Friday, August 10, 2012

Redefining the San Andreas Faultline: 10 Women Jewelers


On view at the Craft in America Study Center from September 8 - October 27, 2012. 

The Craft in America Study Center is pleased to host Redefining the San Andreas Faultline: 10 Women Jewelers this autumn. Among the most accomplished studio jewelers working in the Golden State, ten distinctive and diverse Northern and Southern Californians will be brought together in an exhibition reflective of the range of creative statements in the hands of gifted women artists. These artists include: Barbara Berk, Harriete Estel Berman, Petra Class, Karen Gilbert, Carol Webb, Alexandra Hart, Marianne Hunter, Valerie Mitchell, Marne Ryan, and Christina Smith. 

Showing from September 8 through October 27, the exhibition is curated by Carolyn Benesh, Coeditor of Ornament Magazine, an international magazine on wearable art also based in California. Redefining the San Andreas Faultline will demonstrate how California's creative edge in art and design, dating from the mid-twentieth century, includes the individualistic characteristics of women studio jewelers who challenge themselves through their work by experimenting and redefining the possibilities of jewelry, its role and meaning, into the second decade of the twenty-first century. 

Opening Reception: September 8, 2012, Saturday, 5-7pm 

Craft in America Study Center is located at 8415 W. Third Street, Los Angeles, California 90048. 


Thursday, July 26, 2012

Poetry and Politics



Randy Oglesby, poetry
Argenta Walter, accordion
Heather Lockie, viola
Claire Chenette, oboe/guitar/ukulele
Alex Wand, guitar
Maggie Hasspacher, bass

The theme of this evening's show compliments our current craft exhibition,
Looming Election: Woven Works, which you will also be able to enjoy.  
   
THIS FRIDAY, JULY 27th, 8PM! 
Craft in America Study Center   

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Free parking behind Freehand Gallery, and metered street parking.
   

CRAFT IN AMERICA STUDY CENTER
 
8415 W. Third St. Los Angeles, CA 90048 · (next door to Freehand Gallery)   

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Money & Politics: Print Money!

Monotype Print Workshop Saturday, July 7

Current exhibit, Looming Election: Woven Works

Money and politics have been forever woven together!
What Debt Crisis? We printed our own money ...

Workshop participants, with workshop teacher Christina Carroll,
solved their own artistic debt crisis by printing their own
currency-themed monotype prints with imaginative denominations,
faces of unknown leaders and symbols of their own happiness, hope and security. 

Attendees, unapologetic, crafted their own money-themed monotypes while an American flag stood watching (a weaving by Consuelo Jimenez Underwood) and a printing press stood nearby.
A creative counterfeiter prints her first bill
Husband and wife, mother and son
and others focus on their plates
" Yes, these will pass government inspection. 
Let's try to buy something next door at Freehand Gallery ..."
  



Climb Every Mountain-Mountain Goat Money
Government, you've been caught red-handed ...
Funny ? Money
Value = one oreja (ear)
Why shouldn't beloved dog Hanna run the country?
Citizens United States of America, I.O.U. Nothing
 Coronation and worship of sex & 'celebrity'
Buy Me- money can be bought
Beach Bucks - One Beach Buck
Murky leader?












 

Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Fiber of Our Lives: Why Textiles Matter


Opening Night! Looming Elections: Woven Works

It was a full house for the opening of 
Looming Elections: Woven Works
Saturday night June 16.

The Study Center was filled warp and weft with fiber artists and textile admirers alike.
Cameron Taylor-Brown drew a tight crowd for her lecture and video presentation.
We were thrilled to have three of the show participants present for the talk and opening:
 Cameron, Michael Rohde and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood.  

 Above, Craft in America producer, Carol Sauvion (second from left) with
Michael Rohde, Cameron Taylor-Brown and friends.

 Michael Rohde with friends.

 Cameron Taylor-Brown with two of her creations!

 In rear of gallery, threads from skylight: one of the three installation pieces by Tanya Aguiniga
Lecture ttendees in front of Michael Rhode's exhibition piece.
(Michael Rhode to left.)

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Mothers' Day Monotype Workshop-May 2012

Sons, daughters and mothers came together to make 
one-of-a-kind monotype prints as unique as Mom is!
Workshop instructor, Christina Carroll, with her Mother, Norma (who just turned 86!)
Working the plate ... almost ready to print!

Sons, daughters and mothers carrying on ... losts of laughter always!

Attendees new to the materials and technique enouraged eachother and explored together on a lovely Saturday afternoon this past May 5th.





More workshops 
with Christina Carroll 
are planned for 2012, 
so we hope to see you!