Artists

This artist from Belgium has some great pieces. Check out her blog; in the upper left she has some instructions (Mes schémas), both for sale and free. Her strawberry and spiral beaded bead are just phenomenal.

Her recent post, of spiral flat square stitch earrings, prompted me to make my own. Hers are better — she’s better at this stitch, and I used more irregular beads. I still like mine quite a bit though. These beads remind me of Black Hills gold, which is gold jewelry marketed/sold from the Black Hills of western South Dakota, and contains rose gold, green gold, and yellow gold (and to be marketed as Black Hills gold, has to include the leaf motif, I believe).

Okay, I went looking too. I found some on the website for the Mid America Arts Alliance touring shows. Joyce is modeling her necklace in slide 12 of a select few images from her show Kickin’ It.

At the top of the linked page above, you’ll find a link to a 114 page programming guide to this show. Only one image, but there are titles of each of the pieces included in Kickin’ It, including commentary on some.

Kickin’ It was at the Tacoma Museum of Glass. Here is a video of an interview with Joyce.

She’s an inspiring woman, a great teacher, and I’m very glad I got to spend a week with her.

Reading Mary Tafoya’s blog, she and Chris Prussing found images of some of Joyce Scott’s work online. Joyce doesn’t have a website, so this is a treat!

Check out Bmoreart (Baltimore art blog) for a couple of images, and Goya Contemporary (Baltimore gallery) for FOUR pages of images.

Mary interviewed Joyce for the December 2003 issue of Beadwork, if you have access to this magazine. I took a weeklong class from Joyce at Split Rock Arts in Minnesota in 2003, I believe. A beaded figure that I made after the class is here.

I should count how many are in my feed reader. Or not! Here’s some more that I’ve added.

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I looked at a copy of American Style magazine today, and listed on the cover is “Craft Collaborators Jack and Linda Fifield.” I thought the names looked familiar, turned to the article — and yes, they should be familiar, I have her name on my links page of my website. They are both woodturners, and she is a beader in addition, adding beadwork to turned vessels. The description in the article of her beadwork was written by someone who doesn’t bead, “She threads tiny Czech glass beads onto nylon filaments that cross, making a net to encase a form.” It’s peyote, beautifully done.

A current project that she’s working on is a vessel Jack turned, 4 FEET tall, “the whopper.” Linda has been working on it a year, and is one-third done.

The entire article is online! Not all the pictures are, but a picture of my favorite vessel included tops the article. Also check out their website.