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Thursday, March 31, 2011

April Adventures at Craft Alliance!

After this frigid winter, we are ready to get out of the house and have some creative fun this Spring! Here is a rundown of Craft Alliance's events this month:

April 2nd - In conjunction with our exhibition, Storylines: Contemporary Embroidery, The St. Louis Poetry Center will be hosting "Poets Thread The Line" from 1-3 pm in our Delmar Gallery space!


April 8th- ARTrageous Costume Ball! Join us for a glamorous evening of art and fashion at The Palladium honoring Jeigh Singleton Associate Professor at Washington University Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The night will feature Fashion Shows from local designers Michael Drummond and Katie Kantley, a Three-Course Seated Dinner, Silent and Live Auctions, and an After Party beginning at 9:30 pm!
Purchase your tickets now and Peek at our Auction Items!

April 9, 10 and 16th- Glass Casting Workshop with Patrick Blythe!
Learn the art of lost wax casting of glass on a small scale from a master of large glass castings. You can make a detailed casting of your hand or other small object that you would like to replicate in glass! FREE Artist’s talk Sunday, April 10, at 5pm, “The History and Techniques of Glass Art” in our Delmar Studios. Call our Registrar for more information!

April 26th and 30th- The Delmar Gallery shop is having our annual Mother's Day Trunk Show featuring Enamel Artist Jenn Bell and Local Hat Maker Miriam Wiegand! Meet Artist Miriam Wiegand on April 30th from 12-2pm to get your handmade hat just in time for the Kentucky Derby!

April 29th- Crafting-A-Future Opening 6-8 pm at our Delmar Loop location! This special exhibition features artwork created by students in Crafting-A-Future, a community outreach program providing instruction in metal, clay, glass and fiber arts through training and mentoring on a scholarship basis.

Don't forget to visit our Grand Center location to see the amazing exhibition Breathe by Carrie Scanga! Stop by our Delmar Loop location and sit in our reading library and explore each book in the unique exhibition Let's talk about Love, baby. Breathe and Let's Talk About Love, Baby will be up through April 24th.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

March Madness!

We have so many great events coming up this March and we couldn't be more excited!

This is your last chance to catch the exhibition Multiple Personalities at our Delmar Loop location! The exhibition runs through March 6th and features six artists who explore aspects of the psyche and the human figure in various states of being.


Fashion Lab cordially invites you to the first lecture in its Yarn lecture series Featuring New York designer Timo Weiland! The event will be held on Thursday, March 11th from 6-8 pm at Washington University’s Kemp Auditorium in Givens Hall, One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130


Visit Whole Foods Market in March and support Craft Alliance ‘One Dime At A Time!’ Whole Foods offers 10¢ per bag to customers who use their own bags, The money saved on bags will go directly to Craft Alliance to support our education, exhibition and outreach programs.

Join Craft Alliance artist, Michael Parrett on Friday, March 11 from 12-3pm for a free in-store demo at the Brentwood Whole Foods, 1601 South Brentwood Blvd. Watch Michael bring fire into contact with metals to create stunning pieces of jewelry!


Opening at our Delmar Loop location on March 18th is Storylines: Contemporary Embroidery
Six contemporary artists explore narrative works in thread – stitch by stitch. The artists featured were selected because their works challenge conventional ideas about embroidery and explore the potential of this traditional art form to communicate their ideas.

Concurrently in the Charak Gallery: Let's Talk About Love Baby in conjunction with Washington Universities Printmaking Confrence, "Love Librarian" Jana Harper brings Chido Johnson's Love Library Project to Craft Alliance.


Artist Ray Materson’s miniature, narrative embroidery work will be part of the upcoming exhibition, Storylines: Contemporary Embroidery, opening March 18 in the Delmar Loop Gallery. Ray will give a two day workshop March 18 and 19 at the Delmar Loop studios where participants will turn discarded items into wonderful narrative art pieces in the form of mosaic and collage. Ray has lectured and taught workshops to artists and community groups throughout the country and is the author of a book about his life journey titled Sins and Needles. You can find out more and register for Springtime, Stories and Socks on the website.

To find out more about our upcoming events, visit our website www.craftalliance.org