When Gutierrez died of cancer at the age of 45 in 2010, he left behind a business built on hard work and craftsmanship, and a community of artists and friends who valued his passion and warmth.
“Everything that he did was going to be honoring the craftsman and artist,” says Golpira. “He always said to me, ‘Artists shouldn’t be on the edge of town... We’re primary to society. We should be in the center of town.’”
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This year's ACC Craft show is online, but no less full of dazzling handmade must-haves!
The ACC has continued its mission to elevate and promote the work of master craftspeople, and to make their work accessible to those who want to live with beautiful handmade objects.
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Constantly pursuing the feeling of learning something new, Bathgate finds himself experimenting on the edge of the technologies he employs
It’s important to Bathgate that his works be makeable, at least by someone with his extremely specific skill set, which he admits only a few people in the world possess.
For every experience lost during this year of quiet, do we gain something else?
I tend to pair images together to complicate things, to show that my life is not one thing or another, that there is always a subtext or a tangent or a side story and nothing is simple.
These poems center on a young Muslim American girl named Nima, but the issues that she wrestles with are far from childish
Safia Elhillo’s Home Is Not a Country is more than a book, it’s a complex adventure, perfect for restless Aries.
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Rhea Combs, Curator of film and photography at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will start at the NPG on May 10, 2021
"I look forward to working with the curatorial team, NPG’s leadership, and its Commissioners to examine the museum’s current collections and how we interpret stories surrounding various objects," says Combs.
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Hager's signature all-over designs can be found on skate decks, chairs, T-shirts, hats, purses, paper
Many of his most popular works are the clothing that he draws on, unique works of art that travel with the wearer to bars, concerts, and gatherings.
Hellzones, moments, and several stages of limbo
I don’t fully register when the anxieties of one reality morph into ten other kinds in this new reality, but April is where it is, in my head.
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This year, 36 artists across 6 categories get $2,500 each
For the 2021 awards, this structure "was specifically modified to address the needs of artists working in the region, almost all of whom have been affected by the COVID-19 epidemic."
Not so much an interview as one friend interrogating another, pushing him a little
Musician and MDVLA executive director Adam G. Holofcener’s new album GEE-ZA-WHIZ begins with a deep breath and a deeper exhalation
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An interview with Ottobar’s Tecla Tesnau and Todd Lesser and WWR’s KK Yeh
Yeh, Tesnau, and Lesser spoke with me about the importance of a robust local music industry, adapting during the pandemic, and deeply missing the visceral experience of live music.
On Lee Walton’s “Zeven Event Zcores for Zoom” and the online platform's subtle social ticks
Zeven Event Zcores for Zoom by Lee Walton, part of ‘sindikit’s Friday night performance series
