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For the cover story of our December/January issue, I had the great pleasure of spending an afternoon with Nick Offerman, who, when he's not playing the iconic Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, makes fine furniture, boats, and other objects in wood.
Tucked away at the end of a quiet little street in a nondescript Los Angeles neighborhood, the Offerman Woodshop is the actor's "dreamy man-cave," a personal retreat he's designed for himself, where he can shake off the pressures of show business, get his hands on tools, and recharge his creative energy by making ...
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Serious art exhibitions usually consist of works by a single artist or, less often, thoughtful theme shows. The Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia (202 North 3rd Street), known for art furniture and secondary-market glass art, offers us a third possibility: the two-person exhibition as an exercise in provocative comparisons. Through February 29, recent works by furniture-art kingpin Wendell Castle and prints by top-notch Photorealist Chuck Close are surprisingly juxtaposed.
Artists are said to dislike comparisons, but in this case Castle and Close are so highly ranked in their respective fields that similarities and differences can only illuminate both. ...
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Two artists of the book get down to serious play proving that reading can be so much more. ...
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The American Craft Council is pleased to announce that we’re now accepting AltCraft applications for our flagship show in Baltimore!
Fifteen makers will be juried into this bustling section, which celebrates the innovative techniques and materials of the burgeoning handmade movement. This is an opportunity for talented artists and indie designers to gain national exposure at a well-established show.
Every year more than 700 artists present their work at the American Craft Council Show in Baltimore, attracting a crowd of 25,000 enthusiasts to the largest juried, indoor craft show in the nation. The average booth is valued at $1,500 but as ...
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The American Craft Council is now accepting AltCraft applications for our show in San Francisco!
Show dates are August 14-16.
Sixteen makers will be juried into this bustling section, which celebrates the innovative techniques and materials of the burgeoning handmade movement. This is an opportunity for talented artists and indie designers to gain national exposure at a well-established show.
Located at Fort Mason Center on the San Francisco waterfront between Fisherman’s Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge, this show features 250 artists and serves a well-established audience of over 10,000 Bay Area craft enthusiasts.
The average booth is valued at $1,000 but as ...
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The 15th annual Sculptural Objects and Functional Art exhibition came to a close on Sunday but I was able to sneak away with a few more photos to share. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Let’s hope there’s some truth to that… ...
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“The late twentieth century has witnessed an evolution of ideas… ...
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Last week, I hopped the bus down to Philadelphia for the 44th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NNCECA). In conjunction with the conference, local galleries and museums featured nearly 100 exhibitions of clay works, many of them ambitious group shows. I did my level best to make the rounds, but after visiting around 30 venues even this ceramics lover hit the saturation point. Click through the slide show above to learn more about some standout shows and pieces.
NCECA attendees, what were your favorite exhibitions year? ...
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Join artists Elaine Reichek and Richard Saja for an evening investigating the stunning, satirical world of contemporary embroidery. ...
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By David Whitehouse
Corning Museum of Glass
$29.95
“Visitors to our museums are frequently unaware that glass has been manufactured for thousands of years, and they marvel at the objects that were made as early as the second millennium B.C. They are also unaware that many of the techniques used to fashion glass into beautifully decorated shapes have been in existence since at least the first century B.C.” So write Michael Brand, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum and David Whitehouse, executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass, in the foreword to this scholarly and vividly photographed catalog of ...
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In a shift of emphasis, Wendy Maruyama has been exploring her identity through her work, focusing for the past five years on gender, ethnicity and heritage. The culmination of these efforts is now on display in the exhibtion “E.O. 9066: A Search for Identity,” at the School of Art + Design at Purchase College SUNY... ...
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Artist Richard Saja explains his love of the past, his yearning to tweak it and his unwillingness to take it too far… ...
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Leslie Ferrin takes the week off from running her gallery in Massachusetts and takes to the streets of Miami to examine the state of the arts. ...
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Did you miss the American Craft Council’s 10th National Leadership Conference in October of 2006? If so, you can now catch up on all proceedings with a purchase of the just released 192-page publication, “Shaping the Future of Craft.” ...
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Today marked the first day of the American Craft Council’s Baltimore Show —three public days dedicated to craft-based art. For the past 33 years, this enormous show has been humming along at the city’s convention center, engaging an enthusiastic crowd with a cornucopia of talent from across the country. I arrived prior to show time and despite dire pronouncements about the economy, an eager crowd had already gathered to see their favorites, lift their spirits and get first dibs on the goods. At a sauntering pace, three days might be enough to explore every jam-packed, well-organized aisle ...
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Summertime means lots of shows and events to go to. Where to start? Here are five picks from our June/July 2011 issue, and (as always) you can find a more extensive listing on our online calendar. Teapots! 5th Invitational ends this week, so make sure you get out to see it before it's too late.
CA / StanfordCantor Arts CenterThe Art of the Book in California: Five Contemporary PressesJun. 1 - Aug. 28Books and art from Foolscap Press, Moving Parts Press, Ninja Press, Turkey Press, and Peter Koch, ...
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As summer comes to a close, some wonderful exhibitions are closing, too, while others are just opening. Make sure to check out these exhibits if you haven't yet (and maybe pop in for another peek if you already have).
CO / DenverDenver Art MuseumMarvelous Mud: Clay Around the Worldto Sep. 18Clay has reigned supreme at DAM all summer long. You've still got a couple of weeks to partake in this museum-wide celebration. "Marvelous Mud" includes two large-scale exhibitions ("Marajó: Ancient Ceramics at the Mouth of the Amazon" and "Overthrown: Clay Without Limits" featuring ...
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Max Lamb: Furniture in Stone, Bronze, Pewter, Copper and Polystyrene
Johnson Trading Gallery
490 Greenwich Street
New York, New York 10013
212.925.1110
October 8th - November 7th, 2008
Something raw and exciting, refreshingly optimistic and a little unnerving washed up on the shores of western Manhattan on Tuesday night in the form of furniture. Holding court at the Johnson Trading Gallery on Greenwich Street (just steps from the classic bar, the Ear Inn) was the young British furniture maker Max Lamb. For this exhibition—his first solo show in the United States—Lamb brought ...
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Margaret Keelan’s eerie figurative sculptures project mysterious meanings and processes. ...
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Amy Shaw of Greenjeans talks about how she conceived the booth for this year’s Searchlight Artist booth. ...
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