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World of Wearable Art: a magical event fusing art and fashion in unique ways

Creative Boom

2024 WOW Show, Crazy Curiosities of Creature Carnival Blending performance art, fashion design, music and contemporary dance, The World of Wearable Art was an intoxicating cocktail of creative disciplines. We reveal what it was like to attend this unusual event. But I can tell you this much: it really was an experience.

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Roam magazine celebrates the modern folk movement in a refreshing new way

Creative Boom

We love a good passion project here at Creative Boom, and here's our favourite of 2024 so far! Folk music, folk tales, folk art and other cultural artefacts are passed down from generation to generation and may point to deeper truths than official history, which can often be heavily influenced by contemporary propaganda.

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Amy Cushing + Lara Sparey Explore Intersecting Crafts With DIORAMA Sculptures

Design Milk

DIORAMA – a series of three freestanding mixed media sculptures by artisans Amy Cushing and Lara Sparey – distills a variety of multidimensional scenes into an amalgam of colored glass and black metal artifacts to offer respite from the din of existence. Fresh colorways and designs are in progress due to launch February 24, 2024.

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Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel Cultivate Connections Between Sculpture, Nature, and Craft

Colossal

“Oak relief with garter stitch pull-over” (2024), oak, 115 x 115 x 9 centimeters. The chart-like quilts take cues from folk art or early natural history illustrations, where flora and fauna intermingle with items the artists employ in their studio, like thread and sewing machines.

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10 Exemplary Furnishings From the 2024 Stockholm Furniture Fair

Design Milk

Sweden, as evidenced by this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair , has contemporized their craft by applying technical advancements to traditional form making using organic materials without losing the warmth or whimsy that their Nordic neighbors forego in the pursuit of forward-thinking practices.

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Top 10 Art Posts of 2023

Design Milk

Large-Scale Ceramics That Are Both Eye-Catching + Functional SCP presented an exhibition of new, large-scale ceramic works by Dutch designer Floris Wubben during this year’s London Craft Week to showcase a series that fuses function with sculpture.

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October 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

Registration deadline: October 10, 2024. Open Calls 2024 Booooooom Illustration Awards (International) Artists and illustrators are eligible for this inaugural award worth $2,500 in cash prizes. PST on October 4, 2024. Deadline: October 4, 2024. Gen-Art: Exploring Creativity Across the Generations (U.S.)

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