"Tradition Interrupted" is an international group exhibition that explores the methods used by artists to conflate contemporary ideas with traditional art and craft in a range of media, from rugs and mosaics to metalwork and ceramics. The artists merge age-old media and techniques with innovation, and re-vision culturally historic ideas to create new work that interrupt traditional practice but still collaborates with the past. For generations, traditional craft and art practices held steadfast and often visually defined a culture. Today, artists are unraveling certain traits and facets of these ancient customs to redefine or reclaim them for the contemporary world. For many of the artists in this exhibition, everyday objects are sources of powerful agency to recall memories in danger of being forgotten, or to call into question revisionist histories.
This exhibition was organized by Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA.

On view at the OSU Museum of Art in Stillwater, OK from January 17 - April 1, 2023.

The OSU Museum of Art is free and open to the public Tuesday - Saturday, 11 AM - 4 PM with extended hours through 7 PM on Thursdays.

Funding for this season of programming is provided through the generous support of Deb and Dave Engle, Caroline and John Linehan, Suzanne Sugg, the OSU President’s Office | OSU Foundation, Thomas N. Berry & Company, and the OSU Museum of Art Advocates.