Zetta Kanta: Impressionist wool

Latvian born, award-winning fibre artist, Zetta Kanta, uses only natural fibres for her tactile wallhangings. Working from her home in Melbourne, Australia, she uses wool and silk to create impressionist-style, modern wallhangings and tapestries that resemble paintings, rather than a non-woven fabric.

It was only after six years of travelling with her talented musician husband, and a foray into freelance graphic design, fashion design and DJing, that she decided to pursue an art course that birthed her love affair with wool.

Along with a passion for fair-trade and environmental sustainability that sees her sourcing wool from local rescue sheep and silk from producers that keep the silkworm alive, she favours softness in her work. This, she believes, promotes healing in the home and a sense of calm in busy public or office spaces.

Zetta Kanta: High Country Sunrise, 2017, Wool, silk, bamboo. Felted. Handspun yarn embroidery

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Using Antique Oriental Rugs as the Centerpiece for a Speciality Room: Billiards, Music and Home Theaters

Jan David Winitz, founder/president of Claremont Rug Company, often provides clients with antique Oriental rugs that serve as centerpieces for speciality rooms such as those devoted to billiards and music or home theaters. “What I look for in rugs for a speciality room are pieces that offer the appropriate ambiance for the particular space, be it where they will spend time enjoying a game of billiards, listening to music or watching videos.”

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Brazil recovers ancient human fossil fragments from burnt Rio museum

Brazilian officials said Friday they have recovered pieces of a 12,000-year-old fossil of a neolithic woman that was among the prized artifacts in Rio de Janeiro’s burnt down National Museum. “We found almost all of the skull and 80 percent of its fragments have been identified,” museum director Alexander Kellner said, adding that fragments of a femur were also uncovered from the ashes. The fossil, nicknamed “Luzia,” was discovered in 1970 in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais by a French-led expedition. A Manchester University team later did a digital face reconstruction based on the skull, which was used to model a sculpture of the ancient woman. That sculpture went up in flames on September 2 along with most of the museum’s 20 million artifacts. But the original skull fragments, kept in a metal urn in a closet, were found a few days ago.

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Edmonton | Call to Alberta Artists:: Shaw Conference Centre Atrium Glazing Replacement Public Art Project

Call to Alberta Artists :: Shaw Conference Centre Atrium Glazing Replacement

The Shaw Conference Centre Atrium public art competition, open to professional artists residing in Alberta is held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C).

A defining landmark of Edmonton’s cityscape, for 35 years the Shaw Conference Centre has hosted conferences, concerts, social events, weddings, and graduations. The iconic atrium, which cascades down a slope overlooking the North Saskatchewan River Valley connects, Jasper Avenue with the valley below and the prairie sky overhead.

Designed by Edmonton architect B. James Wensley, 70% of the building (300,000 square-feet) is located underground. From ground level to the top of the atrium, the building measures over 10 storeys high. Visitors are transported from the atrium to the conference spaces below via an indoor funicular. The fully-glazed atrium affords visitors a 270-degree view of the North Saskatchewan River Valley and its associated parks.

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MoMA and MoMA PS1 present the first retrospective of Bruce Nauman in 25 years

The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 present the first comprehensive retrospective in 25 years devoted to the work of American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), on view at The Museum of Modern Art from October 21, 2018, through February 18, 2019, and at MoMA PS1 from October 21, 2018, through February 25, 2019. Co-organized by The Museum of Modern Art and Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel, Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts draws upon the rich holdings of both institutions and nearly 70 lenders. Encompassing Nauman’s full career and featuring a total of 165 works, the exhibition occupies the Museum’s entire sixth floor and the whole of MoMA PS1. This joint presentation provides an opportunity to experience Nauman’s command of a wide range of mediums, from drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture to neon, performance, film and video, and architecturally scaled environments. Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts is organize

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