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Today marks two years since I started this blog! This is post 337 in those two years — I’m pleased that I’m continuing to publish new posts regularly. I have shared my beading projects, links to other artists (there’s about 200 names in the blogroll), photos of art exhibits I visit, and interesting things I happen across in the online bead world.
Thank you so much for reading. I really appreciate the comments I’ve gotten, and the encouragement I’ve received. Happy beading!
Split Rock Arts, here in Minneapolis and a few in a secondary location in northern Minnesota, does not have any beading classes this year. Their preview is also available. I am admittedly myopic to beading, but there’s Modern Needle Felting: Techniques, Materials, and Forms with Briony Jean Foy at the northern Minnesota location June 20th-25th AND A Feltmaker’s Bag of Tricks: Exploring Hand-Felting Processes with Jorie Johnson June 27th-July 3rd in Minneapolis. You could do two straight weeks of intensive felting! There is another session on knitting, one on fabric collage, and and another on Korean patchwork and papermaking. (And writing, photography, etc.)
Tags: education, mixed media
If you live in a northern climate, you’ve likely at least heard of ice houses — a shelter ranging from a canvas tent to a trailer home for at least some protection from the elements while ice fishing. For at least the last 3-4 years, there’s been art shanties installed on a lake in Plymouth, MN, a suburb northwest of Minneapolis. This is the first year I’ve attended. The Art Shanty Project is open weekends until February 7th, but as I attended during the week, I wasn’t able to enter any of them. Viewing the outsides was still a treat!
I recently watched this TED talk (Technology Engineering and Design), and loved how art, craft, math, and engineering intersected. Wertheim is a science writer, and with her twin sister Christine, founded the Institute for Figuring — “an organization dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and the technical arts.” She termed the Institute a “play tank,” rather than a “think tank.” This video describes how they started using crochet as a model to show how lines appear curved, but are actually straight. Think of the ruffles on the edge of lettuce leaves, and how a straight line drawn on a flattened leaf would appear curved once the leaf was allowed to regain its shape. This is hyperbolic modeling (non-Euclidian geometry), and is surprisingly best modeled in crochet.
These ruffles abound in sea life from corals to nudibranchs. Margaret accepted a Chicago gallery’s request to fill a large gallery with crocheted sea life/hyperbolic planes. Christine is the crocheting sister — Margaret didn’t grasp how much work would be involved — but the work was completed. The exhibit went on to be displayed in New York City, London, and Los Angeles, and has spawned other coral reefs.
And if you want to make your own, Interweave Crochet published instructions to get you started.
Tags: mixed media
Suzanne Cooper awarded me with this, and I am honored! I am to list 5 things that I like to do and then pass it on to 5 more in my circle of blogger friends. I love many of the same things she does:
1. I love to read.
2. I love to cook.
3. I love to bead.
4. I love to spend time online re: reading, cooking, or beading.
5. I love to travel.
I am tagging Sabine, Joanne, Cielo, Mu, and Madame Bijou. Only one of these people knows me, just a little – but I’d enjoy learning a little more about them, and I love their blogs!
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