What's New? Sep 22 Newsletter

Making Meaning in the Marketplace Symposium in Boston

Join the North Bennet Street School and the American Craft Council for "Success Stories" a Making Meaning in Marketplace symposium this Thursday September 25th at 5pm for a presentation and panel discussion with bicycle builder Mike Flanigan, ceramist Molly Hatch, furniture maker Bart Niswonger, and paper-folder Matthew Shlian. Hosted by the North Bennet Street School in Boston's North End.

The talented makers and artists of today must be entrepreneurial and seek to balance their creative practice with a marketplace model that allows for a multifaceted definition of success.

David R. Harper - Embroidery meets Taxidermy and Old Master Painting

"I am drawn to the form and idea of memorials, those markers that formalize links between memory and present experience. My main fascination is for the ways in which people bring facets of these ritual systems and objects into domestic spaces in order to amplify their personal identification with them, or perhaps with the cultures that support them."

Please welcome our new crafthaus members:

Anastasia Dumenjich, Oak Park, MI

Elizabeth Frank, Tucson, AZ

Lieta Marziali, Holt, Norfolk, UK

Liz Clark, Boone, NC

New Jewelry Artist Studio and Gallery seeks work

Hello Group!  I am opening a new state of the art production gallery in Pittsburgh PA.   Our target date for the opening will be October 25th.  The Gallery will be at the new Dough Boy square apartment complex on Butler St. in the lower Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh. This will be a high visibility and profile location.

I am hoping to find new candidates to showcase in this location. If you are interested,  Please forward me your info, as well as a link to your work. My target retail price points will be 100-1200.00 I seek various styles with renewable materials as a big plus. Please message me here or send info to Paul (AT) Paulmichaeldesign.com. This will be an amazing space and what I think will be a great opportunity for the future. Pittsburgh Artists are STRONGLY encouraged to send work.  I will have an entire section of the sore for PGH people.  I am also interested in Glass and ceramic items with retails under 500.00.

Be in touch with crafthaus member Paul Bierker !

The Touchstone Center for Craft is looking for a new Executive Director

Mark Gmehling - Almost Glass

Mark Gmehling is an German illustrator who began his artistic career in the late eighties by creating graffiti before moving on to study fine arts, graphic design and marketing. He currently works as an illustrator and teaches digital illustration at the Advertising Academy in Germany.

Blog by Miranda Tay on Arts HUB

Jewellery-making has variously been described as adornment, ornamentation or maker’s craft. Traditionally jewellery has typically been considered more for its economic value rather than aesthetic consideration.

Contemporary jewellery, however, has been making great strides from artisan’s market to art gallery space. It has been exhibited within the gallery context in Europe since the 1970s. There are a number of galleries worldwide dedicated exclusively to exhibiting contemporary jewellery, which is highly collected within a niche market of ‘insiders’, according to Bridget Kennedy, of Studio 20/17 in NSW.

Patrick Dougherty - Stickwork

Born in Oklahoma in 1945, Patrick Dougherty earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina in 1967 and an M.A. in Hospital and Health Administration from the University of Iowa in 1969. He later returned to the University of North Carolina to study art history and sculpture.

Rachel Timmins and I are very excited about our upcoming Jay Whaley Metalsmith Benchtalk radio interview on Sep 25 @ 6PM EST / 3 PM Pacific!

We got busy working on our project this week and will be able to share some exciting news for CoOperation Garnish - so do listen in!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/whaleystudios

Any questions - just ask.

Call for Entries: Mindful: Exploring Mental Health through Art

Theme: To raise awareness and increase understanding of mental illness, the Society for Contemporary Craft www.contemporarycraft.org is organizing Mindful: Exploring Mental Health through Art (September 18, 2015 – March 12, 2016). With an emphasis on anxiety, depression, suicide ideation, and PTSD, the exhibition will provide a forum for artists to share their powerful artistic responses to a growing public health concern.

Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should

BY ALLISON ARIEFF on medium core, Sep 15

Last spring, I attended the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Design Conference in San Francisco. Ben Kaufman, the CEO of Quirky, was one of the speakers in a conference that unabashedly celebrated consumption (and only had three female speakers, but that’s another story). Kaufman went on at length about the dearth of products reaching the marketplace — and how his company was helping to remedy that. Patents were in the way, regulations were in the way, he went on, but Quirky was committed to getting products to market quickly, indeed twice weekly.

Zoe Robertson - Flocked Fiber Jewelry

"I am a maker, I am inquisitive and I love to experiment, explore, discover, and I'm always searching for something new. I design through making and it's often the process of questioning and challenging my-self, through problem solving, and trial and error which leads me to make my work. In essence I am not afraid to make mistakes as these often offer new directions."

Peters Valley

We are very pleased to announce a special "Fall Weekend of Workshops" ~ October 4-5, 2014! Workshops will presented by our Blacksmithing, Fine Metals, Weaving & Woodworking Studios.

Bario-Neal - Fairmined and Ethically Sourced Jewelry

"Bario-Neal Jewelry is handcrafted in Philadelphia with reclaimed precious metals, fairmined gold, ethically sourced stones, and low-impact, environmentally conscious practices. We are committed to environmental responsibility, ethical sourcing and marriage equality."

Lecture about my work at D'Terra Gallery Barcelona

The Craft Scotland Conference 2014

From: 26/09/2014 To: 27/09/2014  09:00 - 17:00
Location: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR

Website: http://www.craftscotland.org/conference/

The Last Word:

The Roentgens' Berlin Secretary Cabinet (Video)

Discover the hidden features and intricate interior of this cabinet. One of the finest achievements of European furniture making, this cabinet is the most important product from Abraham (1711--1793) and David Roentgen's (1743--1807) workshop. A writing cabinet crowned with a chiming clock, it features finely designed marquetry panels and elaborate mechanisms that allow for doors and drawers to be opened automatically at the touch of a button. Owned by King Frederick William II, the Berlin cabinet is uniquely remarkable for its ornate decoration, mechanical complexity, and sheer size.

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