Two stories celebrating the sheer delight of pure JOY. 36 joyful designs in uplifting shades of summer and transeasonal yarns by Lisa Richardson, ARNE
Calder Mobile, Georgia O'Keeffe's Home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, Photo by Myron Wood, 1980
While many bars mix drinks the way fast food joints crank out meals — buying large amounts of prepared ingredients, freezing materials to last longer, cutting corners to save money, and making each drink as quickly as possible — more and more places are handcrafting their cocktails.
10 architecturally inspired designs by Georgia Farrell in Felted Tweed and Kidsilk Haze. Georgia explores colour blocking, asymmetry, geometric pattern and surface embellishment, in a fresh and sophisticated colour palette. Information on sizing, yarn, needles and tools required To see all kits and individual pattern
On a sloped creekside site in Atlanta, Georgia, architect Staffan Svenson elevates humble materials and basic geometries to craft an affordable modern home.
Feeling small. Aching to do big things. Hankering to flee and make things simple. Like she did. (via I'm Revolting's style icon Pinterest board, which is mine too, without the work of doing it.)
We've got your leftovers covered. Single use plastic wrap is getting a not-so-fond farewell from us over here. We've long wished for a prettier and more lasting way to cover our bowls, and these reusable cloth covers are just the ticket. Designed exclusively for Food52, the soft fabric covers have an elastic band that fits snugly over bowls—so you can protect your leftovers, bread doughs, batter, or produce. The best part is that you can use them over and over again, and the tight fit means no struggling with getting plastic to stick or stay. When they need a refresh, just toss 'em in the washing machine. The natural and oatmeal covers 100% linen while the striped covers are 100% cotton—winning fabrics one and all. Set of 6 includes (2) 6.5" bowl covers, (2) 8" bowl covers, (1) 11" bowl cover, and (1) 14" bowl cover. Each set of six includes two 6.5-inch bowl covers, two 8-inch bowl covers, one 11-inch bowl cover, and one 14-inch bowl cover. Now, let's give all those extras a new lease on life... Sixteen (yep!) recipes to make the most of leftover egg yolks The best way to use up leftover sweet potato A leftovers pot pie recipe that doesn't taste like leftovers Made in: Brunswick, Georgia Product Warranty: Shipping & Returns: Free Standard Shipping on Orders $199+ and Easy-Breezy Returns Single use plastic wrap is getting a not-so-fond farewell from us over here. We've long wished for a prettier and more lasting way to cover our bowls, and these reusable cloth covers are just the ticket. Designed exclusively for Food52, the soft fabric covers have an elastic band that fits snugly over bowls—so you can protect your leftovers, bread doughs, batter, or produce. The best part is that you can use them over and over again, and the tight fit means no struggling with getting plastic to stick or stay. When they need a refresh, just toss 'em in the washing machine. The natural and oatmeal covers 100% linen while the striped covers are 100% cotton—winning fabrics one and all. Set of 6 includes (2) 6.5" bowl covers, (2) 8" bowl covers, (1) 11" bowl cover, and (1) 14" bowl cover. Each set of six includes two 6.5-inch bowl covers, two 8-inch bowl covers, one 11-inch bowl cover, and one 14-inch bowl cover. Now, let's give all those extras a new lease on life... Sixteen (yep!) recipes to make the most of leftover egg yolks The best way to use up leftover sweet potato A leftovers pot pie recipe that doesn't taste like leftovers
scandinaviancollectors: GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, Photographed at her Ghost Ranch home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, USA (c.1970s). The house was built in Adobe style, made out of straw and mud, which creates an un
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This is a collection of 125 artists in their studios from all over the world -- North America to Britain to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Brought to you by the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Coleman Street Wrap in Rowan Alpaca Classic (Fr) - Downloadable PDF is a Intermediate Knitting pattern by Georgia Farrell, available as a Downloadable PDF and includes instructions in French. Super fun to make, this pattern could be your next masterpiece!
50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired The World By Rachel Ignotofsky A beautifully illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Art highlights the achievements and stories of 50 notable women in the arts–from well-known figures like painters Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keefe, to lesser-known names like 19th-century African Amer
Have you ever had a grant application rejected? Find the "best fit" funders by asking yourself these 8 questions and start winning more grants.
Georgia O'Keeffe projects for kids. A collection of fun and easy ideas to help you teach about this famous artist. From Art with Jenny K.
The blue waters of Lake Huron—located north of Toronto— complement its majestic surroundings and offer a dream-like location for a retreat. A sensual...
Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.
Isaac Salazar makes this crazy pieces of "Book Origami". "I see my work as a way to display a meaningful piece of art onto a book that would otherwise sit on
The Melbourne-based ceramicist who likes creating vases, objects and sculptures that are 'not too cute and not too hideous'.
An exhibition marks the first UK survey of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century.
I speak simply as a teacher of a choir that has labored for many years and as an ardent though humble student of the great musical literature of Georgian Chant.
The Georgia Straight met with a traditional Japanese confection master to learn about his philosophy and art.
Where to see, buy and learn about textiles and other traditional crafts in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
In her latest solo exhibition, What Befell Us, California-based artist Tiffanie Turner explores notions of aging, imperfection, and perishability. Massive flower blossoms including dahlias, garden roses, ranunculus, and strawflowers are formed from Italian crepe paper and span more than five feet across. While in her previous work Turner strove for the ideal phenotype of each flower, in What Befell Us the artist pushes past perfection to investigate our collective relationship to flaws and damage. More
A complaint alleges unsafe treatment and conditions at a migrant detention centre in Georgia, US.
