SOFA CHICAGO 2012 Special Exhibits


Among Fellows: An Exhibition of Work by the 2012 College of Fellows
Stephen De Staebler Mussi Artworks Foundry, Berkeley, 1987 Courtesy of the Estate of Stephen De Staebler	Since 1975, the American Craft Council (ACC) has recognized significant contributions to the field of craft by awarding the distinction of Fellow of the Council. Part of the ACC’s commitment “to honor those who have made an outstanding contribution to the crafts in America,” this special exhibit features significant works by 2012 elected Fellows Sharon Church, Anne Currier, Andrea Gill, Lewis Knauss, Tom Loeser, Dante Marioni, and Sherri Smith, and Gold Medalist Stephen De Staebler. Curated by Namita Gupta Wiggers, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art
	Presented by the American Craft Council


Bags Across the Globe (BAG)
Ann Savageau	Bags Across the Globe (BAG) is a global intervention conceived and carried out by Ann Savageau from 2008 to the present. The large-scale installation addresses the disastrous unintended environmental consequences of one of the most widespread consumer products on the globe, the single use plastic shopping bag. It offers a more benign and attractive alternative: reusable cloth shopping bags designed and made by Savageau and her students from discarded fabric swatches. This piece challenges our conceptions of the useful and useless and raises our awareness of how a single consumer product has altered our environment. Created by Ann Savageau, artist and professor, with the assistance of Chris Beer, principal curator, UC Davis Design Museum, and design student Jessica Dutt.
	Presented by Design Department, University of California, Davis


Eye of Mr. I: A Tribute
Mr. Imagination Photo © Patty Carroll	A retrospective of artwork by legendary self-taught artist Gregory Warmak, a.ka. Mr. Imagination (1948-2012), known for his transformation of discarded objects into works of art. Curated by Jan Petry, Exhibition Committee Chair, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
	Presented by Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago


Gothic Jewelry: Sinister Pleasures – Metalsmith's 2012 curated Exhibition in Print
Dauvit Alexander The Justified Sinner The Four Cocktail Rings of the Apocalypse: Pestilence, 2010 found, corroded iron gas pipe, silver, porcelain and gold cameo (by Lisa Stevens) quartzite, white CZ 1.5" x 1.25" x 1.75" photo: Neilson Photography	Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (MFIT), New York, curated Gothic Jewelry: Sinister Pleasures, for Metalsmith magazine’s 2012-curated Exhibition in Print. The special exhibit will be the physical exhibition of this special edition of the magazine.
	Presented by Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG)


What is Beautiful? Changing Perspectives in Contemporary Wood Art
Tom Eckert Conjuring Book polychrome wood - carved 19 x 7.5 x 5" Represented by Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia	What is beautiful contemporary wood art? Since the 1990s the tent of wood art has housed an increasing variety of work representative of radically different directions taken by makers. This special exhibit includes makers whose sculpture might now be considered “classic” and others whose work seems to speak with a highly individual and interesting aesthetic that references work of prior decades, other cultures and artists, demonstrating that beauty is a multifaceted concept. Curated by Charlotte V. Wainwright, Ph.D, Hon AIA
	Presented by Collectors of Wood Art

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SOFA CHICAGO / Tickets & Showtimes

The Art Fair Company presents the 20th annual SOFA CHICAGO 2013 at Navy Pier's Festival Hall (600 E. Grand Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 60611) Nov. 1 - 3, with the Opening Night Preview Thursday, Oct. 31.

Day	Date	Hours	Purchase Tickets
Thursday	Oct. 31	7 pm to 9 pm	Tickets ($50)
Friday	Nov. 1	11 am to 7 pm	Tickets ($15)
Saturday	Nov. 2	11 am to 7 pm	Tickets ($15)
Sunday	Nov. 3	Noon to 6 pm	Tickets ($15)

One general admission ticket of $15 admits visitors to the fair, related lecture series, special exhibits and events. $25 three-day passes and discounted student, senior and group tickets are also available. The public is also invited to the Opening Night Preview, Thursday, Oct. 31, 7 to 9 p.m. Preview tickets are $50.

SOFA CHICAGO 2012 Special Exhibits

Among Fellows: An Exhibition of Work by the 2012 College of Fellows

Bags Across the Globe (BAG)

Eye of Mr. I: A Tribute

Gothic Jewelry: Sinister Pleasures – Metalsmith's 2012 curated Exhibition in Print

What is Beautiful? Changing Perspectives in Contemporary Wood Art