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Tag Archive: Crafts / Art

The Craftman of Beijing

When you are planning your first travel by yourself when you grow up, open a map and search for the destination, how many people will stop at the place of latitude 39, east longitude 115,[…]

Portrait of a Mechanic

Guillermo Gonzalez Dominguez is a native Cuban living out his dream in life of owning his own mechanic shop. A mechanic since childhood, Guillermo reflects on his father, his work ethic, and his love of[…]

Mellisa the Quilter

From an early age Mellisa developed an exceptional eye for shape, color and design. She grew up watching and listening to her mother’s weekly quilting group as they gathered around a quilting frame and talked[…]

The Colors Lady

Dana is a Polish-Swedish painter creating intuitive abstract art.  She tells her short story how the passion emerged in her and how does she feels while painting.  Beautiful, inspiring story for everyone who has an[…]

The Disco Bunny

The United Kingdom has had a testing time in 2017. But however with all the darkness in the world the Disco Bunny travels up and down the UK to spread his message of positive energy[…]

Chinese Color

A traditional paint designer of water painting, Qiu Qingnian, has spent his fifty-three years doing the work of searching natural paint materials, making paint for water painting and designing the art of paint. He strives[…]

Lóa Chlapp

A short documentary about Snorri Hólm an Icelandic student living in Norway, focusing on how he chooses to express himself through his art, our relationship with how we dress and our thoughts on what is[…]

The Gift of Memories

This piece follows local Chicago photographer Mark Brown. He loves photographing children and families and uses his background in comedy and improv to make each session a memorable experience. He also specializes in taking photos[…]

The Young Kunqu Opera Performer

Jiang Ke, a pretty Chinese girl, stepped to her career on Kunqu Opera stage for the first time when she was 12. Now Jiang has been a professional opera performer with experience of more than[…]

The Surgeon of Jade

In the process of jade carving, some raw jade have been put into bin before beginning the work. However, XU Kai refuses to abandon those imperfect materials of jade, but revives them through creative designs,[…]