San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design

“Silversmithing is a centuries-old tradition in Scotland, but the art is still widely practiced today, and “Silver of the Stars” is intended to showcase the marriage of old techniques with modern design.” ApartmentTherapy.com
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August 4, 2009

“By forgoing conventional display methods, visitors [to San Francisco Graphic Design] were exposed to the philosophies and processes that joined these designers’ often disparate project types, and were given an opportunity to dig beyond the visual aesthetic that is so privileged when work is frozen and isolated behind glass.” –Eric Heiman
SFMOMA.org
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April 30, 2009

“The SFMCD show inched toward proving that also celebrating the context, intent and process inevitably leads to more understanding and thus more appreciation. I look forward to more museum design shows slinking further down this path.”- Eric Heiman
SFMOMA.org
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April 30, 2009

On San Francisco Graphic Design Show artist Joshua Chen:

“Gave me color.
Gave me texture.
Gave me form.
Give me opinion.” – Tim Belonax
Underconsideration.com
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February 10, 2009

On San Francisco Graphic Design: “An impressive survey of San Francisco graphic design from the 1960s through the present features the work of thirteen influential designers…Here’s your chance to reflect on the considerable influence that graphic design has on our everyday lives. The museum’s packed, by the way, indicating the strength and vibrancy of the local graphic design community. Good show; go see.”
ArtBusiness.com
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January 15, 2009

"The San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design always has some sort of amazing show of contemporary and/or historic work that is awe-inpiring.” – artist Annie Morhauser.
San Francisco Chronicle
August 23, 2009
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New West Coast Design: Contemporary Objects..."highlights the most exciting new designs for contemporary living currently emerging on the West Coast."
United Hemisphere Magazine
January 2008

"The latest in chic design, Contemporary Objects at the SF Museum of Craft+Design"

"The place to peruse some of the finest new high-end furniture, lighting, ceramics, and other designs is the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design…Here, craftsmanship rises to the level of fine art, and design connotes unique vision." -Mark Mardon
Bay Area Reporter
January 31, 2008

"New West Coast Design is full of such beautiful objects, things that toe the line between "glamorous" and "prosaic." Craft objects move me in a peculiar way. Craft objects are the objects that live with us. They are, for the majority of us out there, the art of everyday life… It is a big show with big ideas." - Cynthia Houng
KQED Arts & Culture,
Art Review: New West Coast Design
February 2008
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"Hot West Coast styles showcased at S.F. Museum of Craft+Design"
San Francisco Examiner
January 2008

"Celebrating and promoting the art of contemporary craft and design. The museum showcases diverse exhibitions from regional, national and international artists, working in mediums such as wood, clay, fiber, metal and glass."
Tri-Valley Herald
May 23, 2008

"There’s a good reason the next exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design is called ‘Crossing Boundaries.’ It’s a retrospective on 20-plus years of work by Randy Shull..." -Susan Fornoff
San Francisco Chronicle
July 5, 2008

"Solar Terrain in the front garden of the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design will have glowing electro-luminescent wires (glow-wire) powered by solar panels. The wire installation will cascade down the façade and blanket the garden, created by San Francisco landscape designer Marcel Wilson." -Zahid Sardar
San Francisco Chronicle: Design Spotting
December 2007
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"TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT, EVERYDAY TOOLS MORPH INTO UNUSUAL WORKS OF ART” - at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design. “By employing such mundane, everyday items as shovels and rakes, the artists clearly reveal the nimble leaps of imagination possible in art."
San Jose Mercury News

“Rakish Art – an unusual and very popular exhibit shows off the esoteric side of common tools” in Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design. "They are the most utilitarian of objects - hammers, nails, paintbrushes. And perhaps that's what makes their transformation into art so captivating."
Oakland Tribune

SF Weekly: Joyce J. Scott
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December 27, 2006

KQED Art Review: Kickin It with Joyce J. Scott
"The Museum of Craft & Design is a lovely little space tucked neatly to the side of Union Square on Stockton Street.”
KQED Arts & Culture
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December 5, 2006

KQED Art Review: Art Review : Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture
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August 18, 2006

Exhibition discussion of Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture
Join us for a walk-through of the Raymond Loewy Exhibition with commentary and discussion by Donald Fortescue, Chair of the Wood/Furniture Program, California...
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June 29, 2006

"The Loewy exhibit is one of the largest shows mounted thus far by the almost two-year old Museum of Craft+Design."
San Luis Obispo Tribune
June 4, 2006

This summer at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, located near the city's premiere retail center, the legacy of industrial designer Raymond Loewy lives in the traveling exhibition, "Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture!"
STEP Inside Design
May/June 2006

The SF Museum of Craft+Design unveils some of the best-known designs of the 20th century with "Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture!"
7X7 Culture Watch
June 2006

"Wine Label Art Comes of Age" at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design—the Museum is paying tribute to the best of these labels by noted artists and graphic designers.
San Francisco Chronicle
November 18, 2005

"the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design is relatively new to the Bay scene, but that hasn't stopped it scheduling an adventuresome summer exhibit..."
LIFESCAPES Magazine
June/July 2005

"the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Craft + Design showcases the visual harmony between the arts and craft...."
WHERE Magazine
January 2005

"San Francisco has always been a magnet for creative types, so I devote the rest of the day to art, both high and low...the new Museum of Craft + Design is worth every penny..." H. Scott Jolley
TRAVEL & LEISURE Magazine

"The new 3,500-square-foot San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design is the first large-scale local venue for the handwrought, from carved wood to blown glass...."
SAN FRANCISCO Magazine
December 2004

"A modest-sized craft and design museum is opening this month in San Francisco. But its ambitions aren't modest...."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
October 2004

"...the roster of shows is already impressive, starting with the first-ever public showing of about 150 works in clay, fiber, glass, and wood..."
AMERICAN STYLE Magazine
October 2004

“The West Coast welcomes yet another craft showcase when the new San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design opens October 23 in the city’s Union Square district...its board and advisors include some 35 nationally prominent makers, curators, dealers, collectors and advocates.”
AMERICAN CRAFT Magazine
October/November 2004