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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…
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Art Shanty Projects
If you live in a northern climate, you’ve likely at least heard of ice houses — a shelter ranging from a canvas tent to a trailer home for at least some protection from the elements while ice fishing. For at least the last 3-4 years, there’s been art shanties installed on a lake in Plymouth,…
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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…
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Circle of Friends award
Suzanne Cooper awarded me with this, and I am honored! I am to list 5 things that I like to do and then pass it on to 5 more in my circle of blogger friends. I love many of the same things she does: 1. I love to read. 2. I love to cook. 3.…
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The Precious Object
This show, in the Cargill Gallery of the Central Hennepin County Library, is on display until January 3rd. It is presented in partnership with mnartists.org, an online database of Minnesota artists created by the Walker Art Center and the McKnight Foundation. “The 14 Minnesota artists in the exhibition explore issues of nature, simulation, craft, collection…