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Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is in a beautiful building (as seem to be all of the museums in Washington, D.C.), and has a captivating array of art. There’s Georgia O’Keefe: The gentleman from D.C. who made an aluminum foil altar in his garage (Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly,…
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I changed my mind
I don’t like how it looks to have all the bead tweets on my blog every week. It’s too large of a percentage of my blog space. NOW, if I could have them feed into a separate page, linked in the header links? That would be acceptable; available if you want to read it, and…
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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…
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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…
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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.