Exhibiting Artists: Craft Forms 2010 Jeff Ballard OR Michael & Maureen Banner MA Jessica Battes TX Lucrezia Bieler FL David Bolton IL Laura Breitman NY Michael Brolly PA Sharon Brush AZ Lisa Call CO Benedicte Caneill NY Jim Connell SC Erin Daily NY Steven Ford & David Forlano PA Susan Dewsnap NE Kat Ely RI Marlene Ferrell Parillo NY Jenny Gawronski CO Joyce Gelick IL Robly Glover TX Aliyah Gold NY Elizabeth & Jack Gualtieri OR Hiroe Hanazono PA Rei Harada NY Rebecca Harvey OH Jennifer Heller Zurick KY Annie Helmericks-Louder MO Karen Henderson VT Giselle Hicks NY Olen Hsu PA Matthew Hyleck MD Terry Jarrard-Dimond SC Kyleen Jeans CA Ben Johnson IN Danny Kamerath TX Momoko Keane NY Jerry Kermode CA Jamie Kirkpatrick CO Patricia Kochaver IL Lialia Kuchma IL Diane K- W HI Victoria Lansford GA Martina Lantin TN Ed Bing Lee PA Lori Lupe Pelish NY Susan Madasci CT Sabina Magnus NY Margaret McAdams OH Becky McDonah AZ Kristin McFarlane AU Dorothy McGuinness WA Paul McMullan NH Elizabeth Mears VA Nancy Middlebrook PA Aram Moon NJ Gregory Nangle PA Ayala Naphtali NJ Joo Hyung Park KR Julia Pfaff VA Kenny Pieper NC Nancy Pollock SC Barry Rhodes GA Noah Riedel NC Meghan Riley CA Michael Rohde CA Davina Romansky OH Gretchen Romey-Tanzer MA Mark Rossier CO Sandra Rude CA Lois Russell MA Charles Sharbaugh MI Steve Shelby IN Terry Smith NC Shawn Spangler PA Jeanne Steiner CO Jessica Stephens DE Lisa Tate ID R. Thomas Tedrowe IN Rachel Timmins NY Jesse Walp PA Barbara Watler FL Stacey Webber PA Marie Weichman WA Paulette Werger NH Peggy Wiedemann CA Faith Wilson MD Catherine Winkler Rayroud TX Douglas Wunder PA Peggy Wyman MO Stephen Yusko OH

JANE C. MILOSCH About this year's Juror

In April 2008, Jane Milosch was promoted to acting Senior Program Officer for Art in the Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture (OUSHAC), Smithsonian Institution, to direct pan-institutional art programs, new interdisciplinary initiatives, and strategic planning for the arts at the Smithsonian’s eight art units.

In July 2009, she was selected from a highly competitive applicant pool as one of two Smithsonian representatives to participate in the Getty’s prestigious Museum Leadership Institute (MLI). She currently directs the Smithsonian’s WWII-Era Provenance Research Project.

Previously, since 2004, she served as chief curator at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she led fundraising efforts and organized exhibitions that broke attendance records. At the Renwick, she secured more than 200 acquisitions and developed critically-acclaimed exhibitions, including Grant Wood’s Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic, which featured the rarely-loaned, iconic painting American Gothic (1930), and re-launched the biennial exhibition series, The Renwick Craft Invitational.

Before joining the Smithsonian, from 2000 to 2004, Milosch was curator at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa. Working closely with the director, they more than doubled the size of the advisory boards and working committees, staff, and volunteers through collaborative and community fundraising efforts in conjunction with two major exhibitions: Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave and 5 Turner Alley: Grant Wood’s Historic Studio, commemorating this newly renovated studio-home near the museum. Her essays on these projects are published in recent books by Prestel, Deutscher Kunstverlag, and L’Erma Bretschnieder, respectively.

In the late 90s, at the Davenport Museum of Art (now Figge Art Museum), she curated exhibitions and initiated a collection of contemporary American Craft of the Midwest. During her seven years in Iowa, she worked with state-wide and national art educators and other cultural institutions to forge many new collaborative projects.

Milosch was a Fulbright Scholar in Munich, Germany, where she has studied and worked as a managing editor for Prestel art books and art consultant to art museums, galleries, and other cultural institutions. Milosch began her museum career in 1990 at the Detroit Institute of the Arts in the Department of 20th-Century Art, Decorative Arts, and Design. She has also lived in Bologna, Italy, working for Johns Hopkins University-SAIS.

The Craft Forms 2010 Preview Party

Photos from December 3rd, 2010 by Susan Scovill

CRAFT FORMS PRESS AND REVIEWS

CHESTER COUNTY LIFE: November/December 2010

The Wayne Art Center was open for business on Black Friday, and Main Line Media News' Ryan Richards stopped for a chat with Nancy Campbell, executive director, and Karen Louise Fay, director of special projects.