The Ghost of Photos Past
byTammy died seven times before she sat in front of Rianne Farris’ antique box camera. “I had asked if I could take her tintype…
Art + Craft
Dangerously Beautiful
byIn an age when long-accepted boundaries of gender and politics are in flux, it’s not shocking that painting can burst out of its traditional…
Pushing Past Luck
byTile artisan Jay Reese is accustomed to clients’ quizzical looks over his preferred mode of transportation: the bicycle. They wonder, reasonably, how he’ll transport…
Voice of Unreason
byJacqui Fehl’s mixed-media creations on wood, paper, and canvas — exuberantly colorful and creatively elusive — are the result of a freewheeling attitude that…
One Hundred Years of Spinning
byAmerican Craft Week, a project of Craft Retailers & Artists for Tomorrow (CRAFT), will occur October 5-14. This art-filled week — actually ten days…
Random Acts of Basketry
byNot long after Carla and Greg Filippelli moved to the southern mountains from the Northeast 40 years ago, Greg brought home a damaged woven…
Not Your Camp Counselor’s Tie-Dye
by“When we think of tie-dye, we think of the neon rainbow spiral where we’re using every single color in the ROYGBIV” [red, orange, yellow,…
Using All the Crayons in the Box
byValerie Berlage crafts jewelry and functional items for the home, but it’s her joyful wooden boxes and mirrors — both meant for wall display…
Time to Flower
byNothing evokes timelessness more than plain dirt, sculpted by the heat, rain, and wind of countless millennia into the foundation of everything that grows….
Pointed Hats Turn Into a Pointed Hobby
by“I watched a TED Talk once that said even if you don’t think you collect things, you totally collect something,” says Leigh Armistead, who…