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Michaels - Michaels is the largest arts and crafts retail chain in the United States. It currently operates over 800 Michaels Arts and Crafts Stores located in 48 states and in Canada.

Arts and Crafts movement - The Arts and Crafts movement was a reformist movement, at first inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, that was at its height between approximately 1880ā€“1910. The movement influenced British decorative arts, architecture, cabinet making, crafts, and even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude Jekyll.

Arts and crafts - Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's own hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" (doing things the old way) and the rest.

Arts & Crafts - Arts & Crafts is a Toronto, Ontario based independent record label.

Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of Robert Gwathmey by Michael G. Kammen, X

American artist Robert Gwathmey (1903-1988) was a leading member of the Social Realist movement that flourished from the 1930s through the 1950s. Like his fellow Social Realists, Gwathmey used his art to expose privilege michaels arts and crafts store and pretense, demand social justice, michaels arts and crafts store and call for major changes in the prevailing socioeconomic system. Gwathmey was an eighth-generation Virginian, michaels arts and crafts store and throughout his life his main artistic themes were race relations michaels arts and crafts store and his native South. He is perhaps best remembered as the first white American painter to depict African Americans in an unromanticized, respectful manner. Using a unique style that combined a deliberate two-dimensional flatness with deep michaels arts and crafts store and vivid colors, Gwathmey illuminated the inherent dignity of the tenant farmers michaels arts and crafts store and sharecroppers who were his subjects. As a lifelong activist against injustice, Gwathmey was kept under surveillance by the FBI for nearly thirty years. Using Gwathmey's FBI file, along with numerous interviews michaels arts and crafts store and archival records, Michael Kammen crafts a compelling portrait of an engaging American painter in the midst of dramatic social michaels arts and crafts store and political change. The publication of this book coincides with the first major retrospective of Gwathmey's work, which will open in September at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. In November, the exhibition will move to the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, michaels arts and crafts store and it will then travel to the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, the Telfair Academy of Arts michaels arts and crafts store and Sciences in Augusta, Georgia, michaels arts and crafts store and the Museum of American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
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Christopher Dresser 1834-1904 by Michael Whiteway,

This volume is an illustrated anthology of 300 pieces surveying the work of Christopher Dresser, known as "the father of modern design." Like William Morris he believed that beautiful design should be available to everyone, unlike Morris, he thought that mass production was the best way to achieve that, michaels arts and crafts store and this dichotomy neatly represents his place as a bridge between the Arts & Crafts movement michaels arts and crafts store and industrial design. This book looks at all aspects of Dresser's career including wallpaper design, a wide variety of metal-work (most notably tableware michaels arts and crafts store and teapots), textile design, pottery, michaels arts and crafts store and glassware. His fascination with Japanese art michaels arts and crafts store and design gave his metalwork in particular a clean, minimalist look that seems to anticipate much of modern design from Bauhaus to Michael Graves. Well known michaels arts and crafts store and respected in his lifetime, his reputation suffered in the years after his death, michaels arts and crafts store and it is only in the last few decades that interest in his work has been revived. As a result, his pieces can be found in the collections of art museums nationwide michaels arts and crafts store and continue to sell well at auction. A long overdue look at one of design's most influential figures, this book will be a welcome addition to any design lover's library.
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