All Ages Event

CraftMONTH Tour: FWM + Center for Art in Wood

November 13, 2022
12:00 pm to 2:30 pm

At left: Rose B. Simpson, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Dream House (installation detail), 2022. Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño; At right: Kyle Cattier, “Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound.” Wood, rope, ink, 105 x 12 x 12”. Courtesy of the artist.

Celebrate CraftMONTH by touring two best-in-craft exhibitions at The Fabric Workshop and Museum and The Center for Art in Wood.

At FWM, experience Rose B. Simpson Dream House, an immersive multi-room installation organized as a journey through the artist’s psyche. Inspired by Pueblo architecture, her ancestral landscape, and magical realism, Simpson explores the imprints and through-lines that connect and orient her life as an artist, an Indigenous person, and a mother. Through unique displays of ceramics, textiles, sculptures, paintings, and Simpson’s first-ever works in video, the artist invites us to navigate the contours of intimacy, memory, and belonging.

At The Center for Art in Wood, discover the vessel as a source of inspiration for artists working in wood. Vessel: Embodiment, Autonomy, and Ornament in Wood explores eternal questions of offering and ownership, concealment and emptiness. For millennia, the idea of the vessel has been used to explain the secrets of the universe. This exhibition, which includes works from the Center’s permanent collection as well as on loan, demonstrates the breadth of reflection, empowerment, subversion, and spiritual awareness inspired by the act of containment and the vessel form.

This event is co-organized with CraftNOW in conjunction with CraftMONTH and Rose B. Simpson: Dream House.

Event Information

November 13, 2022
12:00 pm to 2:30 pm

12:00 pm tour of Rose B. Simpson Dream House
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

1:30 pm tour of Vessel: Embodiment, Autonomy, and Ornament in Wood
The Center for Art in Wood
141 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

Free | advance registration encouraged

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Support

At FWM, major support for Rose B. Simpson: Dream House has been generously provided by The National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from Joy of Giving Something, Inc., Girlfriend Fund, Maja Paumgarten and John Parker, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Megan O’Reilly-Lewis, and Wayee Chu and Ethan Beard. In-kind support has been provided by The Clay Studio.

Major support of FWM is provided by the Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation. FWM receives state art funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support is provided by Agnes Gund and the Board of Directors and Members of The Fabric Workshop and Museum.

At CAW, the exhibition program is generously supported by the Cambium Circle Members of the Center for Art in Wood, the Bresler Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and Windgate Foundation. In-kind support was provided by Boomerang, Inc. and Sunlite Corporation.