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Interview with blogger and embroiderer Amy Sheridan

Alison Kjeldgaard — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:24:10 +0000

These days, crafts once indelibly tied to older generations are coming back into style. Quilting, crocheting, knitting and embroidery are just a few crafts that have recently developed artistic niches. Artists, like Long Beach-based embroiderer Amy Sheridan, have revitalized these age-old artforms by injecting them with today’s cultural and stylistic trends. Unlike the traditional “Home [&hellip

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How-To: Design a Quilt from Quilt Artist Judi Blaydon

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:03:59 +0000

As industrial sewing technology has advanced, the quilting process has become more and more accessible, leading to the rise in unusual quilting methods and design. Today, quilt artists are transforming the craft into an unusual art form that focuses more on aesthetics than the practicality of sewing together a warm winter blanket. Indeed, the quilts [&hellip

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Feature: Contemporary Visions of the Necklace at Mobilia Gallery

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:57:52 +0000

In the earliest civilizations jewelry represented status, power and beauty. Today, jewelry is still often associated with wealth since the finest ornaments still boast diamonds and gold; however, jewelers are now redefining the meaning of what we wear. The recently opened exhibition, “Contemporary Visions of the Necklace” at the Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, MA showcases [&hellip

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Interview: Retro Style with Jen Oaks

Julie Davis — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:30:58 +0000

“I tend to just draw on what I like or what inspires me,” illustrator Jen Oaks said, “which sometimes fits in to what is popular at the moment.” That moment would definitely seem to be now. Oaks’ work falls smack dab in the center of several hot trends in graphic arts, from the prevailing preference [&hellip

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Interview with Della Heywood of the Emerald Tablet

Setsu Uzume — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:26:54 +0000

Della Heywood would have become a field zoologist had her inner artist not stood up and thrown off the lab coat. Originally from Vancouver, BC, she has studied painting, drawing, etching, printmaking, sculpture and photography. She has lived in Northern California since the 1980s, and once the kids were old enough she moved to the [&hellip

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Mothership Hackermoms Create Art, Not Just Babies

Alicia Coombes — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:12:23 +0000

The Mothership Hackermoms have created a child-friendly artist’s dream on Adeline Street in Oakland: the room is furnished with a long table covered with various projects, a squishy leather couch and subversive art on the walls. A dresser’s dummy sporting a vintage lacy bra greets you at the door with a sign that asks guests [&hellip

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Interview with “The Incidental Tarot” Artist Holly DeFount

Alicia Coombes — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:10:43 +0000

Local artist Holly DeFount didn’t intend to crank out an original hand-painted tarot deck in one year. She was feeling creatively blocked and had given herself a personal artistic challenge: create one piece of art every single day for a year. She chose the Artist Trading Card format, creating a mini-painting on a card measuring [&hellip

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Interview with “The Barbs” Artist Deborah Colotti

Elizabeth Coleman — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 04:57:35 +0000

Seeing a wall of 200 naked, altered Barbies might be a little off-putting for some. But not for assemblage artist Deborah Colotti, creator of the series “The Barbs,” which features assembled Barbie parts with a twist on social commentary. Her work is often humorous, attempting to highlight and dismantle what Colotti calls “the pervasive, yet strangely [&hellip

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