by Anastasia on May 5, 2009
By Paige Smith Orloff
"The Chorus and Creating"
ONE OF THE GREATEST JOYS in discovering a new artist is stepping out of your world and into another. We loved crossing that threshold into the land of Portland, Oregon-based artist Julianna Bright. In her folkloric, fairy-tale realm, images of sisterhood and kinship abound—though the ethereal women she paints are as likely to be paired up with a giant bird or a princely frog as with another human. “The pictures I make have became for me a way to circle back to that wonder I felt as a child,” says Julianna, “that time before I was even able to read when I could fashion a whole universe in my mind around an illustration.” [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on April 28, 2009
By Anastasia Smith
'The Queen and I'
LINDSEY CARR, THE IMAGINATION AND HEART behind the fanciful Etsy Shop, Little Robot, readily admits that her sibling-hood of six has come with responsibilities and heartache. “I think really that the misfortunes are the things which bind you,” she says, but then also offers this punchline, about the delight of her sister-and-brother relationships: “A story is nothing without someone to share it with.” [click to continue…]
by paige on April 9, 2009
Shauna, right, with lifetime sister-friend Sharon, who's "family."
FROM A SISTER-FRIEND she’s known since age 15 and others adopted along the way, Shauna James Ahern says she has learned to be herself, and unafraid. Those traits, combined with Shauna’s exceptional culinary creativity, have put the Gluten Free Girl at the center of a sisterhood (and a brotherhood, too) of passionate cooks who follow a gluten-free diet but don’t compromise their palates to keep their health. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on March 26, 2009
CLAUDINE HELLMUTH MIGHT BE an only child, but she knows a thing or two about a woman’s innate connection to sisterhood. Her artwork—a mix of photos, paint, fabric and ink—transplants familiar faces to whimsical worlds, reminiscent of storybook illustrations or even retro advertisements: a woman’s grayscale profile gives way to a drawn-on yellow floral dress and little yellow high heels perched delicately on the floor of a red Vespa, her red scarf flapping in the wind behind her; two women with comforting family resemblance—it’s in their eyes, or maybe their smiles—stand close, so close their A-line floral skirts overlap, clasping one another’s hands before a backdrop of fluffy clouds and rolling hills. [click to continue…]
by margaretroach on March 5, 2009
WHEN ARTIST SLOANE TANEN’S jpg-stuffed email arrived in TSP’s inbox late last year, bringing new meaning to the concept of pecking order, we shared some of her crazy creations right away…to introduce her to the rest of the sister flock. Now we’ve rounded up more of Sloane’s special sister art into a slideshow, including several you haven’t seen before. [click to continue…]
by margaretroach on February 10, 2009
THEY SHARE KNITTING, AUTHORSHIP OF TWO BOOKS—and oh, yes, they also share “the hairdo luv” with anyone who can stop laughing long enough to open their eyes and watch their entire “Pardon Me (I Didn’t Knit That for You)” country-music video. Such is the creative and crazy chemistry between “sisters” (our word) Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne, known to knitters everywhere as Mason-Dixon Knitting. They are knit together (sorry) as tightly these days as DNA, but no genetic material is actually shared: The two met on a knitting chat board on the internet. Hallelujah that they did. [click to continue…]
by margaretroach on February 8, 2009
This Gail Albert Halaban image seems to ask: Is the child an accessory?
GAIL ALBERT HALABAN HAS MADE a celebrated career of photographing her peer group—her generational sisters, one might say. She made pictures of students when she was one; of 30-something professional women and young mothers next. Like her previous series, the new work in Out My Window, which opened Thursday at Robert Mann Gallery, is of people (usually women) in their homes, this time looking out onto New York City. It’s a perspective TSP can imagine Albert Halaban having glimpses of, with the imminent birth of her second child—the one she always knew she must give to her first. “I could not imagine not having a sibling,” she says. “It is the greatest gift in the world.” [click to continue…]
by paige on February 5, 2009
Poppy (left) and Daisy de Villeneuve were raised in England.
THE TSP SISTERS PRACTICALLY DID cartwheels after connecting the dots between the work of Daisy and Poppy de Villeneuve. Despite an ocean between them, the sisters share buzz in both art and commerce, high ambitions, and double “it-girl” status (they always were snappy dressers, as their 1983 portrait reveals). And when they are reunited and just driving around these days (traveling together as they love to), they also share a fondness for singing their very own mashups, of George Michael and Alanis Morissette, perhaps. Don’t all sisters? [click to continue…]
by paige on January 20, 2009
Diane's pocket shrine features Gene Kelly, her creative hero.
H OW COULD THE SISTER PROJECT resist someone with the nickname “Sister Diane?” When a friend turned us on to the prolific and passionate crafter Diane Gilleland, we had to delve into her work as both a creator of, and a zealous advocate for, things made by hand. Through her blog, podcasts and writing, Diane teaches and spreads the word about the power of handmade articles. She is less an aficionado of one particular craft than a supporter of spending time making things, whatever they are. As she says on her blog, showcasing an arguably unfortunate creation from a vintage craft guide: “Frankly, if somebody had a nice couple of hours making it, it’s A-OK in my book.” [click to continue…]
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