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Fiber artist Edward Lambert is motivated by people who wear and make tattoos and explores the fleshy world of contemporary tattoo artistry. Lambert's most recent works on tattooing are illustrated.

Christine Federighi, an artist and maker of mummylike figurative ceramics feel that any new series of her work is in response to situation, either personal or other. She thinks that she is going to make a little globe that's her visualization of her true self for every day that she has cancer.

The 30th edition of the Ceramic National acknowledges works by masters, mid-career artists and emerging talents. The now-touring exhibition was organized by the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York.

Dona Look's birchbark baskets depict a native American spirituality and modern Scandinavian design. Her baskets are mostly woven from northern Wisconsin emphasizing her exquisite refinement and pursuit of excellence.

Gisela Magdalena Moyer likes to explore the boundaries between cloth and paper in her works. She uses handmade paper to create quilts, rafts, tents, wall-reliefs and garments. She also uses a variety of other materials such as foil, paint and flowers to adorn the works.

A group of artists and printers in Wisconsin have produced book art under the leadership of artist Walter Hamady. The books use elements of collage, letterpress printing, calligraphy, assemblage, illustration and poetry.

Wisconsin fiber artist Anne Kingsbury's works are characterized by a high degree of craftsmanship and a passion for traditionally female objects. Despite their domesticity, however, her compositions also reflect a strong fascination for wild fabulist undertones and dark moral themes.

Textile artist Jason Pollen uses silk as his medium since it is strong, resilient and absorbent. His well-known works are generally colorful and evocative. These include 'Terra Ephemera,' 'Revelation,' and 'Tango.'

The article presents the insights of several experts on how to improve one's appreciation of artworks including curator Jack O'Brien of art at the Naples Art Association, museum educator and art historian Annie Storr based in Silver Spring, Maryland, and metal sculptor Mary Voytek.

A description of an traveling exhibition of sculpture made of ceramics and mixed-media work is presented, with focus on the representation of social issues such as injustice and damage to the environment in the pieces displayed.

The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, will exhibit contemporary glass.

The article presents the art scene in Southwest Florida. It discusses shift in leadership with the younger generation taking over the helm in art museums and galleries including The Baker Museum at Artis -- Naples, Thomas Riley Studio, an offshoot of Thomas Riley Artisans' Guild and Harmon-Meek modern. It also discusses the foray of new wave gallery directors John Loscuito of Florida Gulf Coast University and Jade Dellinger of Florida South-Western State College.

Florida-based ceramic artist Sang Robertson is known for earthenware pieces influenced by Asian, Pueblo Indian, and pre-Columbian styles. Her work, which features boxes, baskets, and other containers, are painted with terra sigillata and are fired thrice.

The article focuses on the knitted artworks of artist Frances Trombly in the U.S. Trombly specializes on the creation of handicrafts through crocheting, embroidery, weaving and knitting which depict the value of art objects and consumerism. His knitted works have been displayed in several exhibition, including "Thinking of Things" at the David Castillo Gallery in Miami, Florida in 2008, "Garden Hose," and 250-foot woven yellow caution tape at Socrates Sculpture Park.

This article presents information on the Defense Mechanism Coat, bristling with 150 pounds of roofing nails, designed by fashion designer Kate Kretz. Painstakingly inserted by the artist and an assistant into a found woolen coat over the course of three months, the nails protect a soft, vulnerable interior that tells a very different story. Made of flesh-colored velvet, the lining is covered with a hand-embroidered tracery of veins and arteries reflecting the major blood vessels of the human body. The lining invites the viewer inside, with whispered promises of warmth and comfort.

The article presents several artworks in South Florida. "Florida: Land of Sunshine and Happiness" is a cover of a promotional brochure from the 1920's that shows a nymph bounding rapturously forward into the golden light. The notion of Florida as "Paradise Found" still resonates today as it did throughout the 20th-century land boom that gradually made the state a haven for vacationers, retirees and opportunists of every stripe. On the other hand, Carol Drummond's art quilt, "Postcard from Paradise" captures ebulliant, multicultural spirit. Three contemporary Florida artists, Mary Voytek, Kathleen Holmes and Carol Prusa, explore the beauties and incongruities of the place in their work.

The article discusses whether spirituality influences various aspects of contemporary art. It is stated that many abstract arts of the past 30 years have been governed by materialistic philosophy, Romantic individualism, and formalist concerns. It says that sacredness is a rare phenomenon, little cultivated in art schools or discussed in artists' circles. Several artists are observed as saying that absorption in their work offers a metaphoric, equivalent to religious experience.

The article discusses the life and works of textile artist Akemi Nakano Cohn. It reveals that her work with brilliantly colored, richly printed, multilayered and interwoven silk wall hangings portrays the story of her struggles to adapt and flourish in a new land. It recalls that Cohn studied textile arts privately with master craftsperson Haru Izumi in Tokyo, Japan from 1976-1985, then followed a course of study in the U.S. that took her from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cohn used Nassen dye techniques which are adapted from traditional Japanese methods to achieve the brilliant colors and seductive visual rhythms of her work.

Critiques an exhibition featuring paintings by Slade Graves at the Padulo Art gallery in Naples, Florida. Painting style; Centerpiece of the exhibition.

Reviews Gloria Garfinkel's art exhibition at the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The article features textile artist Laurie Wohl and her artwork. Her wall hangings, which she calls "turtle time," bring out a slower time in contrast with the uncontrolled pace of contemporary life. Her canvas tapestries were described as having an absorbing physical presence. She describes her tapestries as unweavings. Wohl graduated from Columbia Law School. She became a painter in 1976, but her focus shifted to fiber when she found herself in a studio examining a piece of unstretched canvas. One of her art pieces, the Tree of Life, is described.