Poster
In 2024 Creative Counterpoints partners with the Creative Writing Minor Reading Series and the Brant Gallery to host Craft in the Real World Program.
Introduction
What is craft? Is it something we do, something we learn, something we are born into?
How do artists, designers, creative writers and other craftspeople understand the acquisition of skill, the history of their media and the production of their work?
What is the relationship between craft and culture? How do language, (dis)location and translation shape the subject and process of learning? How does our students’ understanding of craft shape their critique experience?
Which practices and perspectives of craft will thrive at MassArt in the college’s next 150 years?
Craft in the Real World features the work of artists, writers and designers at the forefront of these investigations. On October 17, please join us for the opening of the Craft in the Real World art exhibition in the Brant Gallery, followed by an author talk with Matthew Salesses and a corresponding conversation with a panel of artists, designers, and writers who include Taylor Davis, Ryan Diaz, Isabella Febbroriello, Will Johnson, and Daphne Strassmann. Satellite events will also take place in the Brant Gallery.
Will Johnson -- WILLS
Will Johnson is an audio artist from the Bronx, New York, currently exploring the elasticity of history and identity through sound and time-based processes. His work centers on blackness—the material and immaterial conditions of space that shape sound into movement and historical record.
Brown, Emma. "Wills' Way." Interview Magazine. August 4, 2016.
Taylor Davis
Taylor Davis Selected Works 1996-2018 by
Designed in collaboration with Purtill Family Business, this comprehensive monograph of Davis's sculptures, paintings, and collages includes texts from 19 contemporary artists, activists, art historians, critics, curators, designers, and poets, who chose and responded to specific works. Contributors are Anselm Berrigan, Michael Brenson, A.K. Burns, Dan Byers, Ruth Erikson, Rochelle Goldberg, Fanny Howe, Richard Klein, Ann Lauterbach, Catherine Lord, Helen Molesworth, Ulrike Müller, Jenelle Porter, Conny Purtill, Lucy Raven, Leslie Scalapino, Nancy Shaver, Oliver Strand, and David Levi Strauss.
Call Number: NB237 .D385 2018ISBN: 9780578508467Publication Date: 2018- Artists imagine architecture ; Taylor Davis: 2001 ICA Artist PrizeCall Number: [SpCol] NB198 .A78 2002Publication Date: 2002
Erik DeLuca
Erik DeLuca (born Tampa, FL 1985; German—through restitution law Article 116) is an artist and musician working with performance, sculpture, and text, in dialogue with social practice and critique. Striving for dialogue and policy change, he sets up scenarios where technologies of dispossession are revealed. Recently, his projects have been included at Braunschweig University of Art, Kling og Bang, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, MASS MoCA, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Fieldwork: Marfa. His writing is published in Public Art Dialogue, Mousse, Third Text and The Wire. Erik received a PhD in Music from the University of Virginia (2016), was a resident at Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture (2017), and was an Asian Cultural Council Fellow in Myanmar (2018). He lectured at the Iceland University of the Arts (2016-2018), was Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University, and a critic at Rhode Island School of Design.
“Holding Humanity with the Boston Palestine Film Festival: A Conversation with Erik DeLuca and Michael Maria.” Boston Art Review. November 7, 2023.
DeLuca, Erik. “The Poet Singers.” Public Art Dialogue, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 2019, pp. 82–94. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/21502552.2019.1571836.
Ha-Wen Lin
Hai-Wen Lin Website
Lucido Johnson, Sophie. "Student Hai-Wen Lin Cultivates the Art of Living at Ox-Bow." SAIC News. Chicago, 2023.
Student Perspective on Craft and Critique
"No Neutral Design", by alumna Saleenah Saint Louis, Communication Design, 2021.
Matthew Salesses Talk
Craft in the Real World: Matthew Salesses Talk
Thursday, October 17, 2024, 5:30–7:00 pm
5-5:30 pm Reception in the Brant Gallery
5:30-7:00 pm Talk + Panel in DMC Lecture Hall
Matthew Salesses' Craft in the Real World
- Craft in the Real World Excerpt OnlinePreface, Chapters 1 & 2
Garrett, Yvonne C. "Matthew Salesses's Craft in the Real World." The Brooklyn Rail, Feb. 2021, pp. 99+. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A654197798/AONE?u=mca_main&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=175d86cc. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.
MORE DAVID SALESSES
Salesses, Matthew. "What We Know." Midnight Breakfast, Issue 12.
Salesses, Matthew. "Matthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate Fiction." Literary Hub, February 23, 2024.
