Archive for the 'Haunani' Category
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 [...]
Woody Rudin on Jul 17 2009 | Filed under: 2009, Color Inspirations, Color Theory, Haunani, Maggio
Make room in your bookcase for a new essential text. Nan Roche’s historic work, The New Clay, which we’ve long referred to as The Bible of polymer may have to be renamed now as The Old Testament and moved one slot to the left. There’s a New Testament coming to town and it’s titled Polymer [...]
Elise Winters on Jul 03 2009 | Filed under: 1998, Haunani, Recent History, 1997 NPCG
Lindly Haunani, Crayon Lei in Oranges and Greens, 1998
Translucent polymer, Super Flex polymer, chopped crayons, nylon thread
2″h x 2″w x 23″long
This necklace was made for the faculty exhibit at the First National Polymer Clay Guild Conference at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. It was the second piece in a series of [...]
Lindly on Mar 13 2009 | Filed under: 1997, Haunani
Lindly Haunani, Sushi Platter, 1992
8″ x 5.5″ x 2.5″
polymer, translucent mokume gane with silver leaf, interference paints
Finding the perfect gift for someone is always exciting, especially when happy memories are involved. In 1988 I purchased a beautifully illustrated Sushi cookbook for my father’s Christmas gift. Over the years one of the highlights of our shared [...]
Lindly on Mar 06 2009 | Filed under: 2006, Haunani, Niche Award
Lindly Haunani, Asparagus Crown Bracelet, 2006
I have loved asparagus as long as I can remember. As a teenager I avidly read Euell Gibbon’s book “Stalking the Wild Asparagus” and have been hopefully looking closely at road side ditches ever since. Before the advent of year round/world wide asparagus in our local grocery store produce sections, [...]
Rachel Carren on Feb 13 2009 | Filed under: Critical Commentary, DeWolff, Dever, Haunani, Malinow, McCaw, Savarick, Shriver, Toops, Voulkos, West, Winters
Debra DeWolff, Bracelet, 2007
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” *
Expressions of love are numerous and vary from culture to culture. In many cultures, not only is holding hands a tangible connection between two people, it generally is an outward sign of affection. Wearing a bracelet that encircles the wrist in [...]
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 Oct 23 2008 | Filed under: Haunani, Niche Award
Lindly Haunani, Rainbow Lei, 2008, 22″ long
Lindly Haunani’s Rainbow Lei Necklace has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 Niche Awards. Lindly writes about her new work:
Elise Winters on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: 1997, Haunani, 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.
SEATTLE CRAZY QUILT
For the MIPCES catalog, Lindly Haunani wrote:
“Fragmented pattern in the context of quilt images has been a recurring theme in my work for the last twenty-five [...]
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 [...]