The Week in Craft: October 17, 2018
Your weekly dose of links about craft, art, design, and whatever else we’re excited about sharing
The Week in Craft: October 17, 2018
Kate Hughes uses etching and photography techniques to create prints on delicate lingerie, commenting on the intimacy of place and the relationship between landscape and the body.
Courtesy of the artistAustralian artist Kate Hughes combines textiles, etching, and photography in her lovely, intimate pieces.
We're thrilled to announce our new collaboration with Amazon Handmade: Visit our Maker Pop-Up Shop featuring a curated selection of ACC show artists’ work for the 2018 holiday season.
The New York Times reports on the 2018 fashion season’s wonderfully diverse representation on the runway, but there’s still a ways to go to extend that diversity out to behind-the-scenes power figures.
Plans progress for a new Statue of Liberty to be placed at the US and Mexico border. Designer and artist Jim Bliesner hopes “it provokes dialogue… and [hopes] that it reminds people that migrants are human beings.”
Hyperallergic just shared the complete 2016 interview they did with renowned feminist art historian Linda Nochlin, who died in 2017.
The 72nd Street B/C subway station on New York’s Upper West Side has reopened with a series of six ethereal ceramic mosaics designed by Yoko Ono.
Seagrove, North Carolina, proves to be an inspiring area for ceramists with its more than 85 pottery studios.
Lauren Ko is taking the art of baking to a new level with her "perfect geometric pies."
"Hugh Hayden: Border States" explores notions of assimilation and acceptance in sculptures of wood that's indigenous to the United States and Mexico border. The show is on view at Lisson Gallery in New York City through October 27. Even if you can't make it to the show in person, you can watch the artist discuss the work in an online video.
Work by artists of the Appalachian Center for Craft will be exhibited at SOFA Chicago November 1 – 4. Scholar Janet Koplos has interesting insights about the show.
The Renwick Gallery, part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, will present the exhibition “Disrupting Craft,” which explores how four artists are using their practices to “challenge the conventional definitions of craft [and imbue it] with a renewed sense of emotional purpose, inclusiveness, and activism." The exhibition will be on view November 9, 2018, through May 5, 2019.
