Ema Ishi
Emily Nachison
Mary Smull
Derya Hanife Altan
Casey Droege
Ashley Allen Short
Souk Jin Park
Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Glenn Adamson
The first week of school started with studio selection, individual meetings with me, and ended with a lecture and seminar discussion with Glenn Adamson, curator, writer, and Director of Research from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He presented a lecture entitled "Modern Craft: What Next?" on Sunday the 14th. Following the lecture the Ceramics, Fiber, and Metals Departments hosted a potluck dinner in Glenn's honor.
On Monday the 15th Glenn met with each of the Departments for question and answer sessions about his lecture as well as his book Thinking Through Craft, and his research. The discussion in fiber was lively and thoughtful. Glenn certainly raised many questions for the students and was a lively and challenging person to start the semester with.
The rest of the week was full of Academy events including our introduction to all of the staff, faculty and department philosophies, called Academy Day. This event is part welcome, part pull back the curtain and see who we all are, and is followed by a lunch outside the museum by the reflecting pools.
The other events that followed that are the Artist-in-Residence lectures. Last year these were 45 minute lectures by each of the 10 AIRs. This year they have become 3 or 4 shorter lectures followed by a discussion session moderated by Reed. Thus far these have been very engaging and provocative sessions that have us all talking for days after.
Coming up this week, in process critiques.
On Monday the 15th Glenn met with each of the Departments for question and answer sessions about his lecture as well as his book Thinking Through Craft, and his research. The discussion in fiber was lively and thoughtful. Glenn certainly raised many questions for the students and was a lively and challenging person to start the semester with.
The rest of the week was full of Academy events including our introduction to all of the staff, faculty and department philosophies, called Academy Day. This event is part welcome, part pull back the curtain and see who we all are, and is followed by a lunch outside the museum by the reflecting pools.
The other events that followed that are the Artist-in-Residence lectures. Last year these were 45 minute lectures by each of the 10 AIRs. This year they have become 3 or 4 shorter lectures followed by a discussion session moderated by Reed. Thus far these have been very engaging and provocative sessions that have us all talking for days after.
Coming up this week, in process critiques.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Welcome Back
Today is the first day of school here at Cranbrook, and the studio that looked like the above image for the last few months is now filling up as the second year students return and move in. Tomorrow the department will meet and start the work of the semester with introductions, discussion of studio activities and policies, our first department potluck, and selection of first year studio spaces.This also means the Cranbrook Fiber blog will awaken and follow the activities of the students. In addition to my posts, students will also make posts, and we will include some of the work being done here in the studio and academically. So keep watching the site.
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