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A challenging year…
“‘Dull’ would be a good thing right now,” says Cornelia Carey, executive director of the Craft Emergency Relief Fund (www.craftemergency.org), looking back on a year punctuated by natural disasters. “Last January, we were still busy working with craft artists outside of San Diego who were rebuilding their homes and studios from all the fall wildfires. Spring brought overwhelming losses from flooding in the Midwest. By fall, people in Louisiana and Texas needed help in the wakes of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.” In addition were the usual fires, illnesses and injuries commonly dealt with by ...
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Gifts and Grants
Toshiko Takaezu has given the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, 17 of her ceramic vessels, on view there through July 12…Arizona State University’s Ceramics Research Center has received a $180,000 grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation for a Karen Karnes retrospective in 2010…The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach, a museum, library and research center dedicated to art and design, has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In Public
For a new public art project at the Sava Pool in San Francisco, Catherine ...
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A few years ago Stoney Lamar, one of America's top woodturners, was watching a video of himself at the lathe when he had a startling realization.
"I said, ‘That man has Parkinson's,' " he recalls. "It was pretty powerful."
When doctors confirmed he had the neurological disease, it was devastating, given that Lamar's livelihood and identity depended on manual dexterity. But while it was "the end of one lifetime and the beginning of another," the Saluda, North Carolina-based artist now says his struggle has strengthened both his work and his belief in craft's ability to empower and heal.
In November, Lamar, 59, received ...
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Awards & HonorsTemple University metals professor Stanley Lechtzin, who pioneered the use of electroforming and digital technologies in his jewelry, received a lifetime achievement award from the Society of North American Goldsmiths at its 2009 conference in Philadelphia… Leila Tai, a Beirut-born New Yorker who makes nature-inspired jewelry using the 15th-century plique-à-jour technique won the American Jewelry Design Council’s 2009 New Talent Award… Ceramics writer and curator Judith Schwartz was honored by the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY, at its benefit in September… Ron Lang, ceramics chair at the Maryland Institute College of Art, was the ...
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