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The American Craft Council’s 32nd annual show features over 700 artists, providing visitors with almost every imaginable take on craft practices today. Editor Christine Kaminsky spent a day soaking in the sights and reports back with some of her favorites. ...
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BY NOELLE FOYE AND DAVID H. BLOODSWORTHThe word craft often evokes images of simple handmade objects. Yet, as the exhibition Craft in America: Expanding Traditions clearly demonstrated, the “C word” has grown and evolved far beyond the simple and traditional roots often associated with it to be the center of much discussion and debate recently. In 2009, Fuller Craft Museum took the C Word Roadshow to college campuses and community centers around New England to open up the conversation and invite people to share their thoughts in an effort to discover the status of craft today. ...
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Today is International Museum Day and Art Museum Day. If you haven't been to your local museum lately, today is the day to go. Many museums are offering free or reduced admission and special events to celebrate the cultural value that museums bring to our everyday lives.
The Toledo Museum of Art has free admission, extended hours, and a special lecture called Museums and Memory, with the directors of the Toledo Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Art.
The American Folk Art Museum in ...
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An eclectic, somehow quintessentially L. A. fusion of art, design and fashion (with a dash of politics and showbiz) marked the coming-out bash for Kristen Lee and Joe Cole’s store TenOverSix on October 16, during Los Angeles Fashion Week.
Fashionistas flocked to inaugurate the new multi-label accessories boutique, a corner space on trendy Beverly Boulevard (a decidedly “blue” neighborhood, as demonstrated by the store’s several large displays celebrating Barack Obama). Guests browsed the merchandise (think high-end, high-concept shoes, bags and jewelry) then partied in the moonlit courtyard of the eccentrically configured building, which also houses a ...
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Alabama Chanin brings her new collection to New York for fashion week and finds a welcoming home at Li Edelkoort’s American outpost… ...
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When we first met the Milwaukee-based crafter and gallerist Faythe Levine back in 2006, she was an unknown, budding filmmaker on a mission to chronicle the new wave of DIY craft.
Two years and many YouTube teaser clips later, her highly anticipated, feature-length documentary, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design, is about to make its debut at film festivals in January and at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York on February 12. She also has a new book out (same title as ...
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A crowd of artists and makers, educators and students, and art appreciators and collectors gathered at St. Paul Academy and Summit School on Monday evening for a gallery conversation about "Ceramics Then/Ceramics Now," an exhibit organized by the Minnesota Museum of American Art in conjunction with the school and on display in its Harry M. Drake Gallery.
The vibe was equal parts cozy and electric, and small wonder: MMAA executive director and show curator Kristin Makholm had recruited artists Warren MacKenzie and Randy Johnston, art historian Rob Silberman, and co-curator Ann Ruhr Pifer of The Grand Hand Gallery in St. Paul ...
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A recent post on the 99% about Brian Eno's creative process (culled from Eric Tamm's book Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound), really got me thinking. I'm an idea man. I like ideas (almost as much as I like Brian Eno). Ideas are the start of the creative process. But it seems that my good ideas never arrive at the right time, and often they disappear quickly. You know the feeling: You've been working on something all day and it still just isn't what you hoped it would ...
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As American Craft's senior editor, I get to meet a lot of great people in the craft community. And I'm often asked this question: What do you make? I make magazines, I answer. And gardens, food, and preserves. But because I don't primarily channel my creative impulses into one of the "big five" mediums, a second question often follows: So what's your connection to craft?
To me, craft's draw isn't a particular medium (though I'll admit to having favorites). It's about a way of working - an emphasis on skill and a relationship to materials - that can inform and enrich ...
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In an effort to bring some of the makers now showing at the American Craft Council show in Baltimore into your living room or office we’ll be posting interviews with them throughout the weekend… ...
