This Saturday – St. Louis Park Art Fair 2024!
I really enjoy participating in this art fair. The venue is beautiful with a great variety of artists, and excellent food and entertainment. I’m especially looking forward to seeing the Youth MiniMarket (ages 8 – 18); I’ll probably be set up early enough to get a quick preview. Here is my table last year: The…
Toronto Subway Token Earrings
In my continuing occasional series of vacation jewelry, here’s earrings made of subway tokens from Toronto. For a visit in 2019, I calculated the number of times I would use the subway, and the least expensive way to make that happen was to buy tokens. I ended up needing two fewer tokens than I planned,…
“Identity Portrait Series” Quilts by Blair Treuer
I recently viewed Blair Treuer’s “Identity Exploration” at the Hopkin’s Center for the Arts in Hopkins, Minnesota. From HCA’s website, her work “is an exploration into the role Native American traditional cultural and spiritual practices and beliefs play in shaping the way her family sees itself collectively and the influences or effect it’s had on…
Woven, Fringed, and Braided Wrap Belt
In a social media ad, targeted I’m sure, I saw an add for a wrapped leather belt. There’s a gently curved wider leather center section, which you wrap like a cummerbund, and bring the narrower end sections to the front to tie, twist, or whatever. Hmm. Maybe I can weave that. In my planning, I…
Surface Design: Traditions & Techniques in Beading, and Beaded Surfaces
The Surface Design Association’s Winter 2022 journal issue celebrated “Traditions & Techniques in Beading,” with beautiful cover art by Catherine Blackburn. To complement the issue, Studio Art Quilts Associates (SAQA) hosted a Textile Talk with Anette Millington and Sébastien Carré. Millington speaks of her class at the Parsons MFA program on beading material and meaning,…