Experience the ideas behind Video Craft at a special opening day Artist Talk

Join Video Craft ccurators Ariel Zaccheo and Sarah Mills in conversation with exhibiting artists Kate Nartker, Kelly Egan, and Kira Dominguez Hultgren for a behind-the-scenes look at the ideas and processes shaping the exhibition. Together, they will explore how video and traditional craft practices inform one another, and how artists working across these media bring new material awareness to screen-based technologies.

Nartker, Egan, and Dominguez Hultgren move between weaving, sculpture, digital media and video art. The discussion will center on craft as a tactile and time-based experience, and on what happens when hand-based processes meet the moving image.

Tickets include museum admission. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to explore the exhibition. The panel begins at 1:30 PM, with additional time to view Video Craft following the discussion.

Tickets: General Admission $10, Students and Seniors $8, MCD members FREE
Children 12 and under are always free.

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FEATURED ARTISTS BIO

KATE NARTKER

Kate Nartker works in animation and weaving to dismantle images, narratives, and material structures. She received an MFA from the California College of the Arts and is an Associate Professor of Textile Design at the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State University. Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings in The Contemporary Austin, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the Hordaland Art Center in Bergen, Norway, among others.

KELLY EGAN

Kelly Egan (she/her) is an Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Trent University. Her work focuses on materiality and obsolescence, looking beyond hierarchical, canonical, and linear histories to probe new potentials for dead media. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film/Video from Bard College, a Certificate in Film Preservation from the Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman Museum, and a PhD in Communication and Culture from the York/TMU Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture. Her award-winning experimental films have exhibited extensively at festivals/venues including the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, among others. She has lived and worked in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, Ontario, Canada since 2014.

KIRA DOMINGUEZ HULTGREN

Kira Dominguez Hultgren is a Chicago-based weaver and educator. She studied postcolonial theory and literature at Princeton University, and studio arts and visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts. Their research interests include material and embodied rhetorics, re-storying material culture, and weaving as a performative critique of the visual. Dominguez Hultgren has exhibited her work broadly, including shows at the Museum of Arts and Design, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Ballroom Marfa, the San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textile, the Roswell Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco. Their public art projects include installations with the city of Berkeley, the city of Phoenix, and a recent installation at Stanford University’s Institute for Advancing Just Societies. Dominguez Hultgren is a 2024 Center for Craft Research Fund recipient, 2024 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship recipient, and a 2024 United States Artists Fellow.

CURATORS BIO

SARAH MILLS

Sarah Mills is a historian of modern design and contemporary art and an assistant professor at San José State University. Her research focuses on cultural histories of craft media, specifically weaving, fiber art, and textile design. She teaches courses in the Department of Design and the Art and Art History Department at SJSU. Her work has been supported by fellowships at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where Mills completed her M.Phil. and PhD. Sarah sits on the Board of the San José Museum of Quilts and Textiles.

ARIEL ZACCHEO

Ariel Zaccheo is curatorial Director at the Museum of Craft and Design, where she leads the museum’s exhibition program in collaboration with artists, guest curators, and an extended exhibitions team. She has served as co-curator for Artists Television Access Window Gallery since 2013, and, prior to joining MCD, held positions at George Lawson Gallery and SFAI. Her writing has been published in CARLA, Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Network, American Craft Magazine, and Art Practical. She has served as a juror for exhibitions at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and Marin Society of Artists. Zaccheo holds an MA in Exhibition and Museum Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received the Excellence in Scholarship Master’s Thesis Award, and a BA in Art History from the University of Utah.

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