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Bravo! A lawyer, two curators and seven artists receive the American Craft Council’s 2009 Aileen Osborn Webb Awards. ...
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The American Craft Council’s 2007 Aileen Osborn Webb Awards, named for the Council’s visionary founder, honor those who have demonstrated outstanding artistic achievement and leadership in the craft field.
Joining the College of Fellows, which now numbers 247 individuals, are Robert Brady, Marilyn da Silva, Mark Lindquist, William Morris, Richard Notkin, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval and, as Honorary Fellow, Nanette Laitman. ...
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Heath Ceramics, founded in 1944, grew into an unconventional amalgam of craft, design and manufacturing, and has gone on to become one of the most celebrated, slighted and generally misunderstood workshops to emerge from California’s studio pottery movement. Here, photographer Laurie Frankel shows us stand-out work from the past half-century while in print Mija Riedel looks at what makes the company tick. ...
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“Making utilitarian objects appeals to my practical side, yet the romance of being
a potter seduces my dreamier side. ” ...
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From the Roycrofters to today’s online DIY makers, craft has always gone hand in hand (to use a wonderfully appropriate phrase) with community. It follows, then, that craft has a unique power to build and strengthen communities that are weak or broken. Artists imagine and create beauty in unexpected, even hopelessly blighted places. In American cities, their vision has revived whole neighborhoods. And in underdeveloped countries, the economic and humanitarian benefits of handcraft can be all the more dramatic.
Artecnica and Denyse Schmidt Quilts are two arts businesses that are helping to build community, directly and indirectly, through craft. ...
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Craft in the context of American history at one venue while craft meets the computer at the other. ...
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In the late winter of 2007, a remarkable rescue occurred in New York’s Hudson River Valley. After nearly three years of existing on the precipice of demolition, Crow House, the hand-built home and studio of the once-renowned painter and potter Henry Varnum Poor (1887-1970) ultimately was saved by Christopher St. Lawrence, Town Supervisor of Ramapo, New York. And though St. Lawrence quietly acknowledges his role in this feat, he might also be tempted to tell you his mother made him do it. After all, it was his 88-year-old mother, Marguerite, who first read of the historic home’s plight in the ...
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Lonny van Ryswyck and Nadine Sterk of Atelier NL think globally, but dig locally, in their quest to render soulful serving pieces from the ground beneath their feet. ...
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Lola Brooks’s exquisite and preposterous jewelry is not for the faint of heart. ...
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Forty years later, two living legends of design reprise a bold pairing of fabric and furniture from 1967. In conversation with Laurie Manfra, Larsen and Paulin reflect on their collaboration then and now.
Photography by Dana Lixenberg ...
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Lenore Tawney united the disciplines of weaving and sculpture in daring works that helped create the fiber art medium. Whether monumental or the size of a postcard, her art has always communicated at the deepest level with each new generation. ...
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“I believe the simple act of making something, anything, with your hands is a quiet political ripple in a world dominated by mass production… and people choosing to make something themselves will turn those small ripples into giant waves.’’–Faythe Levine ...
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