Thursday evening we had a blast on the seventh floor assembling various paper creations. I led my dedicated participants in paper-model pin making. Before the event I had assembled several of the brooches myself, and I found them quite difficult to make (even though I have made dozens of these not to mention I designed the pattern). However- the visitors at the DIY party wanted a paper brooch, and they all walked away with a variation on their goal. Come by and visit if you would like to assemble your own paper-model pin with me! Tuesdays.
Wow! What a wonderful weaving workshop we had on Wednesday! This week, MAD welcomed Cynthia, Isa, and eight winesome table-top looms to the sixth floor, just in time for winter! With some assistance from wise instructors, participants of all experience levels created warm woven fabrics to give or cherish.
I thought I would share some pics of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Images of the controlled chaos were shot from MAD’s 7th floor by Joseph D. Sullivan. Thank you MAD Admin and Staff for the opportunity.
It was a wonderful experience to teach the 3D felting class to such a fantastic group of creative women. Each person brought such enthusiasm, fantastic ideas, and creative spirit, and their final pieces were beautiful. Some made sculptural works, some created wall pieces, and others created functional pieces to contain their personal treasures. Check out their fantastic work!
One Wednesday each month, MAD opens its studios for a hands-on workshop with the pros! This is the perfect opportunity to learn a new technique or hone your D.I.Y. skills, creating a unique object to give or cherish.
I feel a little silly posting a photo of the day considering this is the first, and I don’t intend on posting any others any time soon. However, this is such an awesome photo from our new photo intern Katie that I felt almost a moral imperative to share. We were spoiled by the fantastic work of last semester’s photo intern Irina (for details, check out pretty much every photo we have up on flickr), and it looks like the fine tradition she established will be continued.
The photo, by the way, was from last week’s public program “Where Craft and Design Intersect,” and it’s of American Craft magazine editor-in-chief Andrew Wagner.
The Museum will be closing its galleries at the end of the day – Sunday, April 27th after 22 years at 40 West 53rd. I can’t say it’s with mixed feelings for most of the staff – we are eager to move the extraordinary new facility at Columbus Circle where we will welcome the museum going public in late September. With an entire floor for education, a proper auditorium, seminar rooms, permanent collection galleries for the first time – artist studios – plus plus – it will be amazing. not to mention windows in our work spaces. HURRAY so if you want to visit our old home – you have just a few days left to do it.
Sort of cliché, but welcome to the MAD Blog! Why does Museum of Arts and Design need a blog? It is our hope over the coming months/years/eons that this blog will serve a couple of purposes. First, we hope to give a glimpse inside our museum, with everything from posts from our curators about how they plan exhibitions to chats with our registrars about the nuts-and-bolts of museum operations. We also hope that this blog will become a forum for discussion between artists and educators, and also a repository and collection point for information on topics of interest.
Big aspirations, we know, but hopefully if we start broad, we’ll find plenty to talk about!
So thanks for checking us out and feel free to comment.
