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When Lake Effect's material culture contributor Gianofer Fields was a kid, her father worked at Pelton Steel Casting Company in Milwaukee. Very simply…

Yevgeniya Kaganovich is a jewelry maker and metalsmith who applies the techniques of her trade to other media.She says while her new project involves…

This artist's canvass is his own body.As a material culturalist, the conversations I have with artists are usually about how they use tools to change one…

This summer the Chipstone Foundation challenged artists from all over Wisconsin to use just one tool to create a work of art. Contributor Gianofer Fields…

For the past several months, Lake Effect's material culture contributor Gianofer Fields has been asking artists throughout Wisconsin a simple question: if…

It's that time of year when college/university students are experiencing the joy of a short holiday break and the dread of writing their final papers.For…

If you don't carve your pumpkins, someone will. Halloween may be over, but pumpkin season doesn’t have to be. There are plenty of pumpkin seeds to be…

Knick-knacks, tchochkis, collectibles...whatever you want to call them, there are objects we love to collect. While today our obsession with collecting…

As a student of material culture, Lake Effect contributor Gianofer Fields examines the meanings behind objects - what they signify historically and to an…

The truth behind the phrase “starving artist” scares a lot of otherwise artistically inclined folks away pursuing an arts career. And many, if not most,…