Akiko Busch argues that as makers of things, we need to appreciate the value of loss-what we no longer have or will have.
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February/March 2010
Volume #:
70
Issue #:
1
Issue Articles
Ron Glowen weighs in on Cappy Thompson’s “dreamscapes” in glass and clay at Traver Gallery Tacoma.
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The Council's relocation plans, conference wrap-up and what's next in education programs.
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Over a century Greenwich House Pottery grew from a modest program for immigrants into a nationally recognized studio and showcase for contemporary ceramics.
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News of women in charge, awards and honors, commissions, museum and gallery doings and an obituary of Ruth Duckworth.
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Shannon Sharpe explores this tile maker’s blend of beauty and use.
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Leah Ollman critiques Jeff Irwin's animal-inspired ceramics in a San Diego library.
moreKate Dobbs Ariail peers through the microscope at Willard Wigan's minuscule sculptures at Parish Gallery in Washington, DC.
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The Douglas Dawson Gallery presents ethnographic art in a contemporary art gallery context and also represents contemporary artists whose work relates.
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Sylvie Rosenthal's furniture, a combination of superb woodworking skills and a healthy dose of humor, illustrates her evolution.
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Sungsoo Kim's kiln-cast glass sculptures are inspired by Styrofoam packaging materials.
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Janet Koplos reflects on the many different ways artists approach craft.
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Jim Zivic carves sleek sculptural furniture from a mundane substance-coal.
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Lola Brooks’s exquisite and preposterous jewelry is not for the timid. Mimi Luse cuts to the heart, as it were, of this artist’s outré objects of desire and her attraction to tattoos.
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Although I drifted toward architecture for many reasons, one of the defining qualities that attracted me was projective thinking. Architects value the model of a building less for what it is than what it points to - what it projects into the future.
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Janice Arnold's Palace Yurt of handmade felt was among the most impressive pieces in the "Fashioning Felt" exhibition law year at New York's Cooper-Hewit National Design Museum; it will also appear in the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design's remounting of the show (Oct. 22, 2010 - Feb. 20, 2011).
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Sabrina Gschwandtner finds a hotbed of new ideas.
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The handmade shoe according to the Cordwainer Shop on the East Coast and CYDWOQ on the West. Amy Shaw reports on their history and practice of blending healthy comfort and harmonious style.
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In the June/July 1980 American Craft, Jan Janeiro profiled the pioneering weaver and educator Lia Cook. Christine Kaminsky chronicles subsequent developments in Cook's work, her many honors and her current exhibitions.
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Artists, writers and museum professionals recall the thrilling, the disastrous and the weird among art openings.
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