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The Week in Craft: July 5, 2017

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: July 5, 2017

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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Head 18 by Edwige Massart and Xavier Wynn

Edwige Massart and Xavier Wynn, Head 18, 2016, found objects, polyform clay, acrylic paints, gold/silver/bronze gilding and resin,  8 x 11 x .375 in. 

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Edwige Massart and Xavier Wynn create wondrous cross-sectional heads full of found objects.

The Clio Art Fair, which promotes emerging artists who don't have gallery representation, has added an October event in New York City.

Is cultural appropriation ever OK? No, says an NPR commentator.

"99 Cents or Less" is a new show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit comprising work made only from materials found at dollar stores.

Avocados have reached a new level of hipsterdom in the hands of carvers (deemed avo-artists) throughout the world. 

Want to present at the 2018 SNAG conference in Portland? Proposals for "MADE: Makers Across Disciplines Engage" are due July 31.

An exhibition of Sabrina Gschwandtner's 16-mm-film quilts caught the attention of the LA Times.

Sketchbooks are amazingly intimate records of artistic thinking. This library has tens of thousands of them from around the world.

Interested in glass? The Washington Glass School's blog was just named a standout. 

Did you know Minnesota is rich with folk schools that teach traditional crafts like woodcarving and shoemaking?

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