Located in the southern Appalachian mountain region, Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, has made a specialty of celebrating the handwork of yesterday and today.
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February/March 2008
Volume #:
68
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1
Issue Articles
It's only appropriate that the New York gallery owner Ralph Pucci has combined forces with Jonathan Kline, a basket weaver and sculptor. Pucci's gallery and showroom is noted for its one-of-a-kind pieces, limited editions and works produced by the gallery itself.
moreBeverly Brandt surveys the Moulthrop wood-turning dynasty at the ASU Art Museum.
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Andrea DiNoto gets "Pricked" at the Museum of Arts & Design.
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By Paul J. Stankard
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company
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In 1991 Michael Holmes and Elizabeth Shypertt set out to offer exposure to jewelers who were not typically shown in traditional jewelry galleries in the Bay Area. Velvet da Vinci has grown to be a significant force in the art jewelry world.
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Upon entering Jorge Pardo's "House," the viewer is greeted by an intriguing amalgam of art, design and architecture that crosses genres, defies definition and reveals the artist's personal response to everyday objects.
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In "Catalyst," an installation of prints on paper and kilnformed glass, the Chicago artist Carrie Iverson is intent on capturing the processes of memory.
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In 2005 Sangjoon Park had an epiphany. He looked at a pile of bowls on a table in his studio and suddenly understood that they were art. Never before had he considered these ceramic pieces to be anything more than utilitarian. "At that moment I realized these bowls-my training foundation-made me an artist long ago," Park says.
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Are there generational divides in the world of craft? Andrew Wagner chose to pursue the subject with a soundtrack heavily weighted toward The Who.
moreShonquis Moreno dives into the cutting-edge world of international studio jewelry and finds the material explorations happening there to be "extremely" refreshing.
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Heath Ceramics, founded in 1944, grew into an unconventional amalgam of craft, design and manufacturing, and has gone on to become one of the most celebrated, slighted and generally misunderstood workshops…
moreJoyce Lovelace wonders what to make of the generation of craft artists born between 1958 and 1964. Who are they? What do they think? And, of course, what do they make?
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Lenore Tawney's life spanned a century of change: turbulence, wars, upheavals and unimaginable technological advances. She herself was a catalyst for an artistic revolution. Yet her presence was serene and spiritual as she fearlessly pursued a vision that emanated from a deep inner devotion to living and working wholly.
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Navigating the ever-expanding Santa Fe “artscape.”
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An American set designer staging a Mozart opera in Switzerland has an unusual problem with the stage technicians-their craftsmanship is too good!
moreContemporary fiber art is a "hot" area of collecting these days, witness an exhibition-cum-symposium at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. Tara Leigh Tappert looks at the work and listens to the collectors, revealing the passions, not to say obsessions, that drive this curious breed.
moreHoward Risatti, author of A Theory of Craft, sees craft and design as distinct entities with unequal footing in the modern world. But, he wonders, is this necessarily a bad thing?
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