Welcome to Crafting Voices. The Crafting Voices is an audio program that focuses on American craft and those individuals who spend their lives creating, promoting, and collecting American craft.

Partly inspired by the Chicago Public Radio program, "This American Life", each show has a theme and features interviews with working artists and professional craftspeople...

Michael de Meng

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Michael de Meng is a mixed media assemblage artist who work is made from discarded materials. Michael’s work which also includes a line of shrines has a heavy Latin American influence and he get much of his inspiration from the annual Latin American festival “La Dias de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead). He also teaches classes and workshops on the process of assemblage and he is also the author of an upcoming book about his art, “Secrets of Rusty Things“, which is set to be published in June of 2007. He was a guest on the “Transformation of Trash” episode.

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The Transformation of Trash

Visit Michael de Meng’s Web site

http://www.michaeldemeng.com

Guest Updates

The Secrets of Rusty Things, Michael de Meng’s new book (posted on May 27, 2007)
Michael de Meng at Idyllwild (posted on May 9, 2007)

Artist’s Gallery (click on photo to enlarge)

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