Thursday, Jul 20, 2017 • 6:30–8pm
ADMISSION: Free with Museum admission; $5 after 5pm. Advance online registration recommended; RSVP for free admission.
For the current iteration of the exhibition In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art, Allison Smith collaborates with Christina Zetterlund, a craft and design historian and theoretician based at the Konstfack in Sweden. Smith first met Zetterlund during a recent residency in Stockholm and they discovered a shared interest in the politics of handcraft and its use in both progressive and conservative social movements. Program includes conversation with Allison Smith moderated by Associate Curator Anastasia James.
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For their Havruta installation, Smith and Zetterlund took the educational theories of Jewish Swedish educator Otto Salomon (1849–1907), whose work focused on the term, slöjd, or educational sloyd, a movement that promoted handcraft as a formative method of self development through the creation of useful, everyday objects termed “models," as a starting point. They ask, given the intensities of this political moment, what does the current upsurge in craft really mean?
In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art—Allison Smith and Christina Zetterlund is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. This exhibition is made possible with generous support from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. Additional support is provided by Rosanne and Al Levitt. In-Kind support is provided by Lim & Handtryck.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum thanks The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for its lead sponsorship of The Museum’s exhibition program.