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  • Dorothy Saxe sitting with some of her craft collection. BUST: Robert Arneson, A Hollow Jesture, 1971, glazed ceramic, 20.25 x 12.5 x 14 in.  NECKLACE: Pal and Lumi Kepenyes, untitled necklace, ca. 1985, brass, 11 x 4.5 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of Craig Lee/The Examiner.

    The Consummate Collector

    Along with her late husband George, Dorothy Saxe built friendships with artists while collecting their work. At age 97, she reflects on her love of craft.
  • Tyrrell Tapaha weaving. Photo courtesy of Bill Hatcher.

    The Queue: Tyrrell Tapaha

    Tyrrell Tapaha entwines elements of agro-pastoral living and Diné weaving into dazzling textiles. In The Queue, the Flagstaff, Arizona–based sheepherder and fiber artist shares about their free-flowing process, their cherished tools, and a new exhibition on Diné textiles in Santa Fe.

  • Portrait of Jim Melchert. Photo: Michael Malinski

    Remembering: Jim Melchert

    We remember ACC Honorary Fellow Jim Melchert, a beloved educator in the Bay Area and an artist renowned for his experimental approach to ceramics as a material and other media. He died on June 1, 2023 at the age of 92.
  • Marjorie Schick's Necklace, 1993, painted papier-mâché, 18.75 x 20.25 x 4.5 in.

    Wild at Heart

    For this issue, the Crafty Librarian dove into the nearly 4,000 artist files in the ACC Library & Archives and discovered that these two artists in particular spent their careers developing and showing their wild sides.
  • A pile of Elle Barbeito’s belts made from vegetable-tanned leather, Burmese python skin, waxed cotton thread, and vintage buckles.

    Second Skins

    Elle Barbeito transforms the skins of invasive Burmese pythons into materials for furniture and fashion. The first time she skinned a Burmese python, she made each move carefully. “Layer by layer, I could see all the connections within it. It was fascinating, and a little gross, but also really beautiful at the same time.”
  • Buyers attend a Bonhams auction in London.

    The Hammer Price

    Last July in Los Angeles, a stoneware vessel depicting Popeye the Sailor Man, made in 1987 by artists Magdalena and Michael Frimkess, sold at a Bonhams auction for $65,895. Everyone was shocked, especially the auctioneer. “That was several times the estimated range,” says Jason Stein, Bonhams’s director of Modern Decorative Art and Design. “In the early ’90s, when I got my start, it would have sold in the low thousands or even upper hundreds.”
  • Alison Elizabeth Taylor marquetry hybrid titled The Residency, 2022.

    The Queue: Alison Elizabeth Taylor

    Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s marquetry hybrid panels depict desert and city life in wood, paint, and collage. In The Queue, the Brooklyn-based artist shares about her process, the layered music she turns to for inspiration, and the historical painting exhibitions she’s looking forward to this fall.

  • Metal work by So Young Park titled Moon Wings.

    Fantastical Microcosms

    While hiking in the desert earlier this year, So Young Park found the creative jolt for her metalsmithing in glass. While visiting Boston in the early 2000s, the artist saw the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, a display of famed models of cut flowers and leaves so scientifically accurate they were originally studied in botany classes. Park was especially struck by the cross sections and isolated views of plant parts, from ovaries to stamens, that revealed otherwise hidden geometries.
  • Jack Earl portrait 1971

    Remembering: Jack Earl

    Ohio ceramic artist and ACC Fellow Jack Earl died on June 17, 2023 at the age of 88. He was known for his figurative porcelain work, equally philosophical and whimsical, that reflected his outlook growing up and living in the Midwest.
  • Flower prototypes made with a CNC milling machine.

    The Queue: Zahra Almajidi

    Zahra Almajidi’s jewelry entices, then challenges, viewers and wearers. In The Queue, the Detroit-based metalsmith shares the unusual textures that drew her into the wild world of jewelry, her favorite tools, and a project that attempts to tackle jewelry’s waste problems.

  • A person sitting at a weave.

    Dazzling Pictorials

    Tyrrell Tapaha sits in front of a large Navajo loom in their living room, building up a section of woven lightning; the weaving comb packs the wefts in meditative rhythm.
  • Image of British textile artist Alice Fox gathered, dried, braided, and stitched long dandelion stems into cloth.

    Origin Stories

    While hiking in the desert earlier this year, I found a perfect little cube of charcoal in the middle of my path. It stood out against the sandy ground, a deep rich black in stark contrast to the golden-brown surrounding it. I picked it up and examined its shape and texture, waffling about whether I should carry it with me in my palm or put it in one of my pockets, potentially crushing it and having charcoal dust settle into the seams.
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