A highlight was a special reception honoring the Penland School of Crafts for 71 years of service to the international arts community. Participants enjoyed an illuminating series of artist demonstrations in a variety of media, exploring the aesthetic dialogue between artist, process and materials. Designing With Light . Daylong seminar produced by the American Craft Museum , underwritten by Hunter Douglas, which examined light and lighting both from the point of view of conservation and protection for fragile collections, and as a powerful aesthetic tool for shaping the experience of private collections and residential interiors. If you can unlock a moment, you can enter a realm of freedom.
Artists show the way.
To look long is to feel free. 13,000 persons looked long at SOFA NEW YORK 2000, and felt free for four special days, where without apology for animism, eloquent objects came alive as art.