each designer was invited to choose an object from the Museum’s current exhibition, Touching Warms the Art, and create a garment in response to it. We suggested they might “interpret ‘inspired by’ as loosely as you like.” And the designers responded to shape, texture, repetition, and free-associative suggestion of narrative.
Touch It
Julia Barello’s “Flowers of Rhetoric: Paramythia”
Two jewelry shows open January 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Craft (724 NW Davis).
Where jewelry as craft rather than commodity diverged from the wearable into the contemporary art realm of the conceptual, artists have made fascinating work. But a new show at the Museum is as much about the […]
The Living Room at Museum of Contemporary Craft
The living room. The room alive.
There was a time the room we call the living room was called the parlor, used for guests and occasions while most of the living was done elsewhere in the house. And of course there was the era of the family room when most of the living was done there […]
101 Reasons: Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Holiday Sale
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Yes, Crafty Wonderland’s Super Colossal Holiday Sale is their biggest yet with more than 100 artists and makers selling their goods. But the extra curious bonus reason for going to the sale this Sunday, December 16 from 11-5 PM is that it’s held in the Norse Hall (111 NE 11th) built in 1928 by the […]
Super
Four of Portland’s entrepreneurial DIYers have set aside their own crafty businesses for a minute to put together Super Crafty, a new book with 75 projects and articles in its 304 pages.
Tuesday, October 18 at 8 PM at the Doug Fir, meet the ladies behind the book: Lucky Loo Loo’s Rachel O’Rourke, Torie Nguyen, […]
