Premier Michigan potter Glick gets career retrospective show at Cranbrook | The Oakland Press

For nearly five decades, John Glick has labored in his studio in Farmington Hills while developing a reputation as a “People’s Potter.” Now the Cranbrook Art Museum has organized a major retrospective of his work, “John Glick: A Legacy in Clay,” on display this summer at the Cranbrook Museum of Art in Bloomfield Hills. “John is just a major figure in the Detroit Metropolitan creative community,” says Shelley Selim, the Cranbrook curator, who worked with Glick on the exhibition. She notes that Glick made thousands of pieces in his Plum Tree Pottery during a career spanning more than half a century and went through a number of evolutions since his graduation from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Glick experimented with techniques borrowed from Japanese craftsmen, and in the 1990s he made giant slabs with Jackson Pollock-type glazes that he turned into decorative wall hangings. Before he retired ...

“Hippie Modernism” a throwback to the future at Cranbrook Art Museum | The Oakland Press

For Andrew Blauvelt, the June 18 opening of “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” at the Cranbrook Art Museum represents both a scholarly interest and a chance to bring to life a piece of Cranbrook’s own history. “I was interested in looking at art history that was kind of forgotten by other art historians,” says Blauvelt, a graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in design and the new director of Cranbrook’s Art Museum. Prior to his appointment, he was a senior curator of research, design and publishing at the Walker Museum of Art in Minneapolis, where he first assembled the exhibit with the assistance of curators from the University of California-Berkley Art Museum. “They were interested in new things, like sound, that weren’t even considered art,” says Blauvelt, a specialist in the history of design. But the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s, with its emphasis on seemingly ephemeral experimentation, has ...

“Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” opens at Cranbrook Art Museum | ArtDaily

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- The acclaimed exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia travels to Cranbrook Art Museum this June, bringing an examination of the intersections of art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition comes to Cranbrook from the Walker Art Center, where it enjoyed a successful run from October 24, 2015 through February 28, 2016. It was curated by Andrew Blauvelt, former Senior Curator of Research, Design and Publishing at the Walker who left that position to become Director of Cranbrook Art Museum in August of 2015. Cranbrook is the second of only three stops on the show’s national tour. The exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum will run from June 18 through October 9, 2016. Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia presents a broad range of art forms of the era, including: experimental furniture, alternative living structures, immersive and participatory media environments, alternative publishing, and ...

First comprehensive exhibition of studio potter John Glick’s work opens at Cranbrook Art Museum | ArtDaily

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Cranbrook Art Museum announces the opening of our new exhibition, John Glick: A Legacy in Clay, which highlights the illustrious career of the ceramist and 1962 graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The exhibition opened on June 18 and run through March 12, 2017. This is the first major exhibition to survey the immense range of ceramic vessels, tableware, and sculpture that has made Glick one of today’s premiere figures in American studio pottery. Glick operated his Plum Tree Pottery studio in Farmington Hills, Michigan, for 50 years. During this time, he remained committed to the art and craft of functional vessels and their incorporation into the rituals of daily life. Glick has recently retired and prepares to close his studio in anticipation of a move to California. John Glick: A Legacy in Clay includes more than 200 pieces representing all phases of Glick’s work, from the early vessels ...

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Hippie Modernism featured on Detours Podcast | Detroit Free Press

Interview with "Hippie Modernism" curator and Cranbrook Art Museum Director Andrew Blauvelt begins at 34:33. "Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia" is an exhibit opening Saturday at Cranbrook Art Museum. It looks into the unexpected ways that seemingly disparate movements of the '60s and '70s influenced one another in art, architecture and design. The museum's director, Adam Blauvelt, curated the exhibit and talks about what to expect. Hosted weekly by arts journalist Rob St. Mary, with an assist from Free Press arts & entertainment editor Steve Byrne, “Detours” offers new episodes each Thursday.

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John Glick: A Legacy in Clay Opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on June 18

First Comprehensive Exhibition of Studio Potter’s Work BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., May 2, 2016 – Cranbrook Art Museum is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of our new exhibition, John Glick: A Legacy in Clay, which will highlight the illustrious career of the ceramist and 1962 graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The exhibition will open on June 18 and run through March 12, 2017. This is the first major exhibition to survey the immense range of ceramic vessels, tableware, and sculpture that has made Glick one of today’s premiere figures in American studio pottery. Glick operated his Plum Tree Pottery studio in Farmington Hills, Michigan, for 50 years. During this time, he remained committed to the art and craft of functional vessels and their incorporation into the rituals of daily life. Glick has recently retired and prepares to close his studio in anticipation of a move to California. John Glick: A Legacy in ...

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Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia Opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on June 18

Clark Richert, Richard Kallwelt, Gene Bernofsky, and JoAnn Bernofsky Drop City c.1966. Photo by Clark Richert.Celebrated Exhibition Curated by New Museum Director Andrew Blauvelt BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., April 27, 2016 – The acclaimed exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia travels to Cranbrook Art Museum this June, bringing an examination of the intersections of art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition comes to Cranbrook from the Walker Art Center, where it enjoyed a successful run from October 24, 2015 through February 28, 2016. It was curated by Andrew Blauvelt, former Senior Curator of Research, Design and Publishing at the Walker who left that position to become Director of Cranbrook Art Museum in August of 2015. Cranbrook is the second of only three stops on the show’s national tour. The exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum will run from June 18 through October 9, 2016. A special “preview ...

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Graduating MFA’s show their stuff at Cranbrook | The Detroit News

You expect the annual Graduate Degree Exhibition at the Cranbrook Academy of Art to be wild, and this year’s projects by the newly minted MFA’s do not disappoint. The show, which will be up at the Cranbrook Art Museum through May 15, spotlights the work of 83 students in 10 different artistic disciplines, from metalsmithing to architecture to 3-D, and fills almost every inch of the Eliel Saarinen-designed museum. In a switch, this year the Architecture Department has erected the students’ installations out of doors in a series of seven interactive displays. Inside, both upstairs and downstairs are filled with artworks that consumed the graduates’ last semester, many of them huge, and almost all marvelously weird and strange. (Downstairs there’s also a small, elegant Pewabic Pottery show that shouldn’t be missed.) Consider Juvana Soliven’s “Relational Failures,” three beeswax sculptures that, while highly abstract, all do seem to point to retreat and disappointment. Soliven, who’s from ...

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Cranbrook Grad Degree Exhibition spotlights student works | The Oakland Press

Every April, Cranbrook Academy of Art puts on an exhibit highlighting graduate students’ work throughout their college career. With the 83-student graduating class, this year’s works are displayed both inside and outside for one of the biggest exhibits yet. “It’s a very great experience because you get to see the innovation that is the forefront of art, architecture and design,” says Laura Mott, exhibition curator. “Cranbrook has an important legacy in that, and this is the next generation.” The works are spread along 15,000 square feet inside the museum, in addition to seven interactive installations across the museum grounds, arranged in a complimentary way, which Mott says was like putting together a puzzle. The outdoor installations are new to the exhibit tradition. Works are showcased from the school’s 10 departments: 2D and 3D Design, Architecture, Ceramics, Fiber, Metalsmithing, Painting, Photography, Print Media and Sculpture. Following the ArtMembers’ Opening Reception, from 6-8 p.m. Saturday, April 16, ...

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Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Degree Exhibition to Open at Cranbrook Art Museum on April 17