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Doin' the Baltimore Bustle

by Christine Kaminsky
|February 22, 2008
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Ceramics, Design, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, Travel, Wood

If you believed the news this morning, Baltimore was in the path of a messy, winter storm. But as is often the case, this prediction of wind-driven snow happily never materialized and life continues here at a rapid pace. Regardless of the temperature, every February for the past 32 years the American Craft Council has been heating up Baltimore like the Orioles-at least back in the days of Cal Ripken-with the largest, indoor, juried craft show in the United States.

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.

Awards & Celebrations

by Joyce Lovelace
|January 19, 2008
|Categories: Ceramics, Design, Fiber, Folk Art, Furniture, Glass, Metal, Mixed Media, Wood

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. In October it reunited the master ceramists Don Reitz and John Jessiman , old friends from the 1960s, for a workshop-Reitz's first since his heart surgery two years ago. The event launched the university's brand new Randall and Susan Parrott Ward Endowment Fund for Ceramics.

Wearers Wanted

by Shannon Sharpe
|Photography by Aya Brackett
|January 16, 2008
|Categories: Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media

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. Holmes recently told American Craft of how maintaining a sense of humor and meeting challenges head-on (including an armed robbery) have made Velvet da Vinci the success that it is today.

Santa Fe: When the Old Meets the New

by Hollis Walker
|Photography by Jack Kotz
|January 14, 2008
|Categories: Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Travel

Navigating the ever-expanding Santa Fe “artscape.”

Shaping the Future of Craft

by Anisha Joseph
|December 14, 2007
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Fiber, Fashion, Design, Conferences, Ceramics, Architecture, Folk Art, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Wood

Did you miss the American Craft Council's 10th National Leadership Conference in October of 2006? If so, you can now catch up on all the proceedings with a purchase of the just released 192-page publication, "Shaping the Future of Craft."

Tutto E' Luce

by Joyce Lovelace
|December 01, 2007
|Categories: Design, Metal

Wherever he goes, be it a restaurant or a friend's new house in Tuscany, Cosimo Terzani can't help but notice the light.

"It's the first thing I look at," says the 27-year-old, who is an executive in his family's business, a Florentine maker of high-end lamps and lighting fixtures. "Light is the most important thing."

Cast Iron Decoration: A World Survey

by Christine Kaminsky
|November 21, 2007
|Categories: Books, Architecture, Design, Metal

By E. Graeme Robertson and Joan Robertson
Thames & Hudson
$65

London Craft: Doing the Experimental

by Alison Bourke
|November 21, 2007
|Categories: Ceramics, Conferences, Fashion, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Travel

Alison Bourke takes us on a tour of the London craft scene during one of the city's busiest times of year-the London Design Festival building up to the Origin and Collect shows.

Max Lamb: Furniture on the Beach

by Virginia Gardiner
|November 20, 2007
|Categories: Design, Furniture, Metal, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Virginia Gardiner spends a theoretical day at the beach with furniture maker Max Lamb and his Pewter Stools cast in sand and also learns a thing or two about his new Poly Chairs.

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