Shibori is a fascinating and versatile art form that allows you to experiment with different techniques and materials to create your own unique designs. It's a great way to add a personal touch to ...

A member of the Georgia Pottery Collective, Joel Huff combines Japanese and Southern U.S. pottery traditions to create ...

When interviewed by CBS News in 2019, Kiyoko Matsuoka, a Japanese artisan with 50 years’ experience of shibori dyeing, confessed she has never once created a piece she is wholly satisfied with. This ...

Nahoopii first learned about shibori in college. “I studied Oriental Art History and eventually earned a BA in liberal arts from The Evergreen State College in Washington. I was working with an ...

The imagination can be freed working with textiles, where fiber art techniques such as shibori, batik, silk-painting, or block-printing can be adapted from global traditions, cultural symbolism, or ...

On a spring morning nearly a decade ago, Leigh Magar was out walking rural Johns Island, off Charleston, S.C., with her ...

If there ever was a time for businesspeople to learn the fine art of persuasion, it is now. Gone are the command-and-control days of executives managing by decree. Today businesses are run largely ...

While polka dots are a fashion staple today, their prominence wasn't always so assured. Originally, the polka dot pattern ...

By Robin Pogrebin Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter ...

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From pyramids to cathedrals to sykscrapers, architecture reflects the societies and cultural values it originates from. As the built environment expands, the role of architects and architecture in ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...