| VICTORIA & ALBERT CRAFTS MAKERS INTERVIEW: Dail Behennah |
The V&A is the UK's premier contemporary crafts showcase for both British and International audiences. The V&A website includes interviews with craft artists including Dail Behennah. Behennah began working as a contemporary basketmaker in 1990, making constructed rather than woven, sculptural objects. In this brief interview, she explains something about the origins of her work.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/
contemporary/crafts/craft_
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Dail Behennah
42db BLACK & WHITE WILLOW BOWL
black willow, white willow, bamboo dowels, 8.5" x 17" x 17", 2005, $3,200
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SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART
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The Smithsonian Archives of American Art, has collected hundreds of interviews with artists. Some are available online, others can be obtained in hard copy, by contacting the Archives’ reference staff.
Go to http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections
/oralhistories/index.cfm/
search_letter/null/
for a complete list, including interviews with:
Anni Albers
Dorothy Gill Barnes
Sheila Hicks
Norma Minkowitz
Kay Sekimachi
Lenore Tawney
Claire Zeisler |
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Lenore Tawney
54t SONG OF THE LEAF BIRD
mixed-media assemblage, 17.5" x 6.25" x 6", 1995, $14,000
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BANCROFT LIBRARY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
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The Bancroft Library at the University of California,
Berkeley, has an Oral History Project of Interviews on
Fiber Arts in the Bay Area at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/
collections/subjectarea/
artslit/fiberarts.html two of these can be viewed online.
Kay Sekimachi (b. 1926),
The Weaver's Weaver: Explorations in Multiple Layers
and Three-Dimensional Fiber Art, 1996, 154 pp. (available online).
Bob Stocksdale (b. 1913),
Pioneer Wood-Lathe Artist, and Master Creator of Bowls
from Fine and Rare Woods, 1998, 164 pp. (available online).
Katherine Westphal (b. 1919)
Artist and Professor, 1988, 190 pp.
Charles Edmund Rossbach (b. 1914)
Artist, Mentor, Professor, Writer, 1987, 156 pp.
Gyöngy Laky (b. 1944)
Fiber artist. (In process)
Lillian Wolock Elliott (1930-1994)
Artist, Instructor, and Innovator in Fiber Arts, 1992, 215 pp. |
Katherine Westphal
35w CHUTO-HAUPA, paper and linen, 57" x 57", 1983
$5,000 |
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LARSEN: a living archive
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
http://www.artsmia.org/larsen/intro/index.cfm
LARSEN: a living archive was created in conjunction with the exhibition Jack Lenor Larsen: The Company and The Cloth at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. It provides a look into a growing database that will eventually represent the Institute's entire Larsen collection. The archive can be viewed by decade, by theme (such as batik or fashion fabrics) or as a comprehensive list of fabrics. |
KQED SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC TELEVISION - ADELA AKERS
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In the spring of 2007, San Francisco's public television station, KQED, visited Adela Akers in Sonoma County in the converted apple warehouse that she ues as a studio. In the clip, the artist discusses her inspiration and the process by which she creates the works she makes of linen, foil and horsehair.
http://kqedrm.streamguys.us/ramgen/real.kqed/tv/productions/spark/artists-orgs/adelaakers.rm
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24aa RED PASSAGE
Adela Akers
linen, horsehair and metal
18" x 16", 2003
$2,600
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25aa GOLD PASSAGE
Adela Akers
linen, horsehair and metal
18" x 16", 2004
$2,600
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In July 2007. Dani Marti talked about his work on ABC Australia's Sunday Arts program:
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Dani Marti: In July 2007
Dani Marti talked about his work on ABC Australia's Sunday Arts program:
http://browngrotta.com/Media/abc.marti.mov
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 New York Times Magazine
April 20, 2008
Lettering by Gyöngy Laky
THE GREEN ISSUE: Some Bold Steps to Make Your Carbon Footprint Smaller
pages 45-75
TO SEE MORE LETTERS AND AND A VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH LAKY ON THE NEW YORK TIMES SITE, click here.
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Gyöngy Laky
Hear Gyöngy Laky discuss her work Collateral Damage at SOFA Chicago 2006:http://www.sofaexpo.com/NY/2007/artist.htm |
Gyöngy Laky
97L Globalization IV: Collateral Damage
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Dawn MacNutt
In a video by Bruce Murray, Dawn MacNutt discusses Caring, the bronze sculpture she created for the 100th Anniversary of Children's Hospitals in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
http://www.dawnmacnutt.com/about.php
photo courtesy of Peter Barss and Bruce Murray |
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Gyøngy Laky - Smithsonian Archives of American Art
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| [Scrapbook], 1977-1981 / Gyongy Laky. 44 p. : b&w and col. ; 31 x 40 cm. Gyongy Laky papers, 1912-2007. Archives of American Art. |
| Biographical information, correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, works of art and a video regarding Gyongy Laky's career as a textile artist and educator in California are part of the collection of Laky's papers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Writings by Laky include a diary from her year in India (1971-1972); photographs of Laky, her family, friends, and works of art. Correspondents include Jerome Carlin, Mija Riedel, Mariana Covington, Sally Lilienthal and Jack Lenor Larsen, Barbara Boxer, Patsy Keene and Jackie Speier. Also included are the papers of Laky's mother, portrait painter and landscape artist, Zyta Laky. For more information see: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/collection/lakygyon.htm |
Kay Sekimachi and Bob Stocksdale - Smithsonian Archives of American Art
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| The Smithsonian Archives of American Art also contain fascinating items from the lives of Kay Sekimachi and Bob Stocksdale. Selected items can be viewed online including Kay's drawings from the 40s of the Tanforan relocation center for Persons of Japanese Ancestry and the grade card from her weaving class from Trude Guermonprez in 1955 (an "A," of course). http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/searchimages/images.cfm/filter_type/Collection/filter_key/11112 |
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