Could it get any greener than it is on this gorgeous spring Saturday? The gallery open and an art show downtown. Today's local energy is all about art and spring.
Bird-related art in great abundance... the first hints of Mother's Day ideas... new notecards, beadwork, and wine accessories to tempt us... art clothing... (Marian Reid's hand-dyed onesies and T-shirts are extraordinary gifts for young ones and Karen Swing's recycled/hand-dyed blouses are perfect for spring-into-summer.)
Amazing handcrafted herbal soaps from Rose's Botanicals make supreme hostess gifts. Customers buy them again and again, reporting on delicious aromas in their homes with these soaps around. Added bonus: they're wrapped in highly original fibers making them visually beautiful as well as sweet-scented.
Who wouldn't want to saunter in during this sweet season? We're an art festival every day.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
for the birds
We love our artful avian friends, and Humidity is filled with beautiful bird craft and art. So we're celebrating April with a nod to all the birds populating the 'humid zone.'
Here's a sampling:
Gorgeous embroidered birds adorn handmade leather purses, made by the Bashir family of Kashmir. Local family members brought these to our attention and told us that the proceeds from these purses benefit 19 of their family members, who work together in a cottage industry.
Leslie Cohen is a fun fiber artist tuned in to the world of sock monsters and soft sculpture. She has brought in piecework birds walking around on long spindly legs. She's also concocted felted cardinals to dangle from your ceiling.
Water fowl are featured in Linda Clark's boxed sets of notecards. Herons and other water birds wade in quiet shallows. Her notecards are reproductions of her original watercolors, and come in sets of six cards.
Potter Mary Rault's charming ceramic birdhouses feature graceful leaves on their roofs. Hang these on your porch or in your garden for a beautiful accent.
Mary Jo Spector's prints and notecards are from her pen and ink drawings. She suggests beautiful birds (and other wildlife) in a minimum of pen strokes. Black and white, the prints are matted.
Starr Payne fabricates great little birdhouses from fine silver. Starr is a master at the precious metal clay process and this little series of bird-friendly work is unique. Necklace and earrings with little round birdhouses and beads are great wearable pieces.
Alicia Rosanske works with her husband, Dick, on such ephemeral things as folded-paper boxes and gift bags. Now they have brought in bird mobiles that flutter on the breeze and swing around, never failing to amuse us. One is of cardinals, one of hummingbirds and one is of pelicans.
Courtney Prahl's original collages and reproductions in little prints and notecards feature birds regularly. She has an of-the-moment flare, and creates images that are quite lovely.
Susan Frisbee and Carol Nahoom have invented beautiful mosaic birdbaths that sit on iron stands. Susan's is a bold teal with lime green dragonflies, while Carol's is an earthy pink with mauve dragonflies. Both have incorporated recycled glass, old pottery and other ingredients. These will bring beautiful color and birds to outdoor living spaces.
Carlos Montano is famous for reproducing the beautiful designs of Christine Sibley in cast concrete. Now he has added Lovebirds to the collection. These come in romantic little pairs, to sit anywhere you want a small, natural accent in your world.
Kathleen Wilcox has made a career in copper enamel. She has long featured aquatic birds in her pieces, large and small. We are featuring her marvelous wearable brooches that perch on a special wall tile when not being worn. Many have bird motifs.
Humidity features mainly one-of-a-kind craftworks and so all of these things are offered in very limited editions. Blink, and they've flown! So fly on in to the gallery today to collect these fine-feathered friends!
Here's a sampling:
Gorgeous embroidered birds adorn handmade leather purses, made by the Bashir family of Kashmir. Local family members brought these to our attention and told us that the proceeds from these purses benefit 19 of their family members, who work together in a cottage industry.
Leslie Cohen is a fun fiber artist tuned in to the world of sock monsters and soft sculpture. She has brought in piecework birds walking around on long spindly legs. She's also concocted felted cardinals to dangle from your ceiling.
Water fowl are featured in Linda Clark's boxed sets of notecards. Herons and other water birds wade in quiet shallows. Her notecards are reproductions of her original watercolors, and come in sets of six cards.
Potter Mary Rault's charming ceramic birdhouses feature graceful leaves on their roofs. Hang these on your porch or in your garden for a beautiful accent.
Mary Jo Spector's prints and notecards are from her pen and ink drawings. She suggests beautiful birds (and other wildlife) in a minimum of pen strokes. Black and white, the prints are matted.
Starr Payne fabricates great little birdhouses from fine silver. Starr is a master at the precious metal clay process and this little series of bird-friendly work is unique. Necklace and earrings with little round birdhouses and beads are great wearable pieces.
