Renwick+Docent+Training

__**Renwick Docent Training 2012**__ Renwick Docent Training Syllabus Five Minute Object presentation for Renwick: Due March 29th

__**Renwick & Craft Resources**__ [|Masters of Their Craft] [|The White House Collection of American Craft] [|Artist Sam Maloof on Maloof] __[|The Renwick at 25]__ __[|Artists Mark Lindquist and Lia Wood]__ __[|Ruth Duckworth: Modernist Sculptor]__ __[|Teacher Guide: Contemporary Craft: Clay Works]__ __[|Meet The Artist: Karen Lamonte & Reclining Dress]__ __[|Renwick Craft Videos]__ __[|Tim Tate's Oracle]__ __[|Glenn Adamson on Thinking Through Craft]__ [|Architect Judith Capen on the Renwick Building History] [|Craft in America]web resources __**Assignments**__ __February 2__ //Skilled Work//: Chapter 1, "Dedicated to Art: Twenty-five Years at the Rewick," pp. 13 - 29. Also the chronology on p. 175 is helpful. A[|bout the Renwick] [|The Paley Gates] [|The Renwick: A Storied Gallery]

__February 9__ //Makers//: Preface and Chapter 1, "The Roots of Studio Craft " //Skilled Work//, Chapter 2: "Metaphysical implications of function, material and tecnhique in craft" //Craft In America:// Introduction: The Evolution of American Crafts

__February 16__ //Gatherings: Creating the Studio Craft Movement// by Glenn Adamson; from the exhibition catalog "Crafting Modernism", Museums of Art and Design. //Studio Furniture of the Renwick Gallery, Building the Collection// by Oscar Fitzgerald

Video: Craft in America, episode 1: [|Memory]

__February 23__ //Makers//: Chapter 2 (Handwork and Industrialization) and Chapter 3 (Upheavals) Video: Craft in America, episode 2: [|Landscape]

__March 1__ //Makers//: Chapter 4 (Boom Time in a Consumerist Society) and Chapter 5 (Industrial Design Versus Handcraft) Video: Craft in America, episode 8: [|Family] __March 8__ //Makers//: Chapter 6 (New Opportunities) and Chapter 7 (The Second Revival of Crafts) Article: //[|Glass' Big Bang];// 50 years of American Studio Glass from American Craft Magazine, March 2012 issue Video: Craft in America, episode 3: [|Community] __March 15__ //Makers//: Chapter 8 (Youth Culture, Counterculture, and Multiculture) and Chapter 9: (Organizations and Professionals) __March 22__ //Makers//: Chapter 10 (Money and Images) and Chapter 11 (Mastery as Meaning) Video: Craft in American, episode 4: [|Origins] __March 29__ //Craft in America//: Chapter 11 (The New Studio Craft Movement) and Chapter 12 (Shaping Craft in an American Framework)