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where the pieces ever so slightly smoothed and rounded manage to relate to each other and to the design also created by pippa the result feels warmer we re talking about stone after all more expressive more alive more sensuous even and as pippa explains as the pieces are hand finished in place you re able to get a buttery smoothness not achievable with machine cut pre fab sheets pippa also happens to be one of the more extraordinary people i ve met vigorously committed to her art and life thoughtful emotional and uncontrived with an infectious lightness and joie de vivre she s extraordinarily inner directed as opposed to the rest of us who can be a bit too swayed by what s going on around us seriously inspiring this is a woman for whom the past and the present are deeply intertwined she has a way of talking about the classical world that makes it feel energetic vital and alive not musty and remote for anyone who s steered clear of the classics this is actually nothing short of miraculous it s really no surprise that pippa came to a life and career where the past is so powerfully present her father is an art historian specializing in architecture french gothic and she grew up scrambling around cathedrals and hearing stories about their construction and the people who used them this kind of thing has a way of getting under your skin but how d she actually get started in mosaics when i was a freshman at columbia i heard that one of the professors there needed an artist on a dig in crete so i knocked on the door of his office clutching a watercolor i d done of horse next thing i knew i was the artist on the dig drawing all our finds the whole experience just blew my mind we were restoring a building from the byzantine era and wanted to place a mosaic patio in front and they asked me to do it had you ever done this before no so what happened i gathered pebbles based my designs on things i d been drawing but i really didn t know what to do and really couldn t do internet search but i m one of these people who isn t comfortable doing anything unless i m 100 sure of how to do it so i went back to the ancients vitruvius and pliny the elder to find out how as one does of course so much was there the chemical components all the details and techniques and that was the beginning she went on to get a ba in visual arts art history from columbia and a ms in classical archeology from the university of edinburgh specializing in greco roman mosaic technique and design love and an interest in creating not just conceptualizing and theorizing brought her to cca in california a few more things to know about pippa lest you think she s a dusty classicist who has her head in books she lives with her husband and daughter ithaka on a boat not a houseboat mind you it s a 1964 american marine motor sailor teak boat she finds time to ride horses the show ribbons in her studio indicate that she also does this rather well is there no end to her skills she s an artist through and through her studio also features her graceful careful drawings and watercolors her intricate sculptures of horses and her intriguing furniture and she s a bit of a science geek alongside the drawings are images of laue diffractions a way of looking at the atomic structure of crystals so i learned and images for works in progress see what i mean about inner directed was art in your blood yes i always knew i was going to be an artist as a child i was always doing watercolors and making things out of wire my grandmother taught me how to sew and do crochet too though i can t knit after your degree from edinburgh you went and got your mfa from cca what was that like to go from more conceptual to craft oh the best thing about cca was seeing people s ideas all the stuff going on the gestalt of the place i loved the undergraduate classes and you went from mosaics into the wood program why wood oh it was the intersection of craft and art and wood is all about cutting things up putting them back together again aha i also loved that it was more about making things and not so conceptual there was room for there to be both art and craft it s all about cohabiting and the breadth was great i even took a glass blowing class it was fun little tastes of things growing up was there one place that really moved you oh yes no need for pippa to ponder this question for long amiens cathedral going up the spiral staircase looking down at the floor see all those surfaces the light the texture of the stone etc i remember my pop carrying me up the spiral stairs i was maybe 4 i remember seeing the wear on the stairs and the light coming through the slits on the wall it was really magical you ve worked on commissions of all sizes including one that was 1 000 square feet what was that like it was great really complex required a ton of organization from ramp up to fabrication to installation at one point we had 17 people working on it and i loved the flow that you could get where d you get the talent for the job i hired from all over including cca and italy i learned a lot about managing and what have you learned about yourself in this career that i must like heavy dirty work i love that i m making things that will be there for a long time i remember looking at something beaded in the metropolitan museum in nyc it was a valuable object because of the labor but i really do love everything i do i love the drawing the people the project management i love working with daniel purbrick her colleague of several years and another cca mfa alum problem solving my weaknesses are things like business marketing oh no never heard that before what s your favorite material to work with limestone because it takes wear and gets a patina that s part of the its beauty do you have time to read anything for fun her studio library is something to behold including her thesis from edinburgh university which she still refers to in her daily work i have a lot of forever books you know one i can think of is dinner with persephone which i dip into it s a book about traveling in greece what do you go to recharge going to the horse barn at one point i ll be going back to greece i m getting the sense that greece is your spiritual home greece is definitely one of my spiritual homes the light the culture the old rocks the people the food the water i even like the things no one likes the crowded streets or the fact that no one is ever on time tell me about horses and riding have you always ridden always not surprising since my mother is a horse mad irish woman i was on the saddle in front of my mother when i was a tiddlywink took lessons at 4 and my pony arrived at 6 and how d you decide to live on a boat it can t be easy with a child yes but we love it you know i think it s the same thing i like about horses there s a freedom to be able to get our home out on the bay and all of a sudden the world opens up and it s lovely it s also the perfect opposite of my working life which is about stones that don t move and it fits into how we feel about things we love that it was made by hand and we love doing things ourselves knowing where things are understanding the systems that support our lives having a small footprint you know what your impact on the environment is in a really profound way it s complex simplicity simple complexity so who gets to play you in the movie of your life kate winslett and cate blanchett and type of movie i think i can guess this one