Craft Forms 2012 at the Wayne Art Center
The 18th International Juried Exhibition Contemporary Craft. November 30, 2012 – January 26, 2013.
$4,000 + Awards.
Digital Entry Fee: $40.
Deadline: September 13, 2012.
www.craftformsentry.com.

Craft Forms is an international juried exhibition dedicated to enhancing the public’s awareness of fine contemporary craft while providing a venue for established and emerging artists alike to share their creative endeavors. Craft Forms is open to all professional artists working in clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood or mixed media crafts. Artists are juried on-line and upon acceptance, can exhibit multiples of their work in the Wayne Art Center Gallery Shop (in addition to the accepted works in the exhibition).

The Wayne Art Center’s Davenport Gallery and surrounding areas are completely transformed for the Craft Forms Preview Party. Print artists represented by Philagrafika will have different venues of prints for sale hanging on the outer gallery walls. Craft artwork will be showcased and available for purchase in the Gallery Shop. Demonstrations, lectures and art tours are planned during the exhibitions. Local artisans from Ohara School of Ikebana capture the essence of natural scenic beauty in floral and landscape works.

In addition, a showcase of styles and traditions of Nantucket, the Carolinas and the Southwest of 10-12 internationally recognized basketry artists will be on exhibition. Green From the Get Go: International Contemporary, co-curated by Jane Milosch, Director, Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, Smithsonian Institution, and Tom Grotta and Rhonda Brown, Brown Grotta Arts, will run in conjunction with Craft Forms and be displayed in the Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery.

Jurors Award List
First Place: Chuck Sharbaugh for, Across America
Second Place: Catherine I. Theodore for, Wind Turbine Mania
Third Place: Jeffrey Dever for, Serendipity
Fourth Place: Yevgeniya Kaganovich for, Mouthpieces 25/26
Fifth Place: Beth Barron for, Implostion #3

Honorable Mentions
Tristyn A. Albright for, The Bitch is Back
Michael Brolly for, Split Vessel
Tegan Ford for, Inhale
Stephanie A. Rozene for, The Politics of Porcelain
Jose Sierra for, Cotopot
Peggy Wiedemann for, In Safe Keeping
David Knopp for, Mitosis_1