AMERICAN CRAFTSMEN'S COUNCIL 29 WEST 53RD STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. APRIL 1967 VOL. 8 NO.3 CONFERENCE-UNIQUE The North Central Region of A.CC has planned an event which they are calling " Conference-Unique". Starting june 23 al Oberlin College in Ohio, the conference will relate to the theme " The Craftsman and His World" . Dr. Maxwell Maltz, author of "Psycho-Cybernetics" and Dr. Harley Parker, Design Chief of the Royal Ontario Museum and long-time associale of Marshall McLuhan (author of "Understanding Media") will be featured speakers. An outstanding japanese potter and a well known designer from India will also participate in the weekend program. On june 26 conferees will depart for a seven-day visit to EXPO '67 in Montreal via Greyhound bus or Air Canada flight at special rates. Seven-day passports will be issued to conferees on arrival in Montreal fo r a $7. fee ; th es e will ad mit them to the pavilions and provide unlimited rides on the Expo Express. Lodging will be arranged in advance by a Conference Travel Committee or independently by the conferee s. The Expo trip is open only to conference re gistrants. Housing for the Jun e 23-25 program will be available in the Oberlin College Dormitory at a $10 daily fee including Textile Seminar July 30 three meal s. Free ca r parking will be provided to conferees A Textile Seminar co-sponsored by the Philadelphia College at the College during the period of their visit in Montreal. of Textiles & Science and the !\merican Craftsm('n' s Council Conference regi stration fee for A.CC members is $10., non-member fee is $12.50. Roundtrip transportation to Mont­ will be held for the third consecutive year at the College in real via Greyhound is $30. Air Canada rate is $68. For regis­ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania july 30 through August 4, 1967. tration forms write: Conference-Unique, Coach House, 2141 Courses to be offered will include: Fabric Analysis and Overlook Rc.ad, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106. Weave Formation taught by Professor Kenneth Griffin of the College; Multi Harness Weaving and Design taught by Robert Stafford, Associate Professor and Design Coordinator at the College; Vegetable Dyeing taught by Alma Le sch of Shepherdsville, Kentucky; Batik Printing taught by Nancy Merritt of the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. A re gist rant may elect one of these four cou rses which he will attend for the duration of the seminar. Each course will be divided between lectures and laboratory work. Informal evening programs are also scheduled including an embroidery "bee" led by Alma Lesc h, a talk on renewal projects in the historic sec tions of the city of Philadelphia, and a closing din­ ner party for those wishing to attend. Regi stration fee for A.CC members will be $25; non-mem­ ber re gistration will be $35 . Campus dormitory facilities will Mr. August Heckscher, A.CC trustee and newly-appointed Parks be available to registrants; fee for room and board wtll be $55. Commissioner of the City of New York, rides " Aooga," the seesaw sculpture of artist William Accorsi a t Union Square Park in New York A minimal laboratory fee will be extra. A registration form on a recent sunny spring day. This design is the first of ten pieces of including course description will be sent by the Regional, sculpture that Mr. Accorsi will place in the park On Decoration Day Office of A.CC. upon request. Deadline for registration is weekend. Work by other New York sculptors will also be exhibited in th e park. July 10. POTTERY WORKSHOP FABRIC PRINTS/DYES Exhibition at Museum West The American Craftsmen's Council will join with Pottery Northwest, the new non-profit tea ching and production facil­ An exhibition titled " Fabric Prints/Dyes" opened April 7 at ity located in Seattle Center, Washington. to sponsor a pot­ Museum West of the American Craftsmen's Council in Ghi­ tery workshop July 10-August 10, 1967, Paul Soldner will rardelli Square, San Franci sco, Organized by Mary Jane head the workshop along with Ken Hendry, hi s former stu­ Leland, A ss ociate Professor of Art at California State College dent who is now resident potter at Pottery Northwest, The at Lo ng Beach and Bernard Kester, Associate Pro fesso r of workshop will accommodate forty potters who will pay a Art at UCLA, the exhibition includes sixty fabrics rerrese nt­ $50, fee , Applications may be obtained from Pottery North­ ing the experimental work of forty young craftsmen from west, Seattle Center Administration Building, 305 Harrison so uthern California, Educational in point of view, the exhibi­ St , Seattle. Washington 913109 , tion illustrates fabrics re su lting from hand processe s of dc­ sign, exploring the various avenues and attitudes of design for pliable surfaces, A central aspect is the designer's con­ Paris Report cern for experimental ideas growing out of an intimate knowledge of processes alld media toward th e ellrichment Of special interest to American craftsmen are the fo llowing of fabric surfaces, These processes illcl ude block print, plans announced by the Direction of the World Crafts COlln­ screen process prin t, and the direct processes of dye appli­ cil at their meeting March 20-25 this year in Pari s under the cat ion as in batik, tie/ dye, and other immersion and res ist leildership of Mrs, Vanderbilt Webb. w.cc President, methods of fabric coloration, The exhibition will continue w.c.c. Meeting in Peru through June 4, 1967, The 1968 meeting of the World Crafts Council General As­ sembly, to which all interested persons are invited, will be held in Lima, Peru at a date in 1968 to be announced, This letter To The Editor center of a rich ancient craft tradition will provide an on-the­ Dear Miss Moran: spot opportunity to study the problems of the craftsman in I noted mention of a grant made by the Minnesot.l .Arts developing cou ntries, and to learn how these problems have Council to craftsmen in the la st issue of OUTLOOK I would been met in the more industrialized countries. like to mention activities here in Illinois that have been sup­ ported by our State Arts Council. W.c.c. Pictorial Publication Last September the Council supported a technical ;lssist­ A pictorial publication on world crafts will be issued by the ance visit by me to southern Illinois, for a three-day survey World Crafts Council in the Fall of 1967. With a disti nguished of the activities of a group known as the Southern Illinois international editorial board, the book will be heavily illu s­ Crafts Guild, This group ha s sev eral hundred members and trated in both color and black and white, will have multi­ is made up of craftsmen from several areas, Primaril y they lingual captions, and will provide a documentary record of are involved in leisure time crafts, though many also teach principal modes and trends in handcraft throu ghout the and seve ral earn their primary living through the production world today A limited edition of 10,000 copies is planned, and sales of their work, W ,CC members' book purchase price will be $3, For orders In addition, the Council has subsidized visita tions by crafts­ and membership in the World Crafts Council, address W ,CC men to public institutions, They have also lent direct as ist­ at 29 West 53rd St. , NY., N,Y, 10019, ance by defraying the jury costs for our rece nt state craft exhibit. Sincerely yours, Jim Wozniak Dept. of Art Illinois State University Normal, Illinois

