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“River Flowing Home:” Susan Hall’s lifelong journey in Point Reyes (Photos)
Contrary to what you've heard, you can go home again. If you’re artist Susan Hall, and home is Point Reyes Station, you can return to resume a dialogue with the land you've known all...
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Fair Trade at the SF International Gift Fair (Photos)
The San Francisco International Gift Fair at Moscone Center on January 8 - 11, 2011 opened the year with a great variety of artists, designers and innovative retailers. One of the highlights of the...
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To Etsy or not to Etsy?
Since its launch in June, 2005, the online shop for handcrafters and vintage retailers, Etsy.com, has reached $400 million in sales and boasts over seven million registered users around the world....
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Little 'umpa grows big style
Literally, 'umpa means 'acorn' in the Miwok language. In design terms, however, this little acorn shows all the signs of growing into a very big deal.Textile designer Victoria Chaban is the woman...
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Local Sculptor Manuel Palos launched his career at the Palace (Photos)
This week's re-opening of the Palace of Fine Arts after a major renovation is a reason for the entire city to celebrate. After over $21 million and seven years of steady work, the 96 year-old...
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Bell'occhio for all your passions (Photos)
Kids have candy shops, guys have hardware stores. Designers, Francophiles and bricoleurs have Bell'occhio.If you can wax poetic about waxed thread, keep boxes for your boxes, or save pearl buttons...
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Mill Valley's Local RooTs (Photos)
Fans of the handmade, and locally made, are flocking to RooTs, a marketplace for unique handcrafts in downtown Mill Valley. Everything sold in the Throckmorton Avenue shop is made by people living...
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On trend: Haute, humble grain sacks
Who could have predicted the current craze for antique linen grain sacks? They are everywhere these days, from flea markets to Pottery Barn. Their rustic, homespun appeal has long made them a favorite...
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Asian Art Show Comes to San Francisco
San Francisco’s Fort Mason center will once again be the site of the Arts of Pacific Asia exposition, February 4 - 6, 2011. The annual show features international dealers and covers over 2000 years of...
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Carol Molly Prier: The art of grace and gratitude (Photos)
“Grace and gratitude.” That is what Carol Molly Prier finds in the process of making her lyrical clay pots. It is a gift from the fire, as the swirling smoke leaves traces of unexpected colors across...
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Hot glue love
Years ago, a Portland art supply store had a Valentine's Day window display declaring, "I LOVE MY HOT GLUE GUN!" The sign was adorned with flocked flowers, streamers, plastic toys and candy hearts. It...
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Tribal arts in San Francisco
This weekend San Francisco is hosting one of the finest exhibitions of tribal arts and textiles in the world. Dealers from across the U.S., Australia, Africa and Europe join local dealers, curators...
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Never too late for handmade Valentines!
If you woke up this morning with that sinking feeling of, "You mean it's today?," it is not too late to save your Valentine's Day.Before you bolt to the nearest Qwikee-mart for...
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Yarnbombing is always in season (Photos)
Spring in San Francisco gives rise to riotous color that startles us out of our gray-scale lives. We're blessed with natural beauty, so when the city begins to flower again we all have cause to...
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Carol Van Zandt: A brush with destiny (Photos)
Meeting Carol Van Zandt in her home studio near Bernal Heights, you are first struck by how much color and pattern surrounds her. Carol lives in full color, much more than most of us do. Even by San...
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SF Design Stars in New York (Photos)
The Surtex annual art and design licensing expo may have happened in New York, but San Francisco was on center stage. From May 15 - 17, Bay Area designers and illustrators joined over 200 artists...
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Crafting a new Bolinas Mercantile
Since summer in San Francisco means getting out of town to find the sun, some of us will inevitably head to West Marin, past Stinson and its parking lots, to the storied beach town of Bolinas. Don't...
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