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New Zealand Post Honours The Heitiki As An Icon Of Maori ArtVoxy, New ZealandRangi was awarded the 2006 Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship and the Molly Morpeth Canaday Creative Excellence Award in 2004. Rangi Hetet's paraoa carving appears on the $2.30 stamp. The contemporary carving links this year's series to …

Coal Craft | kxnet.com North Dakota NewsKXMC, NDDoc Hilz takes what they see as waste and turns it into art.. "being we're in coal country, that fit right in…" This powder fine coal dust is the base for Hilz's coal crafts.. "Coal isn't black enought, so this is the dirtiest stuff here this is coal …

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Gearing Up for Art FairsThe Ann Arbor Chronicle, MichiganA woodworker by trade, he would like to craft something a bit more elegant – something that does the craftsmanship of Nobilette's frame proud. The first stop on the Express will be Flint on July 6, with a stop in Lansing on July 10. …

Smithsonian Announces Archives of American Art Medal RecipientsArt Daily, MaineLarsen has won many awards and is one of only four Americans honored with an exhibition in the Palais du Louvre. Larsen is also a scholar, author, gardener, world traveler and an authority on contemporary crafts. He is well known for his East Hampton, …

Museum Spotlight: National Museum of Mexican ArtChicagoNow, ILI don't draw lines between craft and art, personally, and I'm not a fan of high art categorizations and credibility that derive from the motivations for making art more than the art itself. If this piece was accompanied by documentation about an …

The Milwaukee Art Museum offers a summer of “American Originals.”Time Out Chicago, ILA vision of American art as an integral part of American identity shapes the Milwaukee Art Museum's (MAM) three summer exhibitions: “Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures,” which runs through July 12, and the “American Originals” shows “The Artistic Furniture of …

Art fair attendees don't let rain dampen spiritsBurlington Hawk Eye,  United States"He was my experiment," Smithson said of Zach, who was the first child to stop and make a kite at the craft tent. Russell added a stick to stiffen the kite, an orange tail and a white string. Just as he finished, the rain […]

Chinese folk art of cutting paper to be taught at libraryHonolulu Advertiser, HIChung Ho will share a brief history of the folk art and present a step-by-step demonstration on the basic techniques of Chinese paper cutting. Children will have the opportunity to learn the craft using supplies that will be provided. …

Abu Dhabi Ship Building starts work on Bahrain landing craftZawya, United Arab Emirates… that provides ADSBADSB with a state of the art capability to develop designs from scratch using the very latest computer aided design (CAD) tools. The first steel landing craft is due for delivery in July next year and the second in February 2011. […]

Art blends fun into dads' dayHonolulu Star-Bulletin, HIBy Rob Shikina "It's nice to be out with my daughter," said Eric Harwit, 46, who was watching his daughter Mari at a craft table decorate a lunch bag with purple masking tape. "She really likes art." The Beretania Street museum held its free Bank of …