MCC PERMANENT COLLECTION To inaugurate the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Craits, an exhibition will be held in the main gallery from May 26 to September 10, 1967, The exhibition will include those works which the Museum presently owns, those which are being donated, and a group of objects which the Museum hopes to acquire through the generosity of patrons, Part of the collection will become a memorial to David R. Campbell, president of the Council from 1955 to 1963. The collection will cover American crafts from 1900 forward, Final approval for se lecti o n will rest with a special committee. Appearing at the same time in the Little Gallery will be an exhibit of enamels by Paoli De Poli of Padua, Italy, Ceramics by , Associate Professo r at the College of Jewelry by Fred Woe" and Ceramics by Hui Ka Kwong in one-man exhibicions at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts during April and Ceramics, Alfred, New York will be shown in the Members' May, Gallery. GLASS WORKSHOP IN OAKLAND Georg Jensen Inc., Fifth Avenue retailer, in conjunction rhe American Craftsmen's Council and the College of Arts with the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, saluted Amer­ and Crafts in Oakland, California will co-sponsor a Glass ican crafts with a month long special exhibition called " Ap­ Workshop to be held at the College June 19-July 7, 1967. palachia" which opened April 12 . Unique examples of crafts , of the faculty at the University of California traditional to the Southern Highlands region such as weav­ at Berkeley, will direct the sessions. The three week IJrogram ing, carving, quilting, stitchery, and pottery were selected will cover the design and fabrication of various furnaces, an­ for the exhibition. nealing ovens, tool s and equipment necessary for a funda­ Artist-Craftsmen of New York Inc. holds their annual mental exploration of blown glass forms. Students will awards exhibition at the National Design Center in New practice the techniques of forming the molten glass. Tuition York May 9-June 15. Focus is on the craftsman designing for fee is $40. plus a laboratory fee of $35. For registration write: the business environment. The group's annual picnic will Carol Purdie, California College of Arts and Crafts, 5212 follow June 17 at Woodstock, New York. Broadway, Oakland, California 94618. New Mexico Designer Craftsmen, with the financial JSSISt­ ance of the New Mexico Arts Commission, will publish ,1 craftsmen directory for the state in June. Requests for copies Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb, Chairman of the Board of may be directed to Dorothy Clark, '119-40 St. NW, Albuquer­ the American Craftsmen's Council, has announced que, New Mexico 87105. that the Council's Annual Meeting will take place Monday, June 5 at ACC headquarters. Scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m ., the Annual Meeting will fol­ Traveling Exhibitions low the regular June meeting of the Bo ard of It was announced in the November '1966 issue of OUTLOOK Trustees. that the Museum of Contemporary Crafts exhibition " Murals In Lace ", featuring the work of Luba Kr ejci and circulated NOlES FROM GROUP MEMBERS by the Traveling Exhibition Service, Wisconsi n Designer Craftsmen's spring conference was held would tour through May 28 of this year. It has belatedly at Wisconsin State University in Oshkosh April 29 and feJ­ been learned that the exhibition has been recalled by the tured a slide lecture and workshop by potter . Czechoslovakian Emba ssy. The exhibition dates listed pre­ Bob Caldart served as program chairman. Verne Funk is viously in OUTLOOK have therefore been cancelled. president of WDC The compact traveling exhibition " Raku " featuring the The Miss ouri Craftsman's Council