Category: Not beads

  • Split Rock 2009

    I received an email this morning that registration was open for Split Rock, sessions held on campus at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, or the Cloquet Forestry Center south of Duluth, MN.  I have taken classes from Joyce Scott and David Chatt through Split Rock (in their former location at the University of Minnesota…

  • One year of blogging

    This blog is now one year old!  It was an offshoot of redesigning my website, and I’ve been fairly regularly adding posts since inception.  I’ve enjoyed it more than I suspected I would — I have never kept any sort of written journal before, but this seems to work for me. Blogging has kept me…

  • The Always-On Artist

    This evening, I attended this talk given by Dennis Cass, subtitled “Technology, Creativity, and the Making of Meaning in the 21st Century.  David’s blog is entitled “Dennis Cass wants you to be more awesome,” purposefully an ill-defined title.  Dennis is teaches creative nonfiction, has been a literary agent, and is the author of Head Case…

  • Sum of the Parts — Surface Design Association show

    Closing at the Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota is this Surface Design Association show.  The Surface Design Association promotes textile arts in the arts and design communities.  They have conferences, shows, and a journal — the Spring 2003 issue was on beaded surfaces, and it is gorgeous. This show was works…

  • Comments are invisible

    They’re still there on the admin side – I’ll figure out in the next day or so. What gets out invisible ink? Leave an invisible comment and let me know! 🙂 ETA: they’re back! The plugin that let me move comments if they were placed in an unintended spot made them invisible. Don’t ask me…