What's New? June 6 Newsletter

Valerie Hegarty - Artful Destruction

For Valerie Hegarty, the joy of her work lies in its destruction rather than its making. Centring her practice on the politics of the American myth, Hegarty’s canvases and sculptures replicate emblems of frontier ethos - colonial furniture, antique dishware, and heroic paintings of landscapes and national figures only to demolish them by devices associated with their historical significance.

Carréducker, UK - Bespoke Shoes

"Our bespoke service starts with a conversation with you, the client. We want to know about your personal style and what you like and do not like. After taking your feet measurements and an imprint, we then advise you on the most flattering and comfortable toe shapes your feet. Once the toe shape and heel height are decided, our expert last makers create a pair of lasts tailored to your feet. (These are the wooden block that the shoes are made on)."

ECA Degree Show, 2014 - The O-Pin Project Gallery Launch

Posted by The Justified Sinner

What a hectic week! Not only have I managed to finish my "20000 Leagues" piece, but I've started on some different work, have been dealing with my own students who are preparing for their own shows and have also managed to get to the Edinburgh College of Art Jewellery and Silversmithing degree show AND follow up on the interesting "O-Pin" project from Glasgow School of Art's last degree show...

Call: Artists-in-Residence at New Mexico State University

Deadline: July 1, 2014

  • Jewelry Design I & II - Adjunct Instructor @ Community College of Aurora, Aurora, CO
  • Academic Program Coordinator of Furniture Design @ Savannah College of Art and Design
  • Assistant Professor of Art & Design/Ceramics @ Vincennes University
  • Adjunct Instructor Pool For Metalsmithing @ University of Alaska
  • Administrative Assistant For The Chair of Jewelry @ Savannah College of Art and Design
  • Instructional Support Technician in Industrial Design and Fabrication Department, New Paltz
  • Blacksmithing Opportunity at Peters Valley School of Craft
  • Curator of Exhibitions, Red Lodge Clay Center

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Finding Creative Communion at Touchstone

Posted by Patsy Kay Kolesar , 2014 Touchstone Center for Craft Scholarship Recipient

I spent 9 hours on a train yesterday thinking about my experience at Touchstone and specifically thinking about how Touchstone added creative communion to my life...  

The place itself is magic.  I wasn’t expecting it to be so remote even though I knew there were no buses that went to this area.  I’ve been living right downtown in the west end of Vancouver for over 10 years now.  I’m a little city and it usually takes me some time to decompress when I get out of the city.  Touchstone is one of those places that makes me stand still instantly and be greatly appreciative of the moment I'm in.

Magdalena Bors - Remnants & Photography

My practice to date has predominantly explored the idea of the sublime in the everyday. I have done this by constructing, then photographing fantastical landscapes in domestic spaces. Our connection with the natural world is the driving force behind my work. I am fascinated by the simultaneous strength and fragility of this connection as we go about our lives, spending most of our time within the confines of the small compartments we call home.​

Mexico City – Joyaviva Opening

To continue on from my last blog post, I recently returned from Mexico City, where I was proud to be a part of the opening for the long-travelling charm exhibition Joyaviva (or re-opening, as the case may be), at the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares in Coyoacán. Opening speeches were delivered by by Tim George, the Australian Ambassador to Mexico, museum director Rodolfo Rodríguez Castañeda, Martacarmela Sotelo, one of the participating Mexican artists as well as the exhibition’s curator Dr Kevin Murray. As all of the speeches were in Spanish I assume that people only said nice things.

Jennifer Merchant "Acrylic and Gold Beveled Hoops"

There's an undeniably pleasing ripeness to gold. More so when it's the dull, buttery lure of a high carat. There's a bluntness to it as it gets closer to its quintessential, unmodified purity. The desire it incites has a gluttonous quality, as if anyone should have so much of such a thing. Floating thin wafers of gold between clear acrylic has a sort of redemptive quality. Not too much of a good thing. Not so much that you question your motives. Admirable moderation in the form of fat, luscious hoops hanging low, but not loaded with quite as much baggage.

--Jillian Moore

 

Peter Gronquist - Sculpture

In his signature taxidermy sculptures, Gronquist pairs animals with assault weapons, creating a juxtaposition of the innocent and the aggressor. The works offer a smart and timely critique of gun culture, even as they seem to present a dual message that’s part empowering and part destructive.


Seems that message is here to stay with us for the foreseeable future.

How is Jewelry Selected for a Museum Collection?

Posted by Harriete Estel Berman

This question has always intrigued me. I am always looking for answers. When I noticed that my bracelet was posted as the Crafthaus Mastead Image, the question surfaced again. That is because the bracelet is in the Permanent Collection of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA.

New Video:

Kiel Johnson's Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera Time Lapse

Time Lapse Video of Kiel Johnson's Cardboard Sculpture of a Twin Lens Reflex Camera made strictly from cardboard, hot glue, and tape.

The last word....

The Lullaby Factory

The Lullaby Factory is an intervention by Studio Weave which makes the best of a bad situation: a recently designed building at Great Ormond Street Childrens’ Hospital, the Morgan Stanley Clinical Building, was designed to look onto an open space – a view which, thanks to the hospital’s phasing of developments, will be obstructed by the Southwood Building for another 15 years.

In the intervening time, something had to be done about the view onto the narrow alleyway and industrial facade of the Southwood Building. Studio Weave re-imagined the building, covered in pipework, as a fantastical factory, manufacturing lullabies for the children staying in the hospital.

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