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April/May 2009
Volume #:
69
Issue #:
2
Issue Articles
Whether quirky or classic, every piece of Frances Palmer’s pottery has its own unique personality.
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Erik Scollen considers how 10 artists rooted to craft through techniques and materials straddle the border of functional and sculptural objects.
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Thomas Piche Jr. critiques 50 years of Jurs’s work on display at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse.
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Two heads are better than one when textile dealer Robert Coffland and his wife, Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, merge strengths and styles to operate TAI Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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A world-class museum shines the spotlight on mindbogglingly labor-intensive handworks from all eras and cultures.
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Contemporary artists are taking the hooked rug in exciting new directions…
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At the age of 91, weaver Ethel Stein is finally enjoying the recognition she deserves…
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Iain Aitch gives us the scoop on the amazingly creative, aesthetically pleasing and eco-friendly uses to which a London-based artist puts one of the world's foremost gross-out materials-poop.
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The metalsmith Gabriel Craig is taking handmade jewelry to the streets of Richmond,
Virginia…
Kathryn Pannepacker’s hand-painted murals have turned some of Philadelphia’s grittier neighborhoods into a panoramic bazaar of global textiles.
moreUsing the basics of nature as her essential linear element, the artist and educator Gyöngy Laky has built extraordinary installations indoors and out in cities and villages around the world. Mija Reidel offers rich insights into her nature-bound works, activist's sensibility and experimental attitude.
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In the shadows of jazz bands, gumbo chefs and recently even "Top Chefs," an eclectic visual arts scene is thriving in galleries, museums, arts centers and on the streets of New Orleans. Sonya Stinson takes its pulse.
moreA Swedish design collective finds strength in numbers. David Sokol reports on their rambunctious projects.
moreSetting aside the yuck factor, how does Jennifer Angus find and acquire the thousands of
insects she deploys in her remarkable wallpaper-like installations? Jody Clowes explores
her art and tracks her adventures as a bug collector.
