Arts, Crafts and More

Arts, Crafts and More
Author: Barbara Lyerly Goins
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Inexpensive projects allow children to express themselves through art and experience the joy of the creative process. This book has been awarded the National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval.

2015 Crafter's Market

2015 Crafter's Market
Author: Kelly Biscopink
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 144024006X

Turn your crafting into a career! 2015 Crafter's Market is the perfect start to your crafting career. Thousands of artists and writers have relied on us to develop their careers and navigate the changing landscape of their fields using our sister publications, Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market and Writer's Market. For the first time, that same resource is available for crafters! The 2015 Crafter's Market introduces a whole world of possibilities for marketing your craft! Expand your business with these resources: • Complete, up-to-date information for more than 1,000 craft market resources, including craft shows, magazines, book publishers, online marketplaces and more! • Markets for a variety of crafts, including quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, papercrafting and jewelry making. • Articles on the basics of freelancing--from basic copyright information to tips on promoting your work. • Informative articles on social media marketing, wholesale and consignment sales and pricing your crafts. • Inspiring and informative interviews with successful craft professionals such as Tula Pink and Margot Potter.

Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy

Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy
Author: Carol Tubbs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2024-06-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 104014229X

For more than 20 years, Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy, Fifth Edition has been an illuminating reference for the use of creative approaches in helping clients achieve their therapeutic goals. Carol Crellin Tubbs has included a range of craft and creative activity categories, from paper crafts, to cooking, to the use of recycled materials, and everything in between. Each chapter includes a brief history of the craft, several projects along with suggestions for grading or adapting, examples of related documentation, and a short case study. The text also features chapters on activity analysis, general strategies for implementation of creative activities, and documentation, as well as a chapter describing the relevance of this media from both historical and current occupation-based perspectives. In this updated Fifth Edition, the craft projects have been updated and numerous resources and links for more ideas have been added. There are new chapters on making therapy tools and crafting with a purpose, and the recycled and found materials chapter has been expanded in keeping with cultural trends. A flow chart has been added to each case study to help students better understand the process and rationale for tailoring activities for individual client needs, and project suggestions for working on specific performance skills or client factors are scattered throughout the chapters. Other additions include a behavioral observation checklist as an aid in evaluation and documentation, and several illustrations to help students distinguish between the use of occupation as means and occupation as end. This Fifth Edition also includes an updated instructors’ manual with additional resources and suggestions for lesson planning. Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy, Fifth Edition not only provides a wide assortment of craft ideas and instructions, but also provides multiple suggestions for therapeutic uses for activities in each category. It includes ways to grade activities to best achieve therapy objectives, and examples of documentation for reimbursement. For each craft category, there is discussion on precautions for use with certain populations, contextual limitations, and safety considerations. Information is presented in several different formats such as examples, tables, illustrations, and other formats to promote student understanding. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. . Crafts and Creative Media in Therapy, Fifth Edition is the foremost resource for using creative approaches in helping clients achieve their therapeutic goals and should be used by all occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and recreational therapists.

Altered Art Circus

Altered Art Circus
Author: Lisa Kettell
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2011-02-09
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1616735376

Art Circus! takes the reader on a magical journey into the artistic world where they can discover their creative muse which is waiting to come out and play. It is at heart a technique book for altered artists, but is housed within a wonderful, spectacular fantasy land. The book will bring the reader, the daydreamer, the explorer, the artist, to a place have never been, where they can unleash their artistic dreams and explore hidden worlds through cutting-edge techniques, creative projects, and beautiful images. The book will include easy tutorials on basic digital altering effects for new and vintage images, step by step instruction for projects, a gallery of inspirational projects from other artists, and clip art and vintage images for readers to use in their own projects. The book will cover digital and paper alteration, creating from found and household objects (jars and boxes), will feature playful illustration, vintage imagery, and use a myriad of other mixed-media materials ranging from glitter and wire to crinolin and coloring agents.

The New Nashville Chef's Table

The New Nashville Chef's Table
Author: Stephanie Stewart
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1493034197

Food, cooking and restaurants reflect the down-home spirit of Nashville, the people who live there, and their many cultures and cuisines. Culinary traditions here are firm, but there is a dynamic food/dining evolution taking place––from homey mom and pop cafes to chic new eateries. The New Nashville Chef’s Table features recipes for the home cook from the city's most celebrated eateries alongside beautiful photography.

Marketing Crafts and Visual Arts

Marketing Crafts and Visual Arts
Author: International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO.
Publisher: WIPO
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9291372641

This guide provides basic knowledge of marketing techniques and intellectual property for artisans, craft entrepreneurs and visual artists. It identifies relevant IP issues and ways of protecting creative output and lays out the costs and benefits. The chapters include: understanding the value of intellectual property; linking intellectual property to business development and marketing throughout the business cycle; how to protect crafts and visual arts; case studies.

Almost Lost Arts

Almost Lost Arts
Author: Emily Freidenrich
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781452170206

This book is a celebration of tactile beauty and a tribute to human ingenuity. In-depth profiles tell the stories of 20 artisans who have devoted their lives to preserving traditional techniques. Gorgeous photographs reveal these craftspeople's studios, from Oaxaca to Kyoto and from Milan to Tennessee. Two essays explore the challenges and rewards of engaging deeply with the past. With an elegant three-piece case and foil stamping, this rich volume will be an inspiration to makers, collectors, and history lovers.

Vacation Crafting

Vacation Crafting
Author: Suzanne McNeill
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607655225

Get crafty wherever you go with this treasure trove of fun, family-friendly projects from friendship bracelets to tie-dye, bead crafts, and much more! Inspired by the classic crafts of summer camp, Vacation Crafting provides more than one hundred fifty child-friendly projects for girls and boys ages 4 to 12. Kids will learn to make friendship bracelets, woven potholders, pony bead animals, plastic lanyards, wire art, rubber band jewelry, foam crafts, scoubidou, paracord gear, and more. Using inexpensive, readily available craft supplies that are easy to take along to the mountains or beach, the crafting projects featured in this volume are the perfect activity for any family vacation. They are also a sure way to liven up parties, scout meetings, rainy days, and after-school activities. Color photos, supply lists, easy-to-follow instructions, and patterns make it easy to supervise the fun.