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Review: Terra Nova Exhibit |
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Written by Beth Ackley
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Wednesday, 16 November 2011 12:01 |
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 I visited the Racine Art Museum on Saturday, October 29, 2011, to see Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads. I was there with three members of the Metro Milwaukee Polymer Clay Guild. The exhibit is breathtaking. To see polymer clay art displayed in a formal setting of a museum was amazing.
There are over 200 exhibit pieces in the second-floor gallery. Many of the pieces are a gift to the museum and will go in their permanent archives. Others are on loan from artists, collectors, and galleries. Thirty-four artists were featured, but the spotlight was on eight Boundary Breakers: Bonnie Bishoff and J.M. Syron, Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Kathleen Dustin, Steven Ford and David Forlano, Tory Hughes, Cynthia Toops, Pier Voulkos, and Elise Winters. Other artists were also featured: Jamey Allen, Kathleen Amt, Rachel Carren, Dan Cormier, Debra DeWolff, Gwen Gibson, Linda Goff, Michael Grove, Ruth Anne Grove, Lindly Haunani, Carl Hornberger, Donna Kato, Ronnie Kirsch, Judy Kuskin, Maggie Maggio, Wendy Wallin Malinow, Sandra McCaw, Linda Pedersen, Nan Roche, Sarah Shriver, Carol Simmons, Barbara Sperling, Melanie West, and Amy Zinman.
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Written by Alaina Ackley
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 18:55 |
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Sharing is a gift that keeps giving . . . .
As many of you have experienced sharing your talent is a reward unto itself. Over the years we’ve heard so many positive reports on guild family and kids events.
There are 1200 kids per day through this exhibit along with their teachers and parent chaperones. This is the place where they have to reinforce the tables so that the kids don't collapse them as they lean on them and make their projects.
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Written by Alaina Ackley
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Monday, 27 June 2011 16:39 |
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One of the things on the agenda for our Board, is to find ways to include the newer generations. Well, we found just such a way at the Bead & Button Show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Every year, the IPCA has a booth at the show to promote polymer clay. Artists that are at the show will stop by the booth and offer demonstrations to passerbys. The wonderful Lisa Pavelka was our last demonstrator. And she had more than she bargained for!
My son happened to be at the show that day. He loves playing with the clay! He has a little table next to mine in my workshop. Today, he got a thrill as he watched Lisa show off her transfer metallics. She even left him some to play with.
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Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads |
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Written by IPCA Webmaster
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:50 |
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 The Racine Art Museum (RAM) in Racine, Wisconsin, is pleased to announce the museum's recent commitment to establishing a permanent collection of polymer jewelry, beads and sculptural objects. As part of this resolution, the museum is organizing a large group exhibition opening the Fall 2011. Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads will open at RAM on October 21, 2011. On display through February 5, 2012, the show emphasizes the development of polymer as an expressive medium for artwork in recent decades. A book is currently underway to support the content of the exhibition as well as function as a singular resource for the historical and philosophical dimensions of the polymer medium.
Lindly Haunani, Sushi Platter, 1992
Polymer, powders and composite metallic leaf
Racine Art Museum, Gift of the Artist
Photography: Penina Meisels
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Woman Creative - Art and Jewelry Design Center |
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Written by IPCA Webmaster
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Tuesday, 08 March 2011 12:42 |
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Last weekend, polymer artists Barbara McGuire and Ellen Prophater celebrated the opening of Woman Creative - Art and Jewelry Design Center, located in the quaint town of Buford, just north of Atlanta, Georgia.
Woman Creative is an engagingly ambient arts center hosting 5 artist studios, a gallery, an exhibit and two classrooms. Studio artists and resident faculty include Barbara McGuire, Ellen Prophater, Jan Stevens and Patricia DiBona. Sue Sutherland is the facility manager and houses Filigree & More! in her studio. Each of these women brings unique skills to the center and product lines with supplies relevant to their craft. The women are experts in their respective fields of polymer, metal clay, jewelry design, photography, wire wrapping, digital design and altered arts.
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Polymer Classes at the 2010 Bead & Button Show |
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 12:20 |
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Thousands of attendees will be converging in Milwaukee this June for the 10th anniversary of the internationally known Bead & Button Show. It promises to be the best year yet, with over 600 classes being taught in a variety of media. And while classes with polymer artists Cristi Friesen, Julie Picarello and Lynne Ann Schwarzenberg sold out quickly, additional sessions have just been added. Don't miss out - make your travel plans today!
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