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Join Whitney Nye for an artist talk at the Laura Russo Gallery on Saturday, February 12, 11am. ...
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In each issue, we ask members of the craft community to answer a question. This time we asked if current events shape their work. ...
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With brutal tornadoes in April, and now again in May, 2011 has become the deadliest tornado year since 1953, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (NOAA began tracking tornado fatalities in 1950).
As communities in the Midwest begin the long process of rebuilding - still ongoing for tornado survivors in Alabama and neighboring states - CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists' Emergency Resources) wants to remind people in affected areas that the nonprofit provides disaster relief assistance to professional craft artists.
Craig Nutt, CERF+ director of programs, flew into Kansas City on Monday to talk to FEMA ...
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My family roots are in southern Appalachia. I love past folk pottery from North Carolina, where potters worked intuitively with readily available materials. You gathered your clay from the nearby creek and you crushed up recycled glass to make an alkaline glaze. Robust pots were made for daily use by the local community. The result was simple beauty that is discovered through use. That has had a huge influence on my own approach to materials and process.~Kent Harris, potter and co-owner of Blue Sage Pottery & Art Gallery, Amarillo, TX
My "heritage" is probably the typical young Army-brat experience. I spent a lot ...
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Science writer Margaret Wertheim's Hyperbolic Crocheted Reef Project demonstrates a happy congruence between the mathematical phenomena modeled perfectly by the creatures of the reef and the traditionally feminine craft of crocheting, which is uniquely suited to modeling hyperbolic space. It draws attention to the plight of environmentally distressed coral reefs through a tactile, Technicolor display of a kind of higher mathematics that was previously almost impossible to picture.
The artist talk is sponsored by the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, the Department of Design Studies, and the Arts Institute's Year of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Ah, paper: It accumulates, grows into unwieldy piles, and morphs into clutter and chaos in our homes and offices. It's one of the curses of contemporary life, decidedly not "paperless" despite the utopian promises of electronic communication.
In the hands of sculptor Steven Siegel, though, paper is not so unmanageable; indeed, it is fodder for arresting public art. The artist, described as "driven by a desire to create beauty from the detritus that human beings leave in their wake," capitalizes on paper's ephemeral nature to make environmental sculptures that look amazingly natural.
Beginning Sunday, May 15, Siegel and a team of volunteers ...
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