Dulcey Heller

Category: Museums and galleries

  • Liza Lou

    Deitch Gallery in New York City has images of Liza Lou’s work online.  In the “Selected Works” are photographs of some of her bead-encrusted works, from people to crushed beer cans to the inside of a trailer.

  • Marcus Amerman at the Museum of Glass

    Reading on Marcus’s blog, I wish I were in Tacoma, Washington! Marcus (Choctaw) and Preston Singletary (Tlingit) will be collaborating in the museum’s visiting artist’s program on November 11-15. I am looking forward to seeing the results of that collaboration.

  • The Bead Museum library

    The Bead Museum has used LibraryThing to make viewing the titles of their holdings available to all.  Browse the approximately 2,700 bead books owned!

  • 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,…

  • 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,…