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MoFA Hosts the “Socially Engaged Craft Collective: Craft as Social Practice”

Published October 1, 2018

Socially Engaged Craft Collective: Craft as a Social Practice

Oct 12 – Nov 18, 2018

Anna Metcalfe, Upstream (Tea under St. John’s Bridge), 2017, slip cast porcelain cups with screen printed handwritten stories from participants, thrown porcelain teapot with forged iron, carved wood handle and screen printed topography of the Mississippi, drawn by the artist from topographic map of the Upper Mississippi near the confluence with the Missouri River, participants, tea, hot water, cookies.

Anna Metcalfe, Upstream (Tea under St. John’s Bridge), 2017, slip cast porcelain cups with screen printed handwritten stories from participants, thrown porcelain teapot with forged iron, carved wood handle and screen printed topography of the Mississippi, drawn by the artist from topographic map of the Upper Mississippi near the confluence with the Missouri River, participants, tea, hot water, cookies.

The FSU Museum of Fine Arts invites you to attend the Socially Engaged Craft Collective: Craft as Social Practice. Socially engaged art can take any form, but key to each project is how the art objects and actions emerge through participation. Featuring new works by eight nationally-acclaimed artists, in Craft as Social Practice, interactions and relationships built through community and audience involvement are the medium. Through conversations, site visits, shared meals, and games of skill staged on the gallery floor, interactivity becomes its own aesthetic, with interviews and field documentation exhibited alongside hand-made objects. The socially engaged artist looks to improve their community or raise awareness of pressing social and environmental issues, and invites their audiences to acknowledge others’ perspectives and to consider ways that collaborative, participatory art making can be a catalyst for social change.

Craft as Social Practice includes works by Amanda Evans, Forrest Sincoff Gard, Jeni Hanson Gard, Holly Hanessian & Michael Austin Diaz, Anna Metcalfe, Cheyanne Rudolph, and Nicole Gugliotti. The exhibition will be open Friday, October 12 through Sunday, November 18, 2018. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, October 12 from 6:00-8:00pm. *POSTPONED due to University closure*

Hours/Additional Information

September 28 – November 4
Monday through Friday 9:00 to 4:00
Saturdays and Sundays 1:00 to 4:00

Opening reception October 12, 6-8pm *Stay tuned for rescheduled date*