Jerry Cox, Creative Artisan section-member, considers furniture to be functional sculpture. He designs and builds custom cabinetry and furnishings for NewSpace, Inc. Formally trained as artist, he also mixes sculpture, painting and photography with his furniture making career. His work can be viewed on his new website that he rolled earlier this month.
the online local news source The Patch . Bonnie will also be one of several artists recognized in a video tribute for their longtime service to the St. Louis Artists' Guild at 125th Anniversary Kickoff Party on December 15th. Bon is a master woodcarver and has completed many corporate commissions for signs, sculptural elements and carvings. She is a former president of the Artists' Guild.
Margaret von Kaenel, decorative artist and muralist, will speak about her work at the next Artisans' Section meeting at the St. Louis Artists' Guild, Nov 11, 7pm. Margaret's portfolio includes murals, trompe l'oeil, and custom textural wall finishes including Venetian plaster, Luster stone, marmorino, and sandstone. Besides earning a degree in fine art and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University she has trained in the decorative arts through a variety of trade schools notably the North America School of Decorative Arts (NASODA) in Chicago, IL and Koch Brothers Studio in St. Louis, MO. 
Apropos the upcoming St. Louis Artists' Guild exhibit Collective Reasoning check out the InstaDaily blog post on art made from all kinds of trash and recycled materials. Particularly impressive is Korean sculptor Ji Yong Ho's menagerie constructed from used tires.
“A finished sundial can be both a work of art and an instrument for telling time accurately,” states sundial enthusiast, Donald L. Snyder. Don will be the featured presenter at the Oct. 14 Artisans’ Section meeting in the 2nd Floor Members Gallery, 7pm. Don is a Senior Professor of Washington University with interests in biomedical, electrical and optical engineering. He is also an accomplished woodworker who has produced items ranging from musical instruments, such as a harpsichord and hammered dulcimers, to tables, boxes, picture and mirror frames, beds, etc. His work reflects a high degree of craftsmanship and an engineer’s eye for precision. His presentation will be an overview of sundials and a picture tour of sundials made using a variety of art forms.
Organizers of the Deutsch Country Days festival in Marthasville, MO are seeking artisans to participate in their annual two-day period recreation of early German immigrant's functional lifestyle. In need in particular at this time is a potter to demonstrate use of a kick wheel.
Summer vacation season is drawing to a close and members of the Creative Artisans' section of the St. Louis Artists' Guild are set to resume their monthly meetings on Thurs, Sept 9, 7-9pm in the 2nd floor Members Gallery, Two Oak Knoll Park, Clayton, MO. The evening will highlight the care and sharpening of carving tools used by our woodworker artisans. We will also view a fascinating cache of previously unpublished photos of turn of 20th century life along the Mississippi recently discovered by one of our members. We are also looking forward to hearing about what members did over the summer including reports about the Sculptural Objects and Fine Art exposition in Santa Fe, NM as well as the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio in Oak Park, IL. The meeting is open to everyone and there is no charge to attend. A brief business meeting for section members will conclude the evening. To learn more about the section and its members visit the Creative Artisans website.
"Breathing is a good thing," according to Dennis McNett, the painter/sculptor that recently came to our attention across the blogosphere and we are happy to share his dramatic works with you here. His paper-mache animal masks were recently featured in Barney’s fashion window displays on Madison Avenue in New York City. McNett has also created large scale works for events like dragon slayings in Oklahoma and Viking performances/parades in Philadelphia.
Yvette Woods will be the speaker at the Artisans' section meeting, Thursday, June 10th, 7pm at the St. Louis Artists Guild. Yvette will discuss her career as an artist in St. Louis as well as her latest venture, Studio W. Located in the city's Central West End. Studio W offers youth and adult drawing classes as well as artists' workshops.
Artist and drawing instructor Yvette Woods invites art students of all ages to tour her Studio W classrooms in the Central West End neighborhood during an open house this Saturday May 29, from 3-6pm. Besides conducting weekly youth and adult drawing classes Studio W will offer upcoming workshops with cartoonist, Dan Martin, and illustrator, Kevin Belford. Yvette will be the featured speaker at the June 10th meeting of the Creative Artisans' section of the St. Louis Artists Guild. 
