Tag Archives: Craft

On View Now

Tracing the Out-of-Sight: Cristina Camacho’s Symmetrical Tensions

by Anna Burckhardt | Apr 12, 2017

On View Now

Tracing the Out-of-Sight: Cristina Camacho’s Symmetrical Tensions

by Anna Burckhardt | Apr 12, 2017

Anna Burckhardt explores the process and motivations behind the anthropomorphic symmetry in Cristina Camacho’s painting series, “Bilateral Dissections.”

Memory at the Seams: Doris Salcedo’s Sumando Ausencias

by Anna Burckhardt | Feb 15, 2017

Memory at the Seams: Doris Salcedo’s Sumando Ausencias

by Anna Burckhardt | Feb 15, 2017

In Doris Salcedo’s public-art installation “Sumando Ausencias,” thousands of volunteers blanketed Bolívar Square with cloth containing the names of the victims of Colombia’s decades-long conflict.

Homesteading as Art and Revolution

by Claudine Isé | Nov 4, 2014

Homesteading as Art and Revolution

by Claudine Isé | Nov 4, 2014

Is homesteading still radical? Artist Heidi Norton, her parents, and other generations of their family discuss art, craft, and the back-to-the-land movements.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative

by Danielle McCullough | Dec 13, 2012

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative

by Danielle McCullough | Dec 13, 2012

Danielle McCullough profiles Tanya Aguiñiga, an artist/activist whose works take many forms, many of which engage notions of transnational autobiography.

Open Enrollment

Crafting a Moment

by Corina Reynolds | Aug 26, 2010

Open Enrollment

Crafting a Moment

by Corina Reynolds | Aug 26, 2010

Red waterfalls hang frozen from tarnished candelabra arms above hardened wax puddles joined permanently to a floral cloth. Dew collects on the open mouths of emptied wine bottles as cool …
Tim Burton, “Batman Returns”, Video Still, 1992. Courtesy Warner Bros Pictures

Patriarchy: Catwoman’s Scratching Post

by Steven Frost | Aug 11, 2010

Patriarchy: Catwoman’s Scratching Post

by Steven Frost | Aug 11, 2010

When I was a little kid I was obsessed with comic books. I consumed anything super hero related with a sense of urgency. I imagined that some day I would …

Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus

by Steven Frost | Aug 5, 2010

Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus

by Steven Frost | Aug 5, 2010

Contemporary fiber artists have a lot of baggage to handle. They have so much baggage in fact that they had to knit a bigger bag to fit everything in. Fiber …