LA Public Library: The World’s Largest Pop-Up Book
With original art created by Los Angeles artist and printmaker Daniel González and paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart, this ambitious feat of scale and storytelling constructed in the Rotunda of…
Craft in America: JEWELRY
JEWELRY features classic jeweler Tom Herman; Harriete Estel Berman who creates jewelry with recycled materials; the coeditors of Ornament Magazine; the legacy of modernist jeweler Art Smith; nature-inspired artist Gabrielle…
BBC Archive: 1976: DAVID HOCKNEY
Hockney has written a personal account of his own work, entitled Hockney on Hockney. Autobiographical in tone - with a wealth of archival material provided by his mother - it…
This Artist Says Ambition Is a Trap
For Jennifer Owen, a Maui potter and ceramics teacher, a meaningful life has taken shape through clay. Not through scale. Not through constant growth. Not through the pressure to turn…
Art21: José de Jesús Rodríguez
This documentary short follows the artist in a moment of creative transition as he adapts the techniques of mosaic to his multilayered compositions, embracing more openness, gesture, and ambiguity in…
Craft in America: INDUSTRY
INDUSTRY features Gee’s Bend quilters Lucy Mingo & Mary Ann Pettway, quilter Joe Cunningham, boat builder Graham McKay & Lowell’s Boat Shop, artist Bethanne Knudson & Libby O'Bryan & The…
Craft in America: MESSAGES
Craft has the ability to entice viewers to consider topics that they might find difficult. By expressing their ideas through their work, artists add meaning to the objects they create.
The history behind your favourite William Morris designs
At a time when factories were reshaping society, Morris and his contemporaries believed mass production was damaging not only the lives of workers, but also the beauty and meaning of…
Craft in America: HOME
HOME visits craft artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor