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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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Featuring unique artisan-made clothing, jewelry, and accessories, this year's showcase welcomes a host of new and returning artists from throughout California and beyond, live models, and a unique opportunity to meet the designers in person. ...
ACC Library
Have you ever wondered where to find the recipe for baker's clay, what a fire proximity coverall looks like, or what is performance sculpture?
Whether you have asked yourself these questions or not, I can't resist telling you about the first phase of the American Craft Council Library's digital projects: making our Council newsletter collection accessible online. Detailing craft history in America from 1957-1986, these newsletters account for major events, important individuals' involvement, as well as movements and trends in modern American craft.
Currently I am in the throes of the digitization process, happily lost among the stacks of archival boxes. ...
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Deadline to apply for the 2011 American Craft Council Shows in Baltimore, Atlanta, St. Paul and San Francisco is July 25, 2010.
Late deadline to apply: August 1, 2010. ($100 late fee will apply for all applications received between July 25 and August 1).
American Craft Council shows offer an opportunity to exhibit and sell your handmade work across the country to thousands of craft buyers, collectors and enthusiasts. Gain national exposure, enhance your online presence and join a community of makers who have been juried into these prestigious events.
Visit online for full show prospects, show dates and locations and application. ...
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Contemporary hat designs by young designers from Lasell College along with the hats from ATHM's historic collection that inspired them. ...
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Somewhere between an Olympics medal ceremony and “Candid Camera” falls the annual Awards Walking Tour at the American Craft Council's Baltimore Show. Each year, we invite two specialists in the craft field to jury the show, selecting six Award of Excellence recipients and two winners in the Booth Design category. This year's jurors were Jane Milosch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Josephine Shea, curator of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, a historic home near Detroit.
On Friday afternoon at 2pm, show attendees gathered together with the jurors and Council staff for a walking tour of the award winning ...
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Textile artist Annica Leah Cuppetelli shows off her intriguing sculpture work as part of the Searchlight Artist exhibition. ...
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Join fashion insiders for a chic cocktail reception, a trunk show, featuring the diaphanous designs of Pamella Roland, and the unveiling of a special art installation created by Craft Alliance exhibiting artist Carrie Scanga (a first ever!). ...
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At the recent American Craft Show in San Francisco the American Craft Council presented its Awards of Excellence to a select few artists. Chosen from among 250 exhibitors by guest jurors Ted Cohen, an exhibition designer, Mike Holmes, co-owner of Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco and Julie M. Muniz, the Imogene Gieling Curator of Decorative Arts at the Oakland Museum of California, the recipients are representative of the vibrant American craft scene. Honored were jeweler Petra Class of San Francisco, Eric Silva, a jeweler from Whittier, ...
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Scrapbook, an occasional posting, will feature reader-contributed photos of craft events of general interest. Click on the heading to see larger image and caption. Send your digital image and caption information to [email protected], with Scrapbook in the subject line. We must reserve the right to select for appropriateness and interest.
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By William H. Robinson, Jordi Falgás and Carmen Belen Lord
Foreword by Robert Hughes
Cleveland Museum of Art
Yale University Press
$65
From 1868 until 1939, with the fall of the Second Spanish Republic, Barcelona, the principal city of Catalonia and a major Mediterranean port, experienced tremendous economic growth, emerging as the most politically and culturally progressive city in Spain. This fascinating period is explored in depth in this comprehensive book—with more than 30 contributing scholars—that accompanied an exhibition this past year at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although it is interesting to learn about ...
Product Placement
Several years ago, Petra Geiger was living in Atlanta and struggling to find the right sales outlets for her handbags and stationery. Many other designers in the area, she realized, were in the same boat.
In 2004 she got a group of them together and founded Beehive Co-op. They launched a store, a sleek contem- porary bazaar where some 50 members showcase their stylish handmade clothing, home accessories and jewelry, such as Olaria Studio’s Chatham ceramic necklace. Geiger, 41, recently moved to Mt. Kisco, New York, and opened a Beehive branch there. North and south, the merchandise is high-quality yet ...
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If you watched the Grammys, you no doubt saw the stunning green gown worn by the best new artist winner, Esperanza Spalding. Spalding's gown was made by Brooklyn-based designer Selma Karaca, whose work will be featured at the American Craft Council show in Baltimore next week. The show runs from Thursday through Sunday and features the fine work of more than 700 of the country's top contemporary craft artists. Stop by booth 709, to see more of Karaca's gorgeous collection.
For more details on the American Craft Council show, including how to purchase tickets, please visit craftcouncil.org/baltimore. ...
Heck Yes Craft
Boris Bally's sophisticated reinvention of reclaimed street signs and found objects will rattle your mind. Bally transforms traffic signs into everything from entirely modern furniture to sleek jewelry and home decor items -- and even flatware! My favorite piece is a necklace created with 100 handgun triggers from Pittsburgh's "Goods for Guns" program. It's Bally's spin on the talismanic charms of aboriginal cultures, and he says, "this urban 'mojo' protects the wearer from the gun violence so prevalent in today's culture."
Can't get enough craft? Neither can we. Heck Yes Craft is a series of visual blog posts ...
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Featuring 85 masterworks from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...
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Erica Gordon of Steel Toe Studios didn't plan to be a blacksmith. An artist, yes: Her father is a full-time woodworker who makes spoons, her sister does ceramics, her mother is an avid supporter of the arts. Gordon's been hustling at American Craft Council shows since she was 8 years old. But it was Penland School of Crafts that turned her into a blacksmith, she says.
After earning her BFA from the University of New Mexico, Gordon received a two-week work-study scholarship to the North Carolina craft mecca in 1997. She listed jewelry as her first choice for a class; blacksmithing ...
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Kate Cusack gets some of her best creative inspiration at supermarkets, 99-cent stores, or wherever products are displayed in bulk. Seeing household items stacked together makes her visualize them afresh, out of context, as something other than what they are, or do.
"Whenever I see anything in multiples, it's exciting," says the 30-year-old, Brooklyn-based artist, who divides her work between jewelry, sculpture and costumes for theatrical productions. "What's interesting to me is the use and transformation of materials."
In Cusack's hands, plastic food wrap magically morphs into a series of towering, luminous Marie Antoinette-style wigs for a window display
at Tiffany's Fifth ...
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