Elise Winters on Oct 02 2009 | Filed under: Dustin, Ford, Forlano, Hughes, Sculpting Color, Zimmerman
Steven Ford & David Forlano, Char, 2002
Wood, polymer clay, magnets, steel, sterling silver,
21.5 x 13 x 5″
The Curator’s Statement for Sculpting Color currently at the Fuller Craft Museum reads:
“Unlike any other materials in fine craft, polymer clay has no ancient history, no millennium as a utilitarian art form, no past masters from which to draw [...]
Rachel Carren on Sep 11 2009 | Filed under: City Zen Cane, Cormier, Gibson, Haunani, Hughes, MFA Boston, Mingei Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Newark Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Racine Art Museum, Roche, Voulkos, Winters
On the wish list of the Racine Art Museum, WI
Dan Cormier, Fiji Mermaid, 2000
Using a photo portfolio that featured outstanding examples of available polymer art, Elise began to contact some of the nation’s most noted museum curators. She did hours of investigative research on specific museums, and issues relevant to the concept. She made [...]
Elise Winters on Jun 19 2009 | Filed under: 1989, 1990's, City Zen Cane, Ford, Forlano, Hughes, Museum of Arts and Design, Toops, Voulkos, Winters
City Zen Cane (aka Ford/Forlano), Flat Necklace, detail, 1991
Ursula Newman, jewelry curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, selected five pieces of jewelry from The Collection for the museum’s permanent collection. Two steps were necessary to formalize her decision, and the first occurred yesterday when the curatorial staff put their stamp [...]
Victoria on Apr 24 2009 | Filed under: 1992, Hughes, Uncategorized
Tory Hughes, Orrery Neckpiece, 1992
Polymer and mixed media
Why are we artists, anyway? For me, this career is the most flexible and marvelous -as in ‘full of marvels’- I could imagine.
What other way of life encourages me to make such a marvelous thing as this?
There’s a spinning comet in the upper left, mounted on miniature [...]
Victoria on Apr 03 2009 | Filed under: 1990's, Design, Hughes
Tory Hughes, Armillary Neckpiece, 1992
Polymer and mixed media
I believe most art is a snapshot of answers we’ve found in that moment. My more meaningful pieces are all illustrations of my current set of solutions, like anatomical drawings from another era, beautiful even when superseded or augmented by more information.
All of us have Grand Ideas [...]
Martha on Dec 12 2008 | Filed under: 2001, Adams, Balombini, Bernstein, Bishel, Cormier, Crossen, Dever, Dewey, Dustin, Fago, Ford, Forlano, Gibson, Haunani, Hughes, Hyde, Illuminating a Medium: Polymer Retrospective, Laurin, Maggio, McMillan, Mitchell, Muse NPCG 2001 Conference, NPCG, Regan, Roche, Scott, Shriver, Toops, Voulkos, Winters
Courting the Muse: Enhancing Creativity and Artistry in Polymer Clay
In 2001, the National Polymer Clay Guild sponsored it’s second conference in Bryn Mawr, PA. Courting The Muse was a week long conference filled with classes taught by polymer clay masters, thought-provoking and inspiring evening lectures, creativity seminars, and a retrospective exhibit entitled Illuminating a Medium, [...]
Elise Winters on Aug 15 2008 | Filed under: 1997, Hughes, MIPCES Exhibition
If you are a new visitor to Polymer Art Archive, you can find background about this event in the 2 posts, Past, Present Future and All About MIPCES.
SOUVENIR #1, YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN
10.5″ x 5.5″ x 3.5″
For the MIPCES catalog, Victoria Hughes wrote:
“The ‘Souvenirs’ series is composed of structures to evoke memories; of [...]
Elise Winters on May 16 2008 | Filed under: 1997, Hughes, MIPCES Exhibition
OLA NYINGMA
peace-pole, prayer-wheel
Approx. 14′ h
In 1996, when Tory Hughes first heard rumors about Michael Grove’s Wall of Polymer, she immediately sensed a creative challenge. I remember the sly smile on her lips, the emphatic quality of her voice when she swore not to be outdone by “the men.” If anybody was going to construct [...]
Martha on Apr 11 2008 | Filed under: 1997, Allen, Amt, Breen, Dever, Dewey, Dustin, Feiss, Ford, Forlano, Gibson, Grove, Haunani, Hughes, Kato, Liska, MIPCES, MIPCES Exhibition, NPCG, Regan, Roche, Toops, Voulkos, Winters, Zinman
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 [...]
Rachel Carren on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: 1980's, Critical Commentary, Hughes, Voulkos
Reading Kathleen Dustin’s essay on the early development of polymer clay, which has been so much of the PAA the past few weeks, brings to mind something Victoria Hughes wrote for the archive. Her piece, “On the Road” opens by mentioning a ride with Pier Voulkos and how the two of them were getting to [...]