Bead related tweets, week of 4/19/10
Bead tweets featured on this blog: has a couple chores left, and then beading. Two active projects await, but I think I want to start something w immediate gratification. Blog bead embroiderers, check out _Nomadic Embroideries_ abt India’s tribal embroideries w thread, beads, mica: http://amzn.to/bxkDGu (blog) trying again: from galimatia: http://bit.ly/9Dwf9u Nice curves and straights…
Marcus Amerman at the Heard Museum
The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona just opened an exhibit entitled “Pop! Popular Culture in American Indian Art.” For the exhibit, “pop culture and innovation collide with traditional art forms and cultures in artwork that reflects contemporary issues and imagery in an often comedic, tongue-in-cheek way. Fashion, graffiti art, comics, pottery and beadwork are formats…
BFAC 2011, step 2
Spot’s getting bigger! The thread tails are hidden underneath the beadwork, not woven in. I have to take care of that before moving on. Working with doubled thread, for increased ability to hold a structure, makes this take even longer and less appealing to do. I am hoping I’ll talk myself into doing this tonight.
Bead related tweets, week of 4/12/10
If you read my blog from its homepage, you can see a bead-related tweet in the upper left, updated through Twitter and a plugin called WP-TwitterSearch that allows me to filter my tweets. I filter with the word “blog,” which you will usually see on the end of my bead-related tweets. You can follow me…
Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen currently has an exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. I recognized his work using shoes — he makes striking totems and masks with popular athletic shoes and gear. Some of his works were massive (with lawn chairs, plastic containers, full-sized clothing) and some more intimate (sporting goods).…