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Mary Meigs Atwater
Mary Meigs Atwater (February 28, 1878 – September 5, 1956) was an American weaver. She revived Weaving, handweaving in America by collecting weaving drafts, teaching and writing; ''Handweaver and Craftsman'' called Atwater "the grand dame and grand mother of the revival of handweaving in [the United States]". Biography Atwater née Meigs was born on February 28, 1878, in Rock Island, Illinois. She attended Miss Wheeler’s Academy in Providence, Rhode Island and went on to study art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Art Institute and in Paris, France. In 1902, while in Paris, she met the American mining engineer Maxwell Atwater. She married him in 1903 and the couple had three children, two of whom survived infancy. They settled in Telluride, Colorado and until Maxwell's death in 1919 the couple lived a peripatetic life, residing in several western states, Bolivia and Mexico. When living in Basin, Montana, she began weaving as an artistic outlet and to provide business op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Island, Illinois
Rock Island is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. The population was 37,108 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located at the confluence of the Rock River (Mississippi River tributary), Rock and Mississippi River, Mississippi rivers, it is one of the Quad Cities along with neighboring Moline, Illinois, Moline and East Moline, Illinois, East Moline in Illinois and the cities of Davenport, Iowa, Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Bettendorf in Iowa. The Quad Cities metropolitan area had a population of 384,324 in 2020. The city is home to Rock Island Arsenal, the largest government-owned weapons manufacturing arsenal in the United States, which employs 6,000 people. The original Rock Island, from which the city name is derived, is now called Rock Island Arsenal, Arsenal Island. History The original portion of what is now known as Rock Island was called Farnhamsburg – after the original two homes were built by Colonel George Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Craft (magazine)
''American Craft'' is a periodical magazine that documents crafts, craft artists, and both practical and creative aspects of the field of American craft. Originally founded by Aileen Osborn Webb in 1941 as ''Craft Horizons'', the magazine has been published by the nonprofit American Craft Council under the title ''American Craft'' since November 1979. As of 1979, the magazine's monthly circulation averaged 40,000 copies, making it the main craft publication in the United States. As ''American Craft'', the magazine developed "a more visual orientation as a coffee-table magazine". After the National Endowment for the Arts began to award grants to individual craftspeople in 1973, ''American Craft'' profiled major NEA craft recipients. However, its reviews were often limited to "one or two in-depth commentaries" accompanied by a "visual summary of shows". Like its predecessor, which both "documented and shaped" the changing history of the American craft movement, ''American Craf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Expatriates In Mexico
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century American Textile Artists
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
