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The Los Angeles creative community and assorted other cool folk came out in force January 29 for the festive opening of two exciting shows celebrating L.A. artists at the Craft and Folk Art Museum on Wilshire Boulevard.
"A Marriage of Craft and Design" highlights the 50-year creative partnership-and love story- of modern master designer-craftsmen Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman, with a retrospective selection of weavings, ceramics and metalwork from the early 1950s to the 90s. "Crossing the Line," a site-specific space by multimedia maker Tanya Aguiniga, 32, transforms a gallery into a wonderland filled with thousands of colorful, crisscrossed yarn strands, floating ...
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Craft makers and thinkers will unite April 1-3 for what promises to be a weekend filled with rich discussion about the ethos of craft as the California College of the Arts hosts its Craft Forward symposium.
Mark Breitenberg, the provost of CCA, says the event is "intended to demonstrate the expanded field of craft practices and theory in the 21st century." He explains that Craft Forward originated "from our realization that craft was undergoing a resurgence in the last 10 years or so; not just in the traditional craft disciplines, but in art, design, architecture and even creative writing. I identified ...
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Fashion forward garments will hit the Twin Cities runway next month when the Surface Design Association and the Textile Center host "Confluence," the 2011 International Surface Design Association Conference.
One of the highlights of the biennial conference is its juried fashion show. This year's wearables exhibition, Bodies of Water, will be held June 11 at 7 p.m. at the Grainbelt Bottlehouse Atrium. The show features the designs of members and invited artists as well as apparel designer Carter Smith, who was chosen as the featured artist. Smith has spent 40 years creating his one-of-a-kind shibori fabric ...
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As fiber and textile aficionados settle in the Twin Cities this weekend for the Surface Design Association's biennial conference, we invite you to stop in and check out the new exhibit in our office: Focus on Fibers.
Curated by Erica Spitzer Rasmussen (see "Intimate Apparel" from our April/May issue), the traveling exhibit celebrates diversity in form and content. Erica worked with the Textile Center to select artists and assemble a showcase of our expansive textile community - from traditional to experimental work. Case in point: You'll see everything from woven wall pieces to dresses made from ...
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New York ceramist and Japanese American Ayumi Horie, along with Ai Kanazawa and Kathryn Pombriant Manzella, is set to launch Handmade for Japan, an art auction on eBay tonight, with all proceeds going to support relief efforts in Japan, where a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck two weeks ago. The three have been offered donations from a growing list of accomplished ceramists, including Betty Woodman, Jun Kaneko, Christa Assad, Justin Rothshank, Kathy Erteman, and Diana Fayt. Dozens of other artists, such as textile designer Kaoru Oka and illustrator Lisa Congdon, have signed on.
Many galleries have also donated work, including ...
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Radical Jewelry Makeover IVPenland School of CraftsPenland, North CarolinaJune 21-July 3, 2009
If you’ve ever rummaged in a drawer and found necklaces, rings or brooches you no longer wish to wear but which have intrinsic or sentimental value, you’re a likely candidate for the donor phase of Radical Jewelry Makeover, a “traveling community mining and recycling project,” which is now going into its fourth incarnation in this two-week workshop at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. The central aim of RJM, as set forth by its originators, ...
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SOFA New York starts Thursday and runs until Sunday April 17. The gallery-driven exposition brings fine sculpture and functional art to New York's Park Avenue Armory. Here are just a few exhibitors that will be showing their fine wares. Check them out for more information on what pieces they'll be bringing:
Litvak Gallery - featuring a collection of the latest works from contemporary glass artists Peter Bremers, Vaclav Cigler, Bertil Vallien, Julius Weiland, and Jirina Zertova.
Duane Reed Gallery - showing contemporary artists working in glass, ceramics, ...
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