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Contemporary Crafts Market

<p>Joseph Gatto has been making jewelry for over 60 years. He reuses or recycles precious metals, gold, silver and platinum together with antiques, or antiquities up to 3,000 years old. Gatto is a proud environmentalist and an advocate of objects made by hand by local crafts persons.</p>
<p>Susan Eastman&#039;s evolving collection of wearable art scarves and wraps are handmade one at a time. A mixed media artist, Eastman incorporates numerous influences--from street art to graphic design to nature--expressed through techniques such as hand dyeing, painting, block printing, collage and free motion sewing. Eastman currently lives and works in a converted warehouse loft in Oakland, Calif.</p>
<p>Marne Ryan launched her career as a metal-smith and jeweler with this show 27 years ago. Since 1976, Ryan has been exploring, developing and teaching the process of making textures through heat. Patterns are created by fusing thin layers of silver, high karat gold and platinum together in sheets to form fabrics of metal. This material is then made into hollowware, vessels and jewelry.</p>

Joseph Gatto has been making jewelry for over 60 years. He reuses or recycles precious metals, gold, silver and platinum together with antiques, or antiquities up to 3,000 years old. Gatto is a proud environmentalist and an advocate of objects made by hand by local crafts persons.

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Location

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main Street
Santa Monica , CA 90401
United States
Dates: 
Nov 2, 2012 10:00AM to Nov 4, 2012 6:00PM
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The Contemporary Crafts Market will be returning to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as the West Coast’s premiere event for one-of-a-kind functional and decorative crafts November 2-4, 2012. In time for the holidays, this year’s market will feature the distinctive works of over 240 of the nation’s finest artists, ranging from intricate jewelry, unique glassware and ceramics to hand-painted textiles, custom furniture, mixed-media creations and much more. The Contemporary Crafts Market has been a showcase for burgeoning and established talent since its inception 27 years ago. Year after year, the market brings together an eclectic mix of artisans, while also allowing visitors to meet the artists behind some of the nation’s finest crafts.

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