Posted by mollie-green on 2005-10-24 00:30:01
Post Subject: mexican folk art meet scandinavian design....
mollie green strives to represent an eclectic assortment of interests and ideas. The aesthetic is mexican folk art meets scandinavian design......west Texas meets the midwest. Colorful cards, clever drawings, thrift store finds. Check out the new online destination......
Posted by robin42 on 2006-12-23 18:09:48
Post Subject: AD: Hand made buttons (Sewing) Primitive Style
I make hand made buttons mainly in the primitive or folk art style. Some of my buttons are hand painted, some use graphics. I am trying different shapes and materials (wood, plastic, resin etc.). These are (I think) quite unique and would appeal to people that like to make penny rugs or even hand crafted dolls. I'd be interested in hearing what you think.
Posted by erinina on 2005-07-26 08:22:12
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i think the american folk art museum is pretty great, as well as the museum of natural history, which has a number of international showcases with costume, animals, and traditional arts and crafts. a number of fashion designers have used the natural history museum as their inspiration for an entire season's colletction. i could spend days there, there's so much to see and draw and be inspired by!
and, remember, public museums, including the met and natural history museum, have a suggested price of admission. you do not have to pay the $12, but rather can choose to donate what you'd like, if anything (i ususally pay $1).
Posted by SpanishFly on 2004-06-03 16:12:03
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My husband surprised me with a trip to Oaxaca in January, and I loved it there so much... I want to go back. We spent time in Oaxaca City and in a beach town called Hualtulco. Both were amazing.
Oaxaca City -- amazing food, tons of folk art, beautiful cathedrals, HUGE markets that sell everything... I came back with an entire suitcase of stuff; most of it was folk art and that amazing oil cloth. Some cool things to do outside of the city too; it's pretty easy to arrange a tour.
Hualtulco -- in my opinion, this is how every beach SHOULD be. Beautiful, clean, gorgeous view, fruity drink cocktails brought right to you. (Seriously, it has been really hard to go back to the Jersey shore after being in Hualtulco...) We stayed at a resort, which was more expensive than the Oaxaca City part of our trip; but the relaxation was so worth it. And there is a small town square we took a cab to... there was a cathedral there with a huge Virgin of Guadalupe painted on the entire ceiling.
Back when I was getting ready for my trip, I posted on the old original Glitter and got some really helpful info. Here's the link to that thread:
Posted by canary on 2006-02-05 21:08:33
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Great ideas...all of them! The micro scenery could be very interesting, I could burn a design in the concave of the bowl as a twist on the ole wooden plaque---they're rice bowls, about the size of cereal bowl. But in very sad condition
I took some of the larger monkey pod trays and painted them; posted pics in my photos! see knot heart and folk art tray...
I've got to try the birdfeeder and/or windchime projects! Making something useful really appeals to me.
Posted by xuli on 2004-12-20 19:10:08
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I've heard good things about the CNN tour too, although it depends somewhat on what you're expecting. My friend who raved about it took her little brother and they made a tape of themselves reading the day's news -- so that's the kind of experience it is. There's also the Coca-Cola museum, which I refused to do the entire time I lived in Atlanta because I refuse to pay to be advertised to, but it's something every metro Atlanta middle school does a field trip to at one time or another.
I don't live in Atlanta currently, but lived there for three years, and all of Becca's advice is right on (especially the part about the Flying Biscuit). You might also like the following:
Museums:
-- The Atlanta History Center is a cool history museum; it depends somewhat on what their visiting exhibition is, especially if you're not a Civil War buff, but I went to a folk art exhibit there once that was absolutely fabulous.
-- The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center is also very cool and very moving -- there's tons of stuff there to see, like his childhood home and church and stuff as well, plus lots of Civil Rights Movement stuff.
Greasy Spoon Restaurants:
-- The Waffle House! If you've never been there (being from Wyoming), do check it out. It's a cheap-o, totally greasy, totally classic Southern chain with really great grits. Do this only if you are gastrointestinally adventurous, though, and do be prepared for lots of grease.
Another place to go for people watching and strolling and shopping is downtown Decatur, where you'll also find lots of great restaurants.
And finally, for local food of the "new Southern cuisine" style, you can't beat Vickery's on Crescent Ave., which is apparently located in the childhood home of a friend of Margaret Mitchell's or something. It's in Midtown, on a small side street off 14th street (I think the official street is Crescent).
For Savannah, if it's reasonably warm outside, I totally recommend doing a nighttime haunted tour. They're kind of cheesy, but if you like ghost stories they are tons of fun.
