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Handmade Portraits: Artstew

2009-03-06T18:28:00-04:00

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(music by Michael Chapman, Steve Gunn, The And Group, animation by JuliaPott)

Back in the 1970s, Holly Stewart, aka Artstew, was a single mom trying to raise two daughters. Holly decided to forgo art school to support her family, ultimately paying the bills and gaining respect within her Oklahoma City community by becoming a police officer. Even as she put in her time with the force (15 years!), she was always drawing.

It wasn't until Holly quit the force and moved to Kansas City, Missouri to attend — and subsequently work at — the Kansas City Art Institute that she discovered the world of art beyond drawing. When she found silk screening and dispersion dying on polyester, everything else fell by the wayside. Holly came to a place where her high powered job, with all its perks and money, kept her from expressing herself as an artist. That's when she gave up everything to make her art.

Holly spends her days in her funky, cozy apartment in the Midtown - Westport area of Kansas City, her cat Chicken by her side, as she experiments with dying polyester. She couldn't be happier.

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Handmade Portraits: Maya Hayuk

2008-08-15T11:50:00-04:00

(MATURE content in the video: if you're watching this with your child, be prepared to answer some questions about female body parts.)

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(music by Barry London, The And Group, Hold Me)

Muralist, photographer, painter, music video creator... Maya Hayuk prefers to simply call herself an artist, because under that moniker she has the freedom to work in whatever medium she wants at any given time.

Growing up in Baltimore, Maya learned the art of traditional Ukrainian handicrafts from her family. Her parents, both professors—one geography, one psychology—traveled extensively with the family during her childhood and bought Maya a camera at an early age to document their adventures. In high school she started shooting bands and getting attention for her work. After attending Massachusetts College of Art's SIM (Studio for Interrelated Media) program, Maya became interested in environmental art, wherein murals work in collaboration with the surrounding architecture, as well as the community who lives with the art long afterward. Maya also studied comparative religion, which has infused all of her work with a spiritual aspect ever since.

Maya has painted murals around the world, and her work has been featured in magazines, album covers and ads campaigns. Her improvised style and bright colors seem to be part of a new resurgence in psych-folk art that is pinned to a higher consciousness: one that inspires good vibes. Maya says that with her murals, "the narrative can be as simple as 'I like those colors'" and it doesn't have to go deeper than that with her audience. Maya's work has become something more than a precise painting on a wall. It's a part of people's lives, and a living thing that people interact with and tell stories about.

Last spring Maya headed to Braddock, PA to work with Braddock Active Arts organization to help revitalize a once thriving steel mill town, now part of the forgotten post-industrial landscape of America. Sixteen different artists from all over the world gathered to contribute environmental art that ranged from the functional to the inspirational. With the help of the teens from the Braddock Youth Project, these artists added a little life and hope to this depressed town.

Although Maya makes part of her income from licensing her imagery and painting murals, her bread and butter comes from selling rock posters, t-shirts and books of her designs. Maya's work will be featured at the upcoming Democratic National Convention (Bright Future, pictured below) and at the Mahan Gallery in Columbus, Ohio this fall.

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See Maya's website for more of her work: www.mayahayuk.com

How-To Video: Becka's Running Stitch

2008-07-10T14:00:00-04:00

Becka, aka beckarahn, made a great video about how to make a running stitch and then make it even snazzier by making it a double threaded running stitch!

Check it out! She's got a great lighting setup that looks fantastic and she made great use of close-ups.

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Handmade Video Group

2008-06-17T14:38:00-04:00

Do you make things and make videos too? If so, you're invited to have conversations — internet style — by joining the fresh handmade video group.

It's a Google group that I started as a gathering place for video-makers to share videos and collectively daydream about the possibilities that video offers folks who are creative. Recently I asked the group what their most recent videos were. Check them out!

p.s.
There are felted verions of a certain male body part in the last video of the group, so if your kid is sitting on your lap while watching this, you may want to be prepared to have a MATURE conversation!

Hine sells snazzy camera cases.

"I made some flip books for the first time by using the photographs from the one of my stop-motion animations for They Might Be Giants just for fun. And then I took a video with my digital camera. They are portable stop-motion animations (you can even run them in reverse!)." See the video here

Enderby creates a show for NNN called Decor It Yourself. Her last video was about making place mats.

Iwear1 creates a video show in the style of a journal. In this video, he got stencils in the mail. See video here

Corinne and Rob create Threadbanger, a show about creating your own fashion. Their videos combine location reporting with diy how-tos.

Abitabite made a stop motion video about the making of her prick cushions.

"I needed some motivation to get a lot of them done, and decided a vid would do it (it worked, I've not been nearly as productive before, or since)." See the video.

If you make things and make videos and want to join the conversation about making things, your invited to join the group!