historical fiction that would be my movie i also like animated stuff anything by pixar we loved rome the mini series and pillars of the earth that was amazing i grew up reading lots of mary renault what s the best gift you ve received my husband gave me this pocket athena s owl it brings me strength and wisdom and the best you gave i sent my mother a print of a wolfhound that made her cry it was a 1930s print what s the first thing you reach for in the morning a cup of coffee which zach brings me he makes me coffee every day very nice so you know what s coming what objects define you this is a tough one because things change but for today definitely that pocket owl and my journals i have them dating back to high school my truck i have a f250 diesel named tiny tiny yes it s short for iktinos architect of the parthenon naturally and i love my belt buckle it s a rodeo belt buckle it s huge and oval and very shiny i thought it was the most ridiculous thing i d ever seen but i d bought a bunch of them then one day i put it on and it made me feel great i have a plate in my arm for coming off a horse so i figure i deserve it and my ancient cellphone which is dying i drop it just about every day i dropped it into a bucket of water and it survived details pippa murray mosaics http www pippamurray com 1 comment filed under heroes and heroines sf bay area surfaces by regina connell march 4 2011 9 44 am the big picture crafts council uk no surprises here we adore contemporary craft want to see more of it out there want to see it evolve and yes want the people who are involved to make a living a good one even from doing what they love but it ain t easy craft the rodney dangerfield of the arts world suffers from a bit of an image problem many understand well kind of the value of art and get lowest common denominator mass goods but have no clue what value to ascribe to craft plus the economy hasn t exactly done us any favors and then there s the strong independent tradition among makers that makes collective action like the promotion of craft just a little difficult like cat herding said a person who d know so it got us thinking how do you move the needle on a whole category of art or culture such as craft can you in the us there s the american craft council and magazines and conferences galleries and museums and shows and fairs and etsy ok but we all know it s not quite cutting it not really so what else is there i got a hint that there might just be another way when i was looking at the site of the crafts council uk to find uk makers for our profiles immediately i was impressed ok blown away with an enormous searchable database of makers arts organizations and agencies and employment award opportunities this was the hub that i d been looking for the in us but hadn t still haven t found or am i missing something but i didn t really have a handle on what they were up to until i got to have a long chat with jill read of the crafts council in london yes there too crafts have traditionally suffered from an image problem the conversations about is craft really art have been going on for decades though craft is also a more integral part of the culture of the uk in fact there are at least three major craft organizations in the greater uk the crafts council which promotes contemporary craft and the heritage crafts association which promotes more traditional craft forms and there s also the vibrant craftscotland showcasing contemporary craft beyond whiskey and woolens and despite a more traditionally activist role in the arts uk government funding of the arts is facing unprecedented reductions as part of the fiscal emergency surgery underway in the us some of the arts funding slack is taken up by the philanthropic sector which isn t quite as developed in the uk because it didn t have to be according to jeremy hunt the uk culture secretary those in the us who earn more than 150 000 approximately 250 000 give eight times more than those in the uk despite all this the crafts council is finding a way to get people talking about caring about making and buying high quality contemporary craft in the uk it is about money but it s also about smarts about having the right building blocks in place big thinking my more wonky business and social change friends would call this systems thinking a clear sophisticated vision smart targeted programs a collaborative pragmatic approach and periodic refreshes of strategy and focus not just to meet budget constraints but to meet real on the ground needs the overall approach seems to be making things happen even in times of austerity and constraint it s incredibly inspiring and very thought provoking jill and i sat down to unravel how the crafts council does this and some of the tough realities the world of craft faces how would you characterize the state of contemporary craft in the uk today it is in a healthy state we estimate there are over 30 000 contemporary craft makers working in the uk today the craft industry contributes 3 billion gross value added to the uk economy each year greater than the visual arts cultural heritage or literature sectors your mandate is clear to make the uk the best place to make see collect and learn about contemporary craft talk about each of those components let s start with make we have a programme of maker development called collective that works to ensure that we support makers at every stage of their career from makers straight out of college through hothouse to those who are mid career through artistic license these programs are a combination of grants mentoring and coaching in business and similar skills throughout the crafts council programs there s a strong pragmatic streak based on the understanding that without strong business and management skills craft won t survive we also like their portfolio program that recognizes that makers often have to support themselves by having a portfolio of jobs like teaching one program helps makers learn how to become better teachers smart that it s about the whole crafts person maker and not just about what goes on in the studio we also appreciate that they do market development and trade promotion in the uk us and throughout europe under the see theme we work with partner venues to develop exciting touring exhibitions of contemporary craft in order to help change peoples perceptions of craft and expand interest in it from makers to collectors especially outside of london some of these include lab craft digital meets craft breath taking pushing the boundaries of glass and craft cubes rentable traveling trade show like booths that feature edgy contemporary craft exhibits we also have one of the largest collections of contemporary craft in the uk we ve acquired over 1 300 objects since the early 70s and maintain many schemes to encourage museums to loan these objects long term or short term through our collect program we re helping build the market for contemporary craft and find the collectors of the future through our two flagship selling events collect the international art fair for contemporary objects and origin the london craft fair we believe that the future of craft lies in nurturing talent and we put this to work in ou r learn programs one of our key tasks is to help children and young adults learn about craft at school it s been taken off many curriculums and we need to get craft back onto them our current participation and learning initiatives include firing up and craft club to help communit...