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  Garth Johnson | Craft

You should go there right now because THIS should not be missed!

During the month of December, IDTextile studio invite you to visit our HOME SWEET HOME. Room by room, post after post, find out about our furniture collection “handmade design”. In an effort to confront environmental and economic issues we have made a conscious decision to develop objects in accordance with a strong “make do” ethos whereby salvaged textiles and furniture are cleverly combined with all our creative know-how. “Cross-encounters” give rise to a collection of unique pieces, where a frail mirror might find protection under a crocheted cover, or where a damaged cane chair might be rescued by woven-in embroidery…each object and each scrap of material telling a story and their cross encounters being limited only by our (your) imagination.

Kanizsa cube

From Beauty and the Brain: The Puzzle by Tim Parks

What happens in the brain when we look at a painting, listen to music, read a book? This was the subject of Neuroesthetics: When Art and the Brain Collide, a workshop conference at IULM University Milan bringing together a mix of neurobiologists and art historians. The atmosphere was tense and expectant, the art folk anxious that they wouldn’t understand a word, the biologists concerned that their work would seem underwhelming and wrongheaded.

Read more HERE

via NYRblog

ArtClothText is now hosted at http://mackenziefrere.com/artclothtext

The new blog features two new pages (still under construction) including VIDEO, where you will find the latest in the Video at your leisure… series, and FEATURED showcasing the talents of emerging artists, craftspeople and designers. Submissions for either page will be accepted at any time.

LINKS to artist web pages, galleries museums, arts venues, publications and schools will be transferred to the new blog over the next few weeks. If a link to your website or blog appeared on the original ArtClothText site it will likely make its way onto the new platform. Please let me know if a link to your website or blog has disappeared as it is possible that I will miss a few. (Links to websites or blogs that have not been updated in the last six months will be deleted.

Subscribers to the old ArtClothText may re-subscribe using the RSS feed buttons on the right side bar. ArtClothText with posts older than September 16, 2009 will remain at http://artclothtext.blogspot.com until the end of the year when it will be deleted.

Finally, thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone for reading, commenting, contributing, forwarding and linking to this blog over the last two years! Your talent, curiosity and enthusiastic support continues to make ArtClothText better and better with every post!

Warmly, Mackenzie Frère

I have just received an email from the members of a small French textile design studio. ID Textile recently created an installation in a small chapel for the Festival of Linen in Normandy, France. The space is exquisite and the work sensitive and compelling. You may enjoy additional photographs of the installation are available on ID Textile’s blog HERE

Elsa Eriika`s blog Weaving Finlander is a visual delight replete with links to weaving and textile blogs from around the world…enjoy!

I am a regular visitor to Cynthia Korzekwa’s blog Art for Housewives. Cynthia is an artist and blogger interested in re-using, repurposing or otherwise recycling items into beautiful art, craft and wearables. Her most recent entry (October 31, 2007) has links to some great articles about the prevalence of clothing made from recycled fabrics, notably flour bags and feed sacks during the 1930’s.

I became a fan of Korzekwa’s blog after discovering artist/designer Miwa Koizumi, who made these…

You can read an interview with Koizumi HERE.

Cynthia Korzekwa’s artist website, like her blog is an eclectic mix of craft, art, writing and folk net-art. Definitely worth the visit.