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La Bricoleuse ([personal profile] labricoleuse) wrote2014-08-06 11:39 am
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Exhibit Review--NYC Makers Biennial at the Museum of Art and Design, NYC

While in New York this summer, i also got a chance to check out the NYC Makers exhibit at the Museum of Art and Design, running through October 12, 2014. The exhibit spotlights 100 "Makers" throughout NYC's 5 boroughs, creators of all different types of art and creatively-designed products.

It spans two floors of the museum and extends also into the stairwells and elevator spaces, and really, you name it, and it's represented--art, fashion, food, hand tools, horticulture, nightclub design, even scratch-and-sniff wallpaper (no really). I'll admit it though, i went because among the featured makers were milliners and costume production artist Sally Ann Parsons, for whom i have worked in past summers.

Here are some pix from the exhibit of some of my favorite pieces.



photo 1
Two costumes for King Arthur's Camelot by the Cincinnati Ballet,
designed by Sandra Woodall and made by Sally Ann Parsons/Parsons-Meares, Ltd.
(Right: hat by millinery Harriet Rosebud)

photo 3
Detail of costume surface design.

photo 2
Detail of costume surface design.


photo 4
3D printed, butane-fueled mechanical candelabrum for Glass Menagerie
with flames that gutter on-cue, by J&M Special Effects

photo 5
Parasol Skeleton Hat by designer Heidilee



Admission to the museum is $16, $14 for seniors and $12 for students. If you find yourself at the southern end of Central Park with time to kill, go check it out!