Las fotografías que Stieglitz realizó a Georgia O’Keeffe se descubren al cabo del tiempo como un auténtico estudio del cuerpo de la mujer, pero también del cuerpo del artista y, sobre todo, d…
A new exhibition of paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe will shine a light on an odd, obsessive artist
Quilt attributed to Ann Sloan Knox North Carolina Museum of History Last week I discussed this quilt of plaids, stripes and butternut---coarse fabrics commonly called linsey and jeans. My first thought when I saw the details was that the fabrics were homespun and home woven as the donors suggested---clothing worn by Ann's sons in the Confederate Army, perhaps spun and woven by Ann herself during the war. But a little research into Ann Knox's life reveals she was a wealthy woman who was unlikely to have spent her time at a spinning wheel. Before the war husband Samuel Buie Knox was worth over $200,000. The 1860 census lists him personally as having a dozen slaves. When he died in 1875 he left hundreds of acres in various plantations in an estate worth $7,000, a diminished fortune, but still substantial. Lucindy Jurdon, former slave, shows her mother's spinning wheel to a WPA interviewer in Georgia in 1938 "My mammy was a fine weaver..." If any domestic fabric production took place on the Knox properties before Emancipation, the spinners and weavers were probably the slaves. The origins of the fabric and of the patchwork quilt raise many questions. An alternative view of the quilt's fabrics is that the various cottons, wools and mixed materials were factory-woven at local mills in the Steele Creek community along the Catawba River. The Catawba River runs near Steele Creek on the North Carolina/South Carolina border. William Henry Neel's Steele Creek Cotton Mill was a grist mill converted to cotton production in the 1850s. The neighborhood mill did not produce a lot of cloth, but some of it may be in this quilt. The small Schenck Mill began cotton production in 1813, the first cotton mill in North Carolina. In 1848 the Rock Island Woolen Mill, named for Rock Island shoal in the Catawba, was founded. In 1849 the machines produced about 200 yards of cloth per day. The following year's census records 53 people employed there, a relatively large enterprise. In 1852, the mill advertised cassimeres, tweed, jeans and kersey. These were not fine wool broadcloths, fancy delaines or crepes but cheaper fabrics woven from coarse yarns. A reproduction cassimere wool Cassimere weave "a cross between the basket weave and a twill... " Four patch of finer printed wools known as delaine and challis, probably imported from Europe The types of cloth described differ mainly in type of weave and weight. An 1875 description of various types of wool. The fabric in the center of Ann Knox's quilt looks much like the reproduction "Brown Jeans Cloth" sold today by William Booth Drapers. The Rock Island Mill seems to have thrived in Steele Creek until the Civil War began in 1861. Operations then moved a few miles into the city of Charlotte, probably to ramp up production for Confederate uniforms. As the War dragged on higher quality fabric was harder to find. The fabrics in the medallion quilt may have been scraps from Ann Knox's wartime family clothing, stitched from locally purchased cloth. Post-war production at Rock Island continued in similar style. An 1869 description of the mill's Charlotte products: "One thousand to twelve hundred yards of cassimeres per day...The goods are from all wool cassimeres with double and twisted all wool warps, fit to adorn a Broadway dandy, down to the strong, heavy, durable jeans, so much liked by our own people, and so cheap as to be within the reach of the poorest." So while the fabrics in the Knox quilt may have been cut from the shirts Ann's sons wore before their deaths near war's end, the fabric might very well have been factory cloth from the local mill. Linsey quilt, a nine-patch set with madder-dyed wool strips similar to fabric in Ann Knox's center. The romanticism of "homespun" often embellishes the view of donors. As Clement Anselm Evans wrote in his 1899 Confederate Military History: "Homemade woolens had a sanctity in my eyes as true emblems of honesty and innocence." Homewoven or factory woven? The results would look the same, no matter how mechanized the small pre-War factory Steele Creek Presbyterian Church today Locally produced fabrics from small mills/factories are also worth saving as quilts and in museums, but the romance of "innocent homespun" tends to override an accurate history of successful industry. The Spinner 1880, Painting by Thomas Wilmer Dewing Lewis Hine, "Warper at his Machine," Mill in Newton, NC, 1908 Library of Congress Account of a fire at the old Rock Island Woolen Factory building. Screen shot from American Memory from the Library of Congress. By the time Charlotte's Rock Island Mill building burned in 1883 it was being used as a warehouse. Larger mills had taken over the state's fabric production. The question of who actually made the quilt might also be contested. It's time to look at these "honest homespun" quilts in an honest historical context. Read about the cotton mills of Mecklenburg County here: http://www.cmhpf.org/essays/cottonmills.html
A guide to an old Tbilisi walking tour through Georgian architecture and painted ceilings.
Documents on Contemporary Crafts is a book series published by Norwegian Crafts in collaboration with arnoldsche Art Publishers. The series provides a critical reflection of contemporary crafts in a wider context and in doing so asks questions about the ties between contemporary craft, fine art and design, thus helping to redefine the concept of crafts as…
Holiday Made: A crafty name to serve up plenty of festive spirit. Possible uses: A craft fair. A retailer. A party planner. A decorations brand.
Although she only picked up clay in 2020, Astrid Salomon has already exhibited in Milan and Australia! See her captivating work here.
