Vol 2/Number 2/February 1961
FOURTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE SPEAKER Dr. Rudolf Arnheim will be the keynote speaker at the Seattle Conference (University of Washington campus, August 26-29,1961). He is currently on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College as well as the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research where he teaches psychological theory and the psychology of art. Born in Berlin, Germany in 1904, Dr. Arnheim studied with the founders of gestalt psychology at the Psychological Institute of the University of Berlin where he received his Ph. D. with a dissertation on experiments in the psychology of expression. He immigrated to Italy in 1933 and became an Associate Editor of Publications at the Interna tional Institute for Educational Film (League of Nations) in Rome.
After working for the British Broadcasting Corporation in London in 1940, Dr. Arnheim immigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. He is a Fellow of the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for work in the psycho logy of art, a past president of the Division of Aesthetics of the American Psychological Association, and the American Society for Aesthetics. He is also a member of the College Art Association.
Dr. Arnheim's books include "Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye," and "Film as Art," both published by the University of California Press. He was a Fulbright professor in Tokyo in 1959-60. Dr. Rudolf Arnheim After his keynote address, Dr. Arnheim will remain at the Conference and sit in on panel dis cussions with other speakers. The idea of having the principal speaker remain during the entire Conference is one which we believe will give greater continuity to the event and will allow us to have a session that will sum up the activities which take place. This occasion should prove particularly profitable since Dr. Arnheim has a personal as well as a scholarly interest in crafts manship.
"Creative Research in the Crafts" is the theme of the Conference. The practical business of working with new materials will be explored. The speakers leading the media panels will dis cuss the techniques of research as they relate to full-time craftsmen, teachers and those crafts men who work with architects and industry. A special panel will be devoted to new developments in glass making. There will also be panels on ceramics, mosaics, metal, weaving, jewelry, and enamels. A complete list of speakers will be published in the next issue of the OUTLOOK.
American Craftsmen's Council I NOTE TO EASTERN AND MID-WESTERN CRAFTSMEN We received an idea from Miss Ruth Penington, Craftsman-Trustee of the Northwest Region, which we are more than pleased to pass on. It is Miss Penington's thought that many eastern and mid-western craftsmen would be hard put to make the trip to Seattle Simply for the three-day Conference; but if they made a vacation of the trip or perhaps attended a summer school in the region, it would be worthwhile the expense. Below is a list of schools offering summer classes in Washington and Oregon: Fidalgo Allied Arts, Box 476, La Conner, Washington; School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle 5, Washington; Art Department, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington; Art Department, Western Washington College of Education, Bellingham, Washington; Art Department, Central Washington College of Education, Ellensburg, Washington; Art Museum School, Portland I, Oregon; Art Department, Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon; College of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
MEMORIAL EXHIBITION OF MARISKA KARASZ AND KATHERINE CHOY AT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS, FEBRUARY 17 THROUGH MARCH 12 From February 17 through March 12 the Museum of Contemporary Crafts will pay homage to two of America's foremost craftsmen. On display in the memorial exhibitions will be the wall hangings of Mariska Karasz and the pottery of Katherine Choy.
These two artists had much in common. They each came to this country with a strong recol lection of the traditions of their native lands; yet they both developed a philosophy that gained them prominence as contemporary american artists. Their accomplishments became all the more important through the dignity they gave their individual crafts.
Also on display at the Museum from February 17-March 12: An exhibition of holloware by Frederick A. Miller, one of the country's best known silversmiths (Little Gallery); and an exhi bit of machine stitched wall hangings by Frances W. Robinson (Member's Gallery) .
ANNUAL CHURCH CONFERENCE The Church Architectural Guild of America will sponsor an exhibit of ecclesiastical art at their annual church conference at the Penn Sheraton Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 18 through 20. For further information about the Guild, write Mr. H. Walter Damon, President, 215 Lincoln Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio.
SUMMER TOUR For the seventh year, Western Illinois University will offer art credit on a Mexico field study tour. This tour is by modern motor coach, originating and ending in St. Louis. Orientation is by mail, at St. Louis and enroute. Cities include Dallas and San Antonio, Texas, San Luis Potosi, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Taxco, Puebla and others. Optional trips by air to Acapulco and Oaxaca. Arts and crafts studied include murals, weaving, glass, ceramics, lacquer, architec ture and other art. For additional information write Dr. Gifford C. Loomer, Department of Art, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois.
