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Tambour video
Bob Haven has introduced himself in the comments of a couple previous posts on tambour beading (here and here); he is a costume technologist at the University of Kentucky. He alerted me that he’s posted a video with good closeups of the technique: Check out Bob’s YouTube channel to see other uploads, which at this…
Sievers School of Fiber Arts
Sievers is a visual arts and crafts school in absolutely beautiful Door County, Wisconsin. Their summer class listings are out: Diane Fitzgerald is a regular teacher there, and will be teaching her Tuareg Beaded Pendant August 2nd-7th, and Stars Necklace/Temari Balls August 7th-9th. Karen Buell is teaching bead embroidery June 14th-17th, as well as a…
2010 Split Rock Arts
Split Rock Arts, here in Minneapolis and a few in a secondary location in northern Minnesota, does not have any beading classes this year. Their preview is also available. I am admittedly myopic to beading, but there’s Modern Needle Felting: Techniques, Materials, and Forms with Briony Jean Foy at the northern Minnesota location June 20th-25th…
Beading at Arrowmont
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is a center of contemporary arts and crafts education in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The full catalog isn’t available yet (scheduled to be available this month), but the preview shows that Wendy Ellsworth is going to be teaching a beading workshop June 27th-July 3rd, and NanC Meinhardt will be teaching another…
TED: Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral
I recently watched this TED talk (Technology Engineering and Design), and loved how art, craft, math, and engineering intersected. Wertheim is a science writer, and with her twin sister Christine, founded the Institute for Figuring — “an organization dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and the technical arts.” She termed the…