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There’s a Boston gallery that specializes in fine Japanese crafts, Keiko Gallery, which is right near my house. I can’t wait to go by as I’m seriously into one of the artists they represent, Niisato Akio, a porcelain artist. According to their site he did a workshop at Harvard in March 2009, I wasn’t living […]

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I don’t know how I found her, but wow is Lilach Lotan’s work amazing. She was trained at the Bezalel Academy is Israel in ceramic design and the pieces she creates in her new home of Canada are phenomenal. For people who read this blog often, you know I’m into porcelain and ocean-inspired art and […]

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Happy New Year! I’ve officially been writing this blog for 2 years now – wow how time flies! I hope everyone had a great holiday break and is back to the grind. For my part, this morning I learned that West Elm would be selling art from Etsy artists via their catalog it appears. When […]

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A few days ago the blog, Design*Sponge, listed out the winners of their scholarships and Misha Kahn was the top undergraduate winner. I was curious as to what garnered her the top honors and it was obvious upon visiting her site. She makes my yurt project looks small! Her “Egg” is 12 feet tall by […]

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Larry Kling is my great uncle, so perhaps this post is biased. He was a jeweler who worked through the 60s making beautiful pieces for all sorts of customers from his family to, as the rumor goes, Marilyn Monroe! Larry is sort of a mythical person in my family and his jewelry is no different. […]

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After three days in the woods, today we ventured into town. I went and got a massage and explored the yarn store…then we went to the Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough to see what they had up for sale. A lot of artists that I’ve written about I discovered at the SAC but today I […]

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Today is Thanksgiving here and while we wait for our 30 pound turkey to finish cooking I’m online shopping…naturally. Even though my family never abides by it, I enjoy making Christmas lists, it’s fun and hopeful! Courtney, my friend, is here with me and we got to talking jewelry. She introduced me to Melissa Joy […]

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Michael, my brother, strikes again with an awesome exhibit that sadly just closed at the Museum of Art and Design called, Dead or Alive? From the show page I learned about some of the awesome artists included and one completely caught my eye, Tracy Heneberger. The above, for example, is amazing. Her use of natural […]

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A new contributor to my little blog here is my friend Kathryn who is not only my upstairs neighbor in Boston but also an interior designer in training. Today she sent me an image of some gorgeous crocheted baskets at Design Within Reach, called the Neo Baskets. Upon reading the online description I learned that […]

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My brother sent me an image of a “land pin” or Pinching Earth yesterday that he had read on a variety of sites online. After digging around a bit I learned more about the artist, Mehmet Ali Uysal. Turns out that Mehmet, a 34 year old Turkish installation artist, does some other really neat works […]