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Surreal Sculptures of Translucent Glass and Clay Explore the Body’s Transformative Processes

Colossal

To create the weathered appearance, she utilizes pit firing, which involves covering the sculpture with hay or leaves and burning them. Hand-painted details adorn the sculpture’s exterior, along with found objects like antique prosthetic eyes, deer antlers, and ball feet. Until then, follow her unearthly projects on Instagram.

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Aman Khanna’s Clever Clay Characters Exude Universal Expressions of Tenderness and Emotion

Colossal

An opportunity to explore this new direction arose when he attended the 2013 Pictoplasma Academy , an annual character art conference in Berlin. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. “The fact that it can be moulded into any shape or form is fascinating to me.”

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Discover a Global Collective of Artisans and Makers at elk & HAMMER

Colossal

“But to pick up a knife every morning and butter your bread is an experience, made even more lovely when that butter knife was hand-forged by a blacksmith who spent decades refining their craft, whose story you know, whose face you’ve seen. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Creative leads on the women that inspire them most

Creative Boom

After an early career as a lawyer at a magic circle firm, she began her art career at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Priya read modern languages at Cambridge University then received a distinction and the annual dissertation prize in the history of design from the Royal College of Art. Her inspiration. His inspiration.

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Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads

Design Milk

These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon uses to create his Black Masking suits and his contemporary art portraiture series. The massive suits he creates, and wears as a Black Master in ceremonial battles on Mardi Gras day, are sculptural forms based on his own body. Glass beads. A whole lot of time.

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Meet the Jury of the AZ Awards 2024

Azure Magazine

Highly regarded for her versatility and hands-on approach, Bargmann received her BFA in sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University before earning her Masters in landscape architecture at Harvard. Social justice projects have been a core focus of Blumberg’s practice.

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DM 15th Anniversary: Tanya Aguiñiga Spills the Milk

Design Milk

“I actually started as a community activist,” Tanya reminisced, “focusing on migrant rights and border issues as part of the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo.” The work Tanya is creating now is mostly focused on using Craft to aid in social justice and migrant rights. Felt Birds.