Petros Chrisostomou - Photography

--- High time to rethink how we craft people photograph our work for better impact! How we currently photograph and style show our work is stale. Take a look, other media are way ahead of us. (ch editor) ---

Petros Chrisostomou photographs small-scale, ordinary, ephemeral objects in architectural models that he constructs himself, and then dramatically arranges, often employing lighting and staging conventions of the theater.

• Summer Instructors for High School Program @ Snow Farm
• Artist Fellowship @ Peters Valley
• Summer Studio Assistant @ Peters Valley
• Open Faculty positions at Arkansas Craft School
• Community Collaborations Teaching Artist Intern @ Penland
• Dean, Fine Arts @ Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
• Intern - Fossil Women's Jewelry Design
• Asst/Assoc Professor - Ceramics @ Western Carolina University
• Professor/Program Coordinator of Furniture Design @ Savannah College of Art and Design
• Assistant Professor of Art: Jewelry and Metals @ Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• Tenure-track Faculty Position in Ceramics @ Concordia University's Department of Studio Arts
• Tenure-track Faculty Position in Fibres and Material Practices @ Concordia University's Department of Studio Arts

More details and additional job opportunities (member sign-in)

The UNIQUES Holiday Sale on eBay will be a silent auction of one-of-a-kind, limited edition, unusual, and other handmade contemporary art jewelry and small metals. UNIQUES will help you gain exposure and sell some work while helping SNAG to raise some money as well. Participation is on a first come first serve basis, 35 artists will be accepted max.

Deadline to Enter: November 15, 2013

Questions? email uniques@snagmetalsmith.org

Entry Form.

Gabriel Dawe - Mixed Media Installation

Using only thread, Gabriel Dawe creates site-specific installations that explore the connection between fashion and architecture, and how they relate to the human need for shelter in all its shapes and forms.

Michael C. McMillen - Illusion of Permanence

Michael McMillen avoids narrowly defining just what it is he does. "The medium has to be in service of the idea."

- by Dauvit Alexander:

To me, Futurism seems to be not only a celebration of modernity and speed but of power and warfare and is something essentially masculine; it seems to encapsulate so many seemingly disparate elements and it denies both humanity and the possibility of god. Futurism was instantly dated and was never going to survive a real war - World War I - which swept away the bombast and glory in a muddy bloodbath but in many ways, it defined "The Shape of Things to Come", especially in the arts.

Continue reading Dauvit's blog post Futurism - Muse - A Ramble on music and a moment in art

Jason Ruff - Sneakers

Using cigarette packaging, poster board, duct tape and plastic straws, artist Jason Ruff recreates classic retro sneaker inspired by the fashion trends of the 80s and 90s.

Wearing jewelry differently: MASHA REVA X SYNDICATE ODESSA SERIES

Odessa Series is the second collaboration between Ukrainian designer Masha Reva and Syndicate of Kiev. The concept of Odessa Series is about a new take on Ukrainian kitsch and an ironical view on the Ukrainians' desire to look luxurious.

Tom McCarthy: Advice sought from St. Louis Crafthausers

My wife and I are moving to St Louis early next year. I would love to hear any advice you have about the crafts community there!

Thorsten Brinkmann - Still Life

For years Thorsten Brinkmann collected ordinary objects, rubbish of civilization and everything his city is offering up of things that became useless. This mass of materials has been used for a diverse oeuvre that moves between the genres of photography, sculpture, performance and installation art.

--- Again, take a note of the photography styling, what can we craft artists learn from this approach (ch editor) ---

CALL FOR PAPERS

Crossing the Space Between, 1914-1945

The 16th annual conference of the multidisciplinary society,

The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945

July 17-19, 2014, Institute of English Studies, London

The 16th annual conference of the Space Between society will explore the notion of 'crossing' − whether of oceans, borders, classes, genders, disciplines or genres − as it relates to literature, art, history, music, theatre, media, and spatial or material culture in any country between 1914 and 1945. From 1930s writers and intellectuals crossing the class divide to the surrealist crossing of a sewing machine with an umbrella, from Virginia Woolf's Orlando to Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, from crossing the dance floor to spying and wartime betrayal, tropes and examples of crossing proliferate across the culture of the period. We invite proposals for papers considering any aspect of crossing whether literal or metaphorical, spatial or social, successful or unsuccessful. Topics might include:

crossing time and space
transatlantic crossings of American (North and Latin) and European cultures
crossing between east and west
crossing the Mediterranean
crossing travel and colonialism
crossing the breach between peace and war
crossing between friendship and enmity
crossing picket lines
broadcast media crossing the airwaves
border crossings
double crossings, voluntary and involuntary
identity crossing
cross dressing
cross purposes
cross-cultural activity

Interested in this project? Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words along with a short biographical statement to Nick Hubble at Nick.Hubble@brunel.ac.uk by December 2, 2013.

Maiko Takeda - Atmospheric Reentry

Inspired by Phillip Glass' opera Einstein on the Beach, Maiko Takeda was fixated on the idea of creating a swirl of cloud or smoke around the head but she found it difficult to find the right materials for her project.
After various trials of using different plastics and mounting them on to knitted bases and fabrics, she settled on turning acetate sheets into light reflecting shards. She'd load up her inkjet printer at home with acetate sheets overnight to print out graduated ombre colored sheets and then cut them up in to the required shapes, playing with proportions and colors. The results were so astounding that even Icelandic singer Bjoerk took notice.

Museum of Arts and Design: Out Of Hand (NY Times Review)

If you haven’t quite wrapped your head around the concept of 3-D printing, or haven’t yet had a digital scanner wrap itself around you, now you can do both in “Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital,” at the Museum of Arts and Design.

The Last Word:

BLOG: What irks me about us creative types !

I love creative people, in all their wacky, whimsical, wavering ways; I am one after all. But I’ll also be among the first to acknowledge how troublesome their – our –wacky, whimsical, wavering ways can be.