plans to hold an ex ­ methods ;)nd work of Paul Soldner, which was assembled hibition of craft work by i ts members to open June 3 at Stanley by the Museum of Contemporary Crafts fo r circulation by Hall Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia. Non-members the Council 's Regional Organization, has been given on ex­ wishing to participate will be required to pay a $5.00 fee tended 10dn to the New York Slate Council on the Arts. This applicable to membership. The Council hopes that financial exhibit previously toured the midwest. It will now be shown support will be found to enable circulation of this exhibition at schools and civic locations in New York State. in the state. A second exhibit dealing with the glass work of Harvey Wisconsin Federation of Handweavers hold their 1967 ex­ Littleton has been sent on loan to Alaska where ACC's state hibit at the Charles Allis Art Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin representative, Mrs. Alcie Nethken and other craflsmen will May 6-June 4. Weaving demonstrations will be given each arrange for exhibition in parts of the state. Tuesday during the exhibition. The Spring meeting of Iowa Designer Craftsmen May 20 at Ecclesiastic Exhibition Drake University in Des Moines featured speaker David R. The Hilton Hotel in New Yo rk City will be the site August 27- Leonetti, Executive Director of the Iowa State Arts Council. September 2 this year for International Congress on Reli­ Bill Pitney, North Central Craftsman-trustee, lectured at an gion, Architecture, and the Visual Arts. During that time the April 28 meeting of the Michigan Potters Association held at Museum of Contemporary Crafts will present an exhibition Wayne State University. Mr. Pitney's topic was his 1966 sab­ of contemporary ecclesiastic wurk in its Members' Gallery. batical tour of Scandinavia. In preparation for this exhibition the Museum invites crafts­ A change of location will mark the 14th annual York State men to send slides of their work for consideration to the Craft Fair sponsored by York State Craftsmen. The fair will Research and Education Department, ACC, 29 West 53rd move from its former headquarters, Ithaca High School in St., N. Y., N. Y. 10019. Any media will be acceptable as will Ithaca, N. Y. to the new campus of Ithaca College overlook­ designs for any religion. Please identify each slide with name, ing Cayuga Lake. Fair dates are July 31-August 5. Morning size, and materials. workshops will be offered during the fair. Chairman is Nelson Delavan of Interlaken, N. Y. Ohio Designer Craftsmen are planning the publication of Benefit for A.C.C. a Directory of their professional members for the use of archi­ A benefit for the American Craftsmen's Council will be held tects. Luke Lietzke of Mogadore, Ohio will be in charge of June 15 at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New compOSing the book which will include biographical and York City where a revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein pictorial information. musical "South Pacific" will be staged . Florence Henderson The formation of the Philadelphia Council of Professional and Georgio Tozzi will play the lead roles in one of Broad­ Craftsmen has recently been announced by Mrs. William way's most spectacular successes which first appeared in Drutt, Executive Director. The nonprofit group, with mailing 1949. Tickets for the benefit may be obtained by writing: address at 2220 Rittenhouse Square, will plan several activities Mrs. Perry Osborn, A.CC, 29 West 53rd St., N. Y., N. Y. to stimulate interest in and awareness of the role o f the crafts 10019. Prices for single admission are: Orchestra $30.; 1st in the life of the city. and 2nd Ring $25. ; 3rd Ring $20. GlOOl ·A ·N ')lYDA M)N 'lHY1S DYES lS)M Gl

