Presentation about the Costumes of Burning Man

Please join me at the de Young in San Francisco

Hi Jan, can you please share this with the BCG members for me? Thanks! Linda

Presentation about the Costumes of Burning Man
Friday March 13 at 7 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum, San Francisco

I'm giving a presentation as part of "Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young celebrates Yves Saint Laurent and Warhol Live." A departure from my usual environmental art about water theme, this presentation is pure fun about outrageous creativity and some serious costumes. It's entitled "Radical Self Expression: The Costumes of Burning Man." Last year I wrote an article by the same title for Fiberarts Magazine and I'm tickled to be invited to speak at the de Young in conjunction with the two current exhibitions. Although I've never thought about it until now, some of the costumes of Burning Man could very well be described as "Andy Warhol meets Yves Saint Laurent." I'll be showing a lot of photographs I've taken over the years as well as the work of other photographers.

Friday nights at the de Young are always hopping with lots of activities and there are three additional happenings going on in the museum that evening for you to enjoy: live Moroccan music by Aza, hands on activities to Make Your Own Top Hat and henna-tatoo good-luck charms for your home. There will also be two Andy Warhol film screenings at 6 pm and 8 pm: "Couch" and "Andy Warhol Screen Tests." The programs are free after museum admission. For more information, click here (scroll down to March 13 and then click on that for the full description). And if you want to read the article I wrote for Fiberarts, click here.

Welcome to the world of online commentary via Baulines Craft Guild.

Dear Friends, Welcome to the world of online commentary via Baulines Craft Guild. I hope you will all take the opportunity to use the blog that Bonnie has set up for us,and enjoy increased communication with each other. This could be the Daily Kos of the craft world!
For starters, I wonder if any of you have thoughts about Glenn Adamson's comments at his recent lecture at CCA, that the world of fine craft, built so carefully following WWII is being systematically dismantled. Do you see evidence of this? Do you feel that the world of conceptual craft is displacing the world of the highly crafted art object, or functional work of art? If so, what are the ramifications of this? Have any of you read Glenn's book, "Thinking Through Craft"? and if so, can I borrow your copy? Let us know your thoughts!
Jan Moore

Baulines Craft Guild Blog Spot

Hi everyone, This is Bonita Cohn, the web administrator of http://www.baulinescraftguild.org.

The idea to make a blog came up at the board meeting.

Since blogs are still relatively new to me I'm still learning how to manage them. At the present I believe I can directly add postings and anyone can make comments. I would like to figure out a way that anyone can directly add postings. I think it is possible to have up to 100 people approved to add postings so that should work just fine.

For now if you have anything you need posted just email it to me and I'll post it. Anyone will be able to comment on it. I will put a link to the blog on our web site.

This blog will be great for sharing ideas. It can be helpful for discussions on your art, announcing shows, and other Guild business.

I believe there is an option for you all to choose if you would like an email sent to you every time a posting/comment is made to the site. That would be up to you. I'm not quite sure how that works yet but would not be something you were required to do.

I'm very excited about this but at the same time apprehensive.
For now, please send me any info you want posted here. I think this is going to be fun.
Bloggingly yours, Bonita

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