Category: Artists

  • Contemporary Art Quilts at the James J. Hill House

    James J. Hill, railway magnate, completed his showcase house in St. Paul, MN in 1891. One reason he built it is to house his very impressive art collection; on a previous tour, a guide told us that the value of the art was worth more than the house — and this is a house of…

  • Teri Greeves at the O’Kayne Gallery

    Teri Greeves, an enrolled Kiowa, is displaying her beadwork at the O’Kayne Gallery at the University of Houston-Downtown. I believe she had high-heeled beaded tennis shoes on display at Bead & Button one year? I really like the expression she can get, even in works with no facial features, as in these images from a…

  • More bead blogs to follow

    Here’s some more, added to my feed reader and this blogroll: Kickys Pearly Stuff Perlenzauber inKetten

  • Beaded icons at St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Church

    Maria Rypan has arranged for a show and sale of beaded icons at St. Demetrius the Great Martyr Ukrainian Catholic Church in Toronto. The icons were beaded by Oksana Ivanochko of Lviv, Ukraine and will be at the church on Sunday, February 6th from 9am to 2pm.

  • Some more blog links

    Here’s some more I’m scanning! AGABEN (check out the necklaces on Jan 12 and 13 – wow!) Mes broderies Perles et Dent’Elles (lovely lace, thanks for sharing the link, Chris)