Museum of Art and Design Blog Post

April 29, 2023

Museum of Art and Design Blog Post

"The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. In its exhibitions and educational programs, the museum celebrates the creative process through which materials are crafted into works that enhance contemporary life." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Arts_and_Design

Visiting The Museum of Arts and Design was amazing experience. artworks were so creative i really enjoyed many pieces of art there. The Museum has 4 different sections of art: jewelry stories, craft font & center, generation paper, and "funk you too" ceramic sculptures. These are what i liked most in every section.

jewelry stories

"MAD was an early advocate of jewelry as a form of artistic expression. Its 1956 inaugural exhibition, Craftsmanship in a Changing World, gave many Americans their first exposure to metalsmiths who were challenging the norms of conventional jewelry design and creating works rooted in sculptural experimentation. Because of the support of MAD and like-minded institutions, makers, and collectors around the world, the concept of jewelry as an art form took hold and flourished. To date, the Museum has presented more than 150 exhibitions featuring art jewelry and there are more than 950 pieces in the Museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition highlights the Museum of Arts and Design’s contributions to the field’s advancements and contextualizes the bold experimental practices of its most compelling artists within the key historical moments that ultimately broadened the scope and reach of art as a wearable medium." https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/jewelry-stories

Joyce J. Scott, Voices, 1993

Irena Brynner, Earings, 1967

Margret Craver, Hair Ornament, 1959

Stanley Lechtzin, Brooch/ Pendant, 1967

Marta Mattsson, Fossils, 2014

Hanna Hedman, Balaenoptera Musculus, 2011
Craft font & Center

"Craft Front & Center features a fresh installation of more than 60 historic works and new acquisitions dating from the golden age of the American Craft movement to the present day. Organized into themes of material transformation, dismantling hierarchies, contemplation, identity, and sustainability, the exhibition illuminates how the expansive field of craft has broadened definitions of art.Established at the Museum’s beginning in 1956, MAD's permanent collection was the vision of Museum founder, Aileen Osborne Webb, the collector and philanthropist who pioneered an understanding of craft and the handmade as a creative driving force of art and design." https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/craft-front-center-0

Teri Greeves, Khoiye-Goo Mah, 2004

Sarah Zapata, A little domestic waste, 2017

Armarinhos Teixeira, Taxonomia, 1994/2020

Bisa Butler, Lyric with the Lollipop, 2017

generation paper
"Generation Paper: A Fashion Phenom of the 1960s explores the era’s short-lived phenomenon of paper fashion through more than 60 rare garments and accessories crafted from non-woven textiles. These fashions, introduced in 1966 as a promotional campaign for Scott Paper Company, combined bold, graphic design with space-age innovations in materials. Sporting patterns inspired by pop art, op art, anti-war “flower power,” and more, paper fashion's iconic silhouettes and styles—from A-line mini dresses to bikinis—became daring demonstrations of the durability and design potential of the era’s newly developed paper-like fibers, such as rayon (a cellulose fiber), polyester, and other synthetic blends. Surfacing a little-known chapter in the history of design, Generation Paper illuminates the creative partnerships of craft and commerce in the development of semi-synthetic and synthetic materials. " https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/generation-paper

Elisa Daggs, Trans World Airlines(TWA) first-class foreign accents dress and belt, 1967

Joseph Love, British Overseas Airways Corporation Air Hostess Uniform Confetti Collection Dress, 1967

James Sterling Paper Fashions, 1966-1968
"funk you too" ceramic sculptures

"Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture brings together 50 artworks from the 1960s to the present day that highlight clay as a compelling tool of critique and satire. In the exhibition, pieces by artists of the originating Funk Art generation are placed next to work by contemporary artists who are expanding on Funk’s legacy of humor, subversion, and expressive figuration. Funk ceramics first emerged on the West Coast in the 1960s, created by a group of artists who shared an anti-establishment viewpoint towards expectations of “good art.” While conscious of the irreverent attitude and aesthetics of their predecessors, the new generation of artists featured in Funk You Too! are examining the potential for humor in clay through a rainbow of perspectives. Carrying Funk into the future, these artists are tapping into the power of a good joke to address some of the most pressing social and political issues of our day. " https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/funk-you-too