One of your dolls is dressed in patriotic red, white and blue, and she has a heart-shaped flag on her chest. Tell us about her. I made her about a year after 9/11. It was such a sad remembrance, and ...

In this new series, we celebrate special interest groups. Whether you get together to play tennis, board games, take long walks, eat lunch, create art, connect with your neighbors or gather with ...

These dolls are fun, and they're varied. The two on the left appear to capture divas from a previous fashion era. Tell me about them. Those are based on the designs by the cloth-doll artists who ...

COTTEKILL — Artist Denise Giardullo holds the first doll she ever made, Wanda the Weather Witch. Giardullo has been making dolls since 1995 and is curator of a display of 25 art dolls from around the ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Among porcelain antique dolls, whimsical Kewpies, Barbie dolls and even paper dolls, cloth dolls in the image of African-Americans drew special attention among more than 1,200 ...

Three words can describe Kituza. Mother, refugee and survivor. There’s another term that speaks to her creativity and resilience: doll maker. Kituza began making dolls to earn money to support her ...

I love to make dolls. I love to call myself a doll-maker, or a dulmacher because that name reminds me of Batman and dark mad scientists, like myself. I haven't made that many dolls in my life, but I ...

Jan Simpich loved to work with her hands. She always had something in her fingers, and her mind always focused on art - be it stitching a doll's clothing or painting water color portraits. "She just ...