Join us for a virtual curatorial talk with Nate Craig, the curator behind the 2022 Rough Gems exhibition, Made Known. Led by Union Hall’s Chief Curator Ari Myers, we will be discussing the concept, inspiration and selected works in the five person exhibition.

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Nate Craig

Nate Craig (he/him) is a Denver-based designer interested in craft, object, and the domestic sphere. Nate works as a buyer and manager at Boulder-based artisan homewares boutique, Cedar and Hyde. Additionally, Nate edits and operates the bi-weekly newsletter, Artificial Turf, offering a curated collection of art and design for an interior landscape. He is currently studying Interior Design at the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design

About the exhibition

In Made Known, the makers, artists, and artisans place themselves, their story, and personhood so intimately into their craft that it is impossible to separate the maker from object. Those experiencing the work are indelibly connected to the maker as individual human in their autobiographical storytelling, rejecting capitalism’s division of labor. There is no way to view these works and not think about the artisan and the movements of their hand and heart. The care in craft, the process of skill, the movements of the hand, connected to a body, manipulating the material, becomes the medium through which these artists make themselves known to the world.