NEW CANAAN Silvermine Guild Arts Center Craft USAA '08," exhibition of original handmade works of art.
It's an entertaining if not revelatory exhibition of funky, mostly handmade works by 10 artists.
Looking closely you can see how lovingly painted her handmade works are.
Every item testifies to her gift for collecting unusual, handmade works — as well as her support for the people behind them.
Hadid was more of the Renaissance than some: her unusual and anachronistic distinction is that, very rarely for a contemporary designer, her most significant handmade works are paintings.
The Black Crafters Association Holiday Show and Sale will feature handmade works by prominent local African-American artists and will include beaded jewelry, dolls, pottery and hand-painted furniture.
Joshua Bingaman, a former sneaker dealer who started his own line of handmade work boots 18 month ago, in Austin, Tex., said that the demand for the conservative and versatile dress boots in his quirky-cool line, called Helm, had persuaded him to expand in that direction next season.
There is also a private-press industry that produces limited-run artist books and poetry broadsides, as well as a wide range of book artists and workers (illustrators, fine binders, letterpress printers) producing handmade works that are often bound for galleries and private collections.
"By choosing handmade work, consumers can create a world that rejects disposability in favor of individual creativity that's not dependent on huge corporations".
This reputation stems partly from an event held in Eugene every weekend called the Saturday Market, where local craftsmen sell a plethora of handmade works.
