Questions and Answers from the Community. It doesn't. The page that you see when you ask a new question is the page that everyone will see. HANDMADEJose Garcia Antonio, blind master potter from Mexico and one of his seductive clay mermaids, made onsite at the market. There are incredible markets around the world and then there is the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico, an event that has been happening every July in Museum Hill since 2. Named the face of peace and the number one arts festival in the US by USA Today, this is the biggest global gathering of its kind. This year, 2. 5,0. The market starts with a parade of the artists welcomed by the city of Santa Fe as they gather in the main plaza welcomed by a Cuban live band. Li Edelkoort, the honorary chair for 2. Keith Recker, the creative director, read the names of each country and cried when Syria was called. This market is humanity, humanity at its core” said Li to an audience of culture bearers who blur borders with an eye- dazzling convergence of handmade forms, textures, and designs—textiles, jewelry, beadwork, basketry, wood carvings, ceramics, rugs, glass and metal work, sculpture, mixed media, toys, and more. In these turbulent times, it’s an amazing experience to be part of something based on beauty and respect. Face to face with artists from over 5. As one of the 1. 54 artists who participated this year said, “The market is everything that’s right with the world” affirmed Keith Recker, IFAA Creative Director and board member. Kavita Parmar from IOU Project was a first time participant in Innovation Inspiration, a special exhibition area featuring works by 3. I have had the opportunity as a designer to present my work in many shows and fairs around the globe including fashion capitals like Paris, New York, Florence, Milan etc. I have never encountered such a strong sense of community and an incredibly beautiful empathy within the artisans, the clients and the many staff and volunteers of the IFAA. The client response I have had even after coming back from the show has reinforced my belief that the customer is looking for authenticity and a direct dialogue with the craftsperson and this is one of the answers to the future of a true luxury shopping experience. Carla Fernandez, from Mexico and also a first time participant, said that she was very surprised to encounter a spiritual experience sort of a boot camp of the positive, the possible and the future where sharing is the currency. She has been to many shows around the world just selling her products but this is the only time where she has felt a real support, a real sense of community. The show reaffirmed her belief that the future is handmade, that this is a possible and relevant future that can be a sustainable thriving business. She also said she encountered the real America, one that favors diversity and culture and a very different one from the one in the news. Porfirio Gutierrez from Oaxaca who participated in 2. To be accepted means to receive a special recognition and be the beneficiary of all the knowledge and care by a pull of top specialists in different areas such as branding, entrepreneurship, marketing etc. Porfirio was very proud to be chosen as a mentor this year, helping first time artisans to get around. Somporn Intaraprayong from Thailand, represented by Chinalai, has participated 8 times at the market. Her booth is the first stop of any serious textile collector and one of the first to sell out. This year she was invited as a panelist where she spoke from the heart about her community of seamstresses and sewers who use stitches to tell stories of the rice fields and their daily lives. She includes everyone who needs and wants to work, they all have a chance and get the most important teaching of all: there is also beauty in imperfection, beauty in every process, beauty in every stitch. Olga Reiche from Guatemala has been to the market 8 times representing pik’bil textiles from the Queckchi ethnic group of Coban. These lace type textiles were nearly extinct with all the Chinese imports. Olga, the daughter of a German and an indigenous woman from Coban, remembers visiting her grandmother and being mesmerized by her silver jewelry and intricate white lace dress made using one thread hand spun cotton, back strap loom and white on white. Eight years ago, Olga saw the market as the perfect place to present to the world this technique and to use this as an “excuse” to rescue the knowledge and convince the artisans that there is a market that appreciates their heritage. I have the highest respect for the show, I know I will be surrounded by the best of the best, all chosen carefully according to principles of ethics, respect, tradition, heritage and culture. There is no place in the world where artisans are respected and honored like in Santa Fe”. Olga travels to the market with Amalia Gue, a weaver from a remote village who at 3. Olga’s. Fe Francis is the name of Amalia’s baby, named after the patron of the city and the market. Indeed, this is not a market, this is a miracle, as one of the slogans claims.
