Mary Daniels

The popularity of Native American arts and crafts, such as baskets, pottery and blankets, is more than just a fad, said Christine Mather at a recent lecture at the Art...

Southern Illinois from the Ohio and Wabash Rivers west to the Mississippi is a region with craft traditions as strong as those in Appalachia and the Ozarks. ''The craft arts...

An eight-sided house, a familiar sight to anyone driving through Barrington, recently received a facelift that helped make it one of the winners of the 1990 Chicago`s Finest Painted Ladies...

David Zelman, a kind of Telly Savalas of the design world with the same strong macho presence and glib repartee, has created a beautiful collection of tabletop sculptures, from frames...

Hooked on the holidays? Here`s a unique market of trimmings, treasures and artful accessories that showcases the work of 75 contemporary artisans from 15 states. In its 16th year, the...

If visions of Florentine castles with vineyards stretching to the cypress-hilled horizons are either a fond memory or a future hope, ''A Taste of Tuscany'' will allow you to live...

`Art that Works,'' a show of unique, artist-made uncommon household items featuring functional tabletop objects created by 25 leading ceramic and glass artists, opens at Chiaroscuro Art Gallery from 5:30...

Four interior design seminars will be held at D. Edmunds Interiors in Burr Ridge in October and November. The seminars will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1...

A trophy that took 10 men (nine craftsmen and a designer) more than 2,000 hours to complete over an intensive five-month period highlights a special exhibit called ''A Celebrated Tradition:...

The first of two major fall auctions at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, with more than 1,200 lots of Old Master, 19th and 20th Century paintings, prints and sculptures, is scheduled for...