Archive for August, 2009

Balombini: a Closer Look at Sculpting Color

Elise Winters on Aug 28 2009 | Filed under: 2009, Balombini, Fuller Craft Museum, Sculpting Color

Laura Balombini, Maybe Tomorrow: Pages from my Dreambook, 2009, detail
clay board with polymer relief, encaustics, oils, collage
This is one of nine pages from Laura’s imaginary sketchbook installation in the Sculpting Color exhibition, currently on view at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton MA.

Laura writes:
“I found my way into the world of polymer having started as [...]

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SRO at the Fuller

Woody Rudin on Aug 21 2009 | Filed under: 2009, Bishoff, Dever, Diffendaffer, Dustin, Fuller Craft Museum, Sculpting Color, Winters

Cynthia Toops, Metamorphosis, 2009
1 3/4″ x 1/18″ x 92″
polymer, rubber cord
Cynthia Toops’ Metamorphosis, pictured above, could have been a good highbrow title for the standing-room-only panel discussion held last weekend in the Great Room at the Fuller Craft Museum, as part of its opening ceremonies for the Sculpting Color: Works in Polymer Clay exhibition.
Literary allusions [...]

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A Design Pro Turns to Polymer

Woody Rudin on Aug 14 2009 | Filed under: Kirsch

Ronnie Kirsch, Details 2, 2000
5 1/4″  x 3 1/8″ x 3 1/8″
Give Ronnie Kirsch three stones……and she’ll turn them into a meal. That’s the artistry she exhibits in her kitchen. Give her three blocks of polymer clay…..and she’ll whip them into a sumptuous feast for the eye.
So, you may be asking, how come you’ve never [...]

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Mechanical Intervention

Lindly on Aug 07 2009 | Filed under: 1990's, Bead Roller, Extruder, Hornberger, Shrinemont

There is the saying that “Necessity is the mother of invention”. While making precise uniformly-shaped beads from polymer clay isn’t exactly a necessity, it can be challenging to do so.  This is particularly the case when you want to make uniform elongated oval baeds with two pinted ends.
I first met Carl and Jean Hornberger at [...]

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