Objects: Redux —
50 Years of
Craft Evolution
form & concept | January 2020
In 1969, the Smithsonian American Art Museum debuted OBJECTS: USA, a sprawling exhibition featuring 308 craft artists and over 500 objects. The show traveled the United States and Europe, vaulting craft into the contemporary art milieu and forever changing the way we view material culture. Fifty years later, this tribute exhibition incorporates work by artists in the original display alongside historic and contemporary makers who expand upon and complicate the conversation.
OBJECTS: REDUX — 50 Years of Craft Evolution is inspired by OBJECTS: REDUX — How 50 Years Made Craft Contemporary, curated by Kathryn Hall and Perry Price at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and was developed in conversation with an exhibition series at the Racine Art Museum celebrating the 50th anniversary of OBJECTS: USA. The exhibition at form & concept includes works from the earlier exhibition at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft by artists including Sonya Clark, Arline Fisch and J. Fred Woell, along with new selections by artists including Robert Ebendorf, Raven Halfmoon and Jennifer Ling Datchuk.
Press
“So indeed the craft is not only of the objects in front of us, but it’s a crafting of society, of our understanding of our relationship with objects, and … the crafting of self, of our own identities and worlds.”
-Charlotte Jusinski, Hyperallergic
My contributions: Curatorial oversight of William Dunn
Artwork: Yuri Kobayashi, Tanya Crane, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Raven Halfmoon (header image)
Photography: Shayla Blatchford
Marketing Writing: Marissa Fassano