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Behind the Scenes Things are Heating Up! What Do You Think?

by Andrew Wagner
|March 14, 2008
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Ceramics, Conferences, Design, Fiber, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Metal

Last year I received a message from jeweler Bruce Metcalf inviting me to participate in a talk he was scheduled to give at the 2008 SNAG conference in Savannah. I generally enjoy these types of speaking engagements and try to partake in them when possible. Looking at my schedule in April 2007, it definitely looked like Friday, March 7th 2008 would be open so I accepted. "Thanks for asking Bruce, I'd love to!"

Jack Lenor Larsen/Pierre Paulin: Redux

by admin
|March 13, 2008
|Categories: Design, Fiber, Furniture

The Grotta House: A Stage Built for Craft

by admin
|March 13, 2008
|Categories: Architecture, Ceramics, Design, Fiber, Furniture, Glass, Wood

Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette

by Shannon Sharpe
|March 10, 2008
|Categories: Fiber, Mixed Media

The Washington D.C.-based artist Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette never planned to become a weaver. In 1991 she was studying to be a graphic designer at North Carolina State University College of Design and found herself walking past the weaving room regularly. Finally, after wondering what it was all about, she got up the courage to ask Professor Barbara Schulman to teach her how to weave and Schulman obliged.

TeDe Hand Design

by Andrew Wagner
|March 07, 2008
|Categories: Design, Fiber, Furniture, Wood

If the world were in search of a true craft capital, Japan might well fill the bill. Whether the medium is basketry or ceramics or textiles, the Pacific Rim country has a history steeped in work guided by the hand. And though tradition-rich, Japan has also embraced technological advances as few other nations have, and the blending of the two strands has led to impressive endeavors on all fronts.

That's a wrap! The 32nd Annual American Craft Council Show Finishes with a Flourish

by Christine Kaminsky
|February 27, 2008
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Fiber, Ceramics, Design, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, Travel, Wood

After a long day Friday, I got some rest at the glamorous sounding but not so glamorous Lord Baltimore Hotel about six blocks from the convention center. I woke up Saturday morning refreshed and ready to take in more from the over 700 exhibiting makers. I made my way through the streets of Baltimore thinking about The Wire until I got to the convention center where the crowds were already packed in to see, shop and enjoy the sights.

New West Coast Design: Contemporary Objects at the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design through April 27

by Mija Riedel
|February 19, 2008
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Design, Ceramics, Architecture, Fiber, Furniture, Glass, Metal, Mixed Media

The meditative nature of the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design's garden entrance has been transformed by the arrival of a day glo, solar grid. Twenty-five electro-luminescent yellow wires run parallel the ground, climb to clear a dwarf Japanese maple tree, and part to skirt Fletcher Benton's geometric steel sculpture. Rows of narrow, luminous posts support the wires, encompassing the garden in a matrix of glowing filaments, which finally scale the museum's façade to a row of solar panels.

Private Pleasures: Collecting Contemporary Textile Art

by Tara Leigh Tappert
|January 23, 2008
|Categories: Fiber

Contemporary 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.

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