Conceptual musings about art and fine craft
Philly’s Freedom: Artists Speak Out opened this past weekend in downtown Philadelphia as the first exhibition to re-open the National Liberty Museum in historic Old City. Imagine my excitement to be in the company of 50+ Philly-area artists sharing such relevant, socially-engaging and moving artwork. I attended the artist-only preview event last Tuesday to see…
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Last Thursday evening, the d’Art Center located in the NEON district of Norfolk, Virginia opened its second national juried Tiny But Mighty II exhibition of small three-dimensional works from across the U.S. that do not exceed 8” in their longest dimensions. Arts educator and Virginia-based freelance writer Betsy DiJulio and d’Art Center’s gallery manager Amanda…
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Last Thursday evening, Creative Philadelphia opened Crafting Narratives at the Art Gallery in City Hall – a group exhibition juried by noted gallerist/curator Bruce Hoffmann, depicting handmade works that demonstrate a narrative approach to making. Thirty-four Philadelphia metro-area artists are exhibiting one-of-a-kind pieces that use narrative to capture/interpret events and processes that explore interconnectedness and…
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Articulating Craft is a new exhibition opening this weekend at the Arts Center Gallery on the campus of scenic Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. Curated by metalsmith and Nazareth College arts professor Holland Houdek, the exhibit features work by thirty-seven artists from across the U.S./Canada juried by Houdek in tandem with college arts faculty.…
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This evening at 5PM Mountain time, the Florence Quater Gallery at the Southwest University of Visual Arts (SUVA) hosts a gallery opening reception for “A Laugh, A Smirk or a Snicker” – a curated art exhibit about humor in art. Thirteen artists from across the United States were selected by an interdisciplinary panel of jurors…
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Instagram, the social media photo-sharing app, is where I’m posting all of my studio work quite in-depth lately. My new Upcycled Brooch No. 1 and its Adobe Illustrator drawings occupy at least six of my last Instagram posts. While I am far from any kind of “blogging star” – I can’t help but make a…
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Ever since I began metalsmithing and making artwork, I’ve enjoyed spending every summer experimenting in my studio with new materials or ideas. As with other artists who share via the Instagram app what we are creating in our studios, I post work-in-progress shots of my latest pieces regularly. Of my summer experiments, the upcycled materials that…
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This past winter, I began work on a new series of petite sculptural mixed-media pieces that continue my probe on the changing face of U.S. cities and its architecture. After reading so much commentary from my Art Deco Widget post in January, many shared their feelings of this same shock – and not just from…
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Ghost Gallery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of downtown Seattle opened its 2nd Annual Bell Jar Group Exhibition last Thursday evening, March 10th to an excited group of art-opening attendees. This group show features twenty-eight local and national artists who display interior worlds of their own creation, but all placed under the sheltering environment of…
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Walking through the neighborhoods of essentially any of the larger-populated east-coast U.S. cities, one may notice how much real estate developers are altering these local neighborhoods. Over the past few years, I’ve traveled mostly between New York City and Upstate NY, from Connecticut through New Jersey into Philadelphia, PA, winding from Baltimore and Washington, D.C.…
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