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  • Jason Preston at an Antiques Roadshow event in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

    What It's Worth?

    Jason Preston on becoming an appraiser, the Antiques Roadshow scene, and how to put a price on inherited jewelry.

  • Ceramic Meltdown’s Colorblast Cups. Photo by Kyle Lee.

    Market: Tea Time

    These four contemporary ceramists make vessels worthy of any tea ceremony you’d care to invent.

  • Watertower, 2012, salvaged acrylic and steel with arduino programmed light, 22 x 10 x 10 ft. Photo by Guerin Blask.

    The Queue: Tom Fruin

    Tom Fruin turns found materials into vivid public sculptures. In The Queue, the Brooklyn-based sculptor shares about the discarded items that find their way into his work, his favorite tools, and two visionary South American artists with recent shows in New York.

  • Illustration by John Jay Cabuay.

    Wild and Woolly

    The author of Worn: A People’s History of Clothing traces the story of wool, from Mesopotamia to Wyoming to a small weaving mill in upstate New York.

  • Ayumi Shibata’s Konjiki no No, 2022, paper, string, 8.25 x 5.5 x .25 in.

    Light Houses

    Four artists light up their architecturally influenced works to tell stories, create moods, and explore ideas—all with the mysterious poetry of illumination.
  • Ian Alistair Cochran. Photo courtesy of the artist.

    The Queue: Ian Alistair Cochran

    Ian Alistair Cochran casts resin in a new light. In The Queue, the Chicago-based artist shares about the tool that enables him to create perfectly smooth resin, his experiments with new-to-him materials, and the elemental appeal of light.

  • Cofounder Christopher Schwarz shows students how to make wedges with a band saw. Photos courtesy of Lost Art Press.

    A Hardworking Press

    Founded by two craftspeople, Kentucky-based Lost Art Press preserves and presents deep knowledge of hand tool woodworking.

  • Arleene Correa Valencia. Photo courtesy of Adrian Osnaya.

    The Queue: Arleene Correa Valencia

    Arleene Correa Valencia explores the Mexican immigrant experience in textiles, mixed-media sculptures, and paintings. In The Queue, the Napa, California–based artist shares about her use of repurposed work clothing, her Indigenous collaborators in Mexico, and how she came to incorporate textiles into her practice.

  • Seguenon Koné strings a handmade bolon. Photo by Cedric Angeles.

    The Scene: Seguenon Koné

    Koné grew up in northern Ivory Coast, in a village called Gbon. He moved to New York City and then to Orlando, Florida, where he worked at Disney World and toured with the late singer Jimmy Buffett before moving to New Orleans in 2008.

  • Matthew Holdren works on a plan while flanked by two handmade chairs. Photo by Cedric Angeles.

    The Scene: Matthew Holdren

    Holdren grew up in Vermont, where his dad built the family home and his mom owned an antique store. He’s lived in New Orleans for 16 years.
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