Fuller Craft Museum Offers Craft Installations

From Fuller Craft Museum: A one-week residency at Fuller Craft Museum, combining dance and contemporary craft installations. April 18 - 23, 2017, from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm daily. Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, Brockton MA 02301, 508.588.6000. Free with museum admission. This is a family-friendly event.Click here for images: http://fullercraft.org/press/luminarium-dance-presents-kinetic-craft/

Enjoy a week of contemporary craft brought to life through dance.

For its annual Cultural Community Outreach Project, Luminarium Dance Company will be in residence at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton for the entire week of April school vacation (Tuesday, April 18 through Sunday, April 23, 2017, from 10am-5pm daily) in an exhibition titled Kinetic Craft. The company is constructing a series of “breathing installations”—a concept first developed by Artistic Director Merli V. Guerra back in 2011 with Luminarium’s fabric installation at Boston Center for the Arts’ Movement at the Mills event. For Kinetic Craft, Luminarium will highlight the five crafting elements—Textiles, Ceramics, Wood, Glass, and Metal—set into motion by both Guerra and fellow Artistic Director Kimberleigh A. Holman.

This weeklong exhibition of breathing installations is family-friendly and perfect for all ages and abilities. Peruse the museum at your leisure as dancers from each installation perform and interact with those passing by. Peer through an antique window into the glowing fort of the Fabric Installation where a dancer stitches colorful fabric onto her dress; direct the melody played in the Metal Installation as the performer moves through a 10’ x 10’ dance-propelled wind chime in sync with your commands; then wander down the hallway to find a performer ensconced in clay for the Ceramics Installation.

Kinetic Craft is Luminarium’s 2017 Cultural Community Outreach Project, an annual event (now in its 6th year) dedicated to celebrating a historical community establishment through the integration of dance and the arts. Guerra leads this annual project. Her interest and expertise in celebrating local historical landmarks stems from her decade of work as an historical interpreter for Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House (Concord MA) and the Paul Revere House (Boston MA), as well as her more recent work in arts advocacy and project funding as Co-Chair of the Arlington Cultural Council.

This event is funded in part by a grant from the Brockton Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. If you would like more information, or to schedule an interview with Luminarium Dance please contact Merli V. Guerra at mguerra@luminariumdance.org or call978.394.3003.

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