Museum of Craft and Folk Art
51 Yerba Buena Ln
415.227.4888
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Warren MacKenzie working in his studio, Photo by Peter Lee
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Opens Thursday June 11, 2009 (5–7pm)
June 12, 2009 – Sep 13, 2009
Mondays–Tuesdays (11am–6pm)
Thursdays–Fridays (11am–6pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–5pm)
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$5
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Trading in glitz and gloss for elegant understatement, American pottery master Warren MacKenzie has spent half a century crafting simple, eminently usable vessels that have set the national standard for practical ceramic art. This MOCFA retrospective traces his development through a variety of wheel-thrown styles, specifically concentrating on his life-long association with the Mingei aesthetic — a Japanese folk-art style from the 1920s whose utilitarian focus the potter embraced and reworked while developing the nascent studio-pottery movement of the early 1950s.
