Golden State of Craft - California 1960 - 1985

This exhibition catalog was published in conjunction with Golden State of Craft: California 1960-1985, organized by Craft in America in partnership with the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles (now Craft Contemporary), September 25, 2011 to January 8, 2012 as part of the Getty Initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.

Curated by Jo Lauria.

The catalog was published by Craft in America with contributions by Jo Lauria, Emily Zaiden, and Sharon K Emanuelli. Lenders of the artworks in the exhibition and photo credits are listed in the Exhibition Checklist.

Foreward by Suzanne Isken, Executive Director, CAFA, and Carol Sauvion, Executive Director, Craft in America

Essays include:

• Protagonist for the Crafts by Eudora M. Moore,  
• An Eye for the Handmade by Edith R. Wyle
• Curator's Statement by Jo Lauria
• Craft in the Golden State
• The New Crafts Movement
• Pioneering Mid-Century California Craft: The Classics
• Nature as Muse
• California Counter-Culture
• New Ground: Experimentation & Innovation in Materials & Processes
• The New Wave

A selection of artists and craftspeople included: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman, Allan Adler, Arthur Ames, Laura Andreson, Robert Arneson, Ruth Asawa, Garry Know Bennett, J.B. Blunk, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Douglas Deeds, Claire Falkenstein, Otto and Vivika Heino, Gere Kavanaugh, Bernard Kester, Sam Maloof, Faith Porter, Svetozar Radakovich, Carter Smith, June Schwarz, Kay Sekimachi, Pamela Weir-Quiton.

There is a comprehensive Timeline & Family Tree at the end of the catalog framing the arts and crafts in California from the late 1960s to 1985. The key is illustrative in its language, which begins to inform the reader of the many different ways that artists, craftspeople, and schools in California had a deep interplay in the growth of the fine arts and craft movements throughout 3.5 decades.

• hired
• movement
• instructed
• student
• teacher
• independent
• school

Pacific Standard Time/PST, an initiative of the Getty Foundation, is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California that came together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. The presenting sponsor was Bank of America.

The exhibit was generously sponsored by Helen and Peter Bing, the Boardman Family Foundation, Forrest L. Merrill, and the Stolaroff Foundation. Additional support was provided by Cathleen Collins.

Craft in America, 2011, softcover, 9.5 x 11 inches, 78 pages.