Elise on Mar 21 2008 | Filed under: 1980's, City Zen Cane, Toops
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 installments, I have been providing you with an expanded view of those artists’ early work.
In the gallery that follows you can put Cynthia [...]
Kathleen on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: Blends, Breen, City Zen Cane, Dustin, Ford, Forlano, Micromosaic, Millefiore, Shriver, Toops
This is Part Four 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 the Washington, D.C., area also in 1986, where I was working as a ceramic artist, I [...]
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 [...]
Elise on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: 1997, 2003, City Zen Cane, Ford, Forlano, MIPCES Exhibition
While I’m in the studio filling orders today, here’s something to feast your eyes upon.
I purchased this necklace in 1997 at MIPCES from Steven Ford and David Forlano when they still worked under the name City Zen Cane. Steven describes this piece as “transitional,” perhaps because it represents a period when they began to experiment with [...]
Lindly on Nov 12 2007 | Filed under: 1990, Allen, Beadazzled, City Zen Cane, Dustin, Grove, Haunani, Ornament, Shriver, Voulkos
I was certainly bedazzled to see the this show at Beadazzled in Washington, DC in 1990. It was the first time I had ever seen the work of Pier Voulkos, Sarah Shriver, Grove & Grove and City Zen Cane in person.
The show was displayed in the back room of the store’s original location on Dupont [...]
Lindly on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: 1988, City Zen Cane, Dustin, Haunani
I became interested in polymer clay in 1988, when a number of things serendipitously led me to take a workshop from Kathleen Dustin. At the time I had a large vegetable/herb garden and was experimenting with different colored inlays of herbs and vegetable purees into handcrafted pasta. One day I’d been tempted to buy FIMO [...]
Elise on Oct 20 2007 | Filed under: 1993, 1994, Brooks, City Zen Cane, Grove, Julie: Artisans Gallery, Voulkos
In 1994, Julie: Artisans’ Gallery was just about the only places you could see work by accomplished polymer jewelry artists. When Julie Shafler Dale opened her gallery in 1973, it was the very first boutique dedicated to wearable art in America. Ten years later, she wrote the first book on Art-to-Wear. And by 1994 her [...]