Recent Posts Tagged With 'art'

• ARTIST SERIES: CROCHET CORAL REEF PROJECT

  Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 16:41 in art, news, Great Barrier Reef, environmental action, environmental art, crochet coral reef, coral reef project

  m o r e (science meets spool)I remember reading about this project in the newspaper a few years ago and was recently reminded of it again.Queensland sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim (who now live in Los Angeles) are working on a woolly doppelg...

• ARTIST SERIES: COREY ACKELMIRE

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 11:10 in art, contemporary art, news, sculpture, consumerism, environmental art, corey ackelmire

  Corey Ackelmire has been metalworking with the best of them since she was just 12 years old. She honed those skills at Missouri State University and Ohio's Kent State and now teaches design and metal craft as a full-fledged adult. She veers beyond me...

• ARTIST SERIES: KIRSTEN MUENSTER

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 11:47 in art, green jewelry, recycled jewelry, stuff to wear, sustainable jewelry, environmental artist, kirsten muenster jewelry

  m o r e (natural adornment)I had a chance to hear from jewelry designer Kirsten Muenster recently. She comes from a lineage of artists and metalworkers and creates contemporary, natural, beautiful pieces that have the environment in mind from start t...

• HOPEREVO

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 in art, Simple living, random acts, positive blogging, positive actions, hope notes, hoperevo, lim(b) projects, simple acts

  m o r e (hopeful notes)HOPErevo is a little revolution of, that's right, hope. One not so fine day in NYC, Krystyn decided to create some balance for the bad news and not so kind words around her. She and a friend spread lovey letters around the cit...

• YESTERDAY'S NEWS RECYCLED COLORED PENCILS

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 11:09 in art, kids, eco-friendly art supplies, green crafts, green artist, green art supplies, green guide for artists, recycled colored pencils, recycled newspaper products, yesterday's news colored pencils

  m o r e (eco-conscious art making)I saw this colored pencil set in a crafty store last weekend--they're made from yesterday's news in China. Recycled Chinese newspapers turned into truly lovely colored pencils in an equally cool recycled newspaper tu...

• ARTIST SERIES: KIM ABELES

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 11:44 in art, green art, environmental art, kim abeles, smog art

  m o r e (environmentally charged art)Kim Abeles is an artist in Los Angeles. Her work is intriguing and inventive as it riffs on some of the issues of our times. My favorite series involves smog--she "collects" it on her balcony in certain charged sh...

• A WORLD OF GRACE

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 11:40 in art, news, food and farmers, nikki mcclure, world prayers, a world of grace, cultural prayers, mealtime prayers

  m o r e (everybody invited to the table)It's hard not to like Nikki McClure, the earthy, activist papercut artist from Olympia. And it's hard not to like her newest poster design, "A World of Grace," featuring her stark but lovely papercut designs t...

• LANDSCAPES OF THE WORLD UNITE

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 11:40 in art, Iceland, dubai, nature photography, landscape photos, josef hoflehner

  m o r e (views)I just have to share with you the incredible work of photographer Josef Hoflehner.He appears to be the most renowned landscape capturer around and his photos of both natural and citified places around the globe are truly mesmerizing to...

• LEARNING TO LOVE YOU MORE

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 09:54 in art, home, Services, miranda july, learning to love you more, holiday activities

  m o r e (slowing down)One of the biggest complaints about this time of year is that it's supposed to be reflective and calm and it turns out to be hectic and frazzled.As a huge Miranda July fan, I recommend her site, Learning to Love You More, as an ...