Category: Artists

  • Hindsight is always 20/20

    This art exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota, was compelling and fun at the same time. R. Luke Dubois looked at the frequency of words in the State of the Union address by the previous 43 presidents, and placed them according to frequency in an eyechart; the…

  • More blogs to visit

    I’m getting awfully close to 100 blogs in the blogroll. I really enjoy browsing others’ work! Gem and Beaded Jewelry Perlenmuster Kndla’s Brillos Andrea’s Bead & Fancywork I’m currently working on Christmas presents, but it’s possible that everyone I’m beading for reads this blog occasionally, so no pictures now. I’ll post some after the holidays.

  • Today at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts

    It’s such a treat to have a great museum like MIA in my city, and free — then I can go and enjoy a few of the galleries, spending an hour, and not feel guilty or like I should spend more time. I get more out of a museum experience when I don’t spend so…

  • Lisa Call, textile artist

    I really am a bead person as far as whom I read and follow online, with a couple notable exceptions. Lisa Call is one of them, an artist of abstract contemporary textile art. She hand-dyes her own fabric, and creates all her pieces one piece at a time (no strip quilting). Lisa creates both large…

  • Bloggity blogs

    And some more fodder for your feed reader: AnotherCountry BeadWorks Perlenzauber Framboise Sauvage Floffiput’s welt Perlen