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Plein Air Painting in the Garden Every Thursday and Saturday 12 Noon-4:00 PM The beautiful Maloof Garden is available from 12 Noon-4:00 PM for 8-10 artists. Sponsored by the SAMFAC Community Outreach Committee. Through the hot months, we ask painters using our gardens to bring plenty of water! Please check in at the Visitor Center/Foundation Bookstore before you start painting. Contact the Foundation office for info/reservations: 909-980-0412 or e-mail: info@malooffoundation.org |
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A Day with Sam Maloof, Master Woodworker Learn the "how" and "why" of Sam Maloof's work and techniques in a one-day woodworking workshop. Maloof discusses and demonstrates some of his methods of furniture making. Participants have a chance to see the furniture Sam has made for his own home. This course is designed for professional and amateur woodworkers. For info/reservations for the next on-day worshop, contact: UC Riverside Extension Department University of California, Riverside 1200 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92507 951-787-4105 or 800-442-4990 www.extension.ucr.edu |
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dA Center for the Arts: Artisans Sale |
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| Mexican Folk Art Weekend November 29-30, 2008 SAVE THIS DATE. HOURS AND EVENTS TBA The Maloof Foundation invites you to enjoy demonstrations by Mexican artisans including Mata Ortiz potters, Oaxaca woodcarvers and Zapotec weavers. A great way to spend post-Thanksgiving weekend with out-of-town visitors. Admission to the sale is free. |
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| PBS Special "Maloof" airing nationally beginning in February and continuing throughout 2008. Check your local PBS listings for time(s). | ||
| EXHIBITIONS | ||
LOOM AND LATHE The Art of Kay Sekimachi and Bob Stocksdale Wednesday, June 4 - Sunday, August 28, 2008 Jacobs Center, Maloof Foundation Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 1:00-4:00 PM. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated. Opening Reception and Kay Sekimachi Book Signing Sunday, June 1, 2:00-4:00 PM This exhibit displays works of distinguished fiber artist, Kay Sekimachi and internationally know wood turner, Bob Stocksdale. Sekimachi and Stocksdale, married artists, supported one another's work through their lives together until Bob's death in 2003. Sekimachi, now in her 80s, helped locate and procure work from collectors to represent a survey of she and her husband's life work. The exhibit includes more than 80 pieces of the artists' work. An illustrated catalogue with curatorial essays and a checklist accompanies the show. |
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| 2008 | ||
Sam Maloof, Master Woodworker Exhibition January 31 - May 17, 2008 Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum California State University, San Bernardino 5500 University Parkway San Bernardino, CA 92407 The Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, in partnership with the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, presents an exhibition celebrating the life and works of Sam Maloof, master woodworker. With close to 30 pieces of Maloof furniture, the exhibition showcases chairs, settees, cabinets, tables and music stands with supporting photographs, models, patterns, drawings and an instructional area dedicated to the fascinating process of making a chair. A program of educaitonal events, including art history lectures, gallery galks and a woodworking symposium, are also scheduled to run throughout the exhibition. Contact the Fullerton Museum for information: (909) 537-7373 or artmuseum@csusb.edu |
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29 by 92 Twenty-nine alumni artists from California State University, San Bernardino selected by master craftsman Sam Maloof in celebration of his 92nd birthday. |
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Sam's Birthday Party The Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum and the Department of Art at Cal State San Bernardino, in conjunction with the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, will host a 92nd Birthday Party honoring world renowned master craftsman and woodworker Sam Maloof. The birthday party will not only offer guests an exclusive preview of the Maloof exhibit at the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum but also will provide an unprecedented opportunity to attend the first-ever auction of the Sam Maloof 92nd Birthday Edition Rocking Chair. Proceeds from this event will help:
Call 909-537-3369 or e-mail: museumRSVP@csusb.edu |
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Annual Fall Maloof Garden Event |
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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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| 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 Craftsmens' Council from 1957-1964 and those craftsmen featured in the seminal exhbition, 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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