Image Attribution: View of Gallery 206, Kinder Building, December 14,2020, Photograph © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, ST_194_2020_12_07.

The MFAH has an extensive collection of modern and contemporary ceramics, featuring the broad range of approaches taken by artists to this exceptional material over the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This talk will treat the origins of this collection at the MFAH, through the acquisition of two major collections, and include a virtual tour of the new Cindi Strauss Gallery dedicated to craft in the Nancy and Rich Kinder building that opened in November 2020 and includes over 200 works from the MFAH craft collection on view.

About the Speaker

Anna Walker is the Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) where she is responsible for the exhibition, research and publication of the craft collection, the proposal of acquisitions, and the development of a long-term collections strategy. Prior to joining the MFAH, she was the Curator at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC). She has lectured widely on craft and contributed essays for Metalsmith Magazine, American Craft Inquiry, and the 2016 Renwick Invitational: Visions and Revisions catalogue. Her most recent projects at the MFAH include the exhibitions In the Studio: Craft in Postwar America, 1950-1970; Mending: Craft and Community; and the retrospective exhibition Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock that she co-curated with Laura Mott at the Cranbrook Art Museum.

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