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In October, three homeless women in their 20s gathered in a common room at a YWCA in Portland, Oregon, for what Aurelie Tu, founder of CraftedSystems, calls a "weave." Over a few hours, the women learned a craft, connected with each other, worked with their hands, and earned a little money - all while helping designer Tu create lampshades, rugs, vessels, and more.
Tu's business model is perhaps as inventive as her craft. For two or three consecutive days every couple of months, she conducts a weave, and women from the Y's shelter are paid by the piece to construct the ...
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In the late winter of 2007, a remarkable rescue occurred in New York’s Hudson River Valley. After nearly three years of existing on the precipice of demolition, Crow House, the hand-built home and studio of the once-renowned painter and potter Henry Varnum Poor (1887-1970) ultimately was saved by Christopher St. Lawrence, Town Supervisor of Ramapo, New York. And though St. Lawrence quietly acknowledges his role in this feat, he might also be tempted to tell you his mother made him do it. After all, it was his 88-year-old mother, Marguerite, who first read of the historic home’s plight in the ...
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Furniture designer/maker Vivian Beer hasn't met a challenge she doesn't like. ...
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Janice Arnold differs from many other artists working with felt because of her interest in organic shapes and the fiber's natural tendency to form irregular textures. ...
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Quiltmaker, collage artist, photographer - and that only begins to describe Joan Schulze and the scope of her art. ...
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Lonny van Ryswyck and Nadine Sterk of Atelier NL think globally, but dig locally, in their quest to render soulful serving pieces from the ground beneath their feet. ...
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Kevin Snipes creates highly personal narrative works - challenging the rest of us to decode their meanings. ...
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For Harriet Johns, the combination of enamel, fire, and metal is the perfect vehicle for her expressive, instinctive works. ...
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Lola Brooks’s exquisite and preposterous jewelry is not for the faint of heart. ...
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The once-snubbed material is making a grand entrance in the art world, thanks to one woman's vision and drive. ...
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Textiles legend Sheila Hicks has never stopped traveling the world and seeking new horizons in her work. ...
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Forty years later, two living legends of design reprise a bold pairing of fabric and furniture from 1967. In conversation with Laurie Manfra, Larsen and Paulin reflect on their collaboration then and now.
Photography by Dana Lixenberg ...
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Lenore Tawney united the disciplines of weaving and sculpture in daring works that helped create the fiber art medium. Whether monumental or the size of a postcard, her art has always communicated at the deepest level with each new generation. ...
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“I believe the simple act of making something, anything, with your hands is a quiet political ripple in a world dominated by mass production… and people choosing to make something themselves will turn those small ripples into giant waves.’’–Faythe Levine ...
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Five artists with a striking range of methods, materials and perspectives are all finding expressive possibilities in larger-than-life neckwear. ...
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Andy Brayman’s Kansas City “factory” is a launching pad for his 21st-century version of studio pottery. ...
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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. ...
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