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Maryhill Museum of Art Presents Process and Presence Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft

The Maryhill Museum of Art Presents Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft on view March 15 – July 4.

Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft (MoCC) is home to more than 1,000 objects documenting the evolution of 20th-century American craft in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft features 40 of these handmade objects worked in clay, metal, wood and fiber.

Among the artists featured are woodworker Sam Maloof, ceramicist Peter Voulkos, jewelry artist Ramona Solberg, glass and ceramic artist Ray Grimm, and textile artist Judith Poxson Fawkes.

Maryhill Museum of Art boasts a world-class permanent collection, rotating exhibitions of the highest caliber, and dynamic educational programs that provide opportunities for further exploration by visitors of all ages. On view are more than 80 works by Auguste Rodin, European and American paintings, objects d’art from the palaces of the Queen of Romania, Orthodox icons, unique chess sets, and the renowned Théâtre de la Mode, featuring small-scale mannequins attired in designer fashions of post-World War II France. Baskets of the indigenous people of North America were a collecting interest of Hill; today the museum’s Native American collection represents nearly every tradition and style in North America, with works of art from prehistoric through contemporary.

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