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MAD Verbal Description Tour of Chris Schanck: Off-World
April 25, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Free
Join a MAD educator and museum docents for an on-site tour of current exhibitions, specifically designed for visitors who are blind or have low vision.
Visitors will engage with the new exhibition Chris Schanck: Off-World through verbal description, conversation, and sensory experiences. The tour will conclude with a visit to the studio of artist Rachelle Dang, who will share recent work made at MAD as part of her 2022 Artist Fellowship.
About the Artists:
During the past decade, Chris Schanck has emerged as a leading figure in the design world for his otherworldly fusion of sculpture and furniture. Skirting the line between refinement and camp, the strange, unfamiliar forms of Schanck’s chairs, sofas, lighting, mirrors, and more suggest coral reefs, extraterrestrial worlds, and artifacts from ancient civilizations, to name just a few of the designer’s inspirations. Each piece is meticulously handcrafted in Schanck’s Detroit-based studio, a community of artists, students, and Bangladeshi craftspeople who all make key contributions to the studio’s collective practice. Deftly melding innovative material experiments with an expressive yet rigorous refinement of form, Schanck’s elaborately carved, colorfully hued, and lustrous objects are contemporary talismans of stories from the past, present, and future.