2004 – Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Bill Dennard: Retrospective

HCCC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:05:45 +0000

Bill Dennard was a man of many facets. He was dedicated, loyal and creative in the true sense of the word. He applied his dedication and creativity to his art, his students and his family and friends. Although he was humorous and light hearted on the surface, there was deep passion and thought just below the surface. He continued to pursue his artwork and teach his students at Glassell School of Art until shortly before his death.

CraftHouston 2004: Texas

HCCC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:05:22 +0000

Juried by Larry Rinder, Contemporary Arts Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, CraftHouston is HCCC’s signature exhibition, alternating annually between an all-Texas show and a national survey, juried by some of the most respected names in the field of contemporary craft: Kenneth R. Trapp, curator in charge of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution (2002) and Lloyd Hermann of Seattle, independent craft scholar and founding director of the Renwick (2003).

Participating artists include Ellen Abbott, Janet Rushing Alexander, Liz Axford, Julienne Ballantyne, Jeff Ballard, Deborah Dinell Berry, Susan Budge, Danville Chadbourne, Barbara Chadwick-Bland, Allison Dick, Nancy Rose Elliot, Saida Fagala, Herman Guetersloh, Terry Hagiwara, Mark Herndon, Thomas Irven, Judy Jensen, Pat Johnson, Masumi Kataoka, Nadia Khan, Myrna Khan, Jim Keller, Lonny Kelley, Tina Kotrla, Lebeth Lammers, Catherine Leachman, Marc Leva, Heather Logan, Jonathan Macrae, Daryl McCracken, Ashley Nichols, Mary Novak, Mari Omori, Indrani Parker, Lenise Perez, Anita Powell, Ingrid Psuty, Burton Reckles, Steve Reynolds, Jennifer Sholtis, Mary Ruth Smith, Juka Smits, Joan Son, Gregory Story, Corkey Stuckenbruck, Georgia Tambasis, Caprice Pierrucci Taniguchi, Kathleen Thorman, Kathleen Trenchard, Todd Van Duren, Debbie Wetmore, June Woest, C.J. Wood, Bonnie Yetter and Sandra Zilker.

Cabinets of Curiosities

HCCC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:04:56 +0000

Co-organized by the Furniture Society and the Wood Turning Center, Cabinets of Curiosities is a juried exhibition that received 57 entries submitted by more than 200 artists from around the world. The final presentation, selected by a panel of five distinguished jurors/curators, showcases 14 cabinets of extraordinary diversity and intrigue created by 50 interdisciplinary artists.

Playing Around: Toys Designed by Artists

HCCC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:04:33 +0000

Playing Around features 50 imaginative toys that recall a time before plastic and mass-production, when all toys were handmade. These toys were designed to engage the mind and imagination of users.

Homeland: Artists, Immigration & Identity

HCCC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:04:13 +0000

Homeland explores the immigrant experience and point of view seen through the work of 14 contemporary craft artists who have shaped a new identity through the experience of separation, transition, and incorporation into a new country. Forty works address the experience of making art in a new cultural context and the effect it has had on these artists’ lives.

True Words

HCCC — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:03:33 +0000

True Words is an exhibition of wood sculpture reliefs from True Word Art Studio, a place where a small group of deaf and mute artists live and work together near the northeast coast of China. In this remote province, they have created a variety of chiseling techniques and texturing strokes so rich and mature in vocabulary that they could write a dictionary of woodcarving techniques.