Posted by karikazo on 2004-06-15 09:25:18
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Oh, gosh, I like almost all of these. I also like to put an embroidered fez on a lot of my big projects because a fez = They Might Be Giants.
PamtheQueen, have you seen this German folk art fabric, which is a little similar to your Scandi fabric?
http://www.equilter.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_main.html?catid=132&sid=31U9Hz0-TA2DCYH-34104234863.bd
I have some of their prints and they are a lot of fun to work with.
Posted by PamTheQueen on 2004-06-10 16:50:37
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I *heart* (giggle) the sacred heart motif on anything! I also like hearts with wings.
My fav in the eighties (duh) used to be paisley. Anything paisley!
I also like swedish folk art motifs. I have some awesome fabric from Ikea with motifs I want to use elsewhere: http://www.snapnpost.com/queen/photo-large/d9898a31-279b-4d38-8d38-523152698ce0/
My newest favorite motif and probably the one I have the most rubberstamps and gift items (including jewelry) is the kokopelli -- all different kinds! If I could find a fabric print like the swedish one above with cool kokopellis, i would be a happy chick! Of course, that is what I learned screenprinting for...i'm just lazy :)
Posted by baltica on 2004-09-01 12:15:06
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My mom went through a sewing "phase" in the late '70s and churned out a bunch of Halloween costumes, Christmas decorations, and the like. Since then, nothing. My father can be very creative, especially with furnituremaking, woodwork, photography and painting, when he has the time. I really hope he'll take things further when he retires. Neither of my grandmothers did any crafty things, as far as I know. I'm really interested in the folk art of their countries (Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania) and would love to learn more about those.
Posted by mirz on 2004-09-01 12:42:46
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I'm really interested in the folk art of their countries (Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania) and would love to learn more about those.
Ah, there is that thing too. I wasn't able to think about that, because my family is all from Finland. I have no roots in other countries. In Finland there are plenty of crafty traditions, and naturally some of them come from other countries as well. In different areas of the country are different traditions, so roots may vary in one country too..
But what about your roots? Where is your family from? Everyone else too, not only baltica. And how does these "foreign" roots show in your crafty legacy?
Posted by happydaisydoo on 2005-01-18 16:02:00
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Long before I began my career there, the museum for which I work acquired a bedspread covered with buttons. The creator laid the buttons out in the pattern of a friendship quilt and sewed on each individual button. She worked the buttons in a color scheme with each color representing a piece of the "quilt." It contains over 12,000 buttons and weighs a ton. It is a beautiful piece of folk art. It is said that the creator also glued buttons to mat board in a variety of patterns to make differnet framed pieces. She used the buttons to essentially paint. Buttons were her primary medium to create her art. I believe the "quilt" was created in the late 1950's when the woman was well into her 80's. I have always thought the work to be amazing, inspiring and lovely.
Posted by jasmineT on 2004-06-09 11:13:06
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My sister has some old folk art pictures done entirely in stamps. They are really amazing. The artist rarely used the actual image and instead focused on the patterns to make new objects. (he actually only kept the faces, the rest was abstract pattern that was only recognizable by the cut out form. does that make sense?...collage type stuff) It would be neat to do a diary or something like that out of stamps.
Posted by craftfetish on 2006-11-14 09:07:43
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The same for me. My entire family (save my dog) is 400 miles away.
So for the last few years and the last few apartments, the most important thing for me has been to establish a "mantle" somewhere and cover it with family photos. (Currently a set of shelves hung on the wall, previously a desk, strangely never an actual mantle although that is how I think of it)
Most of my crafty decorations emerged more out of a need for budget decor rather than really personalizing my space.
The other touches that stand out are an old trunk that my grandmother refinished for me. The home-iness comes from my memory of garage sale shopping with her the day we found the trunk and the assortment of pom pons and little league trophies and childhood nonsense that it is filled with.
I recovered some cheapo floor pillows with a beautiful fabric. They are more luxe than anything I could have afforded pre-made, but their charm is mostly the invitation to flop on my floor and hang out.
My best friend made me a folk art collage of buttons framed in a shadow box. The design is just a grid with a unique button at the center of each square, but it was the perfect touch for my tiny bathroom (and justifies any color towel I want). Not my craftiness, but because it makes me think of my friend it makes my house seem more mine.
Beyond that, paint is a wonderful thing. Living in my first condo and being allowed to paint the walls is awesome. My yellow living room and blue bedroom are so much more me than the dull institutional off white rental walls I've always had before now.
Posted by for_esme on 2005-06-18 15:36:15
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I like creativecat's idea!
