If you have the opportunity to get to the Mint Museum in Charlotte NC before the end of the month, take it. There is an excellent permanent display exploring craft and design, however there is alsoan exhibition exploring wood in craft, art and design that ends at the end of the month and should not be missed. The idea was to have artists toe the lines between art, design and craft; three fields which constantly interact and are incredibly difficult to define.
The Mint
I'm challenging my studio students (two seniors, the rest sophomores) to explore this notion in their designs this semester. What is the difference between art and design? Is it simply functionality? When is a chair all three? How about a wall? Where does the computer come into play here? If the creator uses a computer, is it then design and not art? Or is the computer simply a tool, just like a paintbrush?
I'm interested in what you and my students have to say about this as well as fleshing out my own notions of art vs craft vs design.
Check out this link to Scott Carter's exhibition (currently on display in London at the Beers.Lambert Gallery)
What do you think? Is Carter's work Art, Craft, or Design?
And thank you to The Colossal blog for an inspiring collection of artists, designers, and craftsmen.
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