Elise on Oct 30 2008 | Filed under: 2008, Bishof, Dever, Dustin, Ford, Forlano, Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, SOFA, West, Winters
Elise Winters, Ruffle Brooches, 2008, 3″ x 2.5″ x 1.5″
After the success of MIPCES almost twelve years ago, many of the artists understood the importance of becoming more recognizable to collectors, galleries and museums. Ever since, it has continued to be important for polymer artists to appear in [...]
Elise on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: 1997, MIPCES Exhibition, Sheets, Winters
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.
This fan brooch was one of a series I made for the exhibition. Each was inspired by or made as a tribute to one of my colleagues [...]
Elise on Sep 05 2008 | Filed under: 1995, 1997, 1998, Amt, Ford, NPCG Strategic Planning Meeting, Sheets, Toops, Winters
An important focus of this archive has been to make connections, to illuminate significant threads of development in polymer art. We’ve heard first-hand on this subject from many authoritative voices in the medium’s history – Victoria Hughes, Stephen Ford, Kathleen Dustin and the rest of our “founders.” In archiving these artistic lines, I’ve attempted [...]
Elise on Aug 24 2008 | Filed under: 2008, Art Jewelry Today 2, Winters
