SPRING CRAFT WEEKEND: SYMPOSIUM DAY

GROUNDED IN CRAFT: HONOREE SYMPOSIUM
SATURDAY, MAY 4 | 10:00AM - 12:30PM | MCEVOY AUDITORIUM
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM | 8th and G Streets, NW, Washington DC 20004
Event chaired by Andrea Uravitch 

Free and open to the public, registration not required

Attend the Spring Craft Weekend Symposium featuring talks with our esteemed honorees Masters of the Medium Marilyn Pappas, Beth Lipman, Steven Young Lee and Distinguished Educator Susie Ganch, followed by a Q&A panel.

Casual attire. Limited on-street parking at meters; several paid parking garages are available in the neighborhood. Since the Symposium starts before SAAM opens to the public, you must enter on G Street to access McEvoy Auditorium. A JRACraft staff member will be there to greet you.

SUSIE GANCH
DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR

Susie Ganch is a sculptor, jeweler, and educator at Virginia Commonwealth University where she is head of the Metal Program and Associate Professor. She is the founder of the Radical Jewelry Makeover, a pioneering project in jewelry mining and recycling that spans across the country and internationally. Ganch's work is rooted in issues of waste and cultural consumption. In 2023, JRACraft purchased her piece "Drag" for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery. ​

MARILYN PAPPAS
​MASTER OF THE MEDIUM

Fiber artist Marilyn Pappas delves into ideals of the human form and beauty through her life-sized embroidered textiles and three-dimensional stitched forms. In 2022, her remarkable 60-year career was celebrated with a retrospective at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. Her work can be found in the collections of the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, and the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, among others. ​

BETH LIPMAN
​MASTER OF THE MEDIUM

Beth Lipman is best known for her glass still-life installations which  symbolize the grandeur of the Anthropocene. Her work seeks to reimagine history and highlight the fragility of the present alongside the enduring persistence of life. Lipman has received various awards such as the USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, and the Pollock Krasner Grant. Her work has been acquired by numerous museums including the Corning Glass Museum in New York, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery.

STEVEN YOUNG LEE
​MASTER OF THE MEDIUM

Steven Young Lee served as the Resident Artist Director of the Archie Bray Center for Ceramic Arts for 15 years and is currently the Director Emeritus and Special Projects Manager. Lee has maintained an active studio practice and has lectured extensively in North America and Asia. In the Fall of 2016 he was one of four artists featured as part of the Invitational at the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery. His work has been collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, and many public and private collections.