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June/July 2009

Volume #: 
69
Issue #: 
3

Issue Articles

Artists, their works and their booths receive recognition at the Council's Baltimore and Atlanta shows.

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Honors and awards, memorial tributes, new spaces and career changes—all dispatches from the world of craft.

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"You have to understand basic principles of design and mess with them," says this furniture designer.

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Andrea DiNoto explores “Fashioning Felt” at Cooper-Hewitt.

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Jun Kaneko's bold set and costume designs for Fidelio take the reader inside an opera production.

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“I wear jewelry even when I go to the grocery store,” asserts Karen Lorene, owner of Seattle’s Facere Jewelry Art Gallery.

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Michael Taylor's glasswork embodies a fruitful synergy between art and science.

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Images of ladders, steps and clouds abound in Eun-Su Choi's lampworked constructions, conveying her theme of aspiration.

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Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman made “things we could be proud of that people could afford and get pleasure from putting on their walls or tables.”

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The British ceramic artist Margaret O’Rorke has forged a new path in pursuit of developing freestanding light sculptures that capitalize on the translucency of porcelain, with impressive results that combine the traditional and the modern with lyricism, boldness, ingenuity and a beauty that reveals her own form of magic. Robert Silberman interviews O’Rorke and highlights her remarkable international career.

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Andy Brayman’s approach to functionality at his Matter Factory marries common sense and prankster plotting. Lily Kane finds out what makes this artist tick.

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The singular River Walk is only the half of it in arts-friendly San Antonio, Texas. Shannon Sharpe finds the pulse of creativity in this colorful Southwest city.

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A 1954 article highlights a furniture master at the beginning of his career.

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Five New York buildings that enabled architects to explore glass like artists.

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