Art, design, and visual culture

Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2025-01-08 10:45

Nicole McLaughlin’s Mixed-Media Sculptures Celebrate Craft, Heritage, and New Life

From ceramics and wool fiber, Nicole McLaughlin (previously) summons striking connections between materials, heritage, and personal experiences. She draws upon the rich traditions of historically domestic crafts to reconsider their roles today, merging ceramics and textiles into elegant, cascading wall sculptures...
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Arts and Crafts
Wed, 2025-01-08 05:00

Sophie O’Neill’s Detailed Embroidery Journals Chronicle All 365 Days of the Year

A few years ago, Sophie O’Neill—who works as The Stir-Crazy Crafter—hadn’t yet learned how to embroider. She didn’t have any supplies, but one idea in particular sparked a creative flame: an embroidery journal. The first one she saw was made by fiber artist Sam Gillespie, and O’Neill immediately sourced some basic supplies and began popping needle and thread through the fabric. She was hooked...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2025-01-07 17:07

‘Doing Is Living’ Highlights Five Decades of Ruth Asawa’s Biomorphic Wire Sculptures

In the wake of World War II panic and paranoia, the U.S. government feared that Japanese Americans would commit acts of sabotage against the nation. Along with some 120,000 Japanese Americans living in the western part of the country, Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) and her family—separated from their father, who was sent to a camp in New Mexico—were uprooted in 1942 and sent to another internment camp hastily organized at the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, California. There, Asawa and her siblings lived in two horse stalls for five months...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2025-01-07 09:27

Traveling Middle America, Richard Sharum Reaches for the Heart of the Heartland

What characteristics define a contemporary American? Amid an increasingly polarized political and cultural landscape, photographer Richard Sharum traveled across America’s “spine” to suss out the common threads and seemingly insurmountable disparities of a fractured nation...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2025-01-07 05:00

Embroidered Ceramic Vessels by Caroline Harrius Merge Disparate Crafts

Through tiny holes puncturing hand-shaped vessels, Stockholm-based artist Caroline Harrius (previously) embroiders delicate designs. She merges two distinct crafts—ceramics and fiber art—that don’t typically share much in common, exploring relationships between form and function, decoration and utility, and historically gendered artisanal practices...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2025-01-06 17:21

Gertrude Abercrombie’s Autobiographical Surrealism Traverses Dreams and Reality

“Surrealism is meant for me because I am a pretty realistic person but don’t like all I see,” Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) once said. “So I dream that it is changed. Then I change it to the way I want it.”..
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2025-01-06 10:33

Annie Duncan’s Ceramic Sculptures Expand Upon the Modern Feminine Experience

What objects are associated with femininity? Male-dominated art historical eras point to more traditional motifs such as flowers for fertility and dainty, domestic accoutrements like lace and porcelain. A more contemporary perspective might include everyday items from the drugstore, such as disposable shaving razors, claw clips, and lipstick...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2025-01-06 06:13

Ceramics and Glass Merge in Christina Bothwell’s Transformative Sculptures

When Christina Bothwell was younger, her primary focus was making the best work she was capable of. “Now, it occurs to me that I am part of a continuum,” she says. “It’s the feeling I have when I am making stuff that is the important thing—the process… That’s what we do as artists, right? Lay the groundwork for the next generation.”..
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2025-01-06 05:00

Elevate Your Creative Practice with SVA Continuing Education Courses, Workshops, and Residency Programs

Ready to take your practice and creativity to new heights? SVACE has the resources and expertise to help you go to the next level. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2025-01-03 08:27

January 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2025-01-03 05:00

Near Liverpool, a One-of-a-Kind Art Environment by Ron Gittins Is Saved

Behind the unassuming red brick facade of a gable-roofed flat in Birkenhead, England, sits a home like no other. The only clue passersby would have had, until recently, was a pair of hand-sculpted figurative columns that flanked the wooden front door. But to step inside this corner flat near Liverpool is to be transported into the imaginative world of Ron Gittins...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2025-01-02 08:30

In Paintings and Quilts, Stephen Towns Spotlights Black Leisure in the Jim Crow South

In central Florida, Ocala National Forest is dotted with more than 600 lakes and rivers. A nearby recreation hub, Silver Springs, has capitalized on the tourism potential of these glistening, clear bodies of water for decades, offering sandy riverside beaches and taking visitors on jaunts in glass-bottom boats...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2025-01-02 05:00

Apply for the 2026 Arts/Industry Residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s renowned Arts/Industry program is accepting applications through February 28, 2025, for 12 residency openings in 2026. ..
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-12-31 12:00

