Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft
March 15 – July 4, 2011
Ramona Solberg, Necklace, c. 1985, silver and bone, 4¼" x 4" x ¼" pendant with 18" cord. Collection of Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art, Gift of Lloyd Herman, 2007.13.01. Photo by Dan Kvitka.
Portland's Museum of Contemporary Craft (MoCC) is home to more than 1,000 objects documenting the evolution of 20th-century American craft in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft features 40 of these handmade objects worked in clay, metal, wood and fiber.
Among the artists featured are woodworker Sam Maloof, ceramicist Peter Voulkos, jewelry artist Ramona Solberg, glass and ceramic artist Ray Grimm, and textile artist Judith Poxson Fawkes.