NYFA 2009 Arts Fellowships were awarded this year and I recently went through the crafts winners to see what they were making. One of my favorite artists, Emily Barletta, received one of the fellowships so I was intrigued to see which other artists were recognized. By this process I discovered Heather Hart, who, like me, […]
This weekend I spent out at my friends’ house in New Jersey, Nanske and Bill. While new friends, they are incredibly sincere, generous and open. They respect me, even though I’m younger, and they let me share my ideas, stories, and more. In addition to being awesome, Nanske is also very design conscious. She keeps […]
The best news I’ve heard all week is that my trip out West to San Francisco next week is going to coincide with the Renegade Craft Fair. I missed the Brooklyn event for my brother’s wedding preparations and was very disappointed – looks like I get a second chance. In going through the artists listed […]
The group Nest, that I’ve begun working with, has been really inspirational in many ways. On one of my current projects, the founder opened up her world and suggested I speak with a friend of hers – one of the founders of the company Graypants, which is a Seattle-based lamp and furniture company. Above are […]
My brother sends me tons of weird stuff from his Google Reader. Whether he’s home or abroad I typically wake up with at least one email from him with a small editorial comment and then whatever the weird thing is. He was spot on this morning with a needly felter from Minnesotta, Kit Lane. He […]
Another find at my recent journey up to the Cooper-Hewitt was Pernelle Fagerlund. I have spent some time in Copenhagen in the past and my favorite part of the city is in fact the Danish Design Center – my brother’s kitchen pendant lamp from there was his big gift from my time abroad! It’s no […]
Another stop on my Saturday of concept gallery/store visits was Cite, which doesn’t really count as I believe it’s regularly a furniture store but they had a selection of 23 Dutch designers in at the time, which were awesome. One studio I liked was Oooms Studio founded by Guido Ooms and Karin van Lieshout. Their […]
While at Droog today I fell in love with a huge work that they have in the store now by Pieke Bergmans. I had never heard of her but she’s Dutch, of course, and works largely in glass. As a reformed glass blower myself I know the basics of the process and when looking at […]
Today was a great day – after my brunch I was in Soho and remembered that the Droog store had reopened. I walked over and met one of the shop clerks as I had a question. He, it turns out, used to be really into fibers and textiles and told me all about felt artist […]
This week I went to the opening of my new friend’s show that she curated, Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner. I had heard from her about the Ladd brothers but hadn’t seen any of their work. Without realizing it my favorite piece in the show was theirs, 2010 Grenade Calendar, one piece of it is […]