“How would you like to spend your day shoveling manure, administering medicine or helping a small, llama-like creature give birth? It suited Antonson just fine. She began incorporating their soft animal fleece into felted items like bonnets and home accessories, and she was struck one day with the urge to create bugs using human hair. “I’ve always wanted to be an entomologist, but I would never commit to being that academic,” she says. “This is the closest I could ever get.”
full article online: VERVE, February 2012
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ALONG WITH HER HUSBAND BILL, NuBe Green owner Ruth True is one of the city’s foremost art collectors. But after two years of developing in-house lines for her all-American mercantile, it’s looking like her real talent is artisan collecting.
First she nabbed Adrienne Antonson, the former Vashon Islander who deconstructs 1950s railroad-stripe coveralls, for example, and reshapes and hand-sews what remains until cropped swing vests and pencil skirts emerge. The collection, originally dubbed NuBe Seattle and renamed State this fall, will progress and grow now that the artist—designer is too narrow—travels the country with her sculpture.
full article: SEATTLE MET, December 2011.
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Now, we’ve known that line as NuBe Seattle; but because Antonson has left her digs on Vashon to be closer to family in North Carolina (hence that formerly above), the line has been renamed State. As Antonson tours with her artwork, she’ll collaborate with other designers, artisans, and friends around the states (hence the name) and scour thrift stores and antique shops for gorgeous threads to put back into premium circulation.
We’re not losing a skilled and artful craftsperson, we’re gaining an entire country.
read more: WEAR, WHAT, WHEN, Seattle Met, October 11, 2011
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Trying to make a living as an artist can be a hair-raising situation, but Adrienne Antonson hasn’t let that bug her.
Instead, she’s found a niche by sculpting bugs — out of her own hair.
She’s pretty good too. So good that Ripley’s just bought six of her “mast-hair-pieces” to display in their museums.
It’s a unique niche, but it’s one that Antonson, who recently moved to Asheville, N.C., from Vashon Island, Wa., is happy to have, as it combines two longstanding interests into one bugged-out hairy genre.
“When I was young, insects were my favorite thing,” she told HuffPost Weird News. “They captivated me. I am humbled that they are so tiny, but can do so many things we can do — and fly as well.”
read more: THE HUFFINGTON POST, September 8, 2011
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Adrienne’s studio is a chamber of oddities. She describes it as a nest, piled with objects, and everywhere are lovely old jars displaying specimens. Bird eggs, cat whiskers, and “wings of things,” for instance. Strands of hair from cows (gathered from a farm), horses (from a fence), and people (clumped to a barrette, still). There are teeth, too: her own, her grandpa’s.
read more: SEATTLE STRANGER, August 30, 2011
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Seattle Magazine also came out to the farm on Vashon Island for the day to talk fashion and film the alpacas!
WATCH VIDEO HERE.
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HURRIET (Turkish National Newspaper), January 30, 2011
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Adrienne Antonson, 28, uses her locks and those of pals to make insects including flies, spiders and a praying mantis. Each one takes hours.
The artist, of Seattle, US, said: “A 90-year-old woman sends me her trimmings. Her silver locks are perfect for wings.”
She’s obviously on a wing and a hair…
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