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Marcus Amerman at the Museum of Glass
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The Bead Museum library
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Unspoken Messages: The Art of the Necklace
Recently ended at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts was this show of necklaces. A new acquisition is a magnificent necklace from Hawaii, and curators built a gallery of other necklaces in their collection to showcase it. First, the new Hawaiian necklace: The Lei Niho Palaoa (necklace) dates to the first half of the 1800s,…
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Between the Beads — Reading African Beadwork
The Harn Museum of Art, in Gainesville, Florida, looks to have an amazing collection of African beadwork. They have beaded objects that are used in everyday life, and objects for ceremonial use. “These objects demonstrate ingenious strategies used to communicate ideas with beads. Some works express highly complex ideas through subtly configured colors and patterns,…
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Jo Wood at the Grand Hand