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Sept. 10-19 | 11 shows! New tour launching at Walton Arts Center! Family Fun Series Sponsor: Media Support: 10 WHAT'S UP! AUGUST 11-17, 2019 Photo courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Wedding ring, ca. 1773. Made for Rachel Walker Revere. Engraved: "[L]IVE Co[n]tented." Gift of Mrs. Henry B. Chapin and Edward H.R. Revere. FEATURE Crystal Bridges Continued From Page 9 The Momentary's second exhibition, opening July 18, was in the works with Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and CarriageWorks of Sydney, Australia, long before the new arts venue's completion, Haynes reveals. Visitors may be familiar with Nick Cave's "Soundsuits" in the permanent collection or when the artist was included in the 2016 Distinguished Speaker Series lineup. But in "Nick Cave: Until," the artist will take the viewer inside one of his Soundsuits for an immersive and engaging experience. "To really think about a space that is meant to be deeply engaged by other artists and other members of the community, I think is going to allow not only for people to see the Momentary in a completely different way — because it'll be new, but different from 'State of the Art' — but also see Nick's practice in a whole new way," Haynes shares. Finally, October of 2020 will see the final temporary exhibition of the year with "Craft" (the exhibition's working title). The project was developed by Crystal Bridges Assistant Curator Jen Padgett and guest curator Glenn Adamson — scholar of craft, design history and contemporary art. More than 90 works in traditional and unexpected materials explore how the skills and elements associated with craft play a vital role in American art from the 1940s to present. Whether through a quilt made by a grandmother and passed down through generations, a woodworking class taken in high school, or a handmade mug used every day for morning coffee, everyone has a connection to craft, Padgett suggests. "We want to build on those familiar associations but then surprise our visitors, invoking a sense of wonder and expanding the way they think about craft," she says. But the exhibition encourages reflection on the material world around us, as well as a more inclusive and expansive story of American art. "Craft has long been an accessible art form for women, people of color, immigrants, Indigenous peoples, veterans and other marginalized communities," Padgett explains. "This exhibition allows us to highlight a range of creative activity and explore how artists have engaged with and reinvented traditional ways of making over the past decades."