Here is a guest post by Donna Druchanas on the issue of how the craft and art of knitting currently is perceived. In my own art school training at the California College of Arts (and Crafts) I was inculcated with the slogan that “There is no art without craft.” Donna says:
I like the term […]
In award-winning author Donna Druchunas’ new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery” just released by Nomad Press she takes knitting to the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and The Andes. These places represent three different cultural regions for me. How they come together in the book is the sense of how to make and craft more intuitively. For me, […]
We have an interview, guestpost, and book excerpt featuring Donna Druchunas new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery: The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and the Andes” coming up on Riehlife. Here’s some background information about Donna’s new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery.”
Donna’s blog tour stop on Riehlife will focus on the idea of craft and art, how knitting is […]
Brenda Johima, whose company is CREATIVE NUDGE Coaching and Consulting Services, is my guest today on Riehlife. Brenda is based in the beautiful Comox Valley, on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Since my mission is connection through the arts, I was particularly interested in how Brenda balances her variety of creative pursuits and binds […]
A shortened introduction for Roberta Smith from the St. Louis Art Museum events calendar: “Smith is an acclaimed art critic and popular lecturer on contemporary art. She was the art critic for the Village Voice and a senior editor at Art in America before moving to the New York Times in 1986.”
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Roberta wowed the […]
You read about the current Portfolio Gallery show “Visual Language” earlier on Riehlife. Today you’ll meet the man who founded Portfolio Gallery and Education Center 18 years ago in 1989: Robert Powell.
I first met Robert Powell at the Urban League’s Black Fine Art show. I walked into his booth and felt swept-up in his […]
In this photo Robert Powell is hard at work, carving in the open air. I found his work moving and intelligent. Here are two pieces from his collection.
“One is the Magic Number,” is made out of walnut and owned by Arnold Donald.
“Before the Mayflower” is made of mahogany and has won awards. It was recently […]
“I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.”
~Emily Carr~
(Canadian author and painter)
Visual Thoughts
Portfolio Gallery
3514 Delmar Blvd
Grand Center, Arts, Entertainment & Education District
St. Louis, Missouri 63103
Through October 31st
Monday through Friday 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM & by appointment
314-533-3323
Portfoliogallery@att.net
Robert Powell, Executive Director of Portfolio Gallery & Educational Center, alerted me today to a current group exhibit at the gallery titled “Visual Thoughts,” featuring many of Missouri’s finest […]
The phrase, “When words are too deep, try art therapy,” captures the spirit, work and person of Edna J. Patterson-Petty. A fiber artist, art therapist, and teacher, Patterson-Petty’s work truly heals, providing the comfort and warmth expected of the quilts she creates. Her graduate degrees in Studio Art and Art Therapy and the inspiration derived […]
