What's New? April 29 Newsletter

Originally a ceramicist, I am developing a new body of jewellery that combines luxurious porcelain and bone china with precious and base metals, but removes the formality of the materials so they simply drip with the desire of momentary self-indulgence.
My work is informed by the recurring themes of sex and food and the instant gratification of covetous confectionary sits against the inherent value of the materials I use. In this age of austerity we must look to the humble things that make us happy, and we must celebrate them with reckless abandon.
I aim to draw attention to the little things that tempt us and glamorize the simple pleasures in life.

Sugar free, fat free, but completely indulgent!

https://campaign.triumph.com/uk/profiles/rebecca-wilson

Please welcome our newest crafthaus members:

Andrea Ring, Kansas City, MO

Chanda Glendinning, Lake Worth, FL

Danielle Jacobs, Erie, PA

Juan Fried Ortiz de Zarate, Minneapolis, MN

Kathleen Edwards Hayslett, Iowa City, IA

Linda Threadgill, Santa Fe, NM

Max i Evins, Altea, SPAIN

The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) is pleased to announce the sneak preview of the newest episode, Industry: Handmade in the Creative Economy, from the award winning series Craft in America. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the owners, artists, and technicians from local featured textile industry, The Oriole Mill.

Craft in America: Industry explores the business of the handmade, taking us to workshops where artists are crafting the future and making contributions to the local and national economies. Industry highlights the important connection between the consumer and the maker and explores the value of exquisitely crafted handmade objects in today’s creative economy.  Continue reading ...

Zoe Arnold - The Poetic and the Macabre

Zoe Arnold’s evocative jewels are as much individual works of art as they are wearable sculpture, exploring the poetic and the macabre in the form of both illustrative and sometimes obscure treasures. Continue reading ...

Call for Artists: A Midsummer Day's Dream

ALL ARTISTS (Crafthaus members OR not) are invited to submit to our 10th online show hosted by Crafthaus.com,"A Midsummer Day's Dream" Some ideas-garden furniture, hammock, serving cart, mosaics, or murals. Also garden accessories, such as an outdoor sculptures, obelisk, water fountain, birdbath, birdhouse, trellis, planters, outdoor rug, cushions, fire pit, barbecue & garden tools… Work in ALL MEDIA is encouraged. There is NO submission fee. 

Full information....

Spring At Last

- blog by Dauvit Alexander

Since my last post, spring can definitely be said to have arrived and the Easter break saw sunshine all day and every day except the last. It is great to be seeing the sky still slightly light at 9pm and to feel the warmth in the sun.

I visited the city of York for the first time over Easter, an amazing place still retaining a lot of mediaeval features such as a largely-intact city wall with defensive gates. Continue reading ...

Niche Awards - Call for entries

Join Simon Levin at Peters Valley School of Craft

Exposed Clay: Making Work for the Anagama on July 25-28 & Firing the Peters Valley Anagama on July 29-August 5, unloading August 10. Wood firing has truth ~ The process can be used to reveal & evoke information. In this workshop you will be playing, experimenting, testing & learning about raw materials in form and function. www.petersvalley.org/html/ceramics.cfm

I went to: Richmond!

- blog by Melissa Cameron

So I shipped out of Asheville on Tuesday evening (the 18th of Feb) and flew into Richmond. I was invited to Virginia Commonwealth University by metals professor Susie Ganch to be an artist-in-residence for the beginning of the ten-year anniversary edition of the Radical Jewelry Makeover project. Again this entailed a lecture and one-on-one meetings, (as a guest of the Craft and Material Studies area of VCU Arts I spoke with artists from across the crafts – admittedly though mostly metals folks) and this time some studio time too.

After some crit sessions on Thursday morning I gave my new lecture. I was a lot more confident than the first time, which improved my volume – a problem in Kent. I then joined the students in Susie’s afternoon class to make some jewellery for the Radical Jewelry Makeover project, after a brief lecture on my process and material choices to this class.

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In a state of Jazz

- blog by John Lunn

Time to shift gears away from science and into music. I play jazz flute and piano and when I read this interview with Branford Marsalis  (sax player who led the Tonight Show band for Jay Leno), it connected with some thoughts I’ve been mulling over about the metal art world.  I’ll start with the excerpt and comment at the bottom:

“You put on old records and they always sound better. Why are they better? I started listening to a lot of classical music, and that really solidified the idea that the most important and the strongest element of music is the melodic content. In jazz we spend a lot of time talking about harmony. Harmonic music tends to be very insular. It tends to be [like] you're in the private club with a secret handshake.
I have a lot of normal friends. 'Cause it's important. [When] you have a bunch of musicians talking about music and they talk about what's good and what's not good, they don't consider the larger context of it.
You read a review of something and some guy in New York says "This is the most important music since such and such." And then when you look at it in a larger context, you say, "Well, can we really use the word 'important' for something that the majority of the people have never heard?"

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The Last Word:

Guda Koster - Living Sculpture

I make installations, sculptures and photographs in which clothing plays an important part. Clothing doesn't just have a function but also conveys a message. In our everyday lives we communicate identity and social position primarily by means of our clothing. Clothing can be seen as a visual art form that expresses the way we see ourselves and our relationship with the world around us. Continue reading ...

 

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