Art and design power-couple Kate Bingaman-Burt and Clifton Burt have co-guest-curated a show called Collateral Matters, currently on view at Portland's Museum of Contemporary Craft. For the exhibition, the pair was invited to mine the M.C.C.'s extensive archive, and (from the Museum website):

...to create an exhibition from materials often overlooked in museum collections. Using printed materials and ephemera from the Museum archive, the exhibition reveals stories about the history of printing and design in Portland, and communicates how such printed materials construct institutional identity.

Collateral Matters will run until January 8th, 2011 and before you go (or if you can't make it to PDX), you can take a look at some installation views on the Museum's flickr page.

As an added bonus: in conjunction with the show, the couple will host a special participatory program on November 20th, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., titled Attic to Archive, where visitors can come in and talk to Kate and Clifton about the exhibition—and are encouraged to contribute bits and pieces from their own collections to the museum:

Dig into your desk drawers, clean out your closets and shuffle through your shoeboxes—turn your housecleaning into archive-building for the Museum! Blow the dust off those boxes and bring your ephemera to the Museum on November 20. Through conversations with co-curators Kate Bingaman-Burt and Clifton Burt, you can learn how your Museum-related paper piles tell the story of craft and graphic design in the Pacific Northwest. As the Museum nears its 75th anniversary in 2012, those photographs, invitations and correspondence from the 1930s to the present could fill the gaps and help us tell stories about the Museum for future generations.

We're big fans of Kate's (and now Clifton's) interactive-art-endeavors; back in June, Jen Bekman Gallery hosted an awesome Draw-a-Thon with Kate! If you're in Portland on the 20th, swing by the Museum with your old papers—and potentially become a part of design history!

The Details:
Collateral Matters: Selections by Kate Bingaman-Burt and Clifton Burt
On view: August 26, 2010 – January 8, 2011
Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 Northwest Davis Street
Portland, Oregon 97209

Attic to Archive
November 20, 2010 - 2:00-4:00 p.m.
at The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft