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VOGUE Living: Burnt out. Hot Design Straight From the Oven

By Marta Puchalska-Kraciuk | March 26, 2024

A return to the roots and at the same time a step into the future: such an incredible marriage of impossibilities is experienced by designers who reuse clay to design furniture and accessories. Here is a selection of 10 unique works of applied art made of clay.

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Revealing the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize finalists

In case you’ve been wondering “who are the designers of the future?” the LOEWE FOUNDATION’s finalists are the place to look. Shortlisting thirty artists for its 2024 edition of the annual Craft Prize, Spanish luxury fashion house, LOEWE is putting its faith in the future of sustainable design and the emerging artisans behind it.

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The Uncommon Practice of Raven Halfmoon

By Jess Ardrey | Little Rock Soirée | January 1, 2024

Raven Halfmoon’s work is hard to miss. Her imposing sculptures purposefully take up space, the clay often shaped into humanistic forms and baked into neutral earth tones cut with searing splashes of red, each with echoes of her Caddo Nation citizenship.

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Coffee and Culture Podcast - Ileana Alarcon

Interviewed by Matthew Chase-Daniel | Santafe.com | October 28, 2023

Ileana Alarcón is a Columbian-American artist currently working with paper pulp to create sculptures which are both familiar and unexpected.

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Raven Halfmoon’s Monumental Homage To Indigenous Women

By Chadd Scott | Forbes | July 6, 2023

A story this big needs artwork this big.

For her solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, Raven Halfmoon (Caddo Nation; b. 1991, Norman, OK) debuted her largest sculptural piece to date, Flag Bearer, a three-stacked figure measuring over 12-feet-tall.

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Raven Halfmoon’s Monuments to Mothers

Erin Joyce | HYPERALLERGIC | July 4, 2023

Sculpting voluptuous figures with richly dynamic surfaces creates a shared humanity between Halfmoon, the artwork, and the viewer.

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Can Artists Channel the Force of Water?

Nancy Zastudil | HYPERALLERGIC | May 31, 2023

Going with the Flow explores the role of water in the Southwest amid the 23-year drought, but neglects the ongoing tug of war due to water mandates and drought.

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Zona Maco 2023: Majestic Bodies

By Gabriella Garcia, Cool Hunting, February 15, 2023

If there was any doubt before, 2023’s ZONA MACO has proven that the art world has fallen in love with CDMX. This year’s record-breaking edition attracted over 77,000 international visitors and featured 216 exhibitors from 26 countries, solidly cementing the festival as Latin America’s hottest art affair.

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2022 American Craft Council Awards Celebration

Every other year, the Council bestows four types of awards to recognize the inspiring individuals and organizations who are moving the field forward. Congratulations to Karen Hampton on her induction to the College of Fellows.

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Five Questions with Tara Kopp

August 10, 2022

Brooklyn-based painter Tara Kopp creates architectural models with miniatures--dolls, furniture, and other objects she collects --which become scenes for her premise. The doll-like characters are surrogates for the average urban dweller.

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