Kitsch: Craft So Bad That It's Good | Spring 2022

"Kitsch: Craft So Bad That It's Good" is a group exhibition subverting the rules around good taste while crossing the line, making you laugh and cringe all at once.

"Kitsch: Craft So Bad That It’s Good" is a group exhibition of works from Alberta Craft Council members. Creators responded from across the province to kitsch it up with humorous works that and will make you laugh and cringe all at once - crossing lines and breaking rules.

Craft artists working in all traditional and contemporary craft media were invited to create their interpretations of kitsch craft; Craft that shares a knowing wink with the viewer, craft that wears kitsch on its velour sleeve as a rhinestone badge of honour, craft that’s appeal is found in its bad taste and ironic value.

Stuck indoors during the Covid-19 winter, artists turned to their resourceful natures to design and create objects responding to our strange covid times and using materials that were readily at hand in their Covid-19 hideouts. Many of the participating artist created new one of kind objects unlike anything you have seen in the Alberta Craft Council before.

Exhibiting artists include AUArts Professor Emeritus and Alumni.