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NEW EXHIBITION
Land Art: David Shaner
March 10 – August 7
Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St.
Free for Museum members; $3 general public
 
What is the relationship between craft and the Land Art Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s? While Robert Smithson’s monumental Spiral Jetty (1970) is an example of a heroic and gestural conceptual work in a remote location, David Shaner’s work from the early 1960s through the 1990s reveals a concurrent, domestically scaled yet quietly sensual relationship between art and the landscape of the American West. Through works drawn from the artist’s estate and the Museum’s collection, along with photographs and personal notes taken by the artist, the exhibition reveals how broader cultural interests in conceptual art and the land, ecology and materiality are explored through an artist known as a “potter’s potter.”
 
Following the Rhythms of Life: The Ceramic Art of David Shaner, written by Peter Held, Ceramic Research Center, Arizona State University is available for purchase in The Gallery. Essays by Daniel Duford, PNCA faculty and Namita Wiggers, curator, MoCC available online.
 
CRAFTPERSPECTIVES LECTURE
William Gilbert
“Land Arts of the American West”
Wednesday, March 10, 6:30 pm
PNCA Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 NW Johnson St.
Free and open to the public

Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art presents William Gilbert, who will discuss shifts in contemporary understanding of the genre of Land Art, tracing connections from his own study of ceramics in Montana with Rudy Autio to the innovative “Land Arts of the American West” program he co-founded with Chris Taylor. Gilbert is the Lannan Chair in Land Arts of the American West, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico.