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22nd International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft
December 2, 2016 – January 28, 2017
Juror: Stefano Catalani, Director of Art, Craft & Design at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA…
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"Present Tense" featured speaker #OttoVonBusch has a question to get your gears turning for #ACCpt16. Thoughts?…
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What is good advice for how to deal with a client who refuses to pay for design work because of obviously false/irrational reasons?
The most popular CreativeMornings talk of all time, Mike Monteiro gives valuable advice on how to get paid for the work that you…
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Five Artists Reflect on their Waning Powers. Paul Spooner, 1983
A Curious Turn, an exhibition by Crafts Council at Habitat, explores the resurgence in automata making over the last 30 years and features works by the leading makers of these amazing moving mechanical…
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The London Design Festival is an annual event, held to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world and as the gateway to the international creative community. The next Festival will be held 17-25 September 2016.
Go to Festival's website…
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Congrats to metalsmith couple and crafthaus members Umut Demirgüç Thurman and James Thurman on their 6-page feature spread in the newest issue of Ornament magazine! Bravo. So happy to see this article…
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Bill May is the executive director of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. He established a studio specializing in architectural art glass which he directed for twenty-five years.
Twenty–eight years ago, having enrolled in my first…
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Michael Strand received a standing ovation at the SNAG conference in Boston last year. No wonder, he's a great presenter and he will again play a big role at this ACC event in October. Love hearing his 8 reasons to join the ACC conference even though I needed no convincing because I am already…
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Many of you may know that I am fascinated by taxidermy, the extreme kind (see past blog.) After all, what is taxidermy but a craft? A skill that can…
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Gabrielle Gould, "Spring Garden View"
Medium/Materials: Copper, brass, sterling, shells, feathers
Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 1 inches
Photographer: Gabrielle Gould
SOLD!
Artist Statement:
My Kinetic design…
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"Double Bind", Artist: Patricia Hickman, Medium: Fiber, Dimensions: 10" x 6", Date of Work: 2010
Retail Value: $1,000
Bidding ends August 4, 2016 at 5:00 pm…
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Half fairtrade silver or 9ct yellow gold, half olive wood, these unisex rings have unique detailing inspired by joinery…
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The 4th annual World Championship Belt Buckle Competition is a juried online exhibition inviting all one-of-a-kind, handcrafted, wearable examples in the belt buckle format including western, modern, fashion, narrative, and conceptual. …
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New app for ipad Pro: Ever wonder why 3D modeling wasn’t more like sketching? Or sculpting? Why we’re limited to mouse clicks? Here's a new app from Hungary that looks intuitive and easy. I am wondering if I could use this for jewelry, don't see why not.
Has…
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Lucy Jenkins "Road Kill Jewelry"
REPOSTED from crafthaus blog, September 26, 2014
Lately, everywhere I look artists seem to have taken on taxidermy. This being artists we are talking about you can be sure that the pieces are not your…
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My name is Linda Kaye-Moses and I have been a maker of art jewelry for forty years. You can check out my jewels at lindakayemoses.com. Welcome to my Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, “From Drawings to Jewelry”. There is just a single goal for this campaign, a goal to raise $8,000.00, but more about that below. Read on to find out, and to discover how…
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