Agard and Arnold Reading
Apr 4, 2024
Katherine Agard and Mary-Kim Arnold
6:00-7:15 p.m. virtual
Katherine Agard Talk
Katherine Agard - April 4
Of Colour by Call Number: PS3601.G93 O3 2020ISBN: 9781734498417Publication Date: 2020OF COLOUR is an experimental essay about color, hybridity, and art-making. It is a memoir of Agyemaa Agard's coming to North America and encountering binaries of black and white within global anti-blackness. It is a manifesto for an experience of color that embraces change: the prismatic, the perverse, and that which is wholly beyond categorization.
Katherine Agard author of colour (Essay Press), an experimental essay about color, hybridity, and art-making. It is a memoir of Agard's coming to North America and encountering binaries of black and white within global anti-Blackness. It is a manifesto for an experience of color that embraces change: the prismatic, the perverse, and that which is wholly beyond categorization. Her interdisciplinary work is rooted in painting, performance, and writing. She holds an AB in Visual and Environmental Studies and Social Anthropology from Harvard College and an MFA in Writing from UC San Diego. KAA has received fellowships from Kimbilio, Lambda Literary, VONA/Voices, and Callaloo. She lives in San Francisco and is a dual citizen of Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana.
Agard’s work will be exhibited as part of the Craft in the Real World exhibition in the Brant Gallery.
Agard, Katherine Agyemaa. “A Reading Lesson or, Painting (in Five Flashes).” Feminist Studies, vol. 45, no. 2/3, May 2019, pp. 501–11.
Walkiewicz, Kathryn. "Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour." The Rumpus, 24 November 2021.
Golovchenko, Margaryta. "Of Colour by Katherine Agyemaa Agard." (Review) Femme Art Review, 28 June 2021.
Ryan Diaz
Magda León
Magda Leon is a multidisciplinary artist. She lives a life straddling two worlds, an existence defined by the borderland. As an immigrant, she intimately understands the challenges of navigating between two countries, cultures, languages, and economic classes. This perpetual state of “in-betweenness” has deeply influenced her perspective, leaving her feeling like an outsider, yet she holds onto hope in her quest to reconcile these distinct worlds.
Through her art, Leon discovers a powerful means of expressing the intricacies of her perspective. She celebrates the beauty found in simplicity while shining a light on those who are often overlooked and marginalized. Existing within the realm of “otherness,” Leon forms deep connections with those on the fringes of society. Her artwork becomes a conduit for expressing, honoring, and amplifying their shared experiences, intertwining her personal narrative with the collective struggles and aspirations of those around her.
McQuaid, Cate. "The Guatemalan Printmaker Who Leaves an Impression — on Plantain Leaves." Boston Globe (Online), Apr 29 2024, ProQuest. Web. 29 Apr. 2024 .
Brown, Gita. "The In-Between World – The Art of Alumna Magda Leon." Rhode Island College News. January 20, 2022.
Wally Dion
Wally Dion Website
Valcourt, Tracy. “Fluid Cartographies.” Border Crossings, vol. 39, no. 3, Nov. 2020, pp. 76–82. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=353c7717-2de9-3b9d-88f1-b38789f51dad.
An Indigenous Present by
A monumental gathering of more than 60 contemporary artists, photographers, musicians, writers and more, showcasing diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms and mediums -- A Wall Street Journal 2023 holiday gift guide pick This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey Gibson, a renowned artist of Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee descent, An Indigenous Present presents an increasingly visible and expanding field of Indigenous creative practice. It centers individual practices, while acknowledging shared histories, to create a visual experience that foregrounds diverse approaches to concept, form and medium as well as connection, influence, conversation and collaboration. An Indigenous Present foregrounds transculturalism over affiliation and contemporaneity over outmoded categories. Artists include: Neal Ambrose-Smith, Teresa Baker, Natalie Ball, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Rebecca Belmore, Andrea Carlson, Nani Chacon, Raven Chacon, Dana Claxton, Melissa Cody, Chris T. Cornelius, Lewis deSoto, Beau Dick, Demian DineYazhi', Wally Dion, Divide and Dissolve, Korina Emmerich, Ka'ila Farrell-Smith, Yatika Starr Fields, Nicholas Galanin, Raven Halfmoon, Elisa Harkins, Luzene Hill, Anna Hoover, Sky Hopinka, Chaz John, Emily Johnson, Brian Jungen, Brad Kahlhamer, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Adam Khalil, Zack Kahlil, Kite, Layli Long Soldier, Erica Lord, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Tanya Lukin Linklater, James Luna, Dylan McLaughlin, Meryl McMaster, Caroline Monnet, Audie Murray, New Red Order, Jamie Okuma, Laura Ortman, Katherine "KP" Paul/Black Belt Eagle Scout, Postcommodity, Wendy Red Star, Eric-Paul Riege, Cara Romero, Sara Siestreem, Rose B. Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Arielle Twist, Marie Watt, Dyani White Hawk and Zoon a.k.a. Daniel Glen Monkman.
Call Number: N6538.A4 I67 2023ISBN: 9781636811024Publication Date: 2023
