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The Week in Craft: August 23, 2017

Your weekly dose of links about craft, art, design, and whatever else we’re excited about sharing

The Week in Craft: August 23, 2017

Your weekly dose of links about craft, art, design, and whatever else we’re excited about sharing
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Roberto Benavidez The Garden of Earthly Delights Pinatas

Artist Roberto Benavidez recreates large-scale pinata versions from the characters in Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights."

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Artist Roberto Benavidez recreates the infamous capering figures from Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights as sculptural piñatas.

Jessica Metcalfe went to her hometown (population 29) on a reservation in North Dakota to promote Native American fashion designers like her.

Here's a quilt by Carol Bryer Fallert in honor of this week's solar eclipse.

The New Yorker highlights the lovely and intricate embroidery that makes up much of the exquisite costuming on HBO’s hit TV drama, Game of Thrones.

Get lost in this time-lapse video of cross-sectional photographic scans of pieces of wood.

The Knotty Knitters of Ottawa, Canada, are knitting a 13 x 17 ft. Canadian flag to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary.

It's a factory! No, it's an installation! The Tate Modern is hosting a working ceramics factory, the project of ceramist Clare Twomey.

We're swooning over Mary Jo Hoffman's Still blog, where she posts one mesmerizing photo a day of natural objects she gleans from her surroundings.

Last year, Prince dominated the highly competitive seed art scene at the Minnesota State Fair. Who will be this year's most featured pop figure? Find out when the fair opens later this week.

She was known as the Witch of Fox Point, and now the John Michael Kohler Art Center is restoring the home of eccentric Wisconsin artist Mary Nohl.

CFile recently launched a new podcast featuring conversations with ceramics critic Garth Clark.

Annabeth Rosen's first major survey has just opened in Houston. Her work is full of references to other West Coast ceramists.

Military quilting is getting its first exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York in September: an exhibit of rare quilts made by soldiers.

Albert LeCoff, co-founder of the Center for Art Wood (then the Wood Turning Center), stepped down as executive director of the organization after 31 years of service.

MT Liggett died on August 17 at 86. He spent years lining his property in western Kansas with miles of scrap-metal art, which often served as a vehicle for his blunt opinions on local adn national politics.

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