Gallery Talk with Curator Emily Zaiden

Saturday, March 30, 1 – 3pm

FREE

Join us in the Main Gallery Saturday, March 30 from 1 to 3pm for a gallery walk-through and talk about The Optics of Now: SoCal Glass with curator Emily Zaiden, Director and Curator of the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles. The exhibition is a a survey of contemporary glass art in Southern California presenting works by 20 artists, including:

Paul Brayton, Danielle Brensinger, Adam Gregory Cohen, Mariah Armstrong Conner, Alexander Dixon, Stephen Dee Edwards, Katherine Gray, Michael Hernandez, Eric Huebsch, John Gilbert Luebtow, Gregory Price, Sara Roller, Nicole Stahl, Amanda McDonald Stern, Ethan Stern, Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, Hiromi Takizawa, Kazuki Takizawa, Deshon Tyau, and Nao Yamamoto.

Emily Zaiden is Director and Curator of the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles, where she has organized over seventy contemporary art, craft, and design exhibitions for the Center and partner museum venues since 2010. Zaiden oversees public programs, a K-12 education initiative, and digital projects, including the development of an online Craft Video Dictionary that will launch in 2024. She publishes exhibition catalogs, essays, and articles for journals and books including Archives of American Art Journal, American Tapestry Alliance, Metalsmith, Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision. She has served as juror and lectured widely. Zaiden has an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and has focused on craft processes, functional design, cultural art, and craft from a historical lens throughout her work. She was Research Associate to the Decorative Arts and Design department at LACMA and research editor for Architectural Digest prior to joining Craft in America.