How I went to a Mali culture and design expo and ended up befriending and creating a blog for an inspiring and charitable design co-op from Mali two days later in my apartment. Hugs all around.
Posts Tagged ‘woman’
obama nesting dolls
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged art, collage, craft, crafts, design, etsy, girlonthestreet, girls, knit, nesting dolls, Obama, politics, quilt, woman, women on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I like the idea of nesting dolls as a metaphor for personality and layers of personal and social significance of an individual or an idea or both. What should you choose as the outer layer? What the public sees first would be the obvious choice, but maybe its the biggest thing about the person, the [...]
Nagi Noda’s Death – too young to die
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged agency, artist, chauncey, death, Ex-Fat Girl, girlonthestreet, hanpanda, jack white, japan, japanese, meg, mortality, mother, nagi noda, Ogiyahagi, Partizan, wanpan, wanwan, white stripes, woman, yuki sentimental journey, zalkin on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was a little late to the news but learning of Nagi Noda’s sudden death makes me incredibly sad. Only 35 years old, so unique, so creative, so accomplished, so weird, delightful, and magical. Time is of the essence to make art and invent so get to it. I feel this urgency now more than [...]
No Child
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged babies, baby, being a mom, child, childless, children, custody, dad, dads, daughter, family, father, fatherhood, fathers, feminism, first wave feminism, parenthood, son, woman, women on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I started to create a video documentary of sorts interviewing women around the world asking them why they were choosing to marry later and have children later — and I only got so far as a few furniture makers in Italy during the 2007 Salone del Mobile but their English was so rudimentary that it [...]
INQUIRY INTO JAPANESE CULTURE IN THE WEST
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged asia, bitai, branding, brands, buddhism, chanoyu, dry gardens, emaki, geisha, genji, haiku, heian, ikebana, isshin, japan, japanese, japonica, japonism, kabuki, kami, kano, kimono, kyoto, luxury, noh, origami, samurai, sho, sumi-e, tea, tenryu-ji, Tokyo, trends, ukiyo-e, utagawa, west, woman, women on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
LOOKING to better understand perceptions and impressions of Japan, the Japanese, Japonism, Japonica, all related Japan culture – in the west.
There is frequent buzz about Japan’s influence on the youth market – manga – anime – gaming – technology – harajuku girls – those vending machines – j-horror – j-pop – etc.
Im looking to investigate [...]
Number one, O.J. did it, and number two, don’t tell us what to do
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged advertising, affirmative action, american, bias, boomers, bush, divisive, early feminists, election, equality, feminism, gender, Hilary, hillary, houston, matriarch, michelle, misogyny, myopia, neo-feminist, o.j. simpson, Obama, old boy network, patriot, polemics, political, politics, power suits, reagan, sisters of 77, slutty, woman, women on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
we are not asking permission from some great Uncle Sam like authority to be who we are or to have power.
Hero
Posted in -Alabama Chanin, Contributors, tagged - Natalie Chanin, -Alabama Chanin, activist, alice waters, alternative, america, american, art, children, color purple, community, country, craft, design, education, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, fabric, family, fashion, female, food, garden, health, hero, heroes, leader, mentor, montessori, mother, progressive, progressive education, project alabama, sewing, south, sustainability, textiles, woman, women on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chauncey was diligent in asking me to post. She just didn’t give up. I almost dreaded when her next email would come as I really did not know what I wanted to say with my “personal” voice. It seems that my “Alabama Chanin” voice has become my personal voice or, perhaps, that [...]
calling all innovative female artists and artisans
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged apparel, art, ceramics, collage, contest, craft, create, creative, designer, designers, film, furniture, gallerist, gallery, illustrate, industrial, knit, make, paint, weld, woman, women on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I want to see your work.
sculptors
illustrators
furniture designers
industrial designers
web designers
glass blowers
welders
woodworkers
ceramicists
candle-makers
photographers
knitters
quilters
painters
collage artists
zine publishers
makers of short films
garments designers
jewelry designers (no bead stringer togetherers)
makers of objets d’art
or anything else.
Please send it to me at chauncey (at) girlonthestreet.com
Oh you pretty things
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged caretaker, charlotte allen, chick lit, clinton, Feminazi, feminism, girly, media, misogynist, misogyny, nurturer, Obama, washington post, woman, women on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An article entitled We Scream, We Swoon, How Dumb Can We Get? appeared in the Washington Post today. In it, contributor Charlotte Allen writes tauntingly of her own gender:
“What is it about us women? Why do we always fall for the hysterical, the superficial and the gooily sentimental?“
Her missive was inspired by the phenomenon of [...]
