JamFactory Wednesday Talks // Grace Lai
Event description
Join us for a casual Wednesday Talk with Grace Lai.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Guided by curiosity, Grace Lai is an art historian and curator interested in uncovering stories held by objects overlooked or dismissed by history. Positioning material culture as a decoder of the immaterial, her research seeks to untangle the complex web of connections, histories, and social structures inherited by objects in the hopes of addressing issues that remain relevant not only to museums and their collections but also to society today. Grace has published extensively on contemporary craft, with a focus on studio glass, contemporary jewellery, and surface design. In 2019, Grace curated Carried Away: Bags Unpacked, a survey of the carrier bags across culture and time.
Currently, Grace is the Curator of Applied Arts & Design at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum where she leads the exhibition, development, and research of a nationally significant archive of craft from Aotearoa New Zealand and abroad.
ABOUT US
JamFactory is a unique not-for-profit organisation that champions the social, cultural, and economic value of craft and design in daily life. Through our programs we inspire audiences, build careers, and extend contemporary craft and design into new markets.