The Santa Fe Folk Art Market is a community of ideals around sustainability, entrepreneurship, empowerment, diversity, well being and cultural preservation. Artists go home with 9. This impact is especially great for disenfranchised women and artists from developing countries, where artisan work is second only to agriculture and daily income averages less than $3. For both consumers and artists, the most positive path to the future is handmade.” Affirms Keith Recker. Seeing these cultural treasures and meeting the artists creates a connectivity that stirs the heart, opens the mind, and invites us to speak a single language,” says Judith Espinar, a co- founder of the Market. Through folk art, hope grows and understanding spreads across the world.”Marcella Echavarriawww. Marcella Echavarria is a Colombian- born, Mexico City based lifestyle specialist. She collaborates with designers and artisans around the world developing links that connect local knowledge with global trends. Her specialty is branding luxury and sustainability in a way that preserves cultures and traditions. Instagram. Collectivo 1. Grados, a collective of Mexican potters, makes modern forms using traditional methods and finishes. Left: Densely stitched indigo textiles by Thailand’s Somporn Intaraprayong Right: Li Edelkoort shopping at Somporn’s stand. Generously scaled Thai tribal silver jewelry was included among the textiles at Somporn Intaraprayong’s stand. Detail of a hooked rug made from recycled clothing by Cooperative de las Alfombras de Mujeres Mayas de Guatemala, a group of over 6. An array of indigo and natural cotton textiles by Somporn Intaraprayong. Detail of the sensuous stitchery of Somporn Intaraprayong. Detail of the recycled running stitch quilts of India’s Siddi Quilters, an African diaspora group whose work combines Indian and ancestral influences. Naturally dyed silks by Somporn Intaraprayong. Peruvian textile artist, author, and community organizer Nilda Callanaupa demonstrating the basics of hand spinning the Incan way. Details of hand- sewn, hand- embroidered, and hand- trimmed traditional Mexican blouses. Nepalese carpet weaver Sandeep Pokhrel shows off the lush tactility of his work. Kyrgyz felter Fariza Sheisheye stands in front of a massive, masterful felt carpet that sold moments after the opening bell. Details of jackets and tunics from the workshop of Uzbek ikat master Fazlitdin Dadajonov, who learned his skills from his father and grandfather. A member of the Valadez family, whose Huichol yarn paintings and beaded objects are market favorites for over a decade. The sisal- beaded edges of Tintsaba baskets from a women’s cooperative in Swaziland. Rushana Burkhanova sits atop a luxuriant pile of intricate Uzbek rugs from the Bukhara Carpet Weaving School. Left: an embroidery artist from Qasab Kutch, whose revival of 1. Right: a sculpture from Mexico’s Juan Garcia Antonio Stitch by Stitch founded by designer Graham Hollick is run by Graham and Karen Sear Shimali. They work with embroiderers and textile artisans in Gujarat, India to create hand crafted contemporary textiles for the home. After several life- changing trips to India, Graham admits to feeling as though he must have lived in India in a past life. One of the things that really excites me about India, is the visibility of craftsmanship everywhere you go: statue makers, weavers, kite makers.. This is lost in our culture - it's just not an everyday thing." says Graham. Apple A- Z - Everything You Need To Know About Apple. Apple We’ll start with Apple, for obvious if un- alphabetical reasons. Why name a computer company after a fruit? Was it a tactic to be at the start of all lists of computer manufacturers in the same way that business telephone directories start with swathes of names such as of AAA1. Taxis? Apparently not, and anyway Acorn jumped in ahead of it. One story has it that Apple co- founder Steve Jobs used to pick apples while at a commune and chose this rather loose connection as inspiration (source: ‘The Little Kingdom’ by Michael Moritz). Another story is that Fab Four fan Jobs nicked the name from the Beatles’ label Apple Records – a decision that would later involve it in endlessly boring legal wrangles when Jobs and co released i. Tunes and so forth. Other names thrown in the ring for the two Steves’ fresh new computer company included the mouse- swallowingly bad Executek and Matrix Electronics. Source: ‘Apple Confidential 2. Owen Linzmayer)Woz has said that "to a marketer Apple was an odd name. It came from the days when you picked an interesting, fun name for a company. You do that when you're on a hobby basis. The ad agency kept telling us the name had to be changed. We had to have a name that suggested technology, number crunching, calculations, databases. We took the attitude that Apple is a good name. Our computer would be friendly- everything an apple represents, healthy, personal, in the home. We had to hold our ground on that one."Whatever the story Apple was a great name for the new startup, and the antithesis of the old guard of Hewlett- Packard, Fairchild, etc. As Michael Malone writes in his Apple history ‘Infinite Loop’ the Apple name was “smart, funny, anti- establishment, unforgettable, friendly but hip.” It wasn’t just a name “it was the culmination of the Age of Aquarius”. Adobe Once a great ally of Apple and partner pioneer in desktop publishing’s marriage of Post. Script and Apple’s Mac and Laser. Writer Adobe fell from grace when the once- faithful design software partner apparently abandoned Apple at its lowest moment. Adobe jilted the Mac from key program upgrades (most notably with its Premiere video- editing software), forcing Apple to create its own alternatives (Final Cut, which it bought from Macromedia before Adobe bought that company itself - it's incestuous industry, isn't it, which means perceived slights and public proclamations often lead to nasty little tit- for- tat battles such as this one). Steve Jobs saw this as a revolting betrayal from the company that Apple once owned a 1. He then wreaked his revenge by denying Adobe’s Flash access to Apple's new wonderproducts the i. Phone and i. Pad. ADBThe 1. 