Material Issues: Strategies in 21st Century Craft features fourteen local and national artists who employ craft-based materials, processes, and aesthetics to produce works that address a broad spectrum of issues from the environment to racism and feminism. The range and diversity of artists and artworks included in the exhibition illustrate the versatility of craft-based materials and processes to question, confront, and spark dialogue, subverting the stigmas typically associated with craft-based techniques as purely utilitarian or functional.

Artists in the exhibition include Gina Adams, Thomas Campbell, Elizabeth Clah, Rachel Farmer, Jeffrey Gibson, Raven Half-moon, Jann Haworth, Patrick Dean Hubbell, Ruben Olguin, Horacio Rodriguez, Amanda Smith, Brian Snapp, Danielle Susi, and Rachel Thomander.

Image credit:

Jeffrey Gibson, IN SUCH TIMES CLOWNS BECOME WITNESSES, 2017.

Glass beads, artificial sinew, metal studs, acrylic felt, over wood panel, 40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Courtesy of the artist and Robert Projects, Los Angeles, California; Photo Peter Mauney