Thaddeus Mosley's Studio Tour for Touchstone's 50th!

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All proceeds support Touchstone Center for Craft's 50th Anniversary Campaign, making campus renewal, investments in the regional creative economy, and more possible.

Thaddeus Mosley's Studio Soiree in honor of Touchstone's 50th!

You're invited for a rare glimpse into the working studio and creative mind of renowned artist, Thaddeus Mosley. Tour the studio and listen to Thaddeus discuss his life, his work, and his special connection to Touchstone Center for Crafts.

Saturday, October 29, 2022

2:00PM - 5:00PM

1800 Columbus Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15233

$100 per person

Advance purchase required. Limited tickets may be available.

Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926, New Castle, PA) is a Pittsburgh-based self-taught artist whose monumental sculptures are crafted with the felled trees of Pittsburgh’s urban canopy, via the city’s Forestry Division. Using only a mallet and chisel, Mosley reworks salvaged timber into biomorphic forms. With influences ranging from Isamu Noguchi to Constantin Brâncuși—and the Bamum, Dogon, Baoulé, Senufo, Dan, and Mossi works of his personal collection—Mosley’s sculptures mark an inflection point in the history of American abstraction. These “sculptural improvisations,” as he calls them, take cues from the modernist traditions of jazz. “The only way you can really achieve something is if you’re not working so much from a pattern. That’s also the essence of good jazz,” Mosley says of his method. Mosley had his first Karma solo exhibition in 2020, and was commissioned for the 2020 edition of Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York.

His work has been exhibited and acquired by major museums and foundations since 1959, including the Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the occasion of the 57th Edition of the Carnegie International (2018). His work is held in public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. (KARMA Gallery (www.karmakarma.org))

Happy 50th Anniversary Touchstone Center for Crafts!

Founded as Pioneer Crafts Council in 1972 with an original focus on traditional Appalachian crafts, Touchstone Center for Crafts is Pennsylvania’s premier craft school. In honor of the first 50 years, Touchstone celebrates its past, present and future with a $1.5 Million Anniversary Campaign to renew and enhance its creative environment, increase local and regional impact, and contribute to the future of the field, and Touchstone's sustainability. Be part of the next 50 years with your gift today.

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Thaddeus Mosley's Studio Soiree for Touchstone
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Thaddeus Mosley's Studio
1800 Columbus Avenue Pittsburgh, PA

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2:00PM - 5:00PM

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