Challenge VII: dysFUNctional will run in the Center through January 17, 2009. The exhibition creates visual dialogue between objects and videos that never were intended to be together. The 33 works by 30 artists are persuasive in content, form, surface and movement, and evoke humor, curiosity and suspicion.

The International Turning Exchange resident artists' travel, and work independently and collaboratively from June until the last week of July. The allTURNatives exhibit is the grand finale to the 2008 ITE program. This multi-disciplinary exhibit reflects the residents' experiences including objects produced before and during the residency. Three-dimensional work will be accompanied by photos and/or films depicting the summer experience and the artists' statements about their experiences and work process.

April 4 – July 19, 2008

“I try to reveal those places, within us and without us, where past and future coexist, beyond fashion and geography, eternally, while time flies.”

-Stephen Paulsen

Civilization as They Knew It provides a retrospective of California artist Stephen Paulsen’s evolving work, from pieces created when he was fifteen years old to the current work created with his son, Ulysses, a glassblower. Stephen’s wall pieces create stories of ancient times through the interior architecture of fictional tombs. The viewer shares a window on this world through the descriptive titles that begin - then drop - the short story about each piece. Other wall pieces recall museum-like cabinets of curiosities. Civilization as They Knew It is the collection of objects and crypts found in Stephen Paulsen’s mind.

February 1, 2008 – March 22 , 2008

Rose-Engines & Kings features delicate, intricately textured objects created by specialty artists using century-old machines. Ornamental turning stems from the 1600s when European kings appointed highly skilled artists with specialty lathes to create the finest treasures in ivory and exotic materials for their personal collections. This exhibit, curated by long-time ornamental turner Jon Sauer of California, showcases the exquisite work being executed with the same patience and perfection by contemporary ornamental turners. Alongside Rose Engines & Kings, a companion exhibit will feature selections from the Wood Turning Center collection with a special tribute to the late Dale Chase of California.