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ANSCHTECKA at Winter Festival of Wonders

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I am pleased to announce that ANSCHTECKA will be part of this year's Winter Festival of Wonders' Mystery Marketplace at Area 405 in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. The Marketplace is free to attend and it would be wonderful to see you there!

Winter Festival of Wonders

February 11th and 12th, 12-5pm

Area 405

405 E. Oliver Street

Baltimore, MD 21202

new necklaces

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ANSCHTECKA from the top:

Simple ::::$40 each::::; Lariat ::::$55 each::::; Braided Collar ::::$98::::

For sale at Holiday Heap along with my other accessories and backpacks, or contact annikamblomberg@gmail.com to purchase one for your collection.

To view more from ANSCHTECKA, visit Specks and Keepings Shop.

Fine Little Day blog post

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ANSCHTECKA backpacks from Specks and Keepings Shop featured on Fine Little Day.

Holiday Craft Market this Saturday

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Holiday Heap: Baltimore

For those of you in the Baltimore area... Hillery and I will be selling our new handmade objects at Holiday Heap this Saturday, December 3, 2011 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. We hope to see you there!

Holiday Heap
This Saturday, December 3, 2011
From 10:00am - 5:00pm
At 2640 St. Paul St.
Inside St. John's Church

watchband bracelets

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Because little buckles and bands on their own can be clever:

ANSCHTECKA Watchband Bracelets ::::$30:::::

For sale at Holiday Heap along with my other accessories and backpacks, or contact annikamblomberg@gmail.com to purchase one for your collection.

To view more from ANSCHTECKA, visit Specks and Keepings Shop.

new work: wall collages and bundles

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bouquets: rediscovered

2011-04-20T07:31:00.000-04:00

When I was cleaning in my studio the other week I came across this from a collection of bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres I made for Linnea Carlson (my cousin) and Thomas Stafford's wedding, now almost two years ago! The majority of the the materials used to make these were repurposed belongings of theirs. Some curtains, computer wire and pieces of a kimono were used for this foot long bouquet.

Specks and Keepings shop is up!

2011-04-20T07:17:00.000-04:00

www.specksandkeepings.com

the last Puss Fust

2011-04-20T07:06:00.000-04:00

Was just revisiting some past projects and came across some photos of a performance/installation piece I did at Open Space Gallery in Baltimore for the show Puss Fust, an all ladies performance/art show etc. festival. I rearranged the objects and furniture in a small room I constructed on a continuous loop, working from left to right. I can't wait for the next Puss Fust which I have been told is coming this summer!

Article in April issue of BCL featuring Anschtecka

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(photography by Matthew Lincoln Yake)

Lily Oswald of Sorrelli Jewelry in Kutztown, PA, interviewed me about Anschtecka for Berks County Living Magazine. "Green Fashions: Annika Blomberg's accessories line Anschtecka" will appear April issue to release on the 1st. Thank you so much Lily for the opportunity and for drumming up old memories of my childhood creations!

Specks and Keepings, Hillery Sproatt's new online shop soon to launch!

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(photography by Matthew Lincoln Yake)

Starting the beginning of April my close friend Hillery will be opening Specks and Keepings: The Shop. Inside will be a collection of various artists' works, apparel, accessories and objects for the home all curated by Hillery's personal style and vision. We are very excited for this new endeavor and I am positive it is just the beginning of another one of her inspiring projects. Fun for me is that she will be including accessories, jewelry and backpacks from ANSCHTECKA, my accessories collection made from repurposed fibers and notions. Pictured above is the Rose Dress by rebe, and my Braided Spiral pins and necklace. www.specksandkeepings.com

nano-felted pillow

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nano-felted wool onto German dish towels sewn into a pillow, both sides shown

Seat covers made from recovered textiles and thread, hand-painted fabric and recycled silk yarn

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Seat cover

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Seat cover

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Collages made from found and saved materials with small weavings, handmade paper, watercolor, ceramic pieces and fiber remnants.

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backpack, vest and scarf necklace from Anschtecka, my accessories line

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pins from salvaged thread and fiber remnants and sequins

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necklaces made from old necklaces, salvaged fibers and notions

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shopping bag SOLD

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SOLD 6/26/08

to collector Adeetje Bouma

"Disassembled Couch" at the Bioneers Conference Nov. 6th-9th

2008-11-14T15:55:00.000-05:00

What a great time. I met so many interesting and inspiring people and Bioneers!

mention in Baltimore Magazine's "Best of Baltimore" issue

2008-10-16T17:10:00.000-04:00

http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/article.asp?t=1&m=1&c=30&s=486&ai=72813

Look here and scroll down to the "Green" section and then to Earth Friendly Art... a little inaccurate about the origins of the project, but it's great to be mentioned.

about "Disassembled Couch"

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"We need to become more materialistic to become less materialistic." -Linda Weintraub

Art, like our trash, is only so when it is properly or improperly in or out of context. As art's practice is often concerned with the manipulation of materials, it is the perfect platform for considering the extent of our materials' supply on the planet.

Coinciding with these views of art, in my work I take on large-scale experiments in processing and production of a mass of materials that are either my own belongings or a found object. I acknowledge its need to occupy a physical space and the potential burden belongings can be, and take responsibility for the materials "off someone else's hands". With this as its assignment, my work offers new perceptions of, and relationships with, our constructed environment.

In my current work I am steward of an unwanted couch with a foldout bed, having invested myself in its disassembly and complete repurposing into multiple functional containers, such as bags, boxes and a cabinet. I have conducted an inventory of the couch's contents, measuring the quantity of each an learning its name. A color catalog of these materials is the result. The containers are sold at a non-subsidized price according to the real cost of their making in time. Accompanying the sale of a container, each "collector" signs a contract for the responsible ownership of the container since its initial dispersal.

I believe that in doing this I am taking responsibility for the future destination of this mass of diverse materials by keeping them in circulation, and above ground and out of the water. By reorganizing the large couch into smaller desirable quantities, the materials "take care of themselves" and can, as containers, further organize other materials. The embodiment of potential, they are a means for new content, though they are content. These also operate s three-dimensional frames, outlining a negative space and, as objects in a domestic collection, they serve as physical reminders that we, as part of the human race no longer have the luxury of making our unwanted items simply disappear.

original couch with foldout bed

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"Collector's Contract for Responsible Ownership"

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installation view of the ongoing piece, Disassembled Couch

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sample layout from inventory catalog

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$17 for full inventory catalog

you can contact me at annikamblomberg@gmail.com for purchases.

backpack with woven front panel from handspun cotton and other couch fibers

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$250 please contact me, annikamblomberg(at)gmail.com, to purchase.

lining

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detail of woven front panel

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boxes with sawdust, fabric and metal scrap inlay

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left to right: $350, $225

contact me at annikamblomberg@gmail.com to become a collector of one of these boxes.

box with woven lid

2008-09-15T18:26:00.000-04:00

$500 contact me at annikamblomberg@gmail.com to become it's collector

hiking backpack

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buttons made from melted down staples and molded sawdust and wood glue.

$450 to become a collector of this backpack. you can contact me at annikamblomberg@gmail.com for purchases.

detail of hiking backpack

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cabinet

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$1,100 contact me at annikamblomberg@gmail.com to become it's collector

side view of cabinet

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drawer in cabinet

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making buttons from sawdust and wood glue

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detail of remaining materials

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