What's New? March 11 Newsletter

“I went to the Yuma Art Symposium and all I got was this life changing experience”

- blog by Danielle James

As the 2013 chair of the East Carolina University “Material Topics” Metals Symposium I know first-hand what is possible when a few passionate and innovative individuals come together for one goal: To invite makers from all over to participate in a gathering that emphasizes emerging talent, new interdisciplinary techniques and the future of our field while still staying small and intimate. It takes months to coordinate an event like this. With changing locations, presenters, participants, and demonstrators to wrangle each year, the ECU metals graduate and undergraduate students get a crash course in programs management, curating, fundraising, grant writing, event planning, and patience. It seems the hardest thing to stick to is keeping the gathering intimate. We all want our symposium baby to be a success but that baby could easily get too big for its britches and end up running out of steam and funding before year ten. Being part of such a well-oiled and well-intentioned machine is an experience I will cherish forever and none of it would have been possible without another symposium on the South West. .... Continue reading Part 1 and Part 2

   Arrowmont / Crafthaus Workshop Scholarship

  Peters Valley / Crafthaus Workshop Scholarship

  Touchstone / Crafthaus Workshop Scholarship

Please welcome our newest crafthaus members:

   Amythest Warrington, Cedar Rapids, IA

Crystal Hartman, Durango, CO

 

   Desiree DeLong, Brooklyn, NY

 

  Gary Warren Niebuhr, Milwaukee, WI

 

  Hetty Estes, Flower Mound, TX

Katie Newell, Frankfort, IL

  Kirk Lang, Seattle, WA

  Philip W. Ambrose, Greenville, NC

Rene Lee Henry, San Diego, CA

  Seliena Coyle, Derry City, Ireland

Kate Tilley - Uncanny

A sense of 'the uncanny' is at the core of my work; in particular the direct translation from Freud's essay 'das unheimliche'- 'the unhomely'. By using such culturally loaded materials and techniques as ceramics and sewing my aim is to subtly disturb our notions of home, family, femininity, craft and English tradition. Continue reading ...

How do you find your path if all roads seem the same?

- blog post by John Lunn

I think a polymath’s mirror is more of a prism. We look at ourselves and the world in broken partial images. Piecing it all together doesn’t assemble in any ordinary way - or even the same way twice. The trick is making that work to our advantage, or least not be a detriment. I often find myself rattling all the complications and possible directions in my life like dice and throwing them down to see if randomness can make something happen or if I should roll again.  Continue reading ...

I Love Your Work and Want to Make One for Myself is not a compliment, it is a copy

- blog by Harriete Estel Berman

For Crafthaus, I thought that this post could include an another story brought to my attention. The names have been removed to protect both the innocent and the guilty.

The unfortunate problem right now is that digital technologies have developed faster that the social mores surrounding them. People copy images without attribution, or copy content they didn't write. Whole pages exist on Pinterest about "I want to make this." Makers stand at their wholesale/retail booth display which cost them $1,000's while enthusiasts make deep inquiries "I love your work and what to make something just like this for myself."  Continue reading ...

New listings:

  • Bench Jeweler @ Four Decades Jewelry Mfg., Inc., Portland OR
  • VISITING ASST PROFESSOR IN CERAMICS @ University of Iowa
  • GRANT WOOD VISITING ASST PROF IN PRINTMAKING at University of Iowa
  • Assistant Professor-Art, Sculpture and Integrated Media - Terminal/ Temporary 1 year appointment, Western Michigan University - Kalamazoo, MI
  • Jewelry & Small Metals Temporary Faculty Position @ Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
  • Assistant Professor: Art Metals & Foundations @ University of Wisconsin - Stout
  • Art (Metal Arts) Instructor @ San Francisco Community College District
  • University Art Gallery Director Position | NMSU Department of Art

View details of these listings.... (member  sign-in)

Behind the Scenes of the From Grains To Gold Conference...

- blog by Jennifer Merchant

As many of you know, SNAG has undergone a number of changes in the past year. There is a new executive director, new president, new conference producer and many new board members. All of these changes have made the upcoming Minneapolis conference one of the more challenging to produce.

Administrative changes are not the only ones taking place for this year’s conference. I will talk more about some of these changes in future posts, but for now will focus on the changes that I have been involved with as a member of the social events committee. Continue reading ....

The Kunst Schott von Hellingen Breastplate Part VI

- bog by Parker Brown

With the narrowing of the breastplate, it would be easy to panic and think that the whole piece is ruined and only hours of reworking would save it. But what would a German armourer in the late 15th century do? If the original armourer was trying to use influences from Italian craftsmen from the south, so should I. Italian craftsmen at this time were obsessed with the mathematical and geometric understanding developed by the ancient Greek and Roman scholars. Its understanding was the basis of the Italian Renaissance. So it makes sense to examine this problem from the view of Classical Greek geometry using the Pythagorean Theorum. Continue reading ....

You can also listen to a radio interview that Parker recently had on the Jay Whaley Radio Show....

Aggie Zed - Scrap Floats

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Aggie Zed grew up in a large family on Sullivan's Island riding ponies and donkeys on the beach. As a child she watched her father repair television sets and played for hours with cheap plastic horses and cowboys which had no moving parts.

Continue reading....

The Last Word:

In this moving account, Korn explores the nature and rewards of creative practice. We follow his search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle class who finds employment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self-employment as a designer/maker of fine furniture, takes a turn at teaching and administration at Colorado's Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and finally founds a school in Maine: the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, an internationally respected, non-profit institution. Continue reading ....

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