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The exhibition reflects how deeply the practice of Judaism has been affected by recent social issues as well as by a persistent Jewish concern with injustice. ...
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These young artists share a willingness to add new techniques or materials to the
repertoires of their craft, while maintaining the highest standards of execution. ...
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Once upon a time, there was a princess who—cursed by a wicked witch—pricked her finger on a spinning wheel and fell asleep for a hundred years. Sleeping Beauty, as she was called, awoke when kissed by a handsome prince, and off she went with him to the Museum of Arts & Design to see amazing embroideries the good fairies had been working on all along. What the princess saw was something like, but really nothing like, the simple samplers she’d sewn as a child. “While you were sleeping,” the prince explained, “Conceptual Art was invented. A handkerchief is not just ...
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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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The Green Mountain state has been one of the essential places in American studio craft. A landmark exhibition celebrates its presence at the creation and beyond. ...
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Like the pottery of his contemporary Geoge Ohr, Rohlfs's work resides betwixt and between, a giddy fusion of nostalgic and progressive design that reflects the lively push and pull of his era. ...
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Like the pottery of his contemporary Geoge Ohr, Rohlfs's work resides betwixt and between, a giddy fusion of nostalgic and progressive design that reflects the lively push and pull of his era. ...
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An intimate exploration of the artist’s 40-year career. ...
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Adelaide Paul takes what is in essence a flayed animal and further deconstructs it by altering it in some unmistakable way. ...
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A “textile without structure,” felt is extraordinarily adaptable for use in sophisticated home furnishings, fashion and installation art. ...
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Atlanta History Center
Atlanta, Georgia
March 1 - May 18, 2008
The South as a region capable of preserving craft traditions through the generations even as it attracts contemporary artists is highlighted in this touring exhibit organized by the Southern Arts Federation. “Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art” provides a curious mix of 120 works by 58 master craftsmen living in the region. Some follow traditional means of perpetuating a cultural heritage, while others consciously create something new. The viewer must tease out the not always obvious connections between the two.
Kathleen Mundell, curator of the traditional ...
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Suzanne Beal steps into "Glimmering Gone: Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman," a breathtaking installation at Tacoma, Washington's Museum of Glass, and discovers a potent meditation on longing and loss. ...
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