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Handmade nation : the rise of DIY, art, craft, and design / Faythe Levine & Cortney Heimerl.

By: Levine, Faythe, 1977-Contributor(s): Heimerl, Cortney, 1981-Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Enfield : Princeton Architectural ; Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2008Description: 156 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781568987873 (pbk.) :; 1568987870 (pbk.) :Other title: Rise of DIY, art, craft, and design | Rise of Do-it-yourself, art, craft, and designSubject(s): Handicraft -- United States | Handicraft -- United States | Artisans -- United States | Handicraft industries -- United States | Graphic designDDC classification: 745.5 LOC classification: TT23 | .L487 2008Online resources: Table of contents only | Connect to this title (Table of contents) Also available online (Table of contents)

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Review: "Today's craft world has emerged as a marriage between historical technique, punk culture, and the DIY ethos, also influenced by traditional handiwork, modern aesthetics, politics, feminism, and art. It is no longer simply about cross-stitching samplers or painting floral scrolls on china. Instead, it embraces a vibrant movement of artists, crafters, and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media.".Summary: "The heart of the new wave of craft is the community. Participants share ideas and encouragement through websites, bless, boutiques, galleries, and craft fairs. Together they have forged a new economy and lifestyle based on creativity, determination, and networking. Faythe Levine has traveled 19,000 miles to document the handmade scene in the film Handmade Nation, and she and Cortney Heimerl bring together the raw, fresh, and radical results in this comprehensive book. Twenty-four artists from Olympia, Washington, to Providence, Rhode Island, and everywhere in between show their work and discuss their lives. Texts by Andrew Wagner, Garth Johnson, Callie Janoff, Betsy Greer, and Susan Seal supply a critical view to the tight-knit community. For those who are a part of the emerging handmade nation, or just interested in viewing it from afar, this book is an essential introduction."--BOOK JACKET.

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Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface, Faythe Levine -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, Andrew Wagner -- Craftifesto -- The New Wave of Craft Timeline -- Northeast -- Tracy Bull, Happy Owl Glassworks -- Deb Dormody, If 'n Books & Marks -- Heidi Kenney, My Paper Crane -- Jenine Bressner, Jenine Bressner Fireworks! -- Sabrina Gschwandtner, KnitKnit -- Down the Tubes: In Search of Internet Craft, Garth Johnson -- Southeast -- Sarah Neuburger, The Small Object -- Shannon Mulkey, Patina -- Christy Petterson, a bardis -- Alena Hennessy -- The Church of Craft: Making Our Own Religion, Callie Janoff -- Midwest -- JW and Melissa Buchanan, The Little Friends of Printmaking -- Emily Kircher, Emily Kircher Recycling Artist (EKRA) -- Melissa Dettloff, Lekkner -- Sue Daly, Timber! -- Annie Mohaupt, mohop -- Activism Is Not a Four-Letter Word, Betsy Greer -- South Central -- Jenny Hart, Sublime Stitching -- Knitta -- Whitney Lee, Made With Sweet Love -- Kathie Sever, Ramonster -- Jennifer Perkins, Naughty Secretary Club -- Craft Fairs Redux, Susan Beal -- West -- Jill Bliss, blissen -- Nikki McClure -- Clarity Miller, Blackbird Fashion -- Stephanie Syjuco, Anti-Factory -- Sarah RaRa, Birds of Prey -- Contributor Biographies.

"Today's craft world has emerged as a marriage between historical technique, punk culture, and the DIY ethos, also influenced by traditional handiwork, modern aesthetics, politics, feminism, and art. It is no longer simply about cross-stitching samplers or painting floral scrolls on china. Instead, it embraces a vibrant movement of artists, crafters, and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media.".

"The heart of the new wave of craft is the community. Participants share ideas and encouragement through websites, bless, boutiques, galleries, and craft fairs. Together they have forged a new economy and lifestyle based on creativity, determination, and networking. Faythe Levine has traveled 19,000 miles to document the handmade scene in the film Handmade Nation, and she and Cortney Heimerl bring together the raw, fresh, and radical results in this comprehensive book. Twenty-four artists from Olympia, Washington, to Providence, Rhode Island, and everywhere in between show their work and discuss their lives. Texts by Andrew Wagner, Garth Johnson, Callie Janoff, Betsy Greer, and Susan Seal supply a critical view to the tight-knit community. For those who are a part of the emerging handmade nation, or just interested in viewing it from afar, this book is an essential introduction."--BOOK JACKET.