C O N T E N T S
Features
040
Deeply Felt
Janice Arnold differs from
many other artists working with
felt because of her interest in
organic shapes and the fiber’s
natural tendency to form
irregular textures. Elizabeth
Lopeman explores Arnold’s
ambitious projects involving
this centuries-old yet up-to-the-
minute textile.
O46
The Speculative
a n d die Im m ediate
The architect Joshua Stein,
who calls his practice Radical
Craft, investigates how ceramics
can inform architecture and
vice versa.
0 5 2
H ard Core Rom ance
Lola Brooks’s exquisite and
preposterous jewelry is not for
the timid. Mimi Luse cuts to the
heart, as it were, of this artist’s
outré objects of desire and her
attraction to tattoos.
Photography by Tatsuro Nishimura
Setting “
jew elry” a n d all o f its tarnished associations in quotation
m arks, Brooks’s w ork is fo r people like her, those s e lf identified
“hard-core rom antics” w illing to abandon disbelief
Lola Brooks contem-
plates a handful of bling—
brilliant brooch, cat steel
brooch, smallplanet brooch,
discoboli brooch,
2004-0
6.
americancraftmag.org
More photos, more reviews,
more listings, more interviews
and more of everything craft-
related and beyond.
www.journal-plaza.net & www.freedowns.net
Photo Tatsuro Nishimura. Hair and Makeup Bridget Ritzinger.
