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The
Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) is pleased to announce Back to the Drawing Board,
a new program series that provides six artists the opportunity to
"take-over" CCCD's Benchspace Gallery & Workshop for a 24-hour
period. Collaborators invited and juried from across the United States will
produce installations, performances, and other experimental activities that
invite the audience to participate in the creation of a final work of art.
Back to the Drawing Board seeks
to make the invisible creative process visible by providing a venue for
experimentation, collaboration, failure, and innovation. "Craft extends
beyond what may be placed on a pedestal," program curator and CCCD
Assistant Director Marilyn Zapf states, "Back to the Drawing Board is designed to
allow the viewer access to the often tumultuous creative process."
Using media such as ceramics,
glass, textiles, and book arts, the selected artists push the boundaries of
what is or is not considered craft. The focus of these six projects ranges
from environmental change and immigration to community empowerment and
questioning domestic etiquette.
The first project will be led
by Los Angeles based designer and artist Tanya Aguiñiga. Performance Crafting: Hand in Hand will
be the fourth craft based performance in an ongoing series where Aguiñiga
deconstructs her own making process and ideas and applies them to public
based explorations. During Hand
in Hand, visitors will learn the wet felting techniques best
known in Aguiñiga's furniture and product design, and apply it directly to
bodies, experiencing the materiality of wool and creating a communal
experience of making.
Visitors will be invited to
felt one another's arms by lightly massaging wool continuously around the
hand and forearm area in order to build up a thick layer of wool. Once
removed from the body, these hollow forms will be displayed in the gallery,
marking the collective action of making through care for one another. The
project aims to connect community members, teach new skills, engage visitors
in the making of exhibited art, satisfy the need for human contact, while
exposing individuals to contemporary craft.
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EVENT DETAILS
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Back to the Drawing Board will
consist of a series of four events beginning in April and culminating in
August with a special event, featuring three artists simultaneously working
in the gallery.
Each project will begin with a
public reception from 6 - 9 pm Friday evening and continue from 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday.
April
3-4, Hand in Hand, Tanya Aguiñiga (Los
Angeles, CA)
May 1-2, In
Song Sing On: The Songbook Project, David Wilson (Oakland,
CA)
May
29-30, Blue Mountain, Mark Reigelman (Brooklyn,
New York)
August
28-29, Material
Iterations, Jennifer Bueno (Penland,
North Carolina)
Immigrant
Citizenship Takeover, Aram Han (Chicago,
IL)
Domensterventions: Inventions
for Domestic Interventions, Cheyenne Rudolph (Gainesville,
FL)
All
events will be held at CCCD's Benchspace Gallery & Workshop, 67 Broadway
Street, Asheville, NC and are free and open to the public. For more
information, call 828-785-1357 or visit www.craftcreativitydesign.org.
This program was made possible
by the John & Robyn Horn Foundation and receives media sponsorship from Industrious Productions.
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