r e a m r e s
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R e a l - W o r l d
A r t S c h o o l
What’s the future of craft educa-
tion? Joyce Lovelace reports
on pioneering programs at
California College of the Arts,
Savannah College of Art and
Design, and North Bennet
Street School (with John Eliot
K-8 School) that stretch beyond
the campus and prepare students
to make skilled connections with
the world.
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T h e A c t o r ’s
W o r k s h o p
As Ron Swanson on NBC’s
Parks
and Recreation,
Nick Offerman
plays a deadpan municipal
bureaucrat, a man whose many
quirks are tempered by fierce
integrity - and spectacular
woodworking skills. These fin-
er qualities are no Hollywood
guise. Joyce Lovelace visits the
accomplished, astute craftsman
in his real-life workshop.
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K e e p T o u r
D a m n F lo w e r s
Randi Solin has fought hard
for her career in glass from the
very start, when she enrolled at
Alfred University in the 1980s,
never having taken an art class
before. Today, the artist is
known for her weighty, bril-
liant-hued work: vessels - not
vases - that stand on their own.
Katherine Jamieson tells her
hard-won success story.
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W o r d s to L i v e B y
Twenty-two years ago, Amos
Paul Kennedy Jr. saw a printing
press demonstration - and fell
in love. Today, as a letterpress
printer in Gordo, Alabama, he
inspires others: Kennedy has
earned a cult following for col-
orful, clever posters that never,
ever mince words. Monique
Fields pays a visit to the auda-
cious artist.
“We are on the
cutting edge
of 19th-century
technology.”
A M O S P A U L K E N N E D Y J R .,
computer programmer
turned letterpress printer
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Amos Paul Kennedy
Jr. doesn’t like to be
called an artist: “M y
artist statement is that
I have to pay my
rent this month.”
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