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Scrapbook, a new occasional posting, will feature reader-contributed photos of craft events of general interest. Click on the heading to see larger image and caption.

Send your digital image and caption information to letters@craftcouncil.org, with Scrapbook in the subject line. We must reserve the right to select for appropriateness and interest.

The Metal Museum—officially the National Ornamental Metal Museum—was founded by Jim Wallace in Memphis in 1976. It’s an achievement in itself to pull off the establishment and continuation of a museum, but the Metal Museum has come up with a beautiful three-acre site overlooking the Mississippi, using several historic buildings associated with a landmarked late 19th-century military hospital, now derelict but perhaps to become residential condos.

The biggest and most joyous craft event of the year is staged every September on a gigantic playa, a clay lakebed over 30,000 years old, in the middle of Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada. This is the site of the Burning Man festival (Aug. 31-Sept. 7, 2009). I have wanted to attend for 10 years. Having regularly read about it and discussed it with veteran “burners,” I thought I had a good idea of what to expect. But it was a hundred times more than I imagined. It cannot be fully explained; it can only be experienced. Here is a snapshot.

Tony Marsh: New Work

Frank Lloyd Gallery
Santa Monica, CA
Sept.5-Oct. 3, 2009