Arts & Craft News

* Paper Mache with Tissue Paper
posted on January 27, 2008 07:00:30 am
Here is a message sugarsmack posted on the Family Crafts Message Board. Does anyone have experience with this? "I've never paper mached before... Can you use tissue paper instead of newspaper...

* 2008 Buyers Market of American Craft
posted on January 22, 2008 08:26:01 am
If you are a wholesaler of crafts, you will likely be attending this event. However, even if you are just considering the wholesale experience, this would be a good event...

* If You've Always Wanted to Try Filet Crochet
posted on January 19, 2008 02:12:41 pm
... here's your chance. I've written out all the instructions, row by row, to crochet this baby chicken design in filet crochet. You don't have to know how to...

* The Surreal Cartography of Matthew Ritchie
posted on January 20, 2008 09:12:34 pm
Image: Matthew Ritchie's "Something Like Day" at the 21st Centry Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2004 (c) Junko Kimura / Getty Images At one time I worked as a cartographic assistant,...

* Knitting Stories
posted on January 24, 2008 04:29:59 pm
The good people at Knitting Out Loud, the knitting audiobook manufacturer, are seeking fun, funny, sad, heartwarming or anything else stories about knitting to be featured on their website. The first...

* In the Pinks Baby Quilt
posted on January 25, 2008 02:52:51 pm
I suppose this baby quilt could just as easily be called in the lavenders, but pinks is so much easier to say. The quilt is made from a combination of...

* Fusible Web - - What is it and how to use it
posted on January 24, 2008 02:18:48 pm
This week I had three emails that the answer was fusible web. I suggest that everyone have a variety on hand. It's not just for fabric bowls. Fusible web is...

Arts

Art, in its broadest meaning, is the expression of creativity or imagination. The word art comes from the Latin word ars, which, loosely translated, means "arrangement". Art is commonly understood as the act of making works (or artworks) which use the human creative impulse and which have meaning beyond simple description. Art is often distinguished from crafts and recreational hobby activities. The term creative arts denotes a collection of disciplines whose principal purpose is the output of material for the viewer or audience to interpret. As such, art may be taken to include forms as diverse as prose writing, poetry, dance, acting or drama, film, music, sculpture, photography, illustration, architecture, collage, painting and fashion. Art may also be understood as relating to creativity, æsthetics and the generation of emotion.