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The Millennium Collection for Bute House Scotland and Silver of the Stars
July 24, 2009 – October 4, 2009
Traveling from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London,The Millennium Collection for Bute House is an eclectic collection of contemporary silver representing some of the finest metalwork in Scotland in the 21st century. The diversity of forms and finishes, in addition to outstanding design and craftsmanship, reflect the individuality of each participating artist and represent Scotland’s official collection of state silver commissioned to celebrate the founding of the Scottish Parliament. Artists include: Gordon Burnett, Sarah Cave, John Creed, Maureen Edgar, Marion Kane, William Kirk, Michael Lloyd, Helen Marriot, Grant McCaig, Roger Millar, Linda Robertson, Graham Stewart, and Nicola Williams.
The glamour and prestige of Silver of the Stars unites ten world-renowned Scottish celebrities from film, fashion, theatre and music with ten of Scotland’s finest contemporary silversmiths. Each artist has designed and created innovative and modern drinking vessels chosen by their partnered celebrity in either silver or gold based on the theme "A Drink with a Close Friend."
Participating Celebriities:
Nicola Benedetti, Robbie Coltrane, Billy Connolly, Sir Sean Connery, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Ewan McGregor, Alexander McQueen, Ian Rankin, Sharleen Spiteri
Exhibition Design: Ted Cohen
Walk-Through Tour:
Silver of the Stars and the Millennium Collection for Bute House Scotland and Fred Ball Enamels with Michael Laing, Decon of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths, and co-curators Hal Nelson and Bernard Jazzar
Friday, July 24, 2009, 11 AM
MakeArt Workshop: Silver of the Stars
Saturday, September 12, 2009, 1 PM – 3 PM
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Fred Ball Enamels
July 24 – October 4, 2009
Considered one of the most innovative artists working in the 20th-century enameling field, Fred Uhl Ball (1945 - 1985) studied traditional enameling techniques with his mother, a designer, graphic artist, enamelist, and educator. Viewed as highly unorthodox at the time, his experimental techniques which include torch firing, metal collage, conscious exploration of fire scale, and use of liquid enamel materials, are admired today by many of the foremost leaders in the field. He is one of the artists credited with transforming enameling from its traditional association with small size and preciousness, to an epic scale consistent with Postwar painting and sculpture. His best-known work The Way Home is one of the largest murals ever created in enamel on copper. It comprises over 1,488 individual enamel tiles, each twelve by twelve inches on a four-part, 6 x 62 foot installation on the side of a parking garage in Sacramento.
Organized in conjunction with the biennial meeting of the Enamelist Society which takes place in Oakland August 7 – 9, 2009, Fred Ball Enamels presents a focused selection of the artist’s most experimental works produced over a period of fifteen years between 1970 and 1985.
Organized by the Enamel Arts Foundation, this exhibition will run concurrently with the museum’s presentation of Silver of the Stars and The Millennium Collection for Bute House.
Curators: Hal Nelson and Bernard Jazzar
Exhibition Design: Ted Cohen
Speaker Series: Fred Ball Enamels
Thursday, August 6, 2009, 6 PM – 8 PM
Walk-Through Tour:
Silver of the Stars and the Millennium Collection for Bute House Scotland and Fred Ball Enamels with Michael Laing, Decon of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths, and co-curators Hal Nelson and Bernard Jazzar
Friday, July 24, 2009, 11 AM
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Michael Cooper: A Sculptural Odyssey 1968-2010
Michael Cooper: A Sculptural Odyssey, 1968 – 2008 documents the career of a seminal Bay Area sculptor through a selection of more than twenty-three of his most exquisitely crafted and thought provoking works, from early explorations of functional forms to recent large-scale mixed media installations. Michael Cooper is best known for his complex and adroitly crafted wood sculpture, works which depict seemingly commonplace objects but with a twist. His fantastical “vehicles,” which include pistol-packing tricycles, flying machines that don’t quite take off, remarkably detailed motorcycles, as well as preposterously mobile forms of “furniture,” underscore Cooper’s role as one of the most innovative artists working in wood today. Organized by curator Hal Nelson for the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, A Sculptural Odyssey will tour to two other institutions after its initial presentation in San Francisco. The fully illustrated catalogue includes essays by the curator and Eudorah Moore, organizer of the pioneering California Design exhibitions; Glenn Adamson, Head of Graduate Studies at the V&A in London; John Lavine, Editor of Woodwork and an interview with the artist by writer and independent curator Karin Nelson. The exhibition is made possible by a generous grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation.
Curator: Hal Nelson
Exhibition Design: Ted Cohen
October 15, 2010 through January 2, 2011
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Herman Miller: Art with a Purpose
June 15 – August 12, 2012
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