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The first public day of SOFA Chicago came to an end last night and from the crowds (and the rumors of the big sales) one would never know that the U.S. economy was in such a deep hole. Chicago’s Navy Pier was overrun with an eclectic group of serious buyers, curious browsers and busloads of students on class field trips. Besides, not surprisingly, the many bored and impatient students—“When do we get to leave?” and “What a waste of 12 dollars!” were sentiments echoed throughout the day—the mood could be described as overwhelmingly positive.
Of course much of this enthusiasm ...
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This craft-focused furniture company works with American artisans to give its customers exactly what they’re looking for. ...
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What better way to celebrate the start of summer than with an afternoon of art and craft? The first annual Makers Market, an outdoor marketplace of handcrafted treasures, will open shop on June 27 and 28 at New York’s Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. For those who can’t wait to get a glimpse of the many wares, there is a preview event on June 26 at 6 pm in the park, at which, for $50, attendees can enjoy cocktails by St. Germain and hors d'oeuvres on the waterfront as the sun sets over the ...
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Grayson Perry, who catapulted into the public consciousness in 2003 when he won the Turner Prize for his delicate coil pots adorned with drawings and text on a broad range of subjects, has taken to wearing a new hat, that of curator. In his traveling exhibition Unpopular Culture, running July 18-October 25 at the Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, Perry's selections from Britain's Arts Council Collection examine a period in history "before British art became fashionable." The show, spanning the era from the 1940s to Thatcherite Britain of the 1980s, epitomises a time less defined by mass media ...
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I've got guitars on the brain. Before my life as American Craft's assistant editor, I spent a lot of my time playing guitars and recording music. I still play as much as I can, and, if you ask my girlfriend, I spend way too much money on guitars - buying, maintaining, and modifying them in the search for an instrument that inspires me. I'm not quite sure what it is about guitars, but I can't get enough of them.
If you're in New York, make sure to check out the Metropolitan Museum of Art's wonderful ...
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Hundreds of exhibiting artists from all across the country (plus a few for the first time from Canada) are excitedly preparing to offer visitors to the American Craft Council’s Baltimore Show an unparalleled opportunity for total immersion into everything and anything handmade at the city’s convention center beginning Friday, February 27, through Sunday, March 1.
Discover first-time exhibitors and rediscover returning artists, including past Award of Excellence recipients Petra Class, Peter Czuk, David D’Imperio, Steven Ford and David Forlano, Eric ...
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The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts just wrapped up its 60th anniversary celebration this past Sunday; it was a weekend filled with presentations, exhibitions (many of which are still up), the annual Bray Benefit Auction, and - from the reports trickling in - loads of fun. I would have given my eye teeth to attend (though finalizing our own 70th anniversary issue for the printer was a thrill, too). But of all the reports, I am most moved by this piece of news: The Bray raised more than $500,000 this weekend. What a dazzling ...
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Ryan Takaba explains his fascination with the architecture of New England and how it plays out in his work. ...
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In 2003 Catherine Bailey, an industrial designer, and her husband, Robin Petravic, a mechanical engineer, bought the venerable Heath Ceramics factory in Sausalito, California. As Mija Riedel wrote in the February/March 2008 American Craft, Heath struck them as the ideal business model, “a line of beautifully conceived, adroitly crafted ceramics, fabricated where they were designed and infused with a genuineness intrinsic to objects with a strong sense of history and place.” They’ve stayed true to the roots of the company–founded in the 1940s by Edith and Brian Heath–and are now taking the next step in its evolution. ...
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With brutal tornadoes in April, and now again in May, 2011 has become the deadliest tornado year since 1953, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (NOAA began tracking tornado fatalities in 1950).
As communities in the Midwest begin the long process of rebuilding - still ongoing for tornado survivors in Alabama and neighboring states - CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists' Emergency Resources) wants to remind people in affected areas that the nonprofit provides disaster relief assistance to professional craft artists.
Craig Nutt, CERF+ director of programs, flew into Kansas City on Monday to talk to FEMA ...
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