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Our flagship show in Baltimore is now in full swing! We’re all holding our breath, but so far we’ve been spared by the snowstorm, except for a smattering of flurries this morning. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather through the weekend!
Now that I’ve had a chance to take in more of it, I’ve been struck by the wonderful balance between the old and the new at our Baltimore Show. As you wander your way through the aisles, you can find 30-year show veterans like David Bacharach and Seymour Mondshein next to up-and-coming crafters exhibiting their wares in Baltimore for ...
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For a first-time visitor, the American Craft Council’s Baltimore Show can be somewhat overwhelming - in the best possible way. I experienced that today when I entered the Baltimore Convention Center for a sneak peek at the exhibitors in our 34th annual show. I was immediately struck not only by the sheer number of artists, but also by the eclectic variety of the work on display. It’s an incredible sensory experience to encounter exquisitely handcrafted goods in such a range of colors, shapes, textures and materials. I found it hard to make any progress through the show - I kept ...
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The American Craft Show BaltimoreAs a new year approaches, the Council is busy preparing for its 34th annual show in February at the Baltimore Convention Center, the largest juried, indoor craft show in the nation. Buyers can save time by pre-registering online until Feb. 18 at http://www.craftcouncil.org/wholesale for badges to access the wholesale event (Feb. 23-24). Now running for four days, the retail portion will take place Feb. 25-28.
There will be several opportunities for wholesale buyers to mix and mingle, including complimentary continental breakfast, educational seminars and roundtables with leading experts in the field. For the second ...
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San Francisco Museum of Craft + DesignFred Ball EnamelsSan Francisco, CaliforniaJuly 24 - October 4, 2009
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The inventive spirit of Fred Uhl Ball (1945-1985), one of the great innovators in the field of 20th-century enameling—the art of fusing glass to metal—is celebrated in this exhibition organized on the occasion of the Enamelist Society’s biennial conference in Oakland. The son of two artists—the noted ceramist and educator Carleton Ball and the graphic artist and enamelist Kathryn Uhl Ball—Fred Ball found his way to art, and especially enamels, as a child, and was participating in shows and winning ...
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For Harriet Johns, the combination of enamel, fire, and metal is the perfect vehicle for her expressive, instinctive works. ...
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For more information, call 509-763-3693, email [email protected] or visit online. ...
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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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Lireille - Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art ...
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The Northern California Enamel Guild’s (NCEG) 10th International Juried EnamelExhibition will be hosted by Lireille - Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Artin Oakland from September 6 to October 16.A lecture on the exhibition and contemporary enamel will be presented by AnaLopez in Nahl Hall at the California College of the Arts, Oakland campus, onOctober 1 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm followed by the opening reception at LireilleGallery from 7:00 - 9:00 pm. ...
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Works from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection
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Day two and after a dose of rest I hurried back to the convention center, thanks in part to a stiff wind carrying me along, for another look at the fantastic work on display at the American Craft Council’s show. After 33 years, word gets around and once again, the crowds showed up, keen to see more high-end craft. The weekend seemed to draw more people so it was a bit of a challenge to navigate through the aisles but the anticipation of meeting and speaking with the artists spurred me on. Without further ado, here’s more ...
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Lireille Gallery of Contempoary Jewelery and Art ...
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“Wow, it’s just one thing after another—it’s just amazing,” a passerby enthused at the American Craft Council Baltimore Show and as the event draws to a close I can think of no better way to sum up the experience. Except to say what a total pleasure it was to meet the artists, see their work up close and in many cases put a face to the names I often heard and somehow felt I already knew. Spending time with all the artists I hoped to proved impossible but nevertheless, here’s a final nod to a few more ...
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Ron Glowen ponders Rik Allen’s eerie glass space ships at Seattle’s Science Fiction Museum and Scott Norris surveys the master enamelist Jamie Bennett’s retrospective at the Fuller Craft Museum. ...
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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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After four days of frenzied crowds at the Eleventh Annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York—opening night alone drew over 2,600 people—visiting the exhibition on Sunday, June 1, the final day, was an unexpectedly calming experience. No longer were there throngs pushing past each other rushing to stake claims on one must-have piece or another. Rather, people stood in small groups or by themselves, some speaking quietly with artists and gallery owners, others closely examining ceramics at Lacoste’s booth, testing out furniture by ...
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There is no living ceramist who was taught to think that factories could produce art except, of course, Warhol’s Factory. However, even that phenomenon received proper critical respect only recently, and grudgingly. For two generations, academies taught their art students to loathe Warhol (even as they furtively coveted his succès de scandale). In reaction to these disciplinary blinders, contemporary ceramic artists are reorienting production away from the studio to the factory. They are coming out of a conceptual closet to regain the tool kit and palette their predecessors forswore a hundred years ago for the sake of John Ruskin and ...
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