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A copper lamp designed by Dirk Van Erp, displayed at the De Young Museum in San Francisco A Dirk van Erp lamp at the Oakland Museum of California Dirk van Erp in his shop Dirk Koperlager van Erp (1862–1933) was a Dutch American artisan , coppersmith and metalsmith , best known for lamps made of copper with mica shades, and also for copper ...
During the 1960s, California was the site of many outdoor art fairs, which nurtured a culture of independent artists and craftspersons. At this time there was an effort to sell crafts on the sidewalks of the liberal Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. [5]
The history of art in the San Francisco Bay Area includes major contributions to contemporary art, including Abstract Expressionism. The area is known for its cross-disciplinary artists like Bruce Conner , Bruce Nauman , and Peter Voulkos as well as a large number of non-profit alternative art spaces .
Batik craftswomen in Java, Indonesia Savisiipi handicrafts store in Pori, Finland A handicraft Selling-Factory shop, Isfahan, Iran Artesanato Mineiro. A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials ...
NFL draft picks, carolers and bacon in a bar. Victor, a Central Pennsylvania native, and Pelton, a native of the Philippines who came to the U.S. as a child in the 1970s, have lived in ...
Public Domain. Henry Ford is known for many things — the most prominent being mass-manufactured cars and paying workers respectable wages. But his first automobile, made in 1896, was powered by ...
An AI-powered toilet seat has been named by Time Magazine as one of the top 200 inventions of 2024. It optically scans a user’s stool and urine, to detect any concerning changes that might ...
Useful art, or useful arts or technics, is concerned with the skills and methods of practical subjects such as manufacture and craftsmanship. The phrase was used during the Victorian era and earlier as an antonym to the performing art and the fine art .