Something that bothers me - I'm an Art History major, and RARELY are classes offered that emphasize or even mention "craft" media - textiles, ceramics, and furniture especially. In fact, while this is changing, it seems like the terms craft and folk art are often used with derogatory intent. It seems like people in the art world sometimes belittle "craft" for some of the reasons you all mentioned (design is not original, duplication) -- but of course those reasons don't always apply to "crafty" media like textiles. I sometimes wonder if textiles, ceramics, etc are rarely mentioned because their practice was pioneered by women. :(
I don't think there's as much of a distinction as we might imagine, or if there is a distinction it's dynamic. Even following a pattern takes creativity.
Posted by kitchenvixen on 2004-12-31 12:57:24
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This is my first time ever posting on here. Weeeeee!!!!
Overall happiness:
1. My wonderful husband who makes me laugh every day!
2. My wonderful brother moving back in with hubby and me!
3. Got a new job in the field I've always dreamed of working in: archaeology
Crafty inspiration:
1. learned to knit ala SnB!!! am completely addicted!
2. New York American Folk Art Museum
3. Joseph Cornell
Best Movies:
1. Garden State
2. Lost in Translation
3. Equilibrium
Best Books:
1. Time Traveler's Wife
2. Devil in the White City
3. Marco Polo
Best Music (new albums by):
1. Franz Ferdinand
2. Postal Service
3. The Stills
4. The Shins
5. Sleepy Jackson
6. Grandaddy
Family stuff:
1. Seeing my new nephews (twins!)
2. Redoing my brothers room under the influence of wine, IKEA, and the band Prozzak
3. Spending the weekend at Mar and Poppa's house in Santa Fe
Favorite Foods this year:
1. sweet potato anything but especially french fries!!!
2. chamomile peppermint tea
3. mojitos
Favorite TV Shows this year:
1. Carnivale
2. Veronica Mars
3. Simpsons
Bad habits I picked up this year:
1. knitting
2. belly dancing
3. heroin (just kidding!)
Good habits I picked up this year:
1. knitting
2. belly dancing
3. SWAT (southwest archaeology team)
Posted by Martita on 2004-05-19 08:06:14
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Communications Intern at ESPN This was my first, and until I was 23 best paying (per hour) job. I answered viewer letters and phone calls (some guy name Randy always wanted to know when the rasslin was gonna be on) managed the slide library and helped with the launch of ESPN2. I picked the logo. I was in high school.
Temp I spent a few days at a bank, a few days at the headquareters of local jewel and many nights crying.
Office Assistant I was the student work in my college's PR office. I made photocopies and answered phone and met my best friend changing the water bottle in the cooler.
Sandwich Artist You know where. It didn't suck because I worked with my oldest pal.
Framer I framed shit and got to use a big glass cutter. This was in the Georgetown Park Mall in DC and we were the cheapest store that didn't sell food. We used to get snotty looks from the girls from bebe.
Unpaid intern at an anti-war non-profit way better than my job the next summer as....
Technical writer at the bomb factory Okay, so they made gyroscopes for missile guidance systems, but it was still the man.
Seller of Folk Art Fun grad school job, and a great discount.
Fundraiser and party planner at a battered women's shelter/rape crisis center. Loved it.
Associate Director of Alumnae/i Relations at my alma mater. Glorified party planner and ass kisser. But there was good travel.
Director of PR and Marketing at my local Planned Parenthood. I love love love it.
Posted by alteredtome on 2005-09-28 02:21:27
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You know what I would love to see on Crafty TV? Renegade Crafts! I love watching craft shows for the techniques, and the occasional out of this world craft. Buuuuuuuttttt, it's rare I see something created on TV that I'm in love with. Like, I Love Carol Duvall, hate the ugly, cutesy, typical craft style she presents most of the time. You know, stuff like this.....
I want to see how to make Damned Dollies. And Stitch and Bitch creations. And reconstructed clothes. Altered books taken to the next level.
Basically, I want Get Crafty on TV.
Sigh, but, I guess if it's on TV, it's somehow mainstreamed, and then it's not renegade, and can lose it's political message. You know, it can become such a fad that it loses it's focus on re-defining creativity and domesticity. Then again, it might be great to get all craftistas thinking of their art in a feminist or political light.
Does DIY have a show like this? HGTV, TLC, and PBS sure don't, although PBS will occasionally present some cool American Folk Art, with lots of history and interviews with contemporary blacksmiths, woodworkers and such. Craft Corner DeathMatch is the closest thing that I've seen, on Style TV, but man, that host is just so annoying. What was he like in person, Jean? I mean, that has got to be just a bad act, no one is that over the top, right? And yeah, it's fun to watch, but there isn't a how-to, there's no featured artist.....it's just not it. 5000 channels, and there's nothing good on TV. ;)
