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Buckle Up

by Julie K. Hanus
|January 31, 2011
|Categories: Fashion, Found Objects, Leather, Metal

Blacksmith Erica Gordon creates chic buckles and lustrous dyed-leather belts.

Natural Archivists

by Monica Moses
|November 23, 2010
|Categories: Design, Fiber, Found Objects

Two artists preserve their nature-based art with an equally natural material.

Reduce, Reuse, Reinvent

by Julie Hanus
|November 15, 2010
|Categories: Found Objects, Sculpture

Jeremy Mayer transforms typewriters into arresting anatomical sculpture.

Embracing the DIY Movement

by Julie Hanus
|October 18, 2010
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Exhibitions, Fiber, Found Objects, Mixed Media

In mid-September, the Pittsburgh-based Society for Contemporary Craft threw open the doors on a bold new exhibit: "DIY: A Revolution in Handicrafts" features the work of more than a dozen contemporary artists working in a range of media and stretches from the SCC's main galleries through its alternative exhibition space EAT: An Art Space About Food, and its store and studio. The exhibition runs through March 26, 2011.

Velvet da Vinci's Fantastic Plastic

by Julie Hanus
|September 22, 2010
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Exhibitions, Found Objects, Jewelry

Say the word plastic, and what comes to mind? The everlasting (and environmentally disastrous) bag? Cheap manufactured products? Over at Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco, 75 jewelry artists are recasting one of our world's most maligned and ubiquitous materials...

Montreal, Quebec

by James D. Campbell
|May 18, 2010
|Categories: Ceramics, Fiber, Found Objects, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Tour the craft scene of this cosmopolitan city.

The Peaceable Queendom

by Robin Rice
|May 14, 2010
|Categories: Fiber, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Adelaide Paul's fantastical yet realistic mixed-media animal sculptures.

Celebrating the Expendable

by Joyce Lovelace
|May 11, 2010
|Categories: Fashion, Fiber, Found Objects, Jewelry, Sculpture

Kate Cusak transforms everyday objects into elegant works of art.

And the Winners Are...

by Jenny Gill
|Photography by Jenny Gill
|March 01, 2010
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Baskets, Beadwork, Book Arts, Ceramics, Decor, Fashion, Fiber, Found Objects, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Lighting, Metal, Mixed Media, Paper, Wood

Somewhere between an Olympics medal ceremony and “Candid Camera” falls the annual Awards Walking Tour at the American Craft Council's Baltimore Show. Each year, we invite two specialists in the craft field to jury the show, selecting six Award of Excellence recipients and two winners in the Booth Design category. This year's jurors were Jane Milosch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Josephine Shea, curator of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, a historic home near Detroit.

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