Dulcey Heller

Category: Museums and galleries

  • Nebraska State Historical Society collections online

    The Nebraska State Historical Society announced that they’ve put images of more than 2,400 of their Native American artifacts online. I did a quick search of the database, entering “beaded” in the title field of the advanced search option, and retrieved 725 records. I’d love to be able to zoom in closer, but it’s still…

  • Crop art at the 2010 Minnesota State Fair

    I keep meaning to share a few of the pictures I took of the crop art at this year’s Minnesota State Fair. For those of you unfamiliar with it, crop art uses the seeds of various crops and glues them to a surface to make an image. The queen of crop art was Lillian Colton,…

  • Beadwork — at a train museum?

    The Tower-Soudan Historical Society Historical Center in Tower, MN (train sounds play on launch), is housed in a depot and notably has a steam locomotive, a caboose, and a coach car that can be rented for events. In the Depot are artifacts from the area, which includes beadwork from area tribes, likely Anishinaabeg. These are…

  • The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef at the Smithsonian

    I have embedded the TED video (Technology, Education, and Design) about this textile coral reef in an earlier post, and just learned that the Reef is going to be at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. It’s scheduled to open October 16th, and there’s a call to Washington, D.C. area crocheters to participate. This…

  • Nancy Eha’s beaded Minnesota quilt

    Nancy is working on a quilt of all things Minnesota! She is going to make nine 15″ blocks for exhibit in Minnesota Contemporary Art Quilts, which starts October 2, 2010. It will be on display in the gallery at the James J Hill house, a wonderful house to tour on Summit in St. Paul. Watch…