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The Week in Craft: November 14, 2018

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

The Week in Craft: November 14, 2018

Your weekly dose of links about craft, art, design, and whatever else we’re excited about sharing
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David Oliva and Anna Junca, Origami Lava

For the 2018 LLUÈRNIA festival in the Spanish region of Catalonia, David Oliva and Anna Junca teamed up to create an incredible lava flow entirely from paper origami. 

David Oliva

A little warmth during this unreasonably cold November: David Oliva of SP25 Arquitectura and Anna Juncá of Atelier 4 combined forces to create an amazing installation as part of LLUÈRNIA, the Catalonian festival of light and fire. This spectacular lava flow is made up of thousands of origami fortune teller figures.

Mary Ceruti was named as the Walker Art Center's new executive director.

Don’t forget to join us tonight at the ACC Library for a free screening of the film J. Fred Woell: An American Vision at 7 p.m.

During the whirlwind of holiday shopping, Kari Maxwell gets real with her post about the various ways to support artists – both with your money and without.

Speaking of shopping and supporting artists this holiday season, don't miss ACC's holiday Craft Bash on December 1 or the Decked Out preview party the night before.

Learn about Bay Area textile artist Stephanie Syjuco (an ACC trustee), who explores "the tension between the authentic and the counterfeit" to "challenge deep-seated assumptions about history, race, and labor" in a recent episode of Art21

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, Google celebrated the life and work of woodcarver Amanda Crowe through its Google Doodle last week. Crowe is often credited with restoring interest in and appreciation for Cherokee carving.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science brings to life 17th-century collector Ferrante Imperato’s “cabinet of curiosities” that he describes in detail in his 1599 catalogue Dell’Historia Naturale.

The Center for Craft is accepting applications for its 2020 Curatorial Fellowship program. The deadline to apply is February 8, 2019.

We're hiring! We have positions open for a show operations assistant, a development associate, and a marketing coordinator.

 

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