Sentences with phrase «american craft traditions»

The San Francisco - based artist playfully draws from American craft traditions, country - western aesthetics and classic European fables to create worlds reminiscent of folk stories and fairytales.

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To observe such arbitrary religious invention happening, you need only attend that remarkable caricature of the American religious scene, the annual national convention of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), most sessions of which will be devoted to considering what parts of what «traditions» can be crafted together to make a religion satisfactory to some group and / or set of interests.

We are a farm brewery, growing our own hops, and proudly craft real American beer inspired by thousands of years of tradition but not limited by convention.

Both Claire and Eliza grew up with a deep respect for crafts and creative pursuits of all kinds, and HOPEWELL is built on the tradition of American craftmanship.

Telegram & Gazette 3/4/13 Crafts, music, technology on tap at OSV in celebration of Native - American traditions

Using the bounty of northern California to make artisanal fermented vegetables, fruit and thoughtfully crafted condiments, we carry on the traditions of the American food pantry while also contributing to the dialogue.

In the 1980s, a decade when artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier art historical periods, Mark Innerst became known for beautifully crafted natural and urban landscape paintings that gave new life to the American tradition of the romantic sublime.

We are interested in exploring the studios» relationship to historical production, the interweaving of American craft and manufacturing traditions, utopic communities, notions of Sci - Fi Feminism, and the monumental relative to the inconsequential.

He traveled primarily to developing nations and Communist countries, in defiance of then - current American Cold War policies, learning craft traditions from the host country's artists and artisans.

Rebecca Salter's delicate, spectral abstractions connect with two rich traditions: the history of Japanese art and craft, of which she has in - depth knowledge, and post-war minimalist painting, exemplified best perhaps by Agnes Martin, the American artist to which she is sometimes compared.

Jim Rose combines timeless American traditions in beautifully hand crafted contemporary steel furniture and sculpture.

The Walter Anderson Museum of Art Tradition and Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art, an exhibition on view through April 30, 2012.

Schlue's use of materials speaks to a long tradition of American crafts, quilt makers and also contemporary artists such as Billy Al Bengston and Olafur Eliasson, and the recent works by Robert Irwin.

By using traditional African craft, the playful reconstruction of these American landmarks amplifies notions of culture within a globalized and capitalist context, and blurs the lines between commerce and tradition, as well as between art and craft.

Schwartz can be fairly neatly fitted into the tradition of Magical Realism, a loosely aligned group of American painters — Jared French is one; Paul Cadmus, another — drawn to enigmatic narratives, hushed symbolism, painstaking craft and the male nude, both as historical touchstone (cf. Michelangelo) and object of adoration.

Call it Etsy East: But instead of hip young American artists trying to renew the crafting tradition, the hands behind the goods for sale on the online marketplace Kadın Eliyle belong to low - income Turkish women.Although there is a strong tradition of entrepreneurship and self - employment in Turkey, the bureaucratic barriers can be high.