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A 1954 article finds Sam Maloof, maker of rocking chairs for presidents and MacArthur Foundation awardee, at the beginning of an illustrious career. ...
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Cynthia Bringle doesn't hesitate to take center stage at the potter's wheel. As one of the first female clay artists to set up shop in the Memphis area in the 1960s, Bringle found that inviting curious members of the community into her studio to watch her work was the best way to gain acceptance and patrons. As a woman earning her living making pottery when being a wife and mother was the norm, she faced challenges and naysayers. But Bringle never lost her confidence or doubted her calling in life.
"This is what I like doing," she explains. "I decided to ...
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"My work has always been of a personal autobiographical nature and has quietly evolved into a quasi-diary form."
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Stare into the heart of a recent brooch by Eleanor Moty, and it's hard not to be entranced by what the metalsmith calls "ghost images," crystal voids within the semiprecious, imperfect stones that she puts at the foreground of her works. That's where she wants to draw the eye.
"The stone is the feature now," Moty explains, comparing the austere approach she's come to embrace to that of "a writer composing a succinct statement using appropriate vocabulary and punctuation." This abridging of elements has been a 30-year undertaking, which began when Moty, in part tired of chemical-based processes, shifted away from ...
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Looking back at how Jack Earl and Tom La Dousa forever changed bathrooms. ...
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In the December 1956 issue of Craft Horizons, silversmith Frederick A. Miller demonstrated the technique of “stretching” in creating free-form silver bowls. ...
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Gary S. Griffin is a self-professed bibliophile. Of late, the metalsmith has been voraciously reading up on geometry, tessellations, 3D design, and the work of graphic artists in a variety of mediums. Studying these things is fueling a resurgence of abstraction in Griffin's own work.
It's a shift from his extensive focus on more representational imagery, which produced the remarkably sophisticated yet utilitarian steel gates featured in our October/November 2000 issue. "I guess that's what happens as one evolves," Griffin says. "You become interested in different things, and then you execute or act on that observation."
In his northern New Mexico studio, ...
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The 1982 article shed light on Bassler’s early life, sources of inspiration and use of such techniques as strip weaving, ikat and batik. ...
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Insect limbs, tree trunks, airplane wings: What do these forms have in common? Each is seen in Jere Osgood's furniture in our June/July 1985 cover story. The curvy span of Osgood's ash desk (1987) - with the sinuous, tapered legs he favors to this day - invites such comparisons. Using lamination techniques he pioneered in the 1970s, Osgood has crafted a timeless, signature style.
"I've continued to use tapered laminations, and I like that," Osgood says. "The legs are a mark that I was involved - a way of signing my piece before signing it." Lamination involves gluing together thin strips ...
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A 1983/1984 article on Judy Kensley McKie marks her progress from self-taught woodworker to assured furniture designer and maker. ...
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In the June/July 1980 American Craft, Jan Janeiro profiled the textile artist Lia Cook, noting the interplay of multiple processes necessary to produce her complex hangings, then woven on a 20-harness dobby loom in heavy industrial white viscose rayon. ...
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The 1980 article highlighted Patti Warashina's "personal, idiosyncratic expression." ...
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A 1973 Craft Horizons article focused on the outsized jewelry of the now-acclaimed metal sculptor. ...
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