Artisans Guild Gallery
Museum & Art Gallery in Gainesville, FL
The origins of the Artisans' Guild Gallery go back to October 1970, a time when there were few opportunities for local artists and crafts people to display and market their work. Miriam Greenfield, a local potter, teamed with Jim Brown, a University of Florida economics and sociology professor, and author of a book entitled The Troika Incident (about cooperative artisans' markets) to brainstorm the concept of a Gainesville artisans cooperative. Other local artists were asked to join in the discussion and soon, the local Artisans' Guild was born.
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Kana Handel
read moreArtist Biography: Originally from Japan, Kana moved to the United States in 1992 and Gainesville in 2003. She studied art at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, started her career as a graphic artist in advertising, then became a freelance illustrator. After 10 years in the commercial world, Kana wanted to explore more personal art. Not highly skilled or even good-looking art, but art based on feelings, like she first drew or painted. As a child, she always had a big smile when painting and believes we all still have a beautiful child's heart inside of us, even if we are grownups.
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