Elise on May 23 2008 | Filed under: 1997, MIPCES Exhibition, Voulkos
POCKETS AND PILLOWS OF AIR
2 ½’ x 3’ x 3″
For the MIPCES catalog, Pier wrote: “This unique clay softens before it hardens in the baking. So most often a large form needs some kind of internal or external armature to keep it from distorting or collapsing while it bakes. I tried air […]
Martha on Apr 11 2008 | Filed under: 1997, Allen, Amt, Breen, Dever, Dewey, Dustin, Feiss, Ford, Forlano, Gibson, Grove, Haunani, Hughes, Kato, Liska, MIPCES Exhibition, NPCG, Regan, Roche, Toops, Voulkos, Winters, Zinman
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 first of these posts and we hope to follow up with more. Special thanks to Nancy Travers who organized all the materials about MIPCES.
Masters’ Invitational Polymer […]
Elise on Apr 08 2008 | Filed under: 1995, 1997, Julie: Artisans Gallery, MIPCES, NPCG, OCCC School of Art, Voulkos, Winters
Twice in my lifetime I’ve held golden treasure in my hands, two unrecognized artistic creations that were being offered up for sale — at the price of lead or tin. Buying both of those objects altered my life and led me to where I am today.
The second purchase, a pair of polymer clay earrings in […]
Rachel on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: 1980's, Critical Commentary, Hughes, Voulkos
Reading Kathleen Dustin’s essay on the early development of polymer clay, which has been so much of the PAA the past few weeks, brings to mind something Victoria Hughes wrote for the archive. Her piece, “On the Road” opens by mentioning a ride with Pier Voulkos and how the two of them were getting to […]
Kathleen on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Allen, Carlson, Dewey, Flower Valley Press, Ford, Forlano, Haunani, Hughes, Millefiore, NPCG, Ornament, Roche, Segal, Shriver, The New Clay, Toops, Torpedo Factory, Voulkos
In 1987, at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in the Washington, D.C. area, I taught my first workshop on polymer bead-making based on the simple techniques I had developed. On the advice of an artist colleague, I submitted a short article to Ornament magazine. Published in 1988, my article was entitled “The Use of Polyform […]
Kathleen on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: 1980's, Allen, Breen, Grove, Synergy NPCG 2008 Conference, Voulkos
This is Part Three of the speech delivered at Synergy: the 2008 National Polymer Clay Guild Conference held in Baltimore, Maryland in February 2008. The entire speech will be publish in serial form in five parts on Polymer Art Archive .
In 1984, Pier Voulkos conceived of simple millefiore designs based on some limited experience with glass-working in […]
Elise on Mar 07 2008 | Filed under: 1970's, 1980's, Hughes, The New Clay, Voulkos
Are you hooked on Kathleen Dustin’s presentation about the work done by the early polymer bead makers? Then, you’ll want to see even more images by those pioneers. After each of Kathleen’s next few installments, I will provide you with an expanded view of those artists’ early work.
In the gallery that follows you can put […]
Kathleen on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: 1970's, Caning, Hughes, Imitative, Julie: Artisans Gallery, Millefiore, Synergy NPCG 2008 Conference, Voulkos
This is Part Two of the speech delivered at Synergy: the 2008 National Polymer Clay Guild Conference held in Baltimore, Maryland in February 2008. The entire speech will be publish in serial form in five parts on Polymer Art Archive .
The Earliest Polymer Bead-makers
Many of these American artists first became aware of the polymer brand Fimo in […]
Kathleen on Feb 29 2008 | Filed under: 1930-70, 1970's, 1980's, Allen, City Zen Cane, Dustin, Ford, Forlano, Grove, Hughes, Product Development, Synergy NPCG 2008 Conference, Toops, Voulkos
This is Part One of the speech delivered at Synergy: the 2008 National Polymer Clay Guild Conference held in Baltimore, Maryland last week. The entire speech will be publish on Polymer Art Archive in serial form.
Polymer clay developed initially for making dolls and puppets but it wasn’t until it was embraced as a bead and […]
Lindly on Feb 15 2008 | Filed under: Haunani, Regan, Tube Beads, Voulkos
There are times when the synchronicity of seeing a concept in “threes” propels me as an artist to experiment with and reinterpret an idea.
Margaret Regan gave me a fabulously simple and elegant rainbow tube bead necklace. Her beads were small and delicate ( 1/2″ x 1/8 “) and strung with small black glass hex beads on elastic.
I […]