Newport photo Gene Young.
Vol. 69, No. 6
December 2009/January
Published by the
American Craft Council
www.craftcouncil.org
Above:
Mark Newport's
Every*-Any-No Man
,
2005, acrylic yarn
and buttons,
120 x 26 x 6 in.
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On the cover:
A still life of
ceramic works in
Ron Nagle’s studio,
photographed by
Elena Dorfman.
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D epartm ents
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Letters
Kicks and Kudos
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Hawaiian fiber artist Marques
Marzan, Jonathan Adler’s
easy-to-live-with designs,
Berkeley’s Shibumi Gallery,
Arnie Zimmerman’s swarming
installation at
r i s d
and a book
review by Lois Moran are
among this issue’s offerings.
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M aterial Culture
Elizabeth Lopeman explores
Laura Splan’s use of surprising
materials such as facial peel
and her references to both
textiles and body elements.
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Outskirts
Julian LaVerdiere brings a
craft/art background to the
seemingly magical realm
of production design for films
and commercials. Jeremy
Lebensohn looks into the
process behind the illusion.
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Review ed
In Wisconsin, Jody Clowes
critiques Viola Frey’s ceramics
at the Racine Art Museum
and Charles Rohlfs’s furniture
at the Milwaukee Art Museum,
while in Washington, DC,
Sarah Tanguy appraises the
narrative work of four artists
in the Renwick Gallery’s
biennial invitational.
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Hunting & Gathering
Two
t v
producers find
their groove with Just Folk,
a California gallery devoted
to folk and outsider art. Leslie
Andrea Westbrook gives
some backstory.
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Considering.
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The “extreme” craft exhibited
on
t v ’ s
Timbersports
leads
Glenn Adamson to ruminate
on crafts judged by process
rather than results.
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The IVide IVorld o f Craft
Meganne Fabrega finds
Portsmouth, nh , a coastal city,
to be a welcoming destination
for craft, offering a sense of
history and abundant cultural
happenings.
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From the Stacks
In the April 1973
Crafl Horizons,
Allan Peterson wrote about
Albert Paley’s outsized jewelry,
the focus of his early career.
Christine Kaminsky documents
the Rochester artist’s subse-
quent achievements in monu-
mental sculptural and archi-
tectural metalwork and the
recognition it has brought him
over more than three decades.
Online
Editor’s Letter
“Communication—Fraught
or Not,” the current letter,
is appearing on our website,
americancraftmag.org, to
allow more space for Letters
in this issue.
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