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MANA HEWITT: PERSISTENCE

Exceptional Medals to Decorate Great Women

by Harlow Tighe

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” —Marie Curie, chemist, physicist, Nobel laureate

Mana Hewitt’s solo exhibition, Persistence, displays a series of 60 unique medals made of etched brass, copper, sterling silver, and vitreous enamel. They recognize the courage and perseverance of women who have challenged societal perceptions, and feature leading figures including Susan B. Anthony, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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"Can craft curators create new spaces and contexts that are inclusive and provide opportunities for innovative strategies within the field?" Love Jönsson asked this question of three panelists in November 2016. The question surfs on a persistent belief that craft naturally tends to encourage non-hierarchical, collective decision making and that it's better suited than, say, art, to mend social inequalities. This short lecture, called The exhibition as metaphor of social organisation, engages with the implicit idea that exhibitions are metaphors for social organization.

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