MFA in Applied Craft + Design

Brittany Rudolf’s stunning exhibition in the MFA AC+D 2019 Practicum Exhibition. Congratulations to the graduating class of 2019!!!

AC+D Fellow, Nathan Paul Rice, second year Jean Keum, and Alina hard at work while Steve supervises!! See their work exhibited on 6/28 for Last Thursday in conjunction with Portland Bureau of Transportation!

Jason Rens,  MFA AC+D Candidate 2019

Brittany Rudolf, MFA AC+D Candidate 2019 

First year candidate Lilia Hernandez diligently sewing a culturally infused artwork.

Second year candidate Katharine Forgan is a busy bee in her studio! Each personal space provided for AC+D's cohorts really becomes an extension of their personality.

Though his undergrad is in furniture design, AC+D's fellow Eliot Park has mastered the pottery wheel. Exploration is key to this program's philosophy!

Second year candidate Taylor Kibby pouring ceramic molds at AC+D's in-house ceramics studio. Eager to see the results!

Namita Gupta Wiggers is a curator, writer, educator, and artist living in Portland, Oregon.   She began her career in museums, eventually serving as curator and then director of the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland.  Namita is a co-founder of Critical Craft Forum, which provides spaces for makers to discuss critical issues to the field of craft, including a recent symposium on Gender and Jewelry in New York City. - See more at: http://www.craftschools.us/podcast.html#sthash.mflZ3B39.dpuf

link HERE

PRACTICUM EXHIBITION /// opening this Friday! 6-9pm 421 NE 10th PDX (at The Bison Building)

Install in progress!! PRACTICUM EXHIBITION OPENING MAY 12 6-9pm student work in progress by Diane Derib (at The Bison Building)

| STATEMENT | The process of beading is a serial process; enacted one by one to create a unique totality. The word bead is derived from the Old English bede, meaning prayer. Thus, the act of beading is the act of gathering prayers, a magical aggregate of charged objects. To the Yoruba people of Southwestern Nigeria, the bead is a potent cultural object that represents healing, unity, solidarity, desire, generation and regeneration, preciousness and auspiciousness. The body itself is believed to be a string, “threaded” with pierced forms. Encircling the head, neck, wrist, waist, or ankles, beads literally and symbolically seal in and protect the inner spiritual essence of people and things. By removing beads from the intimate physical space of the body and increasing their size many times over, I transfer their protective power to the public physical space they now occupy and to all who enter here. | FURTHER EXPLORATIONS |www.bukolakoiki.com@bukola_notbucolic

PDX

Almost ready for our #dwp sale!!! Handmade goods! $50 and under! 😱 Everything must go!!! 4-7pm @grit_grain setting up shop! (at The Bison Building)

Almost ready for our #dwp sale!!! Handmade goods! $50 and under! 😱 Everything must go!!! 4-7pm (at The Bison Building)

421 NE 10th 97232.