C O N T E N T S
american
Vol. 70, No. 5
October/November 2010
Published by the
American Craft Council
www.craftcouncil.org
Above:
A ring by Karl Fritsch,
shown at Jewelers’
Werk Galerie in
Washington DC.
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On the Cover:
A glimpse of Kay
Scldmachi’s astounding
collection of shells, bones
and other found objects.
She creates jewelry from
these treasures, acquired
from decades of beach-
combing. Photographed
by L«slie Williamson and
styled by Aya Brackett,
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D e p a r tm e n ts
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E d ito r s ’ L e tte r
Goodbye, New York.
Hello, Minneapolis!
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R em em b ra nce
W e note the passing of Carol
Sedestrom Ross, founder of
the Council show program.
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Z o o m
Among the highlights, Jewelers’
W erk Galerie, Florian Roeper’s
sensuous furniture, Stephanie
DeArmond’s ceramic letter-
forms and more.
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M a te r ia l C u ltu re
Artist and naturalist Patterson
Clark harvests invasive plants
and turns them into paper, ink
and art. Drew Himmelstein
guides us through Clark’s pro-
cesses of transformation.
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O u ts k irts
Employing authentic 17th- and
18th-century French wood-
working tools, Patrice Pinaquy
creates period furniture worthy
of Versailles (or at least Holly-
wood royalty). Michael Bowk-
er demonstrates how a hobby
became a passionate life’s work.
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R e v ie w e d
Arlene Distler finds much to
admire in a 50-year survey
of the studio craft movement
in Vermont at the Bennington
Museum, while Ron Glowen
offers an appreciation of Alex
Gabriel Bernstein’s dramatic
cast glass sculpture at the Trav-
el- Gallery in Seattle.
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C o n s id e rin g .
..
Randomness is in favor in many
aspects of our culture, notes
Akiko Busch. Not surprisingly,
artists, in particular craft artists,
are often poised to exploit ran-
dom occurrences in their work.
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T h e W id e W o r ld o f C ra ft
Vienna, the city that gave rise
to the Wiener Werkstatte more
than a century ago, nurtures
a thriving community of mak-
ers who consider their home
a bastion for the applied
arts and move back and forth
between one-of-a-kind and
industrial production. Jeweler
Martina Windel surveys the
talent in this city famed for its
Kaffeehaus culture.
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F ro m th e S tacks
In the February/March 1981
American Craft, the glass
artist Dan Dailey, a rising star
in the studio glass movement,
was interviewed about his var-
ied oeuvre—vessels, sculpture,
lighting and commissioned
works. Christine Kaminsky
traces Dailey’s remarkably
productive career since.
Correction: In the obituary
of Stephen Beal in the Aug./
Sept, issue, it was incorrectly
stated that the Textile Arts
Society conferred the 2008
Lillian Elliott Award on
Beal. The biennial award
was conferred by the Lillian
Elliott Award Board at the
Textile Society of America
Symposium.
