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Radius, HACC Gallery & Museum Shop Presents Pennsylvania Craft, an exhibition which challenges the State’s finest craftsmen to submit their work to be juried for this statewide initiative. Centrally located at The State Museum, Pennsylvania Craft will highlight the excellence of craftsman whose work is contemporary and traditional, functional and decorative. The Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission, HACC, and the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen cosponsor this exhibition, which is scheduled to become an annual winter showcase. Radius, HACC Gallery & Museum Shop will offer exhibitors the opportunity to sell their work in a further effort to promote craft in PA. Attention Teachers: For information on ordering souvenir sets prior to your visit please click here: Radius Souvenir Sets For more about Radius: www.pacrafts.com/radius
It’s a win-win situation for the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission, The State Museum’s parent organization, and HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College. The Commission had been entertaining proposals for an outside group to operate the gift shop here at The State Museum. HACC had been seeking an outlet for the high-end crafts produced by students of its Contemporary Crafts Marketing program. Now, the two have entered into a partnership that satisfies both organizations’ goals and provides a retail opportunity for museum visitors. HACC now operates the shop, named Radius, HACC Gallery and Museum Shop, which serves as a sales outlet for merchandise produced by HACC crafts artisans as well as select items recruited for consignment sales from the HACC Crafts program and artisans from the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. All merchandise is in keeping with the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission’s mission to represent Pennsylvania state interests, artists and crafts. Commissioned work also may be available.
Manufactured souvenir items reflecting the Museum’s collections and the Commonwealth also are available for purchase, such as the ever-popular rubber snakes, river rocks, space ice cream and other items typically bought by children on field trips, as well as books on the Commonwealth. Contemporary Crafts Marketing is an associate’s degree program at HACC. In an apprenticeship environment, students learn to design, produce and market contemporary crafts in wholesale and retail markets. “The products produced by HACC artisans for the Museum’s gift shop will be quality but affordable jewelry, ceramics and glass items,” said Linda Lefevre, HACC associate dean, Business Engineering & Technologies and Workforce & Economic Development Divisions, who helped develop the proposal and oversees the partnership with the Museum. The partnership will provide HACC Crafts Marketing and Entrepreneurial students an opportunity to experience and participate in the actual operation of a museum store and gallery including the business plan annual process development, market identification and analysis, production identification and planning, exhibit steering, committee dynamics, operational profit and loss analysis, and retail sales. In addition to becoming self-supporting, the operation intends to generate a HACC Foundation award/scholarship where a percentage of the proceeds are committed to an endowment fund for scholarships, while additional percentages are awarded as scholarships and/or awards. Radius, is located in the space occupied by the former museum shop. “Our visitors as well as our staff have been missing the museum shop for sometime now. The public has come to expect a quality museum shop from us now they have it. We couldn’t be happier about the partnership with HACC. It’s not just a win, win situation for HACC and The State Museum, it’s a win, win, win situation – HACC, State Museum and the museum visitor,” proclaimed Anita Blackaby, State Museum Director.
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