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Artists Present Their Best Original, Functional and Decorative Piecesat the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Contemporary Crafts MarketSanta Monica Civic AuditoriumNovember 5-7, 201010am-6p.m. DailyAdmission: $8, children 12 and under FREE
Contact: www.craftsource.org<http://www.craftsource.org> or call (310) 285-3655(SANTA MONICA, Calif.) - The Contemporary Crafts Market will be celebrating its 50th season as the West Coast’s premiere event for one-of-a-kind ...
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Wearable art in all media and styles are welcome, including garments, ensembles, hats and handbags. Garments for both men and women are encouraged. Acceptance for the show is by invitation and jury. Individual or collaborative entries are invited. ...
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Admission is free. Craft lovers can expect to see displays of some of Virginia's finest crafts including potter, furniture, weaving fabric design, jewelry, stained glass, clothing, baskets, wood turning, and more. There will be artisan demonstrations, opportunities to learn about the working processes in each studio, and some hands-on experience. The tour also provides an excellent opportunity to purchase the work of talents area artisans. Each studio on the Tour also provides food and beverages from some of the area's best establishents as well as artisan prepared reats. A passport prohram gives tour visitors the chance to win a gift ...
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The RAGS 2011 event will take place March 10-13, 2011, at Mercedez-Benz of Tacoma. Open o all artists working in all media of wearable art- garments, fashion accessories, and jewelry Two entry types with nonrefundable fees. Gallery- $15 , Marketplace- $35
All initial entries are juried by digital images. Accepted gallery entries are judged for award from actual works in late February 2011.
For prospectus and entry information, visit www.TWCApiercecounty.org (Click on RAGS). ...
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The Chattahoochee Hand weavers guild is pleased to announce a southeastern juried textile exhibition exploring fiber art and work that references or utilizes fiber or fiber techniques in innovative ways. ...
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Artist talk: Libby and Jim from Mija Fiber Art.
Neither Libby nor Jim have formal art training. Both have years of education, experiece and multiple degrees in the sciences, including health care, bioengineering, and computer engineering to name a few.
Through a fortunate series of events they found their way out of the fast-paced world of graduate degrees and professional practice and took a 18o degree turn. Following their hearts, they have since discovered their true passion creatin radiant and dnamic contemporary fiber wall art from vintage clothing.
www.mijafiberart.com ...
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Spanning three hundred years, the unduplicated designs range from dazzling optical effects to fanciful mazes to dynamic zigzag lightning bolts. The display, curated by the American Folk Art Museum, will spiral as high as 45ft into the air, creating an Alice in Wonderland-like effect in the eight-story-high drill hall. Highlighted quilts will be arranged on viewing platforms for closer appreciation. ...
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I had the good fortune to see in its last week an unusual exhibition at the Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon. Although it will have ended by the time this letter is posted, the transporting environment of the garden remains: located in Washington Park, it occupies a high position overlooking downtown and, when weather permits, offering a gorgeous view of Mt. Hood. The exhibition took an even longer view, linking continents. The small show, called “Parallel Worlds: Art of the Ainu of Hokkaido and Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest” presented a half dozen Ravens Tail and Chilkat robes and ...
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Our flagship show in Baltimore is now in full swing! We’re all holding our breath, but so far we’ve been spared by the snowstorm, except for a smattering of flurries this morning. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather through the weekend!
Now that I’ve had a chance to take in more of it, I’ve been struck by the wonderful balance between the old and the new at our Baltimore Show. As you wander your way through the aisles, you can find 30-year show veterans like David Bacharach and Seymour Mondshein next to up-and-coming crafters exhibiting their wares in Baltimore for ...
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Jack Lenor Larsen's LongHouseBy Molly ChappelletForeword by Edward AlbeeAfterword by Francis H. CabotChronicle Books, $50chroniclebooks.com
Sometimes books seem to sing: Everything is exactly right. Jack Lenor Larsen's LongHouse, written and photographed by Molly Chappellet, is such a creature. I say "creature" because the book seems to breathe with its protagonist's own inventiveness, style and sheer passion for creating and living with beauty-as seen in the art, craft, architecture and sublime gardens that comprise LongHouse Reserve.
Larsen's 13,000-square-foot LongHouse sits on 16 acres in East Hampton, NY, and features works by Wharton Esherick, Dale Chihuly, Yoko Ono ...
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For craft aficionados, it is a great joy to walk into the Museum of Modern Art’s “Bauhaus 1919-1933” show and immediately see a display case of ceramic works. Among the introductory pieces was a pot by Marguerite Friedlaender (later Wildenhain) decorated with a bull in slip trailing. This design relates to other linear decoration in painting and drawings also on view. In fact, the pottery, furniture, weavings in various forms from rugs to upholstery to wall hangings, plus metalwork by many individuals but especially Marianne Brandt and stained glass by Josef Albers, all fitted seamlessly with the paintings by ...
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The Los Angeles creative community and assorted other cool folk came out in force January 29 for the festive opening of two exciting shows celebrating L.A. artists at the Craft and Folk Art Museum on Wilshire Boulevard.
"A Marriage of Craft and Design" highlights the 50-year creative partnership-and love story- of modern master designer-craftsmen Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman, with a retrospective selection of weavings, ceramics and metalwork from the early 1950s to the 90s. "Crossing the Line," a site-specific space by multimedia maker Tanya Aguiniga, 32, transforms a gallery into a wonderland filled with thousands of colorful, crisscrossed yarn strands, floating ...
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Enjoy fabulous fibers, warm wools, and colorful quilts. Get ready for fall and the holidays with knitting, weaving, quilting, and rug hooking demonstrations, displays, tutorials, and handcrafted fiber items for sale. ...
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