Fuller Craft Museum

{{Short description|Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts, United States}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox museum |name=Fuller Craft Museum |image=Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA.jpg |established={{Start date|1946}} |location=Brockton, Massachusetts |type=Crafts |director=Erin McGough |website=[http://www.fullercraft.org/ www.fullercraft.org] }}

'''Fuller Craft Museum''' is an arts and crafts museum in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts, 25 miles south of Boston.<ref name=Boston>{{cite news |url=http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-28/news/29825658_1_basket-makers-contemporary-basket-shape |author=Robert Knox |title=At the Fuller, all weaves considered |newspaper=Boston.com |date=28 July 2011 |access-date=23 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510072831/http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-28/news/29825658_1_basket-makers-contemporary-basket-shape |archive-date=10 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It receives 20,000 visitors a year. It contains contemporary craft-based art of many different genres and origins. It is the only craft museum in the New England area. The museum was founded in 1946.<ref name=official>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fullercraft.org/index.html |title=Official web site accessed 25 August 2011 |access-date=25 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912170627/http://www.fullercraft.org/index.html |archive-date=12 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Exhibits== The permanent collection at Fuller Craft Museum includes studio furniture, as well as glass, ceramics, jewelry and wood or textiles. Many craft artists are included in the permanent collection. The outdoor permanent sculpture features materials from nature. The museum has an outdoor courtyard.<ref name=official />

The museum also hosts temporary exhibits, such as displays of polymer clay sculptures,<ref name=oldenterprise>{{cite news |url=http://www.enterprisenews.com/lifestyle/x1174206963/Art-scene-listings-for-the-week-beginning-Aug-27 |title=Art scene listings for the week beginning Aug. 27 |newspaper=EnterpriseNews.con |date=26 August 2009}}</ref> fantasy teapots,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/x502303640/Whats-Happening |newspaper=PatriotLedger.com |title=What's Happening |date=16 October 2008 }}</ref> an exhibit on the meaning of shoes,<ref name=oldenterprise /> and a current display of Native American basket weaving.<ref name=Boston /> It pairs with a local high school to offer weaving and ceramics lessons for special needs students.<ref name=Enterprise>{{cite news |url=http://www.enterprisenews.com/answerbook/brockton/x633530825/Brockton-High-s-Boxer-Buddies-continue-friendships-into-summer |title=Brockton High’s 'Boxer Buddies' continue friendships into summer |author=Amanda Cripps |date=1 August 2011 |newspaper=EnterpriseNews.com |access-date=23 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319000304/http://www.enterprisenews.com/answerbook/brockton/x633530825/Brockton-High-s-Boxer-Buddies-continue-friendships-into-summer |archive-date=19 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History== Fuller Craft Museum was made possible by Myron Fuller, who in August 1946, set up a trust fund for an art center to be educational in nature. Fuller was a native of Brockton and was a geologist and a hydrologist. During his career, he amassed a small fortune. From his accumulated wealth, Fuller set aside the sum of one million dollars, to establish the art museum and cultural center in memory of his family.<ref name=official /> It was previously known as the Fuller Memorial Museum of Art School.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-09/bostonglobe/29868615_1_history-and-ancestry-black-history-afro-american-artists |newspaper=Boston.com |title=Edith M.S. Ingram, artist, writer concerned with black history; at 89 |author=Laurie D. Willis |date=9 August 2011 |access-date=25 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510072852/http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-09/bostonglobe/29868615_1_history-and-ancestry-black-history-afro-american-artists |archive-date=10 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Location and environment== The museum building was created by architects J. Timothy Anderson & Associates of Boston. Fuller Craft is filled with high ceilings, wide corridors, slate floors, natural wood beams and myriad floor to ceiling windows that provide an abundance of natural light. Fine craft is exhibited in the galleries as well as outside where various sculptures appear at almost every turn in the museum's architectural courtyards and outdoor sculpture garden. Integrating the museum's architectural elements with the natural environment creates a unique atmosphere where visitors will discover a seamless transition from indoors to outdoors and vice versa.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} This design and the reciprocity between art and nature that it creates was inspired by the work of Danish architects, Jorgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert and what many consider to be one of the most significant buildings of the 20th century, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-architect.co.uk/copenhagen/louisiana_art_gallery.htm |title=Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Louisiana Art Gallery, Danish Museum of Modern Art |publisher=E-architect.co.uk |accessdate=2012-12-22}}</ref>

The museum is located next to the D.W. Field Park in Brockton, Massachusetts. It pairs with a local high school to offer weaving and ceramics lessons for special needs students.<ref name=Enterprise/>

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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.fullercraft.org/}}

Category:Museums in Plymouth County, Massachusetts Category:1946 establishments in Massachusetts Category:Buildings and structures in Brockton, Massachusetts Category:Art museums and galleries in Massachusetts Category:Contemporary crafts museums in the United States Category:Art museums and galleries established in 1946