
history of the craft and art of wood turning in the twentieth century.
The survey exhibition will feature 134 objects. The curatorial team for this
project consists of Glenn Adamson (Curator of the
Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee), Edward S. Cooke, Jr. (Charles F. Montgomery
Professor at Yale University), Charles Hummel (Trustee of the Wood Turning
Center and former Senior Deputy Director of Winterthur), Patricia Kane (Curator
of American Decorative Arts, Yale University Art Gallery), and, Albert LeCoff
(Executive Director of Wood Turning Center). It is a team of
considerable depth and experience regarding historic and contemporary turning.
The exhibition and accompanying publication will chart, depict, and analyze the contemporary development of wood-turned lathe art in North America in the years since 1930. The exhibition will open at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), October 21 December 30, 2001, then travel to the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, March 15 July 14, 2002, and then to the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), September 10 December 1, 2002.
A two-part symposium will be held at
two of the exhibition venues. Wood
Turning in North America Since 1930 Symposium I will be held from October 26-27, 2001 at the MIA in collaboration with Collectors of Wood Art. To
receive registration materials please contact the Public Programs Department at
the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, phone: 612-870-3202 or e-mail sjacobse@artsmia.org.
Symposium II will be held at the YUAG from September 20 - 21, 2002.
To receive registration materials please contact the Wood Turning Center.
To purchase the exhibition publication, please contact the Wood Turning Center or the Museum Shop, Yale University Art Gallery,
203-432-0601. For more information about the
Wood Turning Center 's programs please contact the Wood Turning Center, 501
Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, U.S.A.; Tel: 215-923-8000; Fax:
215-923-4403; Email: turnon@woodturningcenter.org; Web site: http://www.woodturningcenter.org
After the Minneapolis venue, the exhibition will travel to the Smithsonian American Art Museum (March 15-July 14, 2002) and then to the Yale University Art Gallery (September 10-December 1, 2002). A two-part symposium will be held at two venues. Symposium I and related programs will be held in Minneapolis October 25-28, 2001 and Symposium II at Yale University Art Gallery September 20-21, 2001.
Organized by The Wood Turning Center and the Yale University Art Gallery. The exhibition is made possible by grants and support from The Barra Foundation, Inc. Center for the Study of American Art and Material Culture at Yale, Chipstone Foundation, Robyn and John Horn, The McNeil Fund for Graduate Study at Yale, Jane and Arthur Mason, National Endowment for the Arts, Ruth and David Waterbury, Windgate Charitable Foundation, The Wornick Family Foundation, Inc.