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News, Views and Fond Farewells from Baltimore

by Christine Kaminsky
|March 01, 2009
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Baskets, Beadwork, Book Arts, Ceramics, Design, Enamels, Fashion, Fiber, Found Objects, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Lighting, Metal, Mixed Media, Mosaics, Paper, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Tiles, Wood

"Wow, it's just one thing after another-it's just amazing," a passerby enthused at the American Craft Council Baltimore Show and as the event draws to a close I can think of no better way to sum up the experience. Except to say what a total pleasure it was to meet the artists, see their work up close and in many cases put a face to the names I often heard and somehow felt I already knew.

More Cheers in Chicago as United States Artists Announce Fellowships

by Christine Kaminsky
|November 11, 2008
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Ceramics, Fiber, Mixed Media, Tiles, Awards, Baskets, Found Objects, Sculpture, Stained Glass

While there were no claims of Obama sightings, sounds of jubilation rose once again in Chicago during a celebration last night at the Museum of Contemporary Art, when artists across a broad array of disciplines-architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, media, music, theater arts and the visual arts-were honored with United States Artists (USA) Fellowships.

Dispatches from the Land of Obama: SOFA Chicago, Opening Night Impressions

by Andrew Wagner
|November 07, 2008
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Design, Conferences, Fiber, Found Objects, Furniture, Glass, Lighting, Metal, Mosaics, Paper, Sculpture, Symposia, Tiles, Travel, Wood, Workshops

Can Chicago sustain its frenzied fervor over the election of hometown hero, President-Elect, Barack Obama? Can SOFA Chicago maintain its momentum on its 15 year anniversary? Can you drink wine while walking the aisles at any other time other than opening night? Some thoughts on these queries and more follow. What do you think?

Jed Morfit

by Shannon Sharpe
|November 03, 2008
|Categories: Ceramics, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Tiles

Spring Fever! SOFA Sweeps into New York!

by Shannon Sharpe
|June 02, 2008
|Categories: Web Exclusive, Book Arts, Ceramics, Design, Enamels, Fiber, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Metal, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Tiles, Wood

After four days of frenzied crowds at the Eleventh Annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York-opening night alone drew over 2,600 people-visiting the exhibition on Sunday, June 1, the final day, was an unexpectedly calming experience. No longer were there throngs pushing past each other rushing to stake claims on one must-have piece or another.

Mapping the Future Perfect

by Mimi Zeiger
|Photography by Catherine Ledner Ledner
|May 19, 2008
|Categories: Glass, Architecture, Design, Sculpture, Tiles

Laurel Porcari sculpts architectural glass in her New Orleans studio. Glass requires technique and some heavy lifting. It is a hot, physically demanding process. Porcari embeds drawings and textures in the medium. Asked to describe the kiln-formed works, she speaks conceptually about mapping and flow, about scale and place. Given these terms and her Big Easy address, it's easy to presume that the artist's designs reference the broken levees and flooded neighborhoods wrought by Hurricane Katrina. They don't. Porcari doesn't go in for the literal.

Los Angeles: Ahead of the Curve on Craft

by Joyce Lovelace
|Photography by Noah Webb
|March 06, 2008
|Categories: Travel, Wood, Decor, Lighting, Paper, Technology, Tiles

Joyce Lovelace reports on the craft scene in Los Angeles—a rich blend of old and new and as sprawling and diverse as the city itself, from museums and galleries celebrating the city’s postwar modernist heritage to shops and young, up-and-coming artists riding a new wave of interest in the handmade.

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