The Week in Craft: September 14, 2016
The Week in Craft: September 14, 2016
Chilean fiber artist Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia creates lovely textured and colorful wall pieces reminiscent of organic molecules. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
See beautiful hand-sewn networks of molecules from Chilean artist Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia.
Read a lovely write-up on the facilities and camaraderie to be found at UrbanGlass in the New York Times this month.
ACC is excited to celebrate our 2016 College of Fellows awardees this year, as part of our conference in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday, October 14. Join us for an evening learning about and honoring a dynamic group of makers, scholars, and craft supporters. A complimentary ticket comes with conference registration.
Jerry Saltz, reviewing a New Museum show, takes aim at art history's influence today. "Our idea of art history is dead already; it just doesn't know it. Its terms are so specialized and vague they're only useful to those in the know."
Creativity is not uniform throughout the United States, says the Washington Post. And they have a map as evidence.
Alexa Meade invented a technique that makes people look as if they reside in paintings.
Craft in America's "Teachers" episode highlights the work of talented craft educators from across the US and premieres September 15 on PBS (check your local listings).
Watch as potter Daniel Johnston and his crew make 10 pots in two minutes.
Jsssjs Product Design is the artist behind BLOOM, a knitted surface that regulates acoustic issues in large spaces by opening and closing to provide the right amount of sound absorption when it is needed.
Zemer Peled combines hundreds of ceramic shards to create sculptures that resemble waves of motion flowing around her sculptures.
The American Art Museum is offering a day-long symposium dedicated to the changing field of studio furniture. "The Maloof Symposium: Furniture and the Future" will take place on Friday, September 16, and will feature lectures, discussion, and a webcast (free registration).
If you’re in Minneapolis, don’t miss our first ACC Library Salon Series event of the fall! Tonight (event starts at 7 p.m.) we’ll be hearing from local Minnesota ceramist Anna Metcalfe and Minnesota beekeeper, and activist Kristy Lynn Allen, of the Beez Kneez, about their ceramics and pollination collaboration. Bee there or bee square.
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