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As a child, Tanya Aquiñiga straddled the line between Mexico and the United States. Now her exuberant work crosses boundaries between cultures, materials, even genres. ...
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Located in the southern Appalachian mountain region, Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, has made a specialty of celebrating the handwork of yesterday and today. In October it reunited the master ceramists Don Reitz and John Jessiman , old friends from the 1960s, for a workshop–Reitz’s first since his heart surgery two years ago. The event launched the university’s brand new Randall and Susan Parrott Ward Endowment Fund for Ceramics. Meanwhile, the school continues to develop its digital exhibit “Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past and Present,” documenting a historic artisans’ movement (1895-1945) that still ...
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Author Delphine Hirasuna on art and craft in World War II Japanese-American internment camps. ...
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A tightly focused selection of Chihuly’s art from 1978 to 2010 honors the importance of Tacoma and this region on his art and career. Items from Chihuly's personal collections underscore the lasting influence of this region on his art: wool trade blankets, historic photogravures from Edward S. Curtis’s North American Indian portfolio, and Willits canoes. ...
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Don’t Know, We’ll See: The Work of Karen KarnesDVD, 62 minutes, Lucy Massie Phenix, director.$29.99.Our Founding Mudder: Who Art in Heaven: A Workshop with Peter VoulkosDVD, 62 minutes, Martin Holt, director.$65, Glass Masters at Work: Lino TagliapietraDVD, 59 minutes, Robin Lehman, director.$19.95.Emile Norman: By His Own DesignDVD, 60 minutes, Will Parrinello, director.$24.99.What do people hope for in an art documentary? A window into the secrets of creation? A better sense of the artist’s personality? ...
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Gargantuan in its ambition, "The Global Africa Project" seeks to gather the strands of African culture as they stretch across the globe. Now on view at the Museum of Arts and Design, the exhibition offers about 200 works of photography, furniture, jewelry, fashion, and ceramics. Notably, not all of the nearly 120 artists are African or even of African descent, but they respond to African themes from their studios around the world. Besides selecting artists and designers from countries like Senegal and South Africa, co-curators Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King-Hammond included many from the United States, Germany, France, Japan, India, ...
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The Intuit Show of Folk & Outsider Art will bring together leading dealers and galleries presenting self-taught art, outsider art, art brut, ethnographic art, non-traditional folk art and visionary art. The show will be presented alongside SOFA Chicago 2011, the Annual International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair. An extensive series of lectures and special exhibits are part of the two-fair event. ...
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The Intuit Show of Folk & Outsider Art will bring together leading dealers and galleries presenting self-taught art, outsider art, art brut, ethnographic art, non-traditional folk art and visionary art. The show will be presented alongside SOFA West 2011, the Annual International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair. An extensive series of lectures and special exhibits are part of the two-fair event. ...
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Kaleidoscopic Quilts: The Art of Paula NadelsternAmerican Folk Art MuseumNew York, New YorkApril 21-September 13, 2009Remember your own childlike wonder when you held a kaleidoscope in your hands and quietly marveled at the shifting, dissolving color patterns created by a gentle turn? The quilt artist Paula Nadelstern takes a viewer back to that wonder, the pure visual pleasure first seen in a small tube.In this exhibition the American Folk Art Museum has, for the first time, offered a one-person show to a contemporary quilt maker, pairing her work with a ...
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Florida Craftsmen, Inc. and Arte 2010 have joined together to celebrate the rich cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean throughout the Tampa Bay area. This celebration will take place at Florida Craftsmen with two concurrent exhibitions, and at other venues beginning in September of 2010.La Voz del Punto is the story of Florida's Spanish speaking girls and women as told in stitches. Contributors, engaged in the stitches most traditional to their culture, create a stitched symbol, phrase, icon, picture, or any other visual representation that reflects life as ...
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Recently, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft generously donated their library materials to the American Craft Council Library. The boxes were treasure chests to open - full of books, exhibition catalogs, and magazines. Here are a few of our favorites.
Cutting the Mustard is the autobiography of Miles Burkholder Carpenter, a folk artist from Virginia. He started carving small animals and figures in the 1940s, progressing to carving sculptures in the late 1960s. The art world discovered Carpenter in 1972, when he was 82 years old. To see some of his work, see the works owned by the ...
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This state-wide traveling exhibition tells the stories of over 30 master artists whose work can heal the sick, challenge social inequity, assist in meditation, and help communities both grieve and celebrate. Coming from every corner of Pennsylvania, the art represents a wide array of traditions such as African dance, stone wall construction, Native American clay flutes, Pysanky eggs, contemporary blacksmith work, woodcarving, and Vietnamese funerary portraits. ...
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MICA's Falvey Hall- Brown Center ...
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Works from the museum collection of all the Fellows from New Mexico includes weavings, colcha embroidery and silversmithing, pottery, tinwork, straw applique, hide painting, retablos and woodcarving. ...
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The Second Annual "A Gathering of Craftsmen" features 13 juried and nationally recognized craftsmen in the tradition of the "Old New England" style craft and artisan fairs of the early 19th and 20th centuries.
The shows includes: American schoolgirl art, custom reproduction period furniture, fraktur folk art, miniature quilting, paper cutting, tall case clocks, American redware pottery, handcrafted sterling silver tableware, period lighting, fine ceramics, hand-made clothing, American Folk Art paintings and wood carvings. Craftsmen participating at the show include: Kate Adams, Dan and Marlene Coble, Pamela Dalton, Susan Daul, Barbara Dull, Debbie ...
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