Profile
above • Echo He 何雨 • Milliner + Director, FOU GALLERY 否画廊 • Brooklyn, New York
Claire Cuccio is an arts specialist focused on global makers, their handmade objects and the benefits of their work for our cultures and communities, and overall, for our wellbeing.
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A Visual Sampling of Concepts & Practice
Beauty Repairs: Re-viewing Wabi Sabi’s Underside [A Visual Narrative]
Crafting a Global Future, 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kyoto Seika University • Kyoto, Japan • 2021.08.24
Test of a cross-cultural conceptualization of human connection through a spectrum of images that explore the values behind wabi sabi.
Solving Studio: Tools for the Crater
Art-online-Residency • 2021
11 international artists of image • sound • word • wood • clay join for a 3-week residency that has grown into an ongoing exchange
Writing Craft
Kobe City University for Foreign Studies • Kobe, Japan • 2020
Developing writing through the discipline, refinement & storytelling of handcraft
Innovations of 7 Artisan Studios
Cipango • Tokyo, Japan • 2020
Interviews of Kyoto artisans + narrative writing about their adaptation of traditional techniques to innovate new design materials, such as durable lacquer, flame-retardant bamboo & wire woven cloth. (Design Tochi pictured)
“Design Sets” | Cultural Analysis Pilot
Shree Mangal Dvip School for Himalayan Children
Kathmandu, Nepal • 2018-2020
Comparative looking exercises to cultivate critical thinking skills for the appreciation of crafted objects
Cultural Mapping
Shree Mangal Dvip Seniors • Kathmandu, Nepal • 2018-2020
Experiential learning seminar fostering student awareness of traditional hand craft and indigenous culture in their community
An Aesthetics for All Living:
Wabi Sabi in Nepal
Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Institute of Engineering (IOE), Tribhuvan University • Kathmandu, Nepal • 2019
Project leading graduate students through an evaluation of existing design beauty in Nepal
Ralph Kiggell: Elements of Our Evolution
C-NA Gallery 圣歌画廊 | 798 Art District • Beijing, China • 2015
Curation of Kiggell’s contemporary prints in the Bauhaus space of the 798 factory
Yale Center for British Art • New Haven, Connecticut • 2011
Photographer + liaison to capture Salter’s Quadra series as interpreted by Japanese woodblock carving & print artisans: Nakayama Makoto (pictured), Fujisawa Hiroshi, Kitamura Sho’ichi and Satō Keizō
Mizukami Tsutomu’s “Najio River” 名塩川 (1969) translation project
for Kyoko Ibe & Elise Thoron’s theatre production Recycling: Washi Tales
Najio, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan • 2010
Field research at the Najio papermaking workshop of Living National Treasure Tanino Takenobu 谷野武信
An Online Sampling of Claire’s Concepts & Practice
Artisanship as Education: Learning Through the Prism of Craft | ECS Nepal 217 • 2019.12 • Feature article examining Cultural Mapping, an experiential-learning pilot seminar on indigenous culture in the community of Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
A Story in Layers: the network of artisan hands that make Japanese woodblock prints | Library of Congress, Asian Division, Washington, DC • 2018.01.25 • Lecture video recounting the technical, creative and personal views of a network of Kyoto artisans who collaborate to create a single woodblock print
The Contemporary Relevance of Woodblock Printmaking | Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK香港電台) • Hong Kong • 2016.03.02 • Interview filmed on site at Hong Kong Open Printshop 香港版畫工作室 during their lecture series on the continuous appeal of mokuhanga and its method, materials and techniques
Interview about the power of the woodblock print world on André Zadorozny’s passionate podcast, The Unfinished Print • 2023.02.16