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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 ...
Material Matters
"These plants are growing without any cultivation. They don't need fertilizer or pesticides. So why not tap into that abundance?" - Patterson Clark ...
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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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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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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 ...
Material Matters
"I'm interested in relationships," says Ann Weber. "Why they work, why they don't work. All the emotions that come and go throughout life. Balancing acts - art, life, family. How far can you go before it all collapses?"
Weber explores these big ideas in her often enormous sculptures, biomorphic forms that have towered as high as 16 feet. In her show "Love and Other Audacities" at Los Angeles' Craft and Folk Art Museum (through September 11), she captures the complex dynamics of a marriage ceremony in The Wedding Party (2009), a tableau of familiar figures dominated by a 7-foot Bridezilla and ...
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As part of its Open MAKE series, the Exploratorium is currently hosting the Cardboard Institute of Technology (C.I.T.). From now until March 7, the Exploratorium invites you to help transform the Tinkering Studio into a collaborative city structure composed almost entirely of cardboard. Just like any proper city, "Cardburg" will have an underworld or secret inner sanctum (S.I.S.) featuring pipe works, a giant ballast air mover, underground dwelling structures, kinetic structures, micro-environments and other not-yet-conceived-of elements. ...
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Splashlife, a social media network for the under 30 crowd, recently launched a new monthly series highlighting 30 people (under 30) for excellence in a particular field - and the first list is the nation's top young crafters. Most of these artists work across a variety of mediums, and many sell their works on Etsy. Here are some of our favorites from the list:
Julia Stotz is a book artist and photographer based in Chicago. Her artist books and handmade invitations have a simple, modern feel. She also collaborates with other artists ...
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This exhibit is part of "Innovations in Textiles," a greater St. Louis area fiber event. Informal gallery talk on Saturday, September 17. Included in the in-town bus tour. ...
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Still buzzing from one of the most exciting presidential elections in recent (or even not so recent) memory, I jumped a plane out of LaGuardia on Thursday morning and headed to Chicago for what what would surely be one of the most exciting SOFA Chicago exhibitions in years. (For the uninitiated, SOFA is an acronym for Sculptural Objects and Functional Art.) Celebrating its 15th year, SOFA Chicago is now not only one of the longest running weekend long (from November 7th to 9th) shows featuring contemporary arts and design but can now proudly proclaim ...
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Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and DesignDVD, 65 minutes, Director, Faythe Levine$19.95
Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and DesignBy Faythe Levine and Cortney HeimerlPrinceton Architectural Press$24.95
Ah, youth! It is impossible to watch Handmade Nation and not be affected by its spirit: passionate, upbeat, idealistic and above all energetic. The frenetic pixilated opening credit sequence almost suggests that the title might be Over-Caffeinated Nation. It is also impossible not to be struck by déjà vu all over again, for most of the ...
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Craftsmanship is the watchword of the North Bennet Street School in Boston, which offers rigorous training in eight disciplines. Located in an early-19th-century brick building near the historic Old North Church, the school has been training people for employment for 125 years, pioneering the concept of placing students in a classroom with a master to learn a trade. The Boston philanthropist Pauline Agassiz Shaw opened the school as the North End Industrial Home in 1880 to serve immigrants, and in 1885, when the focus shifted from employment opportunity to education, it was renamed the North Bennet Street Industrial School. Historical ...
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The Awards of Excellence Walking Tour is - hands down - my favorite part of every ACC Show. Everyone gathers at the Council booth, and off we go to surprise the winning artists. This year's San Francisco jurors were Mike Holmes, co-owner of Velvet da Vinci, and Ted Cohen, an exhibition designer who works with institutions such as the Museum of Craft and Design and the Museum of Craft and Folk Art. It was a supreme treat to listen to these veterans of the studio craft world as they bestowed four awards of excellence.
Here's what they had to say:
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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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For more information email [email protected], call 207-348-2306 or visit online. ...
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