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CALENDAR: A.C.C. REGIONAL PROGRAM AMERICAN CRAFTSMEN'S COUNCIL 29 West 5Jrd Street New York, N. Y. 10019 June 9-11, 1967

THE AMERICAN CRAF TS MEN'S COUNCIL is a nalional non-profil educa­ A.CC South Central Regional Con ference lional organ,zalion charlered In 1943 by Ihe Board of Regenls of Ihe Sial e Oklahoma Cen ler for Contin uing Education o f New York lu sti mul.llc publ ic inlerest in and appreciation of the work of handcraftsmen. Membersh ip In Ihe Cou ncil is open 10 all Norman, Oklahoma

Chairman o f IhE' Roard A ILEEN O . W EBB Mrs. C. E. Buffum, Chairman

Di re ctor, Admlll l ~ lralive Services JOSEPH P. FA LLARI NO DireCIOr, Ke gional Program LO IS MORA N June 9-11, 1967 Edito r, C raft Horizons ROSE SLIVKA A.CC Southeast Regional Workshop Directo r, Museum 0 1 CO nl f> m p Ora ry Crafts PAUL J SMITH Me:r.phis Acad emy Director, Research & Educal io n SANDRA ZIMMERMAN Membership Manage r ANITA CHMIEL Memphis, Tennessee Director, Museum W es t HERB RAYNAUD Miss Cynthia Bringle, Chairman

The ACC OUllook " publ"hcd mnnlhl)" January, May, July, and Augusl excepted, b y the Aml:'ric ln Crafrsmen's Council . Second-class postage June 23-25,1967 ral es paid al New I'ork, N . Y. Membership rale $8 ,00 per y~ar and higher EeI,lOr: Lois Moran; Pholographer: Renila Hanfling A.Ce. North Cent ral Regional Conference Oberlin Co llege Oberlin, O hio Mr. Thomas Conner, Chairman MUSEUM EXHIBITS June 19-July 7, 1967 MUSEUM WEST of the American Craftsmen's Council Glass Workshop - A.Ce. co-sponso red Ghirardelli Square, Sa n Francisco, California College of Arts and Crafts April 7 - June 4, 1967 Oakland, California "Fabric Prints/Dyes"

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS July 10-August 10,1967 29 West 53rd Street, N, Y. , N. Y. Soldner Workshop - A.Ce. co-sponsored May 26 - September 10, 1967 " Acquisitions" Pottery Northwest Seattle, Washington Little Gallery: Enamels by Paoli De Poli Members' Gallery: Ceramics by Daniel Rhodes July 11-16,1967 A.CC Norlheast Craft Fa ir The M ,CC Exhibition "Craftsmen USA '66" which is traveling Mt. Snow, Vermont under the auspices of the International Exhibitions Foundation, Mr. Peter Wendland, Coordinator has been booked for the Ravinia Arts Festival at Highland Park, Illinois May 18 - August 21 , 1967 and the Philadelphia Civic Center in Pennsylva nia March 13 - April 10, 1968. The period July 30-August 4, 1967 between these two bookings is still open. Organizations inter­ ested in thi s exhibit may write to Mrs. John A Pope at the A.CC Textile Seminar Foundation, 2425 California St. N.W., Washington, D.C Philadelphia College of Textiles & Sc ien ce Philadelphia, Pennsylvania