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Bellevue Arts Museum. 2005 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. Terri Logan The Art of Silver and Stone. Dressing a Galaxy The Costumes of Star Wars.Kevin Coates A Glorious Obsession. Tutankhamun’s Broadcollars Unusual and Otherwise. Amy Kahn Russell Fusion Jewelry Artist. Exhibition Opulent Splendor. Ethnographic Arts Ornaments of the Marquesas. Bead Arts Venetian Bead Sample Cards. Marketplace Leekan Designs. Museum News Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. Ancient Arts Salmon Ruins Museum and Research Library. |
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Bellevue
Arts Museum |
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Robin Updike |
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Founded thirty years ago as a showcase for craft, the museum drifted away from its roots in recent years and flirted, disastrously as it turned out, with contemporary art and a watered-down version of the avant-garde. After running out of money, due in part to poorly defined programming and an uninterested public, the Museum in September 2003 closed its doors and spent the next year re-thinking its purpose. This June it reopened as the Bellevue Arts Museum dedicated to craft and design. The museum’s current major exhibition is David Chatt: Two Hands, Twenty Years and a Billion Beads. The exhibition is a twenty year retrospective of Seattle-based bead artist Chatt, who was profiled in Ornament in Spring 2005. Photograph by Lara Swimmer Photography.
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Philadelphia Museum Of Art Craft Show 2005 |
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Jennifer Dong |
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On approach to its thirtieth anniversary in 2006, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show’s enduring standard in more palpable this year, as it continues to honor the artistry of the handmade. The traditional categories of media encompass basketry, ceramics, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, wood, and decorative and wearable fiber. Craft Show Manager Nancy O’Meara says that Show Management “is concerned that we are not reaching all of the talent out there in our art world.” In 2001, the Craft Show added an additional component to the show designated as the Guest Artist Program. This year’s Guest Artists are from Germany and are given the opportunity to dazzle the Show’s spectators. The Craft Show’s esteemed jurors include Mira Nakashima, Katya Heller, Kathleen Foster, Kenneth Trapp and Bruce Hoffman.
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Terri Logan |
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Leslie Clark |
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THE
ART OF SILVER AND STONE
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Dressing
a Galaxy |
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Patt Diroll |
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THE
COSTUMES OF STAR WARS
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Kevin
Coates |
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Beth Frankl |
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A
GLORIOUS OBSESSION
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Tutankhamun’s Broadcollars | by
Robert K. Liu |
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UNUSUAL
AND OTHERWISE
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Amy Kahn Russell | by
Carl Little |
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FUSION
JEWELRY ARTIST Her agenda is wonderfully ambitious. Some of her pieces are bold and brash, yet she also produces smaller scale jewelry for the more conservative customer. More significant to her growth as a jeweler, Russell absorbed the art and culture of her surroundings, falling in love with temples and complex carvings. She also became a collector and remains one to this day. In creating an ornament Russell begins by arranging various elements on a worktable, moving them around, eventually taping them is place. “It’s a question of colors and shapes,” she says. Another specialty of this multi-threat jeweler consists of necklaces made from many strands of beads in different colors. A recent piece features handcarved vesuvianite with peridot, freshwater pearls and citrine, all bezel-set on a clasp. Photographs by Gordon Bernstein. |
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Our upcoming issue 37.4 contains
Nubian Jewelry
Kate Mensah
Philadelphia Craft Show
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