Every Monday, Hello Craft Directors present our favorite picks of the week from the creative community. We’ll dish what’s caught our eyes at the moment from giveaways, blog postings and shop offerings, to [...]

The craft world is a living, breathing, constantly changing and evolving organism, and there are definitely major trends that course through it’s veins. But my they are tricky. They’ll surface for months only to be stuffed to a storage closet’s backward depths after they’ve reached an arbitrary and unexpected expiration date. What dictates these enigmatic, [...]

A great exhibit in the Boston Area… all thread lovers should check it out.

Drawing in Thread: Contemporary Embroidery
March 30 – May 2
Opening Reception on April 8 at 5p.m. with a gallery talk at 6:30p.m.
The Gallery is located in Carlson Hall on the Mount Ida College campus
Traditionally, embroidery is a decorative embellishment made with a needle [...]

The beauty and grace of the hand of embroidery artist Walter Bruno Brix is inspiring. He creates lovely subtle simple lines in thread to explore issues of sexuality, the aging body, and of life and death.
I am especially drawn to his series 42, a series of what I assume might be self portraits of a male [...]

I love the goreous topography, map like work of artist Amy Honchell. Though she may not fall under the auspices of craft she is definitely inspired by fiber and the idea of touch. Her most recent body of work Personal Geographies uses the layering, folding, and stitching of fiber to create some beautiful installation work [...]

When I saw the beautiful installation work of artist Jodi Stevens I was inspired by its simplicity in both palette and form.  Her installation impediment reminds me a lot of Ann Hamilton’s performances with her use of the large table, facing chairs, and pile of materials. But with the hand wrapped stones and gray color [...]