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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,…
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Weaving the North at the North Suburban Center for the Arts
The North Suburban Center for the Arts in Fridley, Minnesota, is hosting Weaving the North in collaboration with the Scandinavian Weavers Study Group of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. I recently visited, and these are some of the works displayed. The breadth of styles shown is exciting, and the work is beautiful. The pin loom…
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2020 & 2021 McKnight Book Artist Fellows
The Minnesota Center for Book Arts, with the McKnight Foundation, offers two fellowships each year to mid-career artists living and working in Minnesota. Following are samples of the work on display in an exhibition closing soon at MCBA. Mary Hark has her studio, HARK! Handmade Paper, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work is collected by…
