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Art Shanty Project 2014
The Art Shanty Project is “an artist driven temporary community exploring the ways in which relatively unregulated public spaces can be used as new and challenging artistic environments to expand notions of what art can be.” What are art shanties? On their surface, they are ice houses – something dedicated Northerners do to be able…
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Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence
“Ubule Women” (“beautiful” women in Xhosa) is an exhibition currently on display at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C. The Ubuhle artists’ community was established in 1999 by local resident Bev Gibson and beader Ntombephi Ntombela to provide Xhosa and Zulu women with the means to provide for their families through their art.…
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New snowflake for the Christmas tree
Every year, I add a snowflake to the Christmas tree. Since I started beading, most of these have been beaded snowflakes. Here’s this year’s addition! Twisted bugles, a few Swarovski, and a few size 11 beads. It needed more thread passes, but I was running out of time (11:45 p.m. Christmas Eve). It’s a little…
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A beaded 2013 Christmas
I made a collection of these ornaments/pendants for Christmas gifts this year. I made a couple other colors as well, but these are the ones that played together nicely. You may recognize them as Ecuadorian leaf stitch; these ornaments are smaller versions of the Hojas pendant designed by Smadar Grossman, published in Bead and Button…