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2007 CALENDAR OF PROGRAMS/EVENTS |
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PBS Television Special "Craft in America" Sam Maloof featured in "Memory" segment Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 8-11 PM Program airs on local public television stations. Check your local TV listings. More info at www. craftinamerica.org APRIL 2008: Craft in America documentary series receives the prestigious Peabody Award. Press release |
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"Craft at the Limits" Conference Thursday-Saturday, May 31-June 2, 2007 Co-sponsored by the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles and the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts Three-day conference dedicated to examining the post-WWII American craft movement. The conference is designed to bring together craftspeople, scholars and academics studying crafts, and the general public to foster interactions between these groups that will promote craft scholarship and the appreciation of craft in culture. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: Thursday, May 31 9 AM Coffee Conference 10 AM-5 PM Education/Gallery Building, Maloof Foundation The conference opens at the Maloof Foundation in Alta Loma, CA and will feature panels of craftspeople who were original attendees to the early conferences sponsored by the American Craftsmen's Council from 1957-1964 and those craftsmen featured in the seminal exhibition, Objects USA. Thursday is dedicated to letting the craftspeople speak to the assembled scholars and for the audience to have a chance to network with the craftspeople. There will be tours of Sam Maloof historic house which is now a museum. The gardens will be open for self-guided tours. Thursday's featured speakers: GLENN ADAMSON, GARRY KNOX BENNETT, ARLINE FISCH, SAM MALOOF, EDUORAH MOORE, DON REITZ and CAROL SAUVION Reservations required: call 909-980-0412 or e-mail info@malooffoundation.org Friday-Saturday, June 1 and 2 10 AM-5 PM Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center This two-day scholarly conference looks at various postwar moments when the concept of craft became particularly charged. Participants will focus on the interchanges between artists and craftspeople, examining feminism, the pastoral impulse in the 1960s and 1970s, the Abject art of the early 1990s, and the contemporary moment. Click here for Conference schedule Reservations available beginning May 22, 2007 www.getty.edu |
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dA Center for the Arts--Artisans Sale Saturday, June 23, 2007 10 AM - 3:30 PM Dozens of dA Artists will participate in the 4th annual sales event held in the beautiful gardens of Sam and Beverly Maloof. Admission to the sale is free. Tours of the historic residence will also be available. Parking is on Hidden Farm Road. Info/tour reservations: 909-980-0412 |
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Annual Fall Maloof Garden Event |
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Mexican Folk Art Weekend
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