Maker Art Show at Otis College of Art and Design

The Maker Show is an exhibition at Otis College of Art and Design. The title is “MAKE:CRAFT” and is described as follow:

Inspired by the cultural currents represented in the popular magazines MAKE and CRAFT published out of Northern California, MAKE:CRAFT includes contemporary artists who combine handmaking and building techniques to create, engineer and hack unique, mostly functional devices, objects, machines and accessories; making either a sociopolitical statement, creating new markets for individual styled products, or creating inventive ways to experience the tactile world, non-virtual, the “real.”

The exhibition is guest curated by Patricia Watts, founder and west coast curator of ecoartspace, who feels that recent trends in the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) movement of making and crafting have empowered contemporary artists and designers to create more socially relevant work that supports sustainable communities.

MAKE:CRAFT

Ben Maltz Gallery

Otis College of Art and Design

October 2 – December 4, 2010