Abraham Mohler, stone sculptor, will discuss his work at the next Creative Artisans' meeting at the St. Louis Artists Guild on Thursday, May 13, at 7:00pm. Mohler creates works in marble. Many of his pieces have a classical look about them but he carves modern forms as well. He draws inspiration from the novel Moby Dick even sculpting the head of Herman Melville as the Prophet Elijah. Mohler studied in Scotland. He has completed commissions for the Missouri Botanical Garden and other private gardens which can be seen on his website. The sculptor can also be seen in a Youtube video of his 2007 show at The Shaw Gallery. Abraham Mohler's sculptures are currently being exhibited at the artist-friendly downtown Cafe Cioccolato, 816 Olive.
April 16. Third Friday Open House. Spring over for heat-defying acts by glass artists. Watch hot glass become glass art, get your hands on glass art experience, browse a trunk show and sale of fused glass jewelry by AstralGlass Studio, see art exhibits, and enjoy Rock and Roll tunes by Last To Show First To Go. For more details about April's Third Friday click Third Friday. 
Doug Auer, co-founder of Third Degree Glass Factory, will discuss St. Louis's largest, public-access glass art education center on Thursday, April 8, 7:00 pm in the second floor Members' Gallery of the St. Louis Artists Guild. Third Degree Glass Factory promotes contemporary glass art through education, studio facility rental for artists and students, a gallery shop featuring glass art made by Third Degree artists, and event venue rental. Located in a refurbished industrial building at 5200 Delmar between University City and the Central West End, it has become a popular venue through its Third Friday events that feature artisans blowing glass for the public with live music, cash bar and a fun atmosphere. Watch a great video about the creation of the Third Degree Glass Factory on their website.
As described by the St. Louis Union Station website, "A most impressive feature of the Grand Hall is the "Allegorical Window," a hand-made stained glass window with hand-cut Tiffany glass strategically positioned above the Station's main entryway. The window features three women representing the main U.S. train stations during the 1890s -- New York, St. Louis and San Francisco." There are thirteen Tiffany Company windows in the collection of the Second Presbyterian Church in the Central West End. The windows of Second Church show a number of features typical of the Tiffany style: The inclusion of nature, especially plants and water, the use of layers of glass to achieve dimensional effects and the use of "drapery glass" to add texture to the robes in the scenes. Drapery glass is made in the glassmaster's studio by working molten glass with tongs to create a thick and thin texture, the resulting glass looking like natural folds of fabric. More information about the history and the architecture of Second Church is at the church's website. Finally the dramatic red and blue rose windows of the magnificent Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis are the work of the Tiffany Company. They can be seen along with beautiful images of mosaics and sculptures by taking an online tour at Cathedral's excellent wbsite.
Dutch designer Joris Laarman's unique aesthetic merges cutting-edge technology and the life-sciences to create work of unexpected beauty. In 2008, Laarman's Bone Chair and Bone Chaise, his first two works since graduating from Eindhoven, were displayed in MoMA's exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind. This marked a major milestone in his career and the chair subsequently, was added to the museum's permanent collection.
Louis Comfort Tiffany introduced his line of ceramics in St. Louis at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. Compared to Tiffany glass in all its forms the pottery is rare. The total pottery production of Tiffany Studios is around two thousand pieces. The remaining number of existing pieces is small due to the fragility of ceramics and neglect by collectors in favor of art glass lamps, windows, fine jewelry and metal work. The Morse Museum in Winter Park, FL has the largest known collection of Tiffany Favrile pottery, about 90 pieces. Pottery was one of the last mediums Tiffany would explore and he had a great passion for it. Tiffany may have been more personally involved with pottery production than any other line he ever sold. It was named Favrile Pottery using the same old English term that Tiffany used for his glass. Registered as a Tiffany Trademark Feb. 1892 “Favrile” means hand-made or crafted.
The St. Louis Business Journal ran a great interview by Rick Desloge with Artisans' section member Boris Khechoyan in the January 1-7, 2010 issue. Desloge writes that Boris arrived in St. Louis "eighteen years ago as a refugee from the civil war that forced him from his homeland, Azerbaijan. He brought with him little more than his box of chisels."
Gary R. Tetley, AIA, architect/photographer, will present images of the architecture of Theodore C. Link at the next meeting of the Artisans' section, Thursday, Feb 11, 7:00 pm in the newly refurbished second floor Members' Gallery at the St. Louis Artists' Guild. Little has been published about Link, the designer of the St. Louis Union Station, and Tetley's interest in the architect's work dates back to 1986. Since then he has conducted interviews with Link's relatives as well as families of Link's former clients. He has set off on multiple road trips to document buildings in Mississippi and other states by St. Louis' best known historic architect.
