Franz of Prague from MEL Films on Vimeo.

Forty-two independently driven layers of stainless steel.…

Indiana University Bloomington

Deadline: Feb 25, 2017



The School of Art and Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4-6 week Fall 2017 McKinney International Art and Design Residency. The residency will select an established artists whose…

Carol Gouthro - The Ceramic Vessel in All of Its Incarnations



Carol Gouthro is fascinated by the complexity, diversity, beauty, and danger of the natural world. Her work is filled with details, close-ups, the abstract, and the “peering into. We are completely drawn into Gouthro’s sense of color,…

Hayley Jones

A bumper two-week post…

If you’re a designer, you know that feeling.

You’ve spent hours in the studio, pouring your skill and creativity into a new design, struggling to turn your vision into reality. Finally, you hold it in your hand—an innovative, finely crafted piece of jewelry that anyone would be proud to wear.…

Nicolas Estrada

Brooch: To Be or Not to Be, 2014

Silver, rose quartz, citrine, steel

5.5 x 5.5 x 1.8 cm

Photo by: Manuel Ocaña

© By the author. Read…

I am happy to report that my newest article has just appeared in American Craft Magazine! Look for pages 28-31 in the Feb/March 2017 issue.

I interviewed Chicago-based jewelry artist…

Mariana Acoasta, an educator inspiring a choir of new voices



Now a professor at Universidad Gestalt de Diseño in Xalapa, Mexican artist Mariana Acosta teaches classes that challenge our perception of waste. In her studio class Precious Waste, The Art of Rubbish Transformation, students…

The opening reception for I.M.A.G.I.N.E. Peace Now will be held on Thursday, February 23, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the new Society of Arts + Crafts in Boston.…

2017 Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize competition

Open to all artists working in found materials

A…

The piece "Rectified" was originally completed in 2015, and at the time, it represented the resolution of a number of visual, conceptual, and technical considerations that had surrounded my work and specifically my small cast-bronze sculptural units since graduate school. While the solution of the rock form and wooden base as the appropriate way to display the tension and sense of abstracted industrial decay of the bronze unit was a significant step in the right direction at the time, I…

Something a little different this week - A Trio of Mosaic Artists - 3 Approaches to the Medium

So, we all know - I assume my readers to be fellow Liberal Elite snowflakes, of course - that Trump is a nightmare.



Unfortunately, I was 'triggered' this week, even within my 'safe space' of bed. Frankly, it is my own fault: I've been watching the fantastic Ridley Scott version of Philip K. Dick's "The…

workshop RUUDT PETERS  assistant KOEN JACOBS



After the success of the last 16 years, this year Ruudt Peters begins his summer workshop under the title NOW RADICAL. Peters has been a professor at three of the most prestigious universities in Europe, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam 1990-2000, Ädellab…

I am super excited to get to know all of you here! 

I am currently an MFA in Metals student at Memphis College of Art. 

Perception is my primary inspiration. I explore ideas about the human paradigm through the creation of religious objects and perceptually engaging jewelry. I love to learn about the processes and creations of humans and the natural structures in the…

CASE OF THE NOMADS RESIDENCY AT JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK

Spend 7 days off the grid with Nomadic Artist Casey Sheppard @caseofthenomads in Southern California at Joshua Tree National Park! The purpose of this residencies is to allow artists the opportunity to…

Marina Dempster - Stride in These Shoes! 



Marina Dempster describes her work as sculpture. Her primary technique is a contemporary translation of the pre-Columbian Huichol art of “transformational yarn painting.” She meticulously embeds beads and yarn into her forms with her hands and some…