"I have a really strong community up there," Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend says of her decades-old ties to the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, which recently honored her with its 2007 Libensky Award for contributions to the glass field.
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Wherever he goes, be it a restaurant or a friend's new house in Tuscany, Cosimo Terzani can't help but notice the light.
"It's the first thing I look at," says the 27-year-old, who is an executive in his family's business, a Florentine maker of high-end lamps and lighting fixtures. "Light is the most important thing."
morePamela Scheinman curls up with The Object of Labor, a many faceted anthology on fiber, and Nicols Fox takes in "Far from the Tree" at the Messler Gallery in Rockport, Maine.
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By Kathleen Mangan
browngrotta arts
Wilton, Connecticut
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By Sabrina Gschwandtner, foreword by David McFadden
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
$29.95
Edited by Nicole Stuckenberger
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
University Press of New England
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Essay by Don Davidson
Mobilia Gallery
Cambridge, Massachusetts
$35 ($20 students and artists)
Passion animates Dubhe Carreño's voice when she talks about her gallery, opened in 2004 in Chicago. Born and raised in Venezuela, Carreño, 33, came to the United States at 18 to study ballet, but weary of its demands, quit the next year. "When I stopped dancing, I was born again," she recalls.
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Matthias Pliessnig talks fast, as if to keep up with a rapid flow of ideas. Movement interests him, whether it's flight, the way a boat cuts through water or the physics of how a seat responds to its sitter.
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Chris Antemann's figural porcelain vignettes, such as her 2007 piece Gather, are naughty, full of quasi-18th-century harlots and housemaids cavorting with naked suitors.
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Some say that bad things come in threes. Others expect good things to come in pairs. Andrew Wagner ponders both and reflects on the multiple ways to interpret today's craft scene.
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Virginia Gardiner spends a theoretical day at the beach with furniture maker Max Lamb and his Pewter Stools cast in sand and also learns a thing or two about his new Poly Chairs.
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Lily Kane gets to know the Brooklyn-based brothers William and Steven Ladd, whose projects-elaborate beaded objects in personalized packaging-flow freely between the worlds of fashion, design, art and craft.
moreThe North Carolina artist Randy Shull likes to explore all sorts of media-from furniture and sculpture to painting and woodcarving. However, he may have met his biggest challenge renovating his own house and then that of a friend right down the street.
moreRobert Sullivan wondered why the two Portlands loom large in the world of craft in the United States. After two weeks exploring both cities and their environs, he has some ideas.
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Alison Bourke takes us on a tour of the London craft scene during one of the city's busiest times of year-the London Design Festival building up to the Origin and Collect shows.
moreArnie Cooper explores the only coral reef in Los Angeles-it's far from the ocean, yet surprisingly close to space, courtesy of the Wertheim sisters.
moreIt's all about the discourse. Let us know what you're thinking and we'll do the same.
moreExpatriate Robert Brady spent years building a collection of art and craft from around the world in an old Franciscan monastery in Cuernavaca, Mexico. After his death, in 1986, his home was converted into what is now called the Museo Robert Brady. Now this immense, once very private collection is open for all to enjoy, including our writer, Mija Riedel.
moreIn the August 1970 Craft Horizons, Golda Lewis wrote about her handmade paper collage work and how it fit into her painting and sculpture. Here we revisit what the artist called "compage."
moreWriting about his new book, Thinking Through Craft, Glenn Adamson examines how it has helped him do just that.
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