Ring in the New Year with Andrea Love’s Stop-Motion Felted Wool Pyrotechnics

Rockets soar and sparks fly in Andrea Love’s animated tribute to a favorite New Year’s Eve tradition. In case you can’t make it to a live event this year, sit back and celebrate the launch into 2025 with the artist’s mesmerizing pyrotechnic show...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-12-31 08:28

Community, Traditions, and Resilience Ring Through New Public Works for Tbilisi Mural Fest

Residents and commuters alike can now enjoy more than 20 new, large-scale public artworks across five Georgian cities thanks to the 2024 Tbilisi Mural Fest (previously). The sixth edition facilitated new installations in Kutaisi, Batumi, Gori, and Gurjaani—in addition to its namesake community—by nearly a dozen artists from around the country and beyond...
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Arts and Crafts
Mon, 2024-12-30 10:57

Beams of Light Lance Monumental Architecture in Jun Ong’s Astral Installations

In artist Jun Ong’s luminous installations, rays of light pierce through concrete, stone, and steel. In his ongoing Stars series features LED strips that intersect with the human-built environment in monumental, illuminated geometries...
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Arts and Crafts
Fri, 2024-12-27 06:00

Mous Lamrabat’s Striking Portraits Put Unity, Love, and Compassion in Sharp Focus

Born in Morocco and raised in Belgium, Mous Lamrabat has long been fascinated by diasporic experience and the surprising parallels, contradictions, and intersections between cultures. Through fashion photography and vibrant personal work, the photographer celebrates love, freedom, and unity...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-12-26 14:25

The Acceptance of Chaos Whirls Through Maria Tomazou’s ‘The Tornado Outside’

Anna’s next-door neighbor is a tornado. Constantly at odds with her surroundings, the young woman shields herself from chaos by staying inside, fussing over small details like the placement of books on shelves and adjusting crooked picture frames on the wall...
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Arts and Crafts
Thu, 2024-12-26 10:49

Sonya Kelliher-Combs Merges Collective Knowledge and Native Alaskan Heritage in Mixed Media

Raised in the Alaska community of Nome, which sits on the coast of the Bering Sea, Sonya Kelliher-Combs traces her family lineage to the northernmost reaches in Utqiaġvik and the central inland city of Nulato. Now based in Anchorage, her Iñupiaq and Athabascan ancestry, cultural heritage, and relationship to the land constitute the nucleus around which her multidisciplinary work revolves...
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Arts and Crafts
Tue, 2024-12-24 05:03

Nicholas Galanin Hews Visions of the Present From Indigenous Knowledge, Land, and Memory

Between 1869 and the 1960s in the U.S., thousands of Indigenous children attended at least 523 boarding schools, supported by the government and church groups that were fueled by the grim motto, “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.”..
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Art, design, and visual culture

Art, design, and visual culture

The best of art, craft, and visual culture since 2010.

Nicole McLaughlin’s Mixed-Media Sculptures Celebrate Craft, Heritage, and New Life

Sophie O’Neill’s Detailed Embroidery Journals Chronicle All 365 Days of the Year

‘Doing Is Living’ Highlights Five Decades of Ruth Asawa’s Biomorphic Wire Sculptures

Traveling Middle America, Richard Sharum Reaches for the Heart of the Heartland

Embroidered Ceramic Vessels by Caroline Harrius Merge Disparate Crafts

Gertrude Abercrombie’s Autobiographical Surrealism Traverses Dreams and Reality

Annie Duncan’s Ceramic Sculptures Expand Upon the Modern Feminine Experience

Ceramics and Glass Merge in Christina Bothwell’s Transformative Sculptures

Elevate Your Creative Practice with SVA Continuing Education Courses, Workshops, and Residency Programs

January 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Near Liverpool, a One-of-a-Kind Art Environment by Ron Gittins Is Saved

In Paintings and Quilts, Stephen Towns Spotlights Black Leisure in the Jim Crow South

Apply for the 2026 Arts/Industry Residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Ring in the New Year with Andrea Love’s Stop-Motion Felted Wool Pyrotechnics

Community, Traditions, and Resilience Ring Through New Public Works for Tbilisi Mural Fest

Beams of Light Lance Monumental Architecture in Jun Ong’s Astral Installations

Mous Lamrabat’s Striking Portraits Put Unity, Love, and Compassion in Sharp Focus

The Acceptance of Chaos Whirls Through Maria Tomazou’s ‘The Tornado Outside’

Sonya Kelliher-Combs Merges Collective Knowledge and Native Alaskan Heritage in Mixed Media

Nicholas Galanin Hews Visions of the Present From Indigenous Knowledge, Land, and Memory

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