What's New? Sep 8 Newsletter

Jon Eric Riis - Tapestry

Considered by many to be the nation's leading contemporary tapestry artist, Jon Eric Riis has perhaps more than any other artist taken the ancient craft of hand-woven tapestry to the level of important contemporary fine art.

Call for Artists: LEAP Award 2016

Deadline to apply: Sep 30, 2015.

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Coming up soon! Topic: Professionalism

There has been a whirlwind of minutiae getting ready for Invisible:visAble! It opens on October 30, 2015. The challenges have been many. I debated not writing about what has REALLY gone on during this pre-exhibition time period of well over a year -- we live in a time when everyone is always trying to "look good" and are often not forthcoming with anything but perfection -- but then I realized that my experiences might be an emphatic gift to another newbie curator and maybe also a lesson to artists willing to listen and improve! In my personal life, I always say the one thing you can count on is change and in curating, it is no different. Change can be dealt with, a problem approached, a solution found. Move forward, right?

What CAN'T be dealt with is when you are responsible for several people and some of those people display a lack of professionalism, causing so much extra work and teeth-gritting, making a curator's life a nightmare!

Freddie Robins - Knitter

Robins uses knitting to explore contemporary issues of the domestic, gender and the human condition, as well as the cultural preconceptions surrounding knitting as craft. Her work aims to disrupt the notion of the medium as passive and benign.

First Day - Posted by The Justified Sinner

Today was the first day of my new job at the School of Jewellery in Birmingham, part of Birmingham City University. I've spent the last six weeks preparing for the move, packing, preparing for the house to be sold, moving to Birmingham and saying goodbye to my (ex-)colleagues at Glasgow Kelvin College.

Heat Exchange 2 - Craft in the Bay

Added by Melissa Cameron

Vika Mitrichenko - Porcelain Memories

The unique baggage of specific people, places and circumstances often gather in complexity as we recall them, and sometimes provoke us to consciously or unconsciously, fictionalize the past for reasons that remain unknown even to ourselves.

Call for Artists: AJF 2016 ARTIST AWARD

Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is now accepting submissions for its 15th annual Artist Award. Ambitious artists age 35 and under have until November 15, 2015, to apply for this international prize in contemporary art jewelry, which includes $7500 USD for the winner and an exhibition during Schmuck in February 2016 for the winner and four finalists. The 2016 award is made possible with generous contributions from Susan Beech, Michael & Karen Rotenberg, and Platina (Stockholm).

Doing it wrong: Cherry and Martin's new ceramics show upends convention

Cherry and Martin's 2732 space in Culver City presents 'Try again. Fail again. Fail better.', a four-person ceramics show that upends typical assumptions about what counts as technical mastery.

VIDEO: The amazing wave cabinet!

VIDEO: The Zoology of Weather - by Bettina Matzkuhn.

VIDEO: 2100° / 451° - Etsuko Ichikawa

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