June 26th, 2010

I am the first intern here at the Urban Craft Center. I am currently a senior studying textile design and art history at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA. I grew up in Idaho and while I love living on the east coast, felt like I needed to return to some open space. I decided that the perfect place for me to spend a summer would be in sunny California. Luckily I stumbled across the U.C.C and what can I say, it was love at first sight! I feel so very lucky to be chosen as the intern and was ecstatic when I got the call. I love the wonderful ladies who work here, the beautiful and inspiring space and the feeling of community that the combination of these two elements create. Look forward to a weekly update of projects I am working on for the U.C.C.

Along with interning at the U.C.C this summer, I also had the opportunity to travel to Nepal. While there I worked with a woman’s empowerment group called the Chetana Women’s Skill Development Project. This project in Pokhara, Nepal provides underprivileged women with an opportunity to learn design, weaving and sewing skills. With these skills the women are able to find work and therefore provide their children with better education and health care. I spent a month working on the project with the founder Tara Tilminshina. I worked to help them develop their product designs, improve the working conditions for the women and develop a marketing strategy. I will be launching a website for the project in August. It hasn’t even been a week yet since I have been back in the US. While my body is here, my mind still seems to be with the women and children of the CWSDP.

If you are interested in reading more about this project and my travels to Nepal and Africa to empower women through textiles, check out my blog: http://loveoneanothertoday.blogspot.com/

June 25th, 2010

June 21st, 2010

Last week we had the pleasure of hosting the launch party for the book CRAVE Los Angeles. What’s crave you ask? First off, it’s a guide featuring 125 of the best, most unique and hip women owned business’s in all of Los Angeles. Even better stated on their website… “CRAVE los angeles innovatively connects urban gals to the sassiest, gutsiest, most inspiring people they need to know in LA. Our modern marketplace of soirees, gatherings and online networking serves as your ambassador to everything there is to CRAVE in the City of Angels.” http://thecravecompany.com/la

Our very own Angharad Jones (owner of The Urban Craft Center) was featured in the book, page 219. Below is her picture from the book…

The book feels like a staycation guide for shopping, in the sense that you’re discovering all these amazing unique shops and restaurants you never knew existed in your own backyard or perhaps a few cities over… Los Angeles is so spread out, someone could easily grow up here their whole life and never visit all the different cities and towns. Crave LA gives you an excuse to get out of your radius and have an adventure, while supporting women owned business’s at the same time. Anyone looking to open their own business would be completely empowered by reading the about women featured in the book; their insightful anecdotes of personal inspirations, mentors, and even mistakes that come with the experience of owning and running your own business.

P.S. There are few more first edition copies left here in the store if anyone is interested in picking one up or ordering one from our webstore…

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