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The Week in Craft: February 21, 2018

The Week in Craft is your weekly dose of links about craft, art, design, and whatever else we’re excited about sharing.

The Week in Craft: February 21, 2018

The Week in Craft is your weekly dose of links about craft, art, design, and whatever else we’re excited about sharing.
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James Brunt, Leaf Circle

Artist James Brunt creates stunning, ephemeral land art.

Courtesy of the artist

If you find yourself in Baltimore this weekend, you won’t want to miss our annual American Craft Show at the Baltimore Convention Center. Shop more than 650 artists and check out special programming such as Make Room, Let’s Make, Style Slam, and The Balvenie Lounge.

Ephemeral land art is making a comeback these days. Yorkshire-based artist James Brunt contributes his own public sculptures to this global conversation around the environment and the everyday.

Ancient rock carvings of camels have been discovered in Saudi Arabia, in what archaeologists are calling an unprecedented group of rock art. The carvings depict about a dozen life-size dromedaries and equids that date back about 2,000 years, according to a study published in the Cambridge journal Antiquity, via Hyperallergic.  

Goodness gracious! Someone stole the thumb of a terra-cotta warrior on view at the Franklin Institute.

Artists, curators, and government officials grappled with the term “sanctuary” within the constructs of the current political administration's immigrant policies in a keynote panel, “Towards Sanctuary Summits,” held at the New School on February 15.

We're overcome by Claudia Fontes' porcelain sculptures of figures overtaken by nature.

Game of Thrones mania has now extended to a Finnish ice hotel.

"Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly" is on view at the Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska, through February 24. If you can't make it there in person, this recent review by Jillian Steinhauer will give you a great overview of the show.

Artist Karen Hampton, currently the artist-in-residence for Critical Race Studies at the University of Michigan, opened her solo exhibition, "Water Puerto Rico......Flint a Human Right" at MSU Union Art Gallery. The exhibition runs through March 23, 2018.

He can’t let it go: Once again President Trump threatens to dismantle the National Endowment for the Arts in his proposed 2019 budget.

ACC announced that Sarah Schultz is its new executive director. Schultz will officially begin her new role on April 2.

There's something charming about Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber's take on the apocalypse. You can read more about the duo's intricate dioramas in American Craft's December/January 2018 issue.

 

 

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