Mid Century shape and color at MIA
On a recent trip to the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, I stopped in the gallery with an exhibit of Mid Century textiles. I enjoyed the textiles, but really loved the shape and color of the glazed pottery in the center of the gallery. This is Red Wing Pottery (from here in Minnesota), designed by…
Kumihimo sample, plus beads!
With the braiding disk came some cotton yarn in three colors, fuchsia, green, and gray. There was twice as much fuchsia as the other colors, so I chose this pattern in a simple 8-strand braid. This was easy to keep smooth with the thicker diameter of the fiber, and actually more consistent than later the…
Fused glass plus kumihimo, finished
So, here is the completed necklace with Carol’s fused glass pendant: I used copper charlottes to make a simple bail as well as beadcaps, and then used a copper clasp. It’s very wearable! My braiding smoothed out towards the end; as my braid ended up being maybe 3″ longer than I needed, I cut off…
Beadwork at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
I visited MIA last week, during the last week of the Art of the Native American special exhibit. The pieces on display are owned by the Fenimore Art Museum, and photography was not allowed (MIA permits photos of items that they own). There were examples of the finest beadwork, quillwork, basket making, weaving, and more…
Glass bead artist exhibition ending soon in Immenhausen, Germany
There’s an international invitational exhibition of glass beads at the Immenhausen Glass Museum in Germany. Seven glass sculptors were challenged to work on the scale of glass bead artists; the artists come from all over the world, and they and the bead artists are presenting their interpretation of Shakespeare’s Tempest in one glass bead each.…