Our students are currently working on a two-week collaborative project with Artist in Residence Tom Dykas.

Karen Ann, Adam, Jamahl, Amanda, Sabrina, and Dee’Cheaa are working off-site at Artica 2009.

They have begun a raw clay instalation and will continue their work this weekend.

It is an exciting opportunity for them to work outside of the Craft Alliance studio environment.

Stay tuned as they make the world a big, enriching place to be. Artica is an outdoor multi-disciplinary and participatory art festival developed to provide the people of the St. Louis metropolitan area with the opportunity to come together as a community through creative self-expression.


Here is the information for those that are interested in attending.

Date: December 19, 2009-Saturday
Time: 12 noon to 12 midnight (our students will be in action 1-4P)
Location: The North Riverfront, Lewis and O'Fallon streets.
Directions: Take Washington Ave, East to Lenore K. Sullivan Blvd. Take Lenore K. Sullivan Blvd. north. Sullivan Blvd. will eventually turn into Lewis St. Continue until you see Artica.

Adam Heaving Rocks

Adam Heaving Rocks X 2

Tom Dykas: The Leader in Full Effect

Hello Talent!

Our textiles students have been working with artist Cathy McBride the past six weeks.

They have constructed crazy woven works through explorations in technique and materials.

The studio always has a unique sense of reality.

I've always said that there are at least eight different ways to use the same tool while making.

Um, I never saw this one coming...

CAF Faculty Focus

Michael Parrett

Jewelry + Metalsmithing

Craft Alliance Artist in Residence

Michael Parrett earned a BA in graphic design and photography from Webster University and his MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville while studying with Paulette Myers. Michael exhibits his jewelry, flatware, hollowware and sculptures locally and nationally and has recently been published in the Lark Book “500 Metal Vessels: Contemporary Explorations of Containment”.

Jason Jacques Gallery from Jason Jacques on Vimeo.

For all of you students engaged in ceramics...

The Jason Jacques Gallery, located at 29 East 73rd Street in an upper Eastside Manhattan townhouse, holds the world's finest and most comprehensive collection of 1870-1920 European Art Pottery. Specializing in the Art Pottery Renaissance centered in 1890's France, our collection includes Art Nouveau and Japoniste masterworks by stoneware artists Ernest Chaplet, Jean Carries, Edmond Lachenal and Adrien Dalpayrat, in addition to the vast holdings of iridescent lusterware artists Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Clément Massier, and Vilmos Zsolnay.

New Ceramic Works By Kahlil

Senior

Studio is studio...

And Craft is rooted in studio...

I got to thinking about our students applying their work to a larger context...

How do you make the world bigger...

How do you allow for complex systems of juxtapositions and collisions, in which all outside influences are viewed as potential raw material...

Went outside...

Talked about life...

Made a walk...

Made work...

Students ran a little game in the gallery in response to Mi-Kyoung Lee's works.

Craft Alliance has consistently defined itself as an environment for artists, collectors, students, and the art-viewing public to begin new conversations. The mixing of ideas, perspectives, and skills allows us as individuals to connect ourselves to a larger context outside of our own subculture; to become a community.

Craft Alliance believes it is vital to create space and opportunity for the varied St. Louis communities to come together. Our programming is built to stimulate the creative potential of our students. They come from all over the city, from different schools, from different neighborhoods; their family lives are all very different. The nature of our programs engages our students, together in the culture of craft.

Our Community Outreach programming (and CAF inparticular) has been illustrative of the fact that a student doesn’t just do something else; he or she becomes something else. As an organization we have witnessed what our students become through their studio work.

Our CAF students have found themselves at the beginning of a new year of programming - at the beginning of new studio engagements and relationships. We've posed a question. How do we build ourselves? What does that look like?

Maybe - just maybe - it looks like... South Park?

XAVIER

SYMONE

SABRINA

NATHANIEL