Gallery Exhibitions

Materials Hard & Soft

January 29 - March 20, 2005

This annual competition and exhibition of contemporary crafts was started in 1987 and is now in its 18th year. Recognized nationally, Materials: Hard & Soft attracts hundreds of entries from every state in the union. Nationally recognized jurors select the show from slides and then award $5,000 in prize money. The juror has always selected the winning pieces on-site. A catalog is printed. Many of the artists seen in the Materials exhibitions have been featured in national publications such as American Crafts.

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Juror

Michael Monroe has been involved with contemporary American craft for over 30 years. Prior to his current role as an independent curator, writer and advisor, Monroe served as executive director of the American Craft Council.

For twenty-one years, Monroe was associated with the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery. He served as curator-in-charge from 1986-1995.

In 1993, Monroe was invited by President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton to organize a collection of American craft for the White House to commemorate The Year of American Craft. The collection toured the United States for six years and was documented in a book entitled The White House Collection of American Crafts.

Monroe holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin.

Listed below are some of the pieces from the
upcoming 2005 exhibit.