0kbps Apple Desktop Bus was Apple’s main connector for decades. The company needed a simple, inexpensive connection system. Co- founder Steve Wozniak needed something to do, so he went away for a month and came back with ADB. First seen on the Apple IIGS in 1. Bondi Blue i. Mac, which moved to Intel’s USB 1. Older Apple users will remember that the one problem with ADB was that you weren’t supposed to unplug your mouse or keyboard while the Mac was powered on, although most of us risked frying the keyboard every now and again. Life’s too short, and all that. Air. Port Except for maybe banging an inter- cap in its names, Apple loves nothing more than a smart but dull pun – and so picked Air. Port as the title for its Wi- Fi products in 1. Confusingly the first Air. Port Base Station actually resembled a UFO. It has to be admitted, however, that it's catchier than the more formal IEEE 8. Aluminum (Or aluminium as we outside of the US jauntily like to call it) “We're turning to aluminum and glass” Steve Jobs announced in 2. Apple has something of a crush on aluminum – making most of its hardware products out of the silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements, and even simulating the stuff indiscriminately with its brushed metal software and across its website. Apple even named some of its products after the lightweight and durable metal. There’s plenty of it, too – aluminium is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust, and the third most abundant element after oxygen and silicon. It makes up about 8 percent by weight of the Earth's solid surface, and about the same on the average active Mac’s screen. Amelio When you think of Apple leaders you probably recall the visionary legend that is Steve Jobs or his cuddly ewok- like co- founder Woz. But for over a dozen dark years Steve was absent from the company he founded and lesser men stood in his place. At its lowest point Apple’s board of directors appointed the cost- cutting CEO of National Semiconductor Gil Amelio as the company’s new boss in order to return Apple to profitability. Receiving $1. 00,0. Apple business wasn’t the best start in Amelio’s austerity measures – nor was his $1m salary or nice little $5m loan he procured from the ailing giant. But Amelio did cut costs, slashing the Apple workforce by a third. In scrapping the next- generation Copland operating system Amelio did his best work bringing back Steve Jobs via Apple’s acquisition of his Ne. XT OS in 1. 99. 6 – which turned out to be the business world's most successful takeover but also the most expensive career suicide. Jobs wasted little time turfing out the garrulous Amelio (who he had slamed as a "bozo") and taking back his company – and for that we should be eternally grateful. More: The Rise and Fall of Gil Amelio at Apple. AOL Long before Time Warner and the Internet boom Apple replaced its unwanted Apple. Link online service with a joint venture with a company called Quantum, then rebranded America Online. As part of the deal it acquired 2m shares of AOL stock at a cost of $1. Apple sold the shares in 1. If it had waited till 1. AOL’s stock peaked those same shares would have been worth … wait for it … $2. Source: ‘Apple Confidential 2. Linzmayer)App Exactly like an "application" but cuter sounding and much easier to squeeze puns from. Some people probably think Apple invented them, too. There was also once talk of "applets", but thankfully this never really caught on. Apple II Following on from the primitive Apple I Apple produced what was to become one of the most successful personal computers ever. The Apple II, the real brainchild of Woz, was the product that launched the company, and made the majority of Apple’s revenue throughout the 1. Macintosh. Apple IIIHow do you follow the world’s most popular computer? With an abject failure, of course. What do you name the successor to the Apple II. Well, the Apple III, of course. Tellingly there has never been an Apple IV. Launched in 1. 98. Apple III was the first Apple product that allowed the user to choose a screen font, but wasn’t helped when Apple had to recall the first 1. Its reputation never recovered. According to Steve Wozniak the Apple III "had 1. Steve Jobs’ demands that it had no fan or air vents. Apple Café Before the Apple Store came (or rather didn’t come) the Apple Café – a 1. Apple T- shirts and software. The food was to have been eclectic and nutritious but the idea expired when the licensee grew too worried about Apple’s failing health. Apple Music. Apple has always had a deep link with music – even cheekily naming itself after the Beatles record label (maybe; consults lawyers…). In January 2. 01. Apple launched i. Tunes, which ended up revolutionising the music industry, which was still churning out 7. Tunes itself was looking dated compared to Swedish music streaming service Spotify, so Apple splashed out $3 billion on headphone manufacturer Beats, which also had its own music- streaming service called Beats Music. Apple turned this into Apple Music, and promises maybe not to revolutionise music again but certainly kick Spotify into touch. Apple Store Not yet selling Apple coffees the luxuriously appointed Apple Store looked like an act from the last days of Rome when first shown off by Steve Jobs in 2. Microsoft. The two largest Apple Stores are both in London, for some reason – although there's an even bigger one planned for Dubai. April Fools’ Day Not an auspicious day to found your company but in 1. Apple co- founder and noted trickster Steve Wozniak, and Steve Jobs’ knowing smirk. Aqua. Aqua just used to be one of the few words you knew when you went to Europe on holiday, but for most of us it’s also the shiny, translucent, sometimes pulsing visual theme of early versions of Mac OS X.
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