BOOK IN PREPARATION Joseph L. Young, mosaic muralist, is currently completing a second book on architectural mosaics. In order to fully represent the most significant directions in this field, all practicing professional artists, architects, deSigners and sculptors are invited to forward 8 x 10 black and white photos as well as 4 x 5 color transparencies of major artistic works completed during the last five years. Write Joseph Young Mosaic Workshop, 8426 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles 46, California if you wi s h to contri bute .
SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL CONFERENCE TALK "The Problem of Quality in the Crafts" by Professor Donald B. Goodall, a talk given at the South Central Regional Conference in San Antonio, is now available to ACC members. Professor Goodall is Chairman of the Art Department of the University of Texas . For copies send $.25 to Mrs. Berte Feder, American Craftsmen's Council, 29 West 53rd Street, New York 19, New York. IMPERIAL EXPOSITION, 1961 In co-sponsorship with the Chrysler Cor poration, the ACC arranged an enamel exhibit at the Automobile Salon of the Chrysler Build ing, January 17-27.
Contributors to the exhibit were: Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York City; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; The Jewish Museum, New York City; Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, New York City; French and Company, Inc. , New York City; Betty Parsons Gallery, Section 11, New York City; Little Gallery, Birmingham, Michi gan; Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York City; Vivian Sauber Koos, Hampton, Virginia; Jack son Woolley, San Diego, California; Ellamarie ACC Had The Chrysler Salon Woolley, San Diego, California; John Paul Mil ler, Cleveland, Ohio; Paul Hultberg, Stony Point, New York; Jason Schoener, Oakland, California; PeterOstuni, New York City; Myles Libhart, Brooklyn, New York; Ada Husted-An dersen; New York City; Ronald Hayes Pearson, Victor, New York; Oppi Untracht, New York City; America House, New York City. There were also pieces from the private collections of Eileen Farrell, New York City; Oppi Untracht, New York City; Dextra and Charles Frankel, California; Robert Laurer, New York City; and Mr. and Mrs. Bonnell Irvine, New York City.
Joseph Trippetti, who now teaches enamel ing at the Worcester Craft Center gave demon strations of the Cloisonne t e chnique during the first four days of the exhibit. With his work , bench and kiln situated in the corner window Trippetti Had The Crowds at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, he was never at a loss for an audience. Another high light of the show were the exhibit cases de signed by Sam Richardson.
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EX LIBRIS On January 20, the Council was host to the Guild of Bookworkers, which is the only national organization representing the crafts of binders, restorers, illuminators and decorative paper makers. The Guild is affiliated with the American Institute of Graphic Arts. The occasion marked the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts' Exhibit of "Bookbinding: A Medieval Craft In the 20th Century" as well as the dedication of the 350 volumes on bookbinding and allied sub jects given to ACC's library by the heirs of Miss Edith Diehl. Some of these books are interest ing examples of printing, including such titles as Justinian's Institutices Iperiales (Lyon, 1536), De Conjuratione Catilinae (Paris, 1523) and Petro Palladio's Enarrationes Lectionum Evangelicarum (Wittenberg, 1562).
Miss Diehl, a widely respected bookbinder was born in 1876, attended Wellesley College and studied bookbinding in England and France. After her student years she worked for Sidney Cockerell, a well-known London bookbinder and designer of end-papers. She later ta ught and worked as a professional in New York City until her death in 1953.
The books and bookbinders included in the Museum exhibit are: Paul N. Banks, Scrapbook; Jeanne Benenson, A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne; Pei-fen Chin, Coordonnees, by Guillevic, Le Corbusier, by Jean Alazard; Margaret Colvin, 1:: Few Figs from Thistles, by Millay; Mrs. E. B. Corcoran, Goethe und Das Handwerk, Picasso, Exhibition Catalogue, Cologne, 1955; Lucy Crump, Duels and Duets, by Edmund Skellings; Catherine Fournier, Maria Chapdelaine, by Louis Hernon, Gerhald Gerlach, loan Miro, by rod Eluad, TaLlr():naguio, Gecffrcy Chcucerj !\!.rs. Sinclair Hamilton, Soliloques, by Georges Rouault; Carolyn Horton, Single Lady, by John Monk S uanders; Mrs. Ellery S. James, 6. S hrops hire Lad, by A. E. Hous man, the Guaranty Fund Qf the Chapin School; Marie Therese Kaufman, Chateau Also on display were illuminations by the following members of the Guild of Bookworkers: Norma Bradford, Catherine Fournier and Florence Brooks. Editor: John Sowaal, Vice President ACC Asst. Editor: Lucretia K. Phillips