Gone Fishin’
Elise on Jun 27 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Polymer Art Archive is officially “on vacation” until we have finished migrating the site to a new hosting service. Thanks for your patience.
Archive for June, 2008
All About: The First NPCG Conference at Arrowmont
Martha on Jun 20 2008 | Filed under: 1997, Arrowmont NPCG 1997 Conference, Ford, NPCG, Recent History, 1997 NPCG
Elise asked me to lead a small team of volunteers to research and write about gatherings that influenced the development of polymer as an art medium. This is the second of these posts and we hope to follow up with more. Special thanks to Steven Ford who provided this information about the Arrowmont Conference.
Name […]
Rachel’s Thoughts inspired by Jed Perl’s Essay on the Artisanal Urge
Rachel on Jun 13 2008 | Filed under: Critical Commentary
In Jed Perl’s article, “The Artisanal Urge” American Craft (June/July 2008), he defends the “human desire to make something with one’s own hands” against the current stylistic trend of a more detached approach to creating art. Perl, an author of several books on art and the art critic for The New Republic, […]
Gremlin Alert
Elise on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Dear Readers:
New and more serious gremlins have surfaced with PAA software. For the past week I have been blocked from uploading any image files either through Wordpress or through an FTP client. As a result, in the near furture, I will be migrating Polymer Art Archive to a new hosting account with […]
MIPCES Exhibition: Margaret Regan
Elise on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: 1997, MIPCES Exhibition, Regan
INSOMNIA BOWL, Undreamt Dreams
12¾” x 11¾” x 3¼”
For the MIPCES catalog, Margaret Regan wrote:
“I like images that float, and my work is characterized by a high degree of drift and space. There’s a dream state where you recognize an object, but not it’s surroundings. I love the interaction of control with happenstance, and the blend […]