Anatomically Correct­ AndBuilt From Typewriter Parts • ' THE AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL SHOW 0' . jiwE~~~ ~ c~OTHI~G • FURNnu~i • H~~E· oECoR · · · WWW .CRAFTCOUNCIL.ORG • More at ebook-free-download.net or magazinesdownload.com CONTENTS • amertcan Departments o6 024 From the Editor Review A miracle in the making. Christy DeSmith taps into The New Materiality, curator o8 Fo Wilson's provocative Zoom exploration of digital Jeremy Mayer's typewriter technology in contemporary Vol. 70, No.6 sculptures andAlbertus craft at the Fuller Craft December 2oxojjanuary 2011 Swanepoel's hats, plus a visit to Museum. Denver's Show of Hands gallery, Published by the new books on Jack Len or 026 American Craft Council Larsen's LongHouse and Material Matters www.craftcouncil.org Wharton Esherick's life and Gregg Graff andJacqueline work, innovation at Oregon Pouyat devised a wax formula College of Art and Craft, and to preserve the seeds, pods dispatches from the field: news, and reeds in their minimalist voices and shows to see. vignettes. Monica Moses re­ ports on these natural archivists. americancraftmag.org 030 More photos, reviews, listings, Personal Paths interviews and everything craft­ In her mixed-media sculptures, related and beyond. Susan Aaron-Taylor re-creates the landscape of her dreams, informed by CarlJung's spiritually charged concepts. Roger Green probes the meaning of her unusual art. 062 Considering ... With the mundane soccer ball as a starting point, Glenn Adamson ponders the meaning, potential and limitations of handmade objects in our globalized age. o68 Above: Wide World ofCraft Jeremy Mayer Hawaii's natural beauty has Deer III (side view), zoro, attracted and inspired a hub of typewriter parts, 36xr6x36in. craft artists, but living in pageo8 paradise isn't cheap. Sonya Stinson covers the bustling On the cover: Camilla Prasch tropical scene. Kleine Halskrause, 2005, snap fasteners, nylon 072 thread and silicone discs. Photo Mark LaFavor; Checking In neckwear courtesy Since we first profiled him in of Ornamentum, 1987, glass artist Paul Stankard Hudson, NY. pageo33 has crafted a masterful career­ and found a calling as an educator. Lynnea Midland reconnects with him. A juried exhibition and sale presenting fine crafts in baskets, ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper and wood. August 25- 28, 2011 Henry Crown Sports Pavilion· Northwestern University, Evanston, IL FOR APPLICATIONS PLEASE CONTACT: American Craft Exposition [email protected] • (847) 570-5095 americancraftexpo.org APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 4, 2011 PRESENTED BY: +NortbSbore U n i versi ty H ea l l h S y sle m The Auxiliary - ·- . Custom colors & sizes also available. For show dates, gallery locations and installation ideas: www.myraburg.com. Or- Call us. We're very friendly: 310 399 5040 MYRA BURG QUIET OBOES TEL: 310.399.5040 www.myra burg.com More at ebook-free-download.net or magazinesdownload.com CONTENTS Features 033 042 048 os6 Making It ... Big Dyeing to Sew Beauty ina Hannie Goldgewicht: Bleak World Radiating Pura Vida Inventive jewelers are giving Using batik and shibori methods, In World War II internment In her comfortably stylish people the means to express Maika Dubrawsky produces camps, Japanese-Americans California home, this Costa themselves in a big way, creat­ vivid fabrics for her functional connected with craft as a matter Rican transplant creates elegant ing emphatic, even boisterous quilts, using one crafted prod­ of physical and emotional neces­ hybrid vessels, marrying ceramic pieces. Shonquis Moreno uct to inform another. Shelley sity.Julie Hanus interviews work with pine needle basketry. reports on this larger-than-life Seale writes about the quilt­ Delphine Hirasuna about this Joyce Lovelace pays the young neckwear trend. maker's colorful evolution. little-known body of work. artist a visit. Photography by Mark LaFavor Photography by Michael O'Brien Photography by Terry Heffernan Photography by Douglas Kirkland Jewelry designer Camilla Prasch favors "materials we use all the time, that we are surrounded by, but that we don't see anymore." •. L L '-' -, Left: Camilla Prasch Kragenstiick, 2004, smlp fasteners and nylon thread FROM T HE EDITOR Miracle in the Making FOR MY AMAZING NEW JOB AS EDITOR OF to studio and gallery to gallery. We ended But I can wonder at it, and that's my job. this magazine, I'd like to thank a guy named with a tour of Penland, imagining ourselves So for this issue, I spoke with Gregg Graff, Albert Einstein. spattered with clay, taking summer classes. who, with his partner Jacqueline Pouyat, "There are two ways to live your life," It was heavenly. Miraculous, even. spent three years perfecting a wax-resin Einstein said. "One is as though nothing is a Now, a few years later,Joanne has re­ formula so that it would pour perfectly onto miracle; the other is as though everything is minded me again that a change of scenery aluminum (page 26). How did that feel'? a miracle." can change everything. (I have her to thank, Gratifying, because the effort flowed from I spent about 20 years as a hard-news along with Einstein.) a deep artistic impulse. journalist, which means I got pretty good I have arrived at a new destination, do­ Jeremy Mayer (page 8), long obsessed at wringing the miraculous out of nearly ing familiar work but with content as joyous with typewriters, disassembled one and everything-demystifying, placing in con­ as any I've known. I am again navigating the built a little dog with the parts. None of text, pointing out drawbacks and down­ craft landscape and finding treasures, this his artist friends liked it. But he couldn't sides. When I left the news business three time in the form of good stories. And, with stop. That was r6 years ago, and he's years ago, I was a little jaded, even cynical. I my brilliantly talented new colleagues, I'll been compelled ever since to make his was relieved and grateful to leave it behind. be bringing those stories to you-with the intricate sculptures. But a friend helped me see fresh possi­ wonder intact. Hannie Goldgewicht (page 56) exudes bilities in the familiar practices of research­ To me, the creative process is inherent­ pura vida, a Costa Rican term for profound ing stories, editing copy and choosing im­ ly, inescapably miraculous. People long to well-being; no wonder-she's answering a ages. "I know you said you're done with make things, sometimes very idiosyncratic wondrous calling to make her elegant hy­ journalism," she said, "but this job posting things. That's one of the great, timeless brid vessels. sounds like you." mysteries of human experience. I once The miraculous is our mission at AMERI­ Joanne is my ceramics buddy, an art di­ spent eight straight 14-hour days making an CAN CRAFT. What sort of miracles would rector with whom I once worked, took pot­ assemblage out of circuit-board parts and you like to read about? Let us know. tery and Photoshop classes, and trolled the an antique typesetting box, drawing on a American Craft Council shows in Charlotte spirituality book I was reading. My back and St. Paul. A few years ago she and I de­ ached, but my heart soared. I was seized by vised our own weeklong craft tour of the the urge to create, and I couldn't have ex­ North Carolina mountains, staying in tiny plained the compulsion if you had put a gun B&Bs and navigating giddily from studio to my head. 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