Philadelphia: Craft CityThe birthplace of the United States remains to this day a center for forward thought.
In 1990 the jeweler Jan Yager had been working in Philadelphia for seven years and needed a fresh start. She decided that from then on all of her work would be inspired by objects or happenings within two blocks of her Philadelphia studio.
“For years I had cast a blind eye on my daily surroundings,” Yager explains. “I began to understand that as an artist I should speak about my own place and my own... (read more)http://www.americancraftmag.org/article.php?id=6571
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