Gift Ideas: Shop Local Massachusetts with ReclaimedToYou
Shop Local this holiday season and support independent craftspeople. It's a great way to reduce your carbon footprint! We're going around the world here on Etsy's blog, so let us know where our next stop should be in the comments below. This post is straight from Boston, MA courtesy of Etsian Jessica, aka …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: September 18, 2008
This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere is all photography. Some of the photos are pleasant reminders of autumn, others are projects to do (faux bois walls, anyone?), and some are simply examples of the wonders a camera can produce. Read on! If this isn't fall, I don't know what is. Photography …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: April 10, 2008
This week we've got some trends, plants, notes from long ago (on Greta Garbo, no less!), a fashion music video and much more. Check it out! I'm quite the wardrobe_remix stalker as of late, and I must say that piksi_ is pretty much queen and master of the high waisted skirt. She manages to pull off just about anything she …
Portrait of a Tinaseamonster
tinaseamonster, an artist and mother, is like a lot of us — totally dedicated to both her family and her creativity. The result? Spread a little thin, yeah, but living a very fulfilling life. There's a lot of interest in this lifestyle these days — from academics, to the newsmedia, to curious relatives. A …
Jewish Artists in Southern Cali
What compels an artist to identify as a Jew through his or her work? What role can the artist play in the vitality of Jewish cultural life today? These are the questions that brought us together in Los Angeles to form the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California, an artist-run advocacy group …
Etsy Team Spotlight: First Friday with the Arizona Crafty Burrito Collective
The First Friday phenomenon is something I first experienced on a very small scale in Charlottesville, Virginia, a quaint little college town that likes to pretend it's a big, cultured city. I thought it was the neatest thing (and not just because many of the galleries would serve wine without carding my …
Misaki Kawai: Punch of the Tiger, Cream of the Fight
I recently (well, six months ago) checked out the work of Misaki Kawai, a Brooklyn-based artist with cheeky, off-the-wall installations and paintings. "Tiger Punch," her first solo show, was held at the Clementine Gallery in New York. It involved wall and floor installations of painted objects and works on …
Brooklyn: Gallery Opening!
Hey New Yorkers. There's a great opening this Saturday, September 8th at McCaig & Welles Gallery in Williamsburg. The show features Etsy office ecologist extraordinaire (and pretty rad artist) Peter Corrie, plus about a hundred other relevant contemporary artists and bands, like Japanther, Swoon and Maya …
