Archive for the 'Zinman' Category

All About: MIPCES

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 […]

More Nonpareils

Coining new words is not my specialty, but the last three posts on this site seemed to demand a descriptive term for the tiny, hand formed polymer balls used by Lori, Amy, Cynthia, Pier and others. For the purpose of uniform terminology, let’s call them “nonpareils.”                         
When I asked Amy Zinman about the technical inspiration […]

Lizardo Diablo

It’s not everybody who gets fascinated by lizards. What’s to account for such tastes?
Amy Zinman was always a pushover for rescue animals, but most of those have been the predictable dogs and cats. So what was her entry into the world of the little horned creatures? Amy says, ”I was living near a reptile store in Hoboken, New […]

Corny Connections

Having given birth to this website exactly a month ago, and having nursed it through its formative days, I’ve gained some unexpected rewards.
 
To get the site up and running, I’ve had to review thousands of slides that had been sitting in boxes as well as taking new photos of my own polymer art collection and […]