June / July 2008
Mapping the Future Perfect
A love of architecture and geography has spurred Laurel Porcari to reinvent her career and in turn help revive New Orleans’s wounded creative glass community.
Crow House Rising
Potter and painter Henry Varnum Poor understood that building a house might bring
him fame, but could he have foreseen that his home might restore his artistic legacy?
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Feature
American Craft Council Fellows
The American Craft Council’s 2007 Aileen Osborn Webb Awards, named for the Council’s visionary founder, honor those who have demonstrated outstanding artistic achievement and leadership in the craft field.
Joining the College of Fellows, which now numbers 247 individuals, are Robert Brady, Marilyn da Silva, Mark Lindquist, William Morris, Richard Notkin, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval and, as Honorary Fellow, Nanette Laitman.
People & Places
Farewell to a Design Giant
Viktor Schreckengost, one of the greatest industrial designers of the 20th century, died January 26 in Tallahassee, Florida, at 101 years old. Seemingly every aspect of modern American life was…
Books
GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry
By Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Cornelie Holzach & Jutta-Annette Page
Arnoldsche Art Publishers, with Museum of Arts & Design, New York, and Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany
$60
Many artists at the…
Blog Beat
June/July 2008
davidreport.com/blog
“Now you can make your green design concepts even greener,” announces John-Michael Ekeblad in the David Report. Matt Grigsby and Joe Gebbia,...
Books
Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An Eyewitness Anthology
Edited by Dean and Geraldine Schwarz
South Bear Press
Decorah, Iowa
$75
Of the émigré artists who fled Nazi-occupied Europe and ultimately played significant roles in the postwar development…
Editor's Letter
Taking Something Off
I’ve always thought of architecture as one of the great American crafts. As a former editor of the design magazine Dwell, where we explored almost every feasible iteration of prefabricated…
Reviews
Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art
Atlanta History Center Atlanta, Georgia March 1 – May 18, 2008The South as a region capable of preserving craft traditions through the generations even as it attracts contemporary…
Preview
Wild & Crazy Animals
Works Gallery
Ron Meyers
May 2-June 15, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Making functional pottery has never been a problem for Ron Meyers, whose most recent clay works are on view at Works…
Shop Talk
Engaging with Ceramics
Cross MacKenzie Ceramic Arts
1054 31st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202)333–7970
Product Placement
Fast Boy Cycles
“We have this incredible opportunity in cities for the bicycle to be a realistic and practical form of transportation—fast, easy, convenient, fun,” says 34-year-old Ezra Caldwell, whose custom…
Council News
June/July 2008
Honors and Crowd-pleasers at Baltimore Show
At the American Craft Show in Baltimore, held February 22-24, Awards of Excellence were presented to LeAnne Ash of Burnsville, North Carolina; David…
Radar
Marc Petrovic & Kari Russell-Pool
Every day, in the small, picturesque village of Essex, Connecticut, the glass artists Marc Petrovic and Kari Russell-Pool send their two daughters off to school, enter their nondescript…
Preview
Speak Softly
Elmhurst Art Museum
Cat Chow: Speak Softly
Elmhurst, Illinois
April 19–July 13, 2008
The artist and designer Cat Chow has made a name for herself by merging fashion and art in works such as…
Critic's Corner
The Artisanal Urge
The artisanal urge—the fundamental human desire to make something with one’s own hands—has never been so endangered as it is right now. Quite frankly, this is a situation that sends a chill…
Wide World of Craft
Western Massachusetts; Craft in the Mountains
Craft has become part of the vibrant cultural mix that makes Western Massachusetts such a hub of activity for residents and visitors alike.