The ARTery: Beyond Boston, 6 Summer Exhibits Around New England

Founded in 1950, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts played a central role in American art and craft. “In the Vanguard” explores how the experimental school in rural Maine transformed art, craft, and design in the 20th century, helping to define the aesthetics of the nation’s counterculture. Artists who formed part of the school — including Anni Albers, Dale Chihuly, Jack Lenor Larsen and Toshiko Takaezu — broke new ground in textiles, glassblowing, furniture making and pottery. This exhibit is one of the first major museum shows focusing solely on this school, recharacterizing the narrative of midcentury art and craft in America.