Akira Blount OOAK cloth doll Fairy Girl Artist Made signed dated 1993 MINT - $895 - (Havertown, PA)
Akira Blount grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, and earned a BS in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin. She designed and made dolls and figures from 1969 until her untimely death in 2013. A pioneer in the art-doll movement, she participated in the elevation of the doll from toy to art object. As an educator, she encouraged experimentation and innovation in the field. She served as president of NIADA from 1997-2001. Her love of fabric led her to cloth dollmaking. In the 1992 NIADA publication, The Art of the Doll, she wrote: “My work is of an intuitive nature…I do my best work…surrounded by my collections of old, new and used fabrics, antique trims and laces, buttons and beads, pine cones, acorns and twigs, leather, feathers and fur.” In 1979 Akira moved her family to the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in eastern Tennesse, an environment that nurtured her in many ways. She became a member of the Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild and began to exhibit her work at the Guild’s annual fairs and at the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists’ shows in Nashville. This fabulous example of her work is the only Fairy I have found. She was at the peak of her powers and the beauty of this face is unsurpassed in her body of work. She is 16" tall and can come with the stump if additional shipping is paid. The stump is not original to the doll.
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