Kari Weaver Hopkins is a new America Creates studio potter working in the mountains of Yancey County, North Carolina. I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from Clemson University in 1996.
For the next decade, I relocated several times, staking my claim to whatever available space I could find for my studio. In [...]
Jan Allmon is a new artist on America Creates. She was born and raised in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country. She was interested in art at an early age and took lessons on weekends as a young girl. Her love for old stone buildings and rolling farm land influenced many of her early paintings. [...]
Friday I was in Los Angeles for meetings with Ovation TV and Corinna Cotsen, board member of the American Crafts Council. Ovation TV is the only cable network that is truly an “arts” channel. Bravo and A&E have gone the route of reality shows and syndicated re-runs. Ovation has really picked up the torch and [...]
Artist Jill Flinn, has been designing and creating bas-relief sculpture paintings since 1990. Her technique developed from a desire for more depth of surface texture not found in using paint and gel mediums on canvas and board. Essentially, she creates her own canvas on which to paint. Each piece begins as an original relief sculpture in [...]
A new craftsman has joined America Creates. Jake Balcom is an amazing blacksmith from Lincoln, Nebraska.
I had the great fortune to visit Jake about 3 weeks ago in his studio and work on a video for him about his work and process. You can view it by following the link below.
http://blip.tv/file/1386157/
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