What's New? Feb 18 Newsletter

Freya Jobbins - Toy Parts

Freya creates her original and detailed assemblage by using a non-traditional sculptural material:  plastic doll parts and toys. She utilizes miscellaneous pieces of dolls and toys to create remarkable humanoid assemblages of faces, heads and larger busts.

Three US Craft Centers are generously opening their doors in 2014 for a crafthaus member to attend one of their classes on a scholarship. Take a look at the wonderful programs each school offers and apply !

Deadline for all: March 15, 2014.

No entry fee. This is a crafthaus membership benefit!

 

 

 

Arrowmont / Crafthaus Workshop Scholarship

Peters Valley / Crafthaus Workshop Scholarship

Touchstone / Crafthaus Workshop Scholarship

 

 

 

 

 Please welcome our newest crafthaus members:

Dawn Raines, Austin, TX

Jean-Marc Gladu, Montebello, Quebec, Canada

Louise Fisher, Oak Grove, OR

Paul Arben Cauthen Jr., Denton, TX

 

Jay Watson, UK: Re-Inventions

Jay Watson is an independent designer-maker with a passion for exploring material, light and technology with a playful social commentary. After extensive experience in the furniture manufacturing sector, Jay founded his own design studio in 2006 in a former blanket mill factory in Oxfordshire, where he produces his collection of inventive designs and works to special commission.

New blog posts by Parker Erich Brown the 2014 SNAG /crafthaus scholarship recipient:

- The Kunst Schott von Hellingen Breastplate Part I

One of the most commonly posed questions I receive is, “how do you make a piece of armour?” This simple question is neither easily nor readily answered. Like so many craft disciplines, armoursmithing is a technically driven process.  Each step in the piece’s creation is dependant on another.  However, as my blog audience, I will endeavor to walk you through a project currently underway for a client so a better understanding of that basic question can be given!

- The Kunst Schott von Hellengen Breastplate Part II

The first step of any armour production process is research.  As you have read in the previous post, I have a good historical knowledge of the original piece.  Unfortunately, the only photo I had accessed was a grainy black and white image taken in 1960.

- The Kunst Schott von Hellengen Breastplate Part III

Once a good illustration is made, I then need to match the image with the measurements.  Breastplates of the period are actually made of five different parts: the breastplate, the shoulder lames, the plackard, the fauld and the tassets.  Each of these components must build off of the breastplate.  A lot of designers and amateur armourers tend to over size and over accentuate the breastplate because of its instinctive importance.  This piece of metal protects most of the vital organs and, with the exception of the head, is one of the most vulnerable parts of the human body.

Call for Artists: Beyond Boundries: Wood Art for the 21st Century

The Collectors of Wood Art (CWA) announces Beyond Boundries: Wood Art for the 21st Century, a curated exhibition of contemporary art in wood, to be on display at SOFA Chicago October 30 - November 2, 2014.

The exhibit will be curated by Emily Zilber, the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Exhibition will display a wide range of contemporary art and design, by artists currently working with wood. The curator will select the participants and work to be included in the exhibition.

Call for Artists: HARVEST

A Harvest used to describe a traditional method of collecting ripened foods and crops, on small independent farms often managed by the family.  Today, with mechanized farming and modern industrial agriculture, the word harvest is almost redundant.  We are less connected to the land and less in touch with the seasons as most foods are available year round.  So what does “Harvest" mean in today’s world?  Is there a new context for this word? Does it have a place in the world of ideas, business and commerce or any other modern activity?

The works selected for this exhibition offer an interpretation of the traditional understanding of Harvest, a more modern take on the idea, or the juxtaposition of the two.

This crafthaus online exhibition is looking for craft work in all media.

Call for Artists: Play That Funky Music !

You hear a piece of music and it sends you back in time. Suddenly, you remember situations, sights, smells and certain people as if it happened yesterday.
What is the relationship between music and craft? Are there craft pieces that relate to favorite songs? How about a vase made while listening to opera? A table inspired by hard rock? Footwear to go with Lady Gaga? What are the lyrics that draw you in and inspire you to create?

This crafthaus online exhibition is looking for craft work in all media relating to music in all its forms.

More calls on crafthaus ....

 

Pam Stern - Ceramic Sculpture

I have been making art of some kind since I was very small. When I was growing up there was a sculpture of a magician on our piano and that image has stayed with me throughout the years. I finally used that image on a stoneware violin I created. My father played the violin and my mother played the piano. I was not musical so I expressed my creativity by drawing all over everything in the house.

 

 

Tapestry of Talents: Bringing Your Whole Voice to Your Craft

- Blog post by John Lunn

"I could while away the hours..."

In my last post, I described how I was taken aback by an unbelievably high IQ test result and spent a couple of days figuring out what it might portent. In the end, it didn’t really signify anything because “I yam what I yam” as the sailor bard once said. But it reshaped the thinking I’d already been doing about fulfilling potential in the final quarter of my life.

I’m not as concerned about the bucket list of adventures and unmet markers like hang gliding down the Amazon or eating supper at the Taj Mahal. My questions ask if I have given back as much as I have reaped. Do I have an unfulfilled reach that is within my grasp? Will I leave this world any better for my having stood here? The momentary shock that my intellect might be much higher than I’d ever given it credit for added a new dimension to my questions.

Sadie Brockbank - Mixed Media Sculpture

While growing up paper, paints, glue and scissors were always readily available. This kind of mess wasn’t mess. It was absolutely allowed and encouraged, and as a result, my brother and I were often to be found in the kitchen, either on or under the table, busy making and drawing. I think this is why I feel a strong connection between the creative processes that I am now engaged in and with my early experiences of play. Indeed, playfulness itself is a prerequisite - a tool for exploration.

Tedd Lott - Woodworks

Sculptural practices are at once defined and restrained by their connections to tradition. When viewing woodworking in the context of objects made with wood; housing, particularly stick frame construction, emerges as possibly the most widespread use of the material throughout the modern world. Utilizing these techniques in a studio based practice, it is my hope to further the conversation on how notions of production fit into the world of contemporary art.

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