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The Week in Craft: March 22, 2017

The Week in Craft: March 22, 2017

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Joshua Smith 23 Temple Street

Joshua Smith's 23 Temple Street is a 1:20 scale model of a decaying building in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Follow the artist on Instagram for more.

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Joshua Smith’s 1:20 scale models of decaying urban buildings celebrate the grit of modern cities.

Check out the unconventional clothing design of Yoshiyuki Minami, one of the resident artists at the Museum of Arts and Design.

Feast your eyes on Doug Herren's pop-industrial ceramics, now on display at Peters Projects in Santa Fe.

The battle never ends: LA Times art critic Christopher Knight shares a little history on the NEA's fight for life since its 1965 founding.

Here's how other creative types responded to the Trump administration's proposed defunding of the NEA.

Penland School of Crafts announced four new resident artists.

Nobody likes billboards, right? Unless they are billboards designed by Jennifer Bolande to show blocked landscapes near Palm Springs, California.

This Louisville hotel offers contemporary art along with guest rooms. And it might be a trend.

For 20 years, Fine Cell Work has trained British prison inmates in sewing, embroidery, and quilting. The program has a rehabilitative effect.

Need a gift idea for someone you don't really like? How about one of these wildly inconvenient artist-made objects?

For his new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Theaster Gates is making works from salvaged materials from the slate roof of an abandoned church, the floor of a high school gymnasium, and a shoeshine stand.

Enjoy a tour of the Bullseye Glass Co. factory.

Molly Evans Fox created a street embroidery project in Milwaukee celebrating the lyrics of Lionel Ritchie.

These neckties, made from synthetic spider silk, are "stronger than steel."

Last week, the Somali Museum of Minnesota accepted the Innovation Award at the 2017 International Somali Awards in London for the museum's work preserving the Somali culture, partially through traditional arts and crafts. The organization is holding a fundraiser at the American Swedish Institute on March 28 in Minneapolis. 

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