One day left on my Beading For a Cure necklace!
This is the last year for Beading For a Cure, where participants buy a kit of beads, sight unseen, and create something using at least one of every bead to sell at auction. Proceeds from the auction go to fight colorectal cancer, in memory of Layne Shilling, a beader who lost her life to the…
Beading Lake Superior
Embellishing one small rock from Lake Superior’s shores… I am providing this as part of a gift basket for a silent auction, with the theme of Minnesota.
An Art-o-Mat!
Le Méridien Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis is the country’s first luxury art hotel. From their website, it “features over 200 pieces of original contemporary art work from the private collection of the hotel’s owner Ralph Burnet. Discover many of these great pieces at the Minneapolis Burnet Art Gallery. Edgy and controversial pieces from the Young British…
Works on Paper at the Burnet Gallery
Sharon Louden pointed me to “Works on Paper/7 Artists” the current show at the Burnet Gallery in Minneapolis. I had blogged about Sharon’s Merge installation at the University of Minnesota’s Weisman museum, which led to exchanges of emails, and meeting in person when she was recently in town! (Sharon has a new permanent Merge installation…
Claire Kahn in Metalsmith magazine
Metalsmith is the beautiful magazine published by the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG). There is always plenty of jewelry to imagine myself wearing, and decorative objects to find imaginary places for in my life. Want to do your own dreaming? Check out SNAG’s Maker Profiles. The current issue (Volume 33, Number 2) has a…