Juried by Bruce W. Pepich, Executive Director and Curator of Collections for the Racine Art Museum, as well as the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine.

A record 911 entries were submitted, with only around 100 works accepted! "Craft Forms", now in its fifteenth year, has grown to be one of the leading contemporary craft exhibitions in the country and a favored showcase for the work of the nation's most talented craft artists.

Craft Forms 2009 Opening night Preview Party: Friday, December 4, from 6-10 pm.

In conjunction with Craft Forms, "Reflections in Glass", an exhibition of contemporary glass curated by Arlene Silvers, Curator of the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia will also be on view.

If you can't attend the opening, we hope that you will come see both gallery exhibitions which will continue through January 23, 2010 as well as the Juror's Talk with Bruce W. Pepich on Saturday, December 5, 1-2 pm. The Meet the Artist presentation will follow right after from 2-3 pm.

Juried by Jo Lauria, independent curator and an art and design historian. She holds a degree in art history from Yale University and in studio art from Otis College of Art and Design. Formerly, Lauria was a decorative arts curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), specializing in modern and contemporary decorative arts, craft, and design. She has published extensively, organized numerous exhibitions, and produced and directed multimedia presentations and documentary films. Currently Jo Lauria serves as chief curator of the exhibition "CRAFT IN AMERICA: Expanding Traditions", a nationally touring show hosted by seven American museums. The exhibition is intended to complement the PBS documentary series, "CRAFT IN AMERICA: Memory, Landscape, and Community". The companion book to the exhibition, Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects was coauthored by Jo Lauria and released in fall 2007.