Hawaii Craftsmen Call To Artists - 2012 Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition

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Submit work August 26 for Annual Exhibition

Hawaii Craftsmen' 2012 Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition will be on view August 30 through September 20, 2012 at the Honolulu Museum of Art School Gallery. Viewing hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.; and on Sunday from 1 until 5 p.m.; Entry to the exhibition is free of charge. Oahu artists may submit their artwork for review on Sunday, August 26 between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Honolulu Museum of Art School. Interested artists will find the exhibition prospectus online at www.hawaiicraftsmen.memberlodge.org.

Artists are encouraged to enter traditional or non-traditional craft with a fresh approach or point of view. The exhibition is open to functional and non-functional craft objects in the categories of clay, fiber, glass, metal, mixed media, and wood. Awards of Excellence with cash prizes will be selected by the juror and presented at the opening reception. All entries must be of original design and created independently within the last two years. No work previously shown in a juried exhibition is eligible.

The opening reception will be held August 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. and is free to the public. The annual exhibition of new work will be juried by Jo Lauria. She is a respected art and design historian and independent curator. Formerly a decorative arts curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Lauria specializes in modern and contemporary decorative arts, craft, and design. She has published extensively, organized numerous exhibitions and produced and directed multi-media presentations and documentary films.

From 2007-2009, Lauria served as chief curator of the exhibition, Craft in America: Expanding Traditions, a nationally touring show hosted by seven American museums. Lauria' most recent exhibition, Master of Mid-Century California Modernism: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman, was on view at the Mingei International Museum, San Diego March 2009-January 2010. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Otis College of Art and Design.

Sculpture MFA candidate Abi Good will serve as the overall chair and project coordinator for Hawaii Craftsmen' 2012 Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition. Serving as exhibition designer will be artist, curator, and former gallery owner, Keiko Hatano. Submissions from the neighbor islands will be coordinated by Hawaii Craftsmen board representatives as follows: Hugh Jenkins (Big Island); Tim Garcia (Maui); and Kathy Cowan (Kauai).

Artists interested in membership in Hawaii Craftsmen will find information online at the organization' web site, www.hawaiicraftsmen.memberlodge.org.

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Hawai'i Craftsmen's celebrates fine craft as a vital and enriching part of contemporary life and supports the creative growth of our member artists.

We achieve our mission through:

increasing public awareness and appreciation of fine craft;
providing opportunities for continuing education and regular exhibition of member work;
sustaining a statewide community of craft artists;
promoting the organization and its members nationally as well as statewide.

In 2000 Hawai`i Craftsmen was designated the lead partner and on-site manager for The ARTS at Marks Garage -an arts enterprise project in downtown Honolulu. This opportunity allowed us to increase our presence in the community and to offer expanded programming to our membership and the public. The location and collaborative nature of this venture also furthers our goals of increasing our exposure to new communities, thus increasing our membership and our base of financial support. Hawai`i Craftsmen (together with the partner organizations) brings over 30 years of experience and community relationships to the development of this long awaited endeavor.

The importance and quality of our work has won us State Foundation on Culture and the Arts support since our inception. Our members include Ron Kent, whose work is in the White House Crafts Collection, Francis Pickens, represented in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, life members Toshiko Takaezu, Claude Horan, Ruthadell Anderson, Lucille Copper, and other illustrious artists. Many of our 400 members, one third being neighbor islanders, have works in the SFCA Art in Public Places collection.

Many teach art in Hawai'i's public and private schools passing on to their students new techniques they learn through us, especially through `Aha Hana Lima.

Described by former Honolulu Academy of Arts director George Ellis as "one of the most professional and active organizations of its kind in the nation," our "distinguished record of service" through juried exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations, and workshops, which have drawn between 1500 and 9000 attendees, has "been instrumental to the creation of public appreciation, perception, and awareness of the visual arts."

Living in paradise provides unique programming challenges: five islands separated by miles of ocean. Hawai'i Craftsmen increases membership involvement by sending jurors to neighbor islands, shipping neighbor islanders' work to exhibits in Honolulu, giving scholarships to Neighbor islanders for Honolulu workshops, and contracting out-of-state jurors and guest artists. Our website, redesigned and updated in 2002, features our organization, programs and member artists and is a resource for artists and those interested in crafts and the arts. We work hard to reach art educators in all levels of education so that they may take what they have learned back to their students. We network with neighbor island organizations to provide opportunities for the guest artists to reach an even larger part of our state through presenting workshops and slide lectures outside of Honolulu.

Many of our programs are co-sponsored or produced with the help of The Honolulu Academy of Art, The Contemporary Museum, The University of Hawai`i, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, The Mayor's Office on Culture and Art, East West Center, and other arts and culture organizations and facilities throughout the state. All of these programs are available and promoted to neighbor islanders. Receptions, exhibits and raku beach side firings are free to the public; fees are charged to participating artists at workshops, exhibits and the raku firing.

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