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The Week in Craft: September 20, 2017

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

The Week in Craft: September 20, 2017

Your weekly dose of links about craft, art, design, and whatever else we’re excited about sharing
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Amy Roper Lyons Women's Work #1

Amy Roper Lyons' Women's Work #1 is one of many pieces included in the exhibition celebrating the history of silversmithing in New York.

Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York

We are mesmerized by these videos of traditional Japanese potter Abe Haruya at work.

Not only can you stay in some pretty fabulous homes in some far-out cities, but now Airbnb offers making experiences in some of these spectacular places.

Ai Weiwei opens up about his own status as a migrant and exile with the release of a documentary about the worldwide refugee crisis. Human Flow will be released in the US on October 13.

Jasper Johns' pastoral surroundings will become an artists' retreat after he dies, Artnet reports.

It's true for the performing arts, and it may be true for other sorts of art enjoyed with others: Art creates big changes in the brain.

Here's a Q&A with acclaimed furniture maker (and ACC trustee) Wendy Maruyama about "The Wildlife Project," a forthcoming exhibition of her work.

The fashion network M2M has a new series of videos out on creative professionals – architects, photographers, artists – and their processes.

A haunting new exhibition at the University of Kansas takes its name from the heartless question too many rape victims hear: "What Were You Wearing?"

Raubdruckerin, an experimental printmaking project based in Berlin, inks up manhole covers, rail tracks, and other intriguing urban features from throughout the world to decorate T-shirts, tote bags, and hoodies.   

We learned there are a surprising number of Minnesotans graduating from the arts and humanities MFA program at the University of Dundee in Scotland this November.

"New York Silver: Then & Now," curated by Jeannine Falino, opened in June and continues through June of 2018. But on September 26, there will be a panel discussion featuring Preston Jones, Ted Muehling, and ACC Fellow Myra Mimlitsch-Gray at the Museum of the City of New York.

The Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota celebrates Jack Lenor Larsen’s 90th birthday with “Jack Lenor Larsen at 90: Transformations By A Textile Innovator,” an exhibition opening September 23 and curated by Stephanie Zollinger.

Fiber artist Sheila Pepe is on fire with exhibitions this fall. Check out her work in “Near and Dear” at the ERA Project Space in New York and “Hot Mess Formalism” at the Phoenix Art Museum. The latter will travel to the Everson Museum of Art in February 2018 and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts this coming summer.

Calling all LA makers, designers, and creatives: Neptune Glassworks invites you to stop by their Design Night party this Thursday, September 21, at 8 p.m. The recurring event features process demos, cocktails, and a bunch of people to talk shop with.

 

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