When: September 12, 2009
Where: Fuller Craft Museum
Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street
Brockton, MA 02301
http://www.fullercraft.org/
Randy and Sarah will say “I do” at the Fuller Craft Museum, New England’s only museum of contemporary craft. The museum is dedicated to the objects, ideas, and insight that inspire both patrons and artists to explore life through the art of contemporary craft. Located on 22 acres of woodland on the shores of Porter's Pond, Fuller Craft Museum provides picturesque views, an artful environment, and inspiring creations from local and internationally-known artists.
This is a fitting location for Randy and Sarah to join together in marriage. Both come from long lines of crafty and artistic families, filled with art teachers, painters, woodworkers, masons, seamstresses, knitters, printmakers, and sculptors. From attending the RISD alumni art shows to viewing local art of Antigua, wherever Randy and Sarah’s travels take them, art and craft is an important part of their lives.
Before the ceremony and during the reception, the museum and grounds are yours to peruse. Exhibitions include:
The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories
Brockton, Massachusetts, once known as the shoe capital of the world, will revive its legacy with The Perfect Fit – Shoes Tell Stories. This exhibition explores how shoes can tell stories, addressing topics such as gender, history, sexuality, race, class, and culture. |
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Beyond the Embargo: Cuban and American Ceramics
This exhibition highlights works in clay from a group of prominent Cuban and American artists who, in spite of the continued U.S. Embargo against Cuba, have continued to work and exhibit together in both Cuba and the United States. This collaborative cultural exchange brings together artists from different aesthetic, cultural and technical backgrounds. |
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Days of Spring - Memories of Intimate Connections
Wood Sculpture by Christian Burchard
Based in Southern Oregon, wood sculptor Christian Burchard creates sensuous wall sculptures from Pacific Madrone root burls. Blocks of this wood are cut into thin panels that the artist sandblasts and bleaches into series entitled “Skins” and “Torsos.” The forms, with their undulations and textures, are supple and smooth, and bring to mind landscapes, maps and bodies. |
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Machiko Agano: Structured Space
Japanese artist Machiko Agano will transform Fuller Craft Museum’s Courtyard Gallery with an installation of her woven mixed media work. |
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Chunghie Lee: My Cup Overflows
Korean-born fiber artist, Chunghie Lee, has been strongly influenced by the Korean wrapping cloths called Pojagi. Her powerful installation references the anonymous, ancient women who, during the Choson Dynasty, created these functional works of art. Large panels of draped silk, hemp and linen – embellished with images of Korean woman and other symbols of the past – are simultaneously contemporary in their graphic nature. Lee’s other pieces – reinterpreted kimonos and cloth-covered sculptures – speak to the connections between past and present.
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Sculpting Color: Works in Polymer Clay Curated by Kathleen Dustin
Unlike any other materials in fine craft, polymer clay has no ancient history, no millennia as a utilitarian art form, no past masters from which to draw inspiration or technical expertise. And unlike any other material, the artist can work directly with color in their hands: mixing color; blending color; squeezing color; sculpting color; pinching different colors into patterns – all without intermediary tools.
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Directions
From Route 128, 495, or 93 to Route 24:
Take Route 24 to Exit 18B, Route 27 North (Stoughton). Take a right at the third light onto Oak Street. The Museum is located one mile down on the left.
From the hotel:
Turn out of the hotel parking lot and bear left on Mill Street.
Turn right on Pearl Street.
Bear right onto Belmont Street (Route 123).
Take ramp onto Route 24 N toward Boston. Go 2.6 miles.
Take exit 18B/Stoughton onto Reynolds Memorial Highway (Route 27 N).
Follow Route 27 N for 0.2 miles.
Turn right on Oak Street. Go 1 mile.
The Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, is on your left.
