Sewing the Seeds: 200 Years of Iroquois Glass Beadwork
In Corning, NY, at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, is a 200 year retrospective of Haudenosaunee beadworkers, who created pieces of beadwork for the tourist trade. There is only one picture of a pincushion (I’ve seen several pieces at a local museum, one piece here in an earlier blog entry), but there are more…
Peranaken beadwork tablecloth
And something else I really want to see! In Singapore, a 1.6 meter x 1.6 meter Peranaken beadwork tablecloth was recently restored. It’s an early twentieth century beaded artifact — ornate bead-embroidered Victorian flowers and birds likely commissioned by a wealthy family for special occasions. I read that Peranaken are descendants of Chinese immigrants. I…
Molly Murphy’s work on display
I’ve written before about Murphy; she won best of show and second place at the last Heard Museum Fair and Market. She’s an Oglala bead artist from Montana, and I have seen one of her pieces in person at a museum here in Minnesota. I just learned that she is part of an exhibit named…
BFAC 2010, step 2
I’ve made a couple more fans, and did some temporary stringing. This is the general idea, with fans of beads and these stained glass components. I’ll likely reverse the fans so that the wide side is nearest the pendant. The fans incorporate different colors of size 11 seed beads, and I’ll try various layouts to…
Rock art
Rock art (rock painting or carving/chipping) is more common in drier regions of the country than the Upper Midwest — more exposed rock! It was a treat to see rock art on a recent trip; the most notable location was Newspaper Rock State Historical Monument in Utah. Newspaper Rock includes rock art from 2000 to…