More Fanciful Teapots
Rebecca Mazur (aka Zimmerman), Untitled Teapot, 2001, 9″h x 7″w x 7″d I asked Rebecca how she came by the powerful graphics in her work. When she told me that she had taught elementary school art for ten years, that …
Month: January 2009
Move Over Nutcracker
Rebecca Mazur (aka Zimmerman), Sandbag Teapot, 1998, 9″h x 8″w x 5″d Has there lived a child in the last fifty years who hasn’t found pleasure singing and acting out the lyrics to “I’m a little teapot, short and stout/ …
DIOS
Jody Bishel, Dios 1999, 8″ high In the late 1990’s Jody Bishel created a series of vessels based on botanical imagery. Jody recently sent me this image of her favorite vessel. She called this piece DIOS after watching the Japanese …
Before NINE
Ford/Forlano, Pebble Galaxy, 2002 wall piece with removable pin, diameter 13″ bronze, sterling, silver, glass, coral, shell, magnets The cover of Metalsmith’s Winter 2003 Issue shows a detail of Ford/Forlano’s piece, Pebble Gallery. That work, which was a precursor to …
New Year Update
This week we celebrated the first anniversary for Polymer Art Archive and I’ve been thinking about what we might call the “most pressing needs” for a New Year’s update to this website. Number one on my list for 2009 was …