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Jan Huling at the Hoboken Historical Museum
Jan Huling’s work is instantly recognizable – fully-covered objects, often quirky and always beautiful. Huling had the cover article of June/July 2011 American Craft, where you can read about her beading, starting with a kazoo. If you live in the Hoboken, New Jersey area, you can see Jan Huling’s work on display at the Hoboken Historical…
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“Bead” in Reston, Virginia
The exhibition “Bead” is open until the end of the month at the Greater Reston Arts Center in Virginia. I have met five of these artists in person, I believe – two as teachers (Joyce Scott, David Chatt), two as fellow students (Rebecca Starry, Teresa Sullivan), and one in context with one of my jobs…
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A beady shopping list for the American Craft Council show in Baltimore
I won’t be there, but I can identify at least SEVEN people at the retail show who work with small beads, my first love. Most use thread, one uses glue, and at least a couple use a lot of gemstones, but these are all my beady people! Thea Fine, Beading Design, booth 913 Olga Mihaylova, booth 512…
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Kiowa artist Terri Greeves honored as a living treasure
Bead artist Terri Greeves, and her sister Keri Ataumbi were both honored as living treasures for the 2015 Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival (May 23-24, 2015), a benefit for the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe. Ataumbi is a jeweler, describing her work as wearable art. I have seen Greeves work in person; she was…
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Additional baskets from “Sharing Traditions” at Yosemite National Park
I limited my basket photographs in my last post to baskets made by the three main demonstrators at Yosemite in the last 80 years, Maggie Howard, Lucy Telles, and Julia Parker. There were other baskets at well, rooms of them. Enjoy! Carrie Bethel was Mono Lake Paiute, and these baskets were made in the 1930s…