In the Vanguard

In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 19501969 traces this unique schools impact on American art during the mid-twentieth century. Accompanying a landmark exhibition, this catalogue documents Haystacks innovative pedagogy and its role as a major force in the studio craft movement. Anni Albers, Robert Arneson, Dale Chihuly, Arline Fisch, Jack Lenor Larsen, Harvey Littleton, and Toshiko Takaezu are among the artists who helped define the schools model of communally oriented, process-based learning. With deeply researched essays that detail the schools founding and first two decades, archival photographs, and images of rarely or never-before published works made at Haystack, In the Vanguard introduces readers to the important legacy of this groundbreaking institution. Published in association with the Portland Museum of Art. Exhibition dates: Portland Museum of Art, Maine: May 24September 8, 2019 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan: December 13, 2019March 8, 2020