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Lorrain Garcia
This month the gallery is featuring jewelry artists...Lorrain is a visiting artist from our Storybook show is once again here for "Jewels." Her fun and funky take on Alice in Wonderland, Oz, and even a Darth Vader piece are part of the show. Artist Statement: Hello!...
Wayne Edfors -Creativity Played
Wayne Edfors -Creativity Played digital prints are featured art at Art Of Toys March Kaleidoscope Show for the month of March 2015
Artist Rebecca Casey
Artist Rebecca Casey Rebecca Casey was one of the first featured artist at Art Of Toys with her series of assemblage ceramic and toy art creations. Art Of Toys was both happy and sad as we sold out all her creations for they had become mascots to the gallery. A native...
Deb Canham Art Of Toys Featured Artist 2012
Deb Canham Art Of Toys Featured Artist 2012 Deb Canham Art Of Toys Featured Artist 2012 with her wonderful miniature dragons and monsters thou Deb Canham has been a leading figure in the bear world since 1987 when she became the UK's first miniature bear artist. In...
Where Do Sashas Come From?
I had the pleasure of representing Sasha Dolls in the early 80's when International Playthings was the distributor. From that I developed a love for the beautiful simple design of these timeless dolls designed by Sasha Morgenthaler and am happy to share both my...
TV Memorabilia
TV Memorabilia One of the more useful of my collections is Toy Reference books which I peruse of a regular basis looking for ideas to blog so today I came across “Collectible Television Memorabilia” by Dian Zillner. Now the first thing I have to check is what year...
Toy Art featured at Art Of Toys!
Toy Art featured at Art Of Toys for our second Designer Toy Show featuring original art from local talented artists that have customized Munny’s from kidrobot.
Lisa Owens of MidDreamers featured in April
Lisa Owens of MidDreamers featured in April Lisa Owens of MidDreamers featured in Aprill at Art Of Toys Fairy Show! This talented artist will be showing thirteen incredible pieces of fairy art for the April show with many already online and more on the Art Of Toys...
See-Mor Moon-A-TIK Uneeda Doll Co
Uneeda Doll Company was founded in 1917 in Brooklyn, New York and continued to produce dolls until it's demise in 1991. Uneeda was also known as the Tony Toy Company of Hong Kong, as some dolls are marked. Uneeda Doll created many types of dolls ini the comanies ...
10 Simple Ways to Research Vintage Toys
Look at eBay and see if you can find the toy or any general information. DO NOT TAKE INFORMATION AS THE RULE! I find about 85% of listing info is incorrect or evasive on eBay but it is a good start. Look for multiple listing of same item for clues. Go old school and...
Louis Marx and Company
Art Of Toys usually has quite a few Vintage toys from Marx Company so here is a great history from good ol Wikipedia on Marx. AOT includes this info with Marx toys Louis Marx and Company Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer from 1919 to 1978. Its...
Who is Joel Stinghen?
Artist Statement Some junk is too cool to throw away and becomes fodder for a “found object assemblage sculpture”(which sounds better than a “pile of junk”). Old or broken toys, the fan from a discarded microwave,the toner cartridge from a laser printer. Whether it is...
What is Americana Toys?
Americana Toys What is Americana Toys? The gallery had a Americana show and most of the artists that applied sent in folk toys! According to one of my favorite go to references- Wikipedia: Americana refers to artifacts, or a collection of artifacts, related to the...
Artist Doll Market of the 90’s- Where did it go?
Artist Doll Market of the 90's- Where did it go? I have collected dolls since I was five so when I went to my first West Coast Toy Show in Pasadena , California I was obsessed with the blossoming new market of doll artists. I was a sub-rep to a handful of artists with...
Christine Benjamin Felter Extraordinaire
Christine Benjamin Felter Extraordinaire is one of the fabulous artists participating at Art Of Toys October Doll Artist Show! Felting is a process of sculpting with wool by compressing the wool with many strokes of a barbed needle...it takes hours to create pieces as...
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