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The Secret Language of Cloth, an Interview with Susan Hull Walker
Susan Hull Walker, who founded ibu in 2013, studied World Religions at Harvard Divinity School and served for eighteen years as a minister in Maine, San Francisco, and Charleston, SC. When she returned to school to study Fiber Arts, she learned to weave and speak in the language of cloth. It opened her eyes to the very […]
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Art With a Twist Presents: Twisting the Art of Memoir with Katherine McCaughan
Katherine McCaughan was born in Shanghai, China to Russian parents who fled to Australia in 1950 after the Communist Revolution. She was five-years-old when her parents were forced to leave their home in China, and her memories of that journey are scant. McCaughan eventually moved to the United States with her husband in 1977 and […]
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Art with a Twist presents, Unexpected Treasures
Reinterpreting the past for today’s home and garden. Architectural salvage, antique decor, iron work, garden elements, and much more than we can describe! Jeff McKinney and Randy Grussing embrace a ‘fearless use of color’ in their designs. This attribute was on display in the vibrant master bedroom in the 2014 Charleston Symphony Orchestra League’s Annual […]
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Simplicity, Q & A with author and designer Nancy Braithwaite
“After 25 years of exposure to the best work out there, I’ve found that it’s simplicity that’s the hardest thing to do well. It is an art. And Nancy Braithwaite has perfected that art . . . I think she’s one of the great American designers of our day.” —Dara Caponigro, from the Foreword Nancy […]
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The Art of the Sea with Val Kells
Marine Science Illustrator Val Kells is an ‘obsessive compulsive’ fisherman. A photo of Kells on her website shows her proudly displaying a Permit that she caught off Cudjoe Key in 2011. “I take a photograph of every fish I catch before I release it,” she says. Kells is a full-time, highly trained, freelance scientific illustrator […]
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