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Beth Lipm an:
B anquet Tears
The Wisconsin artist’s glass
still lifes combine the glittering
beauty of a fairy tale scene
with the brittle edge of a dis-
comfiting dream. Jody Clowes
explores Lipman’s persistent
critique of material culture and
her development of the tech-
niques to express her vision.
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D raw n from Clay
Using their native soil, Dutch
designers Lonny van Ryswyck
and Nadine Sterk of Atelier
n l
create tableware from clay
extracted from the earth where
local foods are grown. Deborah
Bishop traces their quest, culmi-
nating in ceramics that look
both modern and plucked from
a 17th-century still life.
Photography by Paul Sea la
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Breaking Patterns
Behind the steel doors of a maxi-
mum-security prison in Mis-
souri, a group of inmates devote
themselves to quilt-making
for charity in a program called
restorative justice. Meribah
Knight introduces four men who
are finding in this craft a way
of rectifying the past.
Photography by ChrisMottalini
Below: A luncheon cel-
ebrating the completion
of Atelier NL’s table-
ware project utilizing
the soil of local polders.
Mingling at the huge
party were all those
who produced either
the food itself or the
serving vessels from
the surrounding land.
“I t was a super experience bringing together these two
worlds, design a n d farm ing, that are so often isolated. ”
— L onny van Ryswyck
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Photo Paul Scala.
