Earlier this month the Woods-Gerry Gallery at RISD hosted the Experimental and Foundations Studies exhibition. It is a singular show featuring hundreds of drawings covering the walls, sculptural pieces hanging from the ceiling — there’s even some costumery — all created by unnamed students (see below). No individual artists are identified, rather, the show is […]
Local luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz will appear on the new season of the Anthony Bourdain web show ‘Raw Craft.’ The series, created to promote the Balvenie Distillery in Scotland, is itself well-crafted, and features “artisans who make incredible things by hand.” (Makezine.) Go here to watch the teaser for episode nine with Rachel showing Bourdain how
It seems that every corner, cranny, and blank surface at the Dean Hotel is merely a place waiting for art to happen — Faust, their German-style hofbrau, is no exception. And those boring old tap handles just had to go! Last week, luthier Rachel A. Rosenkrantz delivered these gorgeous new beer tap handles to the
Is there something in the zeitgeist? Seems like you can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting a luthier. Is this a country-wide phenomenon, or are they all specifically congregating here? And what is the noun of collection for luthiers? (I suggest ‘fluther’. . . as with jellyfish. A fluther of luthiers.) The latest