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Ripening: Ideas, Works, Lives, moderated by Buzz Spector, Dean of College and Graduate School of Art at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visaul Arts., Exhibiting artists, John Babcock, Pat Hickman, and Tom Lundberg. will discuss the development of craft over the past 25 years, and how the artists in Without Boundaries: Transformations in American Craft continue to influence new generations of artists. |
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| John Babcock lives and works at his studio near Santa Cruz, California. His medium is paper, and his work has been shown in over thirty major museums in Europe, the United States and Japan. He has lectured and conducted workshops throughout the United States and in India including sessions for the Southwest School of Art and Craft in San Antonio, Texas; The University of Wisconsin; The University of Hawaii; The University of California, Santa Barbara; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; and most recently at the Maharaja Sayajirao University in India. His work is included in many public and private collections including The Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York. He uses paper of his own manufacture to build art works of poured, cast, inlaid, and collaged paper. John manipulates various types of wet pigmented pulps, of cotton, kozo, and abaca fibers on large surfaces. Each type of fiber reflects light differently in its dry state. One of the results of the fiber manipulation in the work is the way the imagery changes focus, some images recede or appear as the viewer moves from side to side in front of the work, or as the light of day changes. These unique qualities give his work a sense of mystic delight as one discovers the piece over time. Born in 1953 in Belle Plaine, Iowa, Tom Lundberg lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is professor of art at Colorado State University, where he coordinates graduate and undergraduate programs in fibers and teaches courses in weaving and surface design. Lundberg has lectured and taught workshops in the United States, England, and New Zealand and teaches in Colorado State University’s Italy study-abroad program. Lundberg began his advanced studies at Iowa State University. Following an apprenticeship with potter Clary Illian, he completed his BFA in painting at the University of Iowa, where he also studied textiles with Naomi Schedl. Lundberg received his MFA from Indiana University, in the textiles program directed by Budd Stalnaker and Joan Sterrenburg. As a graduate student, he also worked with Diane and William Itter. A Colorado native Pat Hickman received her B.A from University of Colorado, Boulder in 192 and her M.A from University of California Berkeley in 1977, both in Design & Textiles. Professor Emeritus of Art at University of Hawai’I at Manoa Honolulu in 1990-2006. Hickman has been teaching in textile and fiber programs at for twenty-nine years including positions at postitions at the University of California at Berkeley and Davis; San Francisco State University, M.H. deYoung Museum Art School and JFK University, San Francisco; Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts, Berkeley and California College of Arts, Oakland. Her work is featured in such prominent collections as: Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Pierre Pauli Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland; Canton of Vaud, Savaria Museum, Szombathely, Hungary; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Erie Art PA; The American Craft Museum, New York, NY; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu, HI, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; and San Jose Quilt Museum, San Jose, CA. |
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