The Book Art Studio Handbook Interview
Amy Lapidow and Stacie Dolin, two enthusiastic bookbinders and artists from Massachusetts, trained at the historic North Bennet Street School in Boston and recently celebrated the publication of their...
View Article5th Annual TASTE OF THE ARTS FINE ART FAIR
The 5th Annual Taste of the Arts Festival is a celebration of cultural inspiration designed to promote a wide variety of artists, regional arts organizations and local restaurants. The festival...
View ArticleGlobal Appeal
TextilesThe Art of MankindBy Mary SchoeserThames & Hudson, $95How do you survey textiles through the ages and around the world? The topic is so big, so ubiquitous and wide-ranging, it might be...
View ArticleTaste of the Arts Fine Art Fair
The 5th Annual Taste of the Arts Festival is a celebration of cultural inspiration designed to promote our wide variety of national artists, regional arts organizations and local restaurants. The...
View ArticleNew ACC Library Books: March 2013
We’ve got some wonderful new books in the American Craft Council Library. Clay, sculpture, and fiber are the featured media in our newest acquisitions.Robert Arneson (College of Fellows, 1992) is the...
View ArticleFive Questions with Kate Heider
Today's interview is with Kate Heider, development associate for the American Craft Council.What is your favorite/most-read art or craft book in your personal collection?It is hard to pick a favorite,...
View ArticleMark Hewitt - Potent Pots
Wood-fired ceramics by one of North Carolina's most renowned and influential studio potters. Hewitt honors tradition using local materials, and achieves masterful surface effects with the introduction...
View ArticleNature as Inspiration
The April/May 2013 issue of American Craft is the Nature Issue, demonstrating the powerful force of nature in the works of the profiled artists. The artists in the issue speak of how nature, in its...
View ArticleA Modest Manifesto for Museums
Last year, Orhan Pamuk opened a museum in Istanbul, the city where the Nobel Prize-winning writer grew up. His Museum of Innocence doesn’t have white walls, famous artworks, or rare antiquities. It is...
View ArticleAround the World
Past & Present: 24 Favorite Moments in Decorative Arts History and 24 Modern DIY Projects Inspired by ThemBy Amy AzzaritoAbrams, $27.50There are decorative arts histories, and there are how-to...
View ArticleFive Questions with Olivia Belote
Today's interview is with Olivia Belote, membership manager for the American Craft Council.What is your favorite/most-read art or craft book in your personal collection?I adore The Age of Insight: The...
View ArticleThink, Make, Look
The Invention of CraftBy Glenn AdamsonBloomsbury, $30 paperGlenn Adamson wants you to think differently about craft. His previous text, Thinking Through Craft, examined the “constructed inferiority” of...
View ArticleFive Questions with Teresa Tjepkes
Today's interview is with Teresa Tjepkes, archives intern at the American Craft Council Library.What is your favorite/most-read art or craft book in your personal collection? I most often consult the...
View ArticleAt Home with the Spirits
In the course of researching and writing 19 books, Isabel Allende has roamed from the porn shops of San Francisco’s Castro District (Aphrodite) to the heart of the Amazon (City of the Beasts), and...
View ArticleModernism in Motion
A sinuous necklace of sterling silver and semi-precious stones, made around 1958 by modernist jeweler Art Smith (1917 – 1982), is among the treasures of the renowned Daphne Farago Collection of studio...
View ArticleAssume Nothing
Wear a necklace made out of snake vertebrae or a brooch formed of chewed gum, and you may get lots of puzzled stares – because when most people think of jewelry, diamonds and pearls spring to mind. The...
View ArticleRiffing On a Theme
New Earrings 500+ Designs from Around the World By Nicolas Estrada Thames & Hudson, $30Showcase 500: Art Necklaces By Ray Hemachandra and Chunghi Choo Lark Jewelry & Beading, $28What’s more...
View ArticleValue Proposition
I’m an official member of the middle class, but you might not know it from my wedding ring. It’s made of some quotient of yellow gold with two tiny (and I mean tiny) diamond chips. It has a little...
View ArticleCraftboston Holiday 2013
Wrap up your holiday shopping at Craftboston Holiday, showcasing 175 contemporary craft artists at the Hynes Convention Center. Conveniently located in the Back Bay’s fashionable shopping district,...
View ArticleArt Jewelry Forum: Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, East Coast Tour
Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) announces the schedule of speaking engagements, book signings, and receptions organized in support of their book Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, the organization’s most...
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