Alicia Rosanske works with her husband, Dick, on such ephemeral things as folded-paper boxes and gift bags. Now they have brought in bird mobiles that flutter on the breeze and swing around, never failing to amuse us. One is of cardinals, one of hummingbirds and one is of pelicans.
Courtney Prahl's original collages and reproductions in little prints and notecards feature birds regularly. She has an of-the-moment flare, and creates images that are quite lovely.
Susan Frisbee and Carol Nahoom have invented beautiful mosaic birdbaths that sit on iron stands. Susan's is a bold teal with lime green dragonflies, while Carol's is an earthy pink with mauve dragonflies. Both have incorporated recycled glass, old pottery and other ingredients. These will bring beautiful color and birds to outdoor living spaces.
Carlos Montano is famous for reproducing the beautiful designs of Christine Sibley in cast concrete. Now he has added Lovebirds to the collection. These come in romantic little pairs, to sit anywhere you want a small, natural accent in your world.
Kathleen Wilcox has made a career in copper enamel. She has long featured aquatic birds in her pieces, large and small. We are featuring her marvelous wearable brooches that perch on a special wall tile when not being worn. Many have bird motifs.
Humidity features mainly one-of-a-kind craftworks and so all of these things are offered in very limited editions. Blink, and they've flown! So fly on in to the gallery today to collect these fine-feathered friends!
Monday, April 6, 2009
a new wave of 'green' creativity
We are always looking for novel crafts to market in Humidity Gallery. And we have been receiving new products that have the added advantage of being environmentally safe.
Noteworthy are:
Noteworthy are:
- handwoven Market Bags of recycled plastic shopping bags and cotton, by Ramona Abernathy-Paine
- recycled blouses that are hand-dyed and stamped in beautiful patterns, by Karen Swing
- woodturnings that do not destroy the rain forest; which instead use local, native woods, by Elvin Kever
- recycled-glass birdbath & ornament constructions using old glass serving pieces, by Carol Nahoom
- recycled wine bottle glass serving pieces & wind chimes by Susan Frisbee
- found-object sculpture from things found in the woods & garden, by Jan Danielle White
- gift bags made from re-purposed wallpaper samples, by Alicia Rosanske
- and, back by popular demand: recycled-glass suncatcher disks embossed with seasonal images!
Something else to feel good about...
When you shop at Humidity, you not only support a locally owned small business, you also support many local and regional artists! The things we sell are handmade in America.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Welcome to the 'humid zone!'
At Humidity, we know that 'place' is of utmost importance and, believing that the Southeastern region is filled with artists and artisans, we wanted to create a collection of fine American craft that would showcase not only masterful talent, but also a regional point of view.
Geographically, we define the 'humid zone' as the Gulf Coast region of the U.S., swinging up through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, the Atlantic coastal region in the Southeast, and all throughout Florida.
But the 'humid zone' is mostly a state of mind. It is the dream state of this watery and woodsy and sometimes mountainous land that is defined by a single unifying characteristic: it is humid here. We typically have a lot of rain, fairly moderate winters, glorious autumns and springs, and intense summers. Some like it hot and some don't. But, hot we get, from about late April until October, and it takes a certain strength of character to survive it.
The land and climate and humidity affects our art. We want to explore this. Sometimes one is a Humidity artist because of one's subject matter or materia media. Sometimes one is a Humidity artist because one simply lives here and is one of us.
We wanted to offer something diverse, different. We invite you to come to the gallery and see for yourself if we've achieved that defining thing that is the 'humid zone.'
From fine art painting and sculpture to intriguing craft objects, we have something for everyone -- from collectible masterworks to affordable gifts. All highly original, whether for adorning yourself or your home.
Geographically, we define the 'humid zone' as the Gulf Coast region of the U.S., swinging up through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, the Atlantic coastal region in the Southeast, and all throughout Florida.
But the 'humid zone' is mostly a state of mind. It is the dream state of this watery and woodsy and sometimes mountainous land that is defined by a single unifying characteristic: it is humid here. We typically have a lot of rain, fairly moderate winters, glorious autumns and springs, and intense summers. Some like it hot and some don't. But, hot we get, from about late April until October, and it takes a certain strength of character to survive it.
The land and climate and humidity affects our art. We want to explore this. Sometimes one is a Humidity artist because of one's subject matter or materia media. Sometimes one is a Humidity artist because one simply lives here and is one of us.
We wanted to offer something diverse, different. We invite you to come to the gallery and see for yourself if we've achieved that defining thing that is the 'humid zone.'
From fine art painting and sculpture to intriguing craft objects, we have something for everyone -- from collectible masterworks to affordable gifts. All highly original, whether for adorning yourself or your home.
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