Editor’s Picks
Hurricane Helene
Asheville is widely touted as an artist mecca in North Carolina, but the recent and unexpected flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has affected countless artists. Ashley Callahan reaches out to the people there to get the full picture, and the urgent need of residents. Links to where to donate to local institutions and communities are included.
Photograph by Lori Brook Johnson.
Ornament Celebrates
Our 50th Anniversary
Volume 45, No. 2
Table of Contents
Features
Timo Krapf.
Raising the Stakes
Yves Saint Lurent.
From the Page to Prêt-à-Porter
A Touch of Silver.
East Asian Hair Ornaments
Ornament Visits Minneapolis.
Departments
Craft on Display.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Contemporary Craft Show 2024
Showcase.
Timo Krapf
Extraordinary Career.
Mila Gokhman
Climate Crisis.
Heartache and Helpers in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene
Native Inspired.
Carol Krena. A Relationship with the Earth
TIMO KRAPF
David Updike follows the next generation of a family of master metalsmiths, as he relates the love for anticlastic raising that Timo Krapf has developed in his jewelry. Returning to school at the Savannah College of Art & Design for his MFA Krapf wishes to continue growing as an artist.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell finds Yves Saint Laurent arriving at her doorstep, with an inaugural exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art. With a focus on the designer’s sketches, along with other archival materials, a window is opened on Saint Laurent’s creative process.
HURRICANE HELENE
AND ARTISTS
Asheville is widely touted as an artist mecca in North Carolina, but the recent and unexpected flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has affected countless artists. Ashley Callahan reaches out to the people there to get the full picture, and the urgent need of residents.
The Process of Becoming
We Share with You the Jewelry Collection of the late Ornament Coeditor, Carolyn L.E. Benesh, who forged strong and intimate bonds with many of the artists whose work she purchased.
Articles, Past and Present
The Expression of the Handmade Makes Itself Felt through Genuineness.
What was Made Took a Combination of Skill and Ingenuity, Birthed From That Mysterious Dark Place of Imagination.
Wearable Art
It came about as a nexus in the 60s and 70s, referencing a freeform fusion of heretofore two-dimensional art and applying it to the canvas of the human being. These clothes as costume and costume as clothes birthed off a movement that still has its adherents even now, in the contemporary age.
Jewelry has had to find itself in the Modernist age, transcending the fine jewelry of wealth at the turn of the century, and reaching mid-century the abstracted explorations of material, composition, and storytelling that would yield to the contemporary art jewelry movement. Today, contemporary art jewelry remains a creatively vibrant field, a cross-disciplinary cooperation that branches off into academic work and that sold at craft shows.
We bring you the broad spectrum of human self-expression in wearable art, from the ancient and the ethnic, to the contemporary. Both here in the United States, and abroad.
Here are a few of the jewelers and clothing makers in the wearable art community for your enjoyment. We will continue to rotate this selection each month, so you will always find superlative new work to explore.
AMY NGUYEN, SHIBORI DYED CLOTHING
KEN LOEBER & DONA LOOK, JEWELRY
BIBA SCHUTZ, JEWELRY
JANICE KISSINGER, HAND-DYED FELTED CLOTHING
K. RILEY, HANDMADE BLOCK-PRINT CLOTHING
JUDITH KINGHORN, JEWELRY
Intelligent Reading.
Enter a world where experience and skill cooperate with imagination and materials to create astounding objects. The spectrum of human adornment extends from tribal and folk cultures around the globe, to the rarefied heights of the fashion industry, to contemporary art jewelry and craft which seeks to explore new boundaries.
SHOP EASILY.
Asheville is widely touted as an artist mecca in North Carolina, but the recent and unexpected flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has affected countless artists. Ashley Callahan reaches out to the people there to get the full picture, and the urgent need of residents.