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7/2/2013

Cu29

The ASU Art Museum, Tempe

Spring Season Opening Reception
Friday, Feb. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Member preview 5:30-6:30 p.m.)

This free event celebrates the opening of Cu29: Mining for You, a new exhibition by Matthew Moore (Phoenix) and Clare Patey (London), and Traces of Japanese Life: Selections from the Melikian Collection -- plus, at the Ceramics Research Center, Born of Fire: The Pottery of Margaret Tafoya and Re: Generation: Featuring a survey of ceramics by Margaret Tafoya's descendants. Author Charles King will be on hand during the reception, signing his book “Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya.” We'll have food, drink, a brass band, and more!

From 5:30-8:30 p.m., artist Holly Hanessian will invite guests to participate in her project Touch in Real Time, which will be exhibited in the fall of 2013 at the Society for Contemporary Craft downtown One Mellon Gallery space in Pittsburgh.

This is also your last chance to see Miguel Palma's exhibition, Trajectory, before it closes Feb. 9. Palma will be on hand for the reception, showing new video work.

Members preview begins at 5:30 p.m., and the general public is welcome from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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Cu29: Mining for You
Feb. 9-May 11, 2013

Curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry

Artists Mathew Moore (Phoenix) and Clare Patey (London) collaborate on a project centered on the issue of endangered elements in the periodic table, specifically copper. Copper plays a major role in Arizona’s history and in its current economic, environmental and cultural life. Cu²⁹ will explore the process of staking a claim, the idea of owning the Earth’s natural resources, and our dependence on copper for everything from saucepans to cellphones.

The artists’ company, Copper United, will have its corporate headquarters in the museum gallery, where a massive three-dimensional periodic table will double as seating. Artworks from the ASU Art Museum’s collection, together with objects and their stories collected from the community, will trace the extraction of copper from the ground to its use by artists in their studios, electricians and plumbers in houses, and chefs in their kitchens.

With these installations, the artists tackle issues of resource scarcity and the need to change patterns of human consumption. They point toward and demonstrate solutions like closed loop recycling and mining the urban environment. The project will be accompanied by programs co-hosted by ASU departments. The artists are collaborating with ASU students and faculty from the School of Art, the Global Institute of Sustainability and the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and students from Marcos di Niza High School in Tempe on research, installations and information in the galleries.

Cu²⁹: Mining for You is generously supported by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the City of Tempe, Dr. Eric Jungermann, Tana and Ridge Smidt, Donna and Howard Stone, the British Council, Target, the Advisory Board of the ASU Art Museum, Friends of the ASU Art Museum, Four Points Sheraton and the Wilhelmine Prinzen Endowment at the ASU Art Museum.

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Traces of Japanese Life: Selections from the Melikian Collection
Feb. 1 - May 25, 2013

Beautiful landscapes, pottery designs, a shipwrecked sailor’s view of Russia, tales of good and evil, the construction of Samurai warriors’ armor and weapons, the care of horses, Christianity and Buddhism are topics included in the 17th - 20th-century manuscripts and objects on loan from the Melikian Collection.

These fragmented records, traces of Japanese life, have been a resource for study by art history seminar students guided by Claudia Brown, professor at the School of Art, and Jean Makin, print collections manager at the ASU Art Museum, both of which are in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU. The students translated passages of hand-written or printed script to identify who wrote or drew these items and to learn more about why they were created and what their purpose was.

This exhibition is supported by Ana and James Melikian, the Japan Foundation and the Friends of the ASU Art Museum. Visit asiaartsphoenix.org.

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Born of Fire: The Pottery of Margaret Tafoya
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Re: Generation: A Survey of Margaret Tafoya’s Descendants
Dec. 22, 2012 - April 20, 2013

Extended hours during the Heard Museum Indian Market on March 2-3 (Ceramics Research Center open Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

Reception and book signing: Feb. 8, 2013, 6-8:30 p.m. Charles King will be signing his book “Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya.”

This unprecedented exhibition of pueblo pottery will provide collectors, students and the public a unique overview of one of the most accomplished potters from the 20th century as well as of her descendants. Margaret Tafoya (1904-2001), a matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters, was one of the pioneering artists who sustained the ceramic traditions of her ancestors by transforming it from a process for making functional vessels to an art form.

Drawing inspiration from the ceramic tradition of her ancestors, Tafoya created large, polished wares that are simple but elegant, reflecting a harmonious union of history and modern aesthetics. New Mexico has been home to the Pueblo culture and its ancestors for centuries. Their pottery tradition, dating as far back as A.D. 500, demonstrates the craft’s importance to Pueblo identity. Such was the case for Margaret Tafoya, the daughter of well-known Santa Clara Pueblo potters who awakened her to the value of tradition.

Tafoya used local clay and the age-old techniques of coiling and wood-firing. In addition to honoring ancient customs, her pottery is equally germane to modernity. Her red and black wares are highly polished and often bear little decoration, save for a recurring incised bear paw, a trademark of the Tafoya clan. For Tafoya, clay has a spiritual presence that can sense the virtue and history of the potter. In her words, “You have to have a good heart when you sit down to make this pottery; you have to live a good life. The pottery knows.”

Re: Generation: A Survey of Margaret Tafoya’s Descendants will highlight stellar examples of work by Tafoya’s children and grandchildren who continue the ceramics legacy. They include Shirley, LuAnn and Lee Tafoya; Mary Ester Archuleta; Virginia Ebelacker; Toni Roller; Jennie Trammel, and Mela Youngblood, among others.

Organized in collaboration with the Erie Art Museum (Pa.), with assistance from King Galleries, Scottsdale, Ariz. The presentation of Born of Fire: The Pottery of Margaret Tafoya was generously funded by the Lovena Ohl Foundation, Grace and Paul Markovits, King Galleries, Scottsdale, George Gibbons and CLA members of the Ceramics Research Center.

ADDITIONAL EVENTS:

Saturday, March 2:
2-4 p.m.: Artist demonstration by Nathan Youngblood.
Sunday, March 3:
10 a.m.-noon: Curator of Ceramics Peter Held and author Charles King will provide a presentation on the Tafoya Family pottery. Light refreshments served.
2-4 p.m.: Artist demonstration by Linda Tafoya Sanchez.

Spring Season Opening Reception: Friday, Feb. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Member preview 5:30-6:30 p.m.)

ASU Art Museum
51 E. 10th Street, at Mill Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85281
Hours:
Tuesday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. (May through August until 5 p.m.)
Wednesday–Saturday: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Additional educator hours by appointment: Mondays and before 11 a.m. Tuesday–Thursday
Closed: Sunday, Monday and holidays
free admission

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