Brown Paper Bags Gone Wild, Or How I Learned to Creatively Recycle my Brown Paper Bags
Joyce Robinson is an artist who has worn many hats (or, actually, purses). A former opera singer and music teacher, she now brings her soaring voice and strength of character to create the vibrant and fanciful handbags of Brown Paper Bags Gone Wild! Robinson’s raw medium is the drab brown paper…
Design Glut: It's Scrumdidilyumptious!
The delectable creations by Design Glut have much in common with the scrumptious confections conjured by Willy Wonka. One can almost imagine that the eggs cradled in Design Glut’s Egg Pants were laid by none other than Mr. Wonka’s golden geese. Still, it is less the designs themselves that bring us…
Brainforest: How Does Community Sustain Us?
Brainforest is a Chicago-based creative agency that has integrated an ethos of social service (people) and sustainability (planet) into the workplace (profit). The Triple Bottom Line seems to come effortlessly to a company that volunteers at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, dedicates pro bono service per annum to a specially selected…
Lauri Lyons: Political Photographer and Thought-Provoking Critic of America
The photographer Lauri Lyons is a storyteller who utilizes her photography as well as words, both hers and those of others, to recount personal and cultural journeys. Her latest project is the multimedia piece, Barack Obama and the American Dream, about the 2008 presidential election and 2009 inauguration. She has…
Pretty in Portland: Plywerk Group Show @ Olio United
They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them. There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so…
Overlooked By the Golden Globes
The team at Free Range Studios is responsible for some amazing creative projects that put across the sustainability message. Their Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard has reached millions around the world raising awareness about the flow of objects as they move through the materials economy (breaking down the stages of stuff…
Nomad Two Worlds: Aboriginal Australian Art in NYC
January 22-29, 2009 DONNA KARAN Stephan Weiss Studio 711 Greenwich Street (Corner of Charles Street) NYC Urban Zen (founded by fashion designer Donna Karan) is hosting at the Stephan Weiss Studio a presentation of Australian aboriginal art and culture inspired by the Australian government’s reconciliation movement. The week-long G’Day USA Australia…
Human/Nature: Artists Respond To A Changing Planet
If San Diego’s sunny disposition isn’t enough reason to migrate there this winter, then the city’s Human/Nature: Artists Respond To A Changing Planet exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art is certainly a special, added draw. The show gathers the work of eight international artists, each commissioned to respond to…
Back to the Future: Arteco
Technomontage Western Pennsylvania artist Stewart Webb has updated vintage Art Deco design with a thoroughly future-forward “eco” ethos. His “technomontage” jewelry and objects for the home are crafted using repurposed high tech materials. If the towering skyscraper, the glint of a fast-moving train, or the sleek veneer of an automobile…
Connecting with Nature through TreeYoga
Trees also offer a profound lesson in the quieting and stilling of the mind, another aim of yoga. Contemporary spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle has described meditating on natural forms as a method to find presence: “Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” (Stillness…
