Martha Boers is a talented doll artist with a multitude of different techniques. She has gained international recognition as part of the Martha & Marianne doll making team, and her new solo work continues to surprise and win awards. Martha Boers was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to Canada at the age of 5. Three years later, Marianne was born. The two girls grew up ...

Tatiana Baeva is a master of art dolls, a member of the National Institute of American Doll Artists NIADA. - For as long as I can remember I have enjoyed drawing, gluing and modelling, but most of all I have been interested in creating doll-like objects. One day at school we had a writing assignment 'What I would like to do when I grow up'. I wrote that I would like to work at a ...

European Patchwork Meeting & Textile Arts 14-16 September 2023, Val d'Argent, Alsace, France The history of the European Patchwork Meeting dates back to 1993, when the French Association of Anabaptism and Mennonite History organised a 300th anniversary celebration in Saint-Marie-aux-Mines, the cradle of the Amish movement. The European Patchwork Meeting is the leading cultural event on the European continent. Each year ...

96th Tokyo International Gift Show Autumn 2023 6 - 8 September 2023 Tokyo International Gift Show (TIGS) is Japan's largest international trade exhibition showcasing gifts, consumer goods and decorative accessories. Founded in 1976, it is held semi-annually, every spring and autumn, in Japan's ultra-modern Tokyo ...

Anya Anderson is an artist, art doll maker, and a member of the National Institute of American Dollmakers NIADA. For me, making dolls is art, self-expression. It is my view of the world, my fantasies and my experience in the art form of a little person. Art has always been in Anya Anderson's life - mostly painting. She attended an art studio as a child and then ...

Geoffrey Gorman is a practicing artist who creates his original sculptures from found material in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He shows his work throughout the United States and has also exhibited in China, South Korea, and Canada. Over the years, his unique sculptures have been written about in the New York Post, Southwest Art, American Craft, American Style, and Cloth, Paper, ...

CADEAUX Leipzig Autumn 2023 takes place from 2 to 4 September in Leipzig, Germany CADEAUX Leipzig is a regular trade fair for stylish, new and original gifts and decorative items. More than 500 exhibitors present their sales hits in the field of giftware and items for home and household decoration. Numerous events are held as part of the exhibition's accompanying programme - ...

Richard MacDonald is a contemporary figurative sculptor who has been making art for over fifty years, striving to convey every facet of the human experience in his work. Born in California, the sculptor has spent over 25 years creating works that have changed the modern understanding of figurative sculpture. Among his greatest achievements are historically significant public monuments, one of them a 26-foot bronze sculpture, The Flair,...

The world of dolls is diverse and colourful! One is convinced of this once again when one sees the works of such authors as Julie McCullough, whose vision of beauty and perfection differs from the generally accepted standards. But are there such "standards" when we see stylised art objects and author's souvenirs alongside realistic figurative doll sculpture?! There are no rules in contemporary puppet art, and ...

Tanya Marriott is a world-renowned doll and toy maker, past president of the National Institute of American Doll Artists NIADA and a graduate of Pictoplasma Academy. She has been creating dolls inspired by the world around her for over 20 years. Tanya Marriott now teaches at Massey University, the College of Creative Arts in New Zealand, and is head of the Conceptual Design Programme and the Weta Master's School at Massey University in New Zealand.