It’s a good time to see work by Joyce Scott
Joyce Scott is enjoying a lot of well-deserved shows and publicity right now. Here’s what I know – and there could be more! The cover article of the Fall 2014 issue of UrbanGlass Glass (Quarterly) is of Joyce Scott. It’s a substantial article, unfortunately not freely available online. The description on the website is, “Joyce…
Lapis and pyrite pendant
Thanks so much to my friend Katherine, who when she went to Chile, kept her eye out for something for me to bead. We met for lunch when she returned, and she poured this lovely lapis cab out of a bag. It is a lovely, rich blue with very attractive pyrite inclusions. I made something simple, but…
Turquoise and pearls
I purchased this Kingman turquoise cab perhaps two years ago, and created the pendant. What I had not done is figure out how to make it into a necklace. Pearls were the solution. I wanted something with a substantial enough weight to match the pendant, so purchased these creamy stick pearls and tanzanite potato pearls…
Antique Pattern Library
So here’s something that I want to share: the digitization of out-of-copyright craft books in the Antique Pattern Library: “This ongoing project is an effort to scan craft pattern publications that are in the public domain, to preserve them, so we can keep our craft heritages in our hands. Most of these scans have been…
Beadwork to see in Ontario and Los Angeles
There are a couple of exhibits I’ve learned about recently. Both are First Nations beadwork, one in Brampton, Ontario, and the other in Los Angeles, California. First, a digression: I’m never quite sure what terminology I should use. The Ontario exhibit uses “First Nations,” and the Los Angeles one uses “Native Americans.” I am in no…