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27575
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Authentic Hawaiian Quilt-making |
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Margaret Montet |
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When John Serrao sits down to design a quilt for a quilt-maker, he knows this quilt is intended for a cherished loved one. It will take the maker at least a year to create. He ...
Issue Date: 11 / 2010
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25705
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Impressionism: Monet in the Bank |
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Deborah K. Dietsch |
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Mount an impressionism show, and they will come. The light-dappled paintings produced by the artists of this 19th-century French movement and their stylistic offspring have ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2007
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25351
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Feats of Clay in Duckworth Exhibition |
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Deborah K. Dietsch |
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In making art, is it better to stick to a recognizable signature or roam in different directions? Sculptor-ceramist Ruth Duckworth obviously prefers variety, no matter how thinly ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2007
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25222
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Carousels: Endangered Species |
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Gabriella Boston |
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Old-time carousels--complete with hand-carved and hand-painted horses, tigers and lions and loud, waltz-playing band organs--are few and far between.
"There used to be six ...
Issue Date: 10 / 2006
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25173
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Woven Glass? Markow & Norris Make It Possible |
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Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto |
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Self-taught glass artists Eric Markow and Thom Norris set out to do the seemingly impossible--to weave glass into a fabric from which they would create sculptural art objects. ...
Issue Date: 9 / 2006
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24052
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Masterpieces of American Jewelry |
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Frederick M. Winship |
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American jewelry spanning 200 years of fashion is on display at the American Folk Art Museum in the new National Jewelry Institute''s inaugural exhibition designed as a tribute ...
Issue Date: 10 / 2004
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23973
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Handcrafted Violins: An Art and Science |
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Jen Waters |
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David Ludwik Chrapkiewicz practices empirical science. As owner of Rapkievian Fine Violins in Washington Grove, Maryland, the violin maker uses trial and error to try to make the ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2004
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21737
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Craft Circuit Life: On the Road Again |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Each year, thousands of craftspeople crisscross America in vans and mobile homes, selling their artworks at craft fairs both big and small. These "artists of the highway" pay ...
Issue Date: 2 / 2002
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21153
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Wildfowl Art: Decoys Fly High |
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Brenda Dorr Guldenzopf |
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A window on America''s past, the traditional folk art of hand-
carved and painted wildfowl has become a subject of soaring
interest among serious collectors, museums, and ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2001
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21456
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Tommy Simpson: Craftsman With a Sense of Humor |
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Karen S. Chambers |
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Utilizing every medium from carved wood to metal to paper for
the past forty years, Tommy Simpson has been tickling the
funny bone while expanding the limits of traditional ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2001
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21240
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Magical American Fresco |
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Susan Tenaglia |
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An ancient medium recalling both the very origins of art and
the classic grandeur of the Renaissance is reborn as a key
design element in contemporary American art and ...
Issue Date: 2 / 2001
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21000
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Lancaster County Quilts: Stitches in Time |
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Stephen Henkin |
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A remarkable exhibit at the Heritage Center Museum in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, evidences both strong family bonds
and the fine aesthetic legacy of traditional area ...
Issue Date: 7 / 2000
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20921
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Clay Studio: Shaping a Community |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, the Clay Studio,
based in Philadelphia''s flourishing arts community, has
always
believed that the freedom and skills required to ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2000
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18011
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Sapatq'ayn: Art of the Nez Perce Nation |
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Bob Loeffelbein |
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"Art is everything; art is all around us," states artist Leroy Seth, who lives and works in the Nez Perce reservation town of Lapwai, Idaho. "We have artists in many different ...
Issue Date: 8 / 1999
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18683
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Habatat Gallery Spotlights the Stars |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Now in four prime locations, America''s oldest glass-art
gallery has been promoting the work of cutting-edge artists
since the days when the magical medium of glass left the ...
Issue Date: 5 / 1999
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17619
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Ned Foltz: A Pennsylvania Tradition |
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Alicia Waite |
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Creating vibrant earthenware in the hand-dug clay of his
native Pennsylvania Dutch community, redware potter Ned Foltz
has breathed new life into a respected American craft ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1998
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17233
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Amish: Men in Black, Craft in Color |
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Alicia Waite |
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For many, especially the five million tourists a year now visiting Lancaster County, encountering the Amish lifestyle can be a bit of a culture shock. How in this modern age can ...
Issue Date: 7 / 1998
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16706
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Philip Materio: Master Fuser Blends Art and Craft |
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Stephen Henkin |
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When Philip Materio is not creating stunning stained-glass
entryways for celebrities in South Florida, he is leading the
way in fused-glass artwork. How he juggles the two ...
Issue Date: 4 / 1998
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16468
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Wendy Ramshaw: The Beauty of Surprise |
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Karen S. Chambers |
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When famed British jewelry designer Wendy Ramshaw applies
her "hard-edge machine aesthetic" to a fascinating variety of
precious materials, the result is anything but ...
Issue Date: 10 / 1997
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16530
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Appalachian Arts: Craft School Thrives in Tennessee |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Hot-air blasts from the annealing ovens; the abrasive sounds of glass polishers, sanders, and flatting wheels; pungent pine and oak being worked on the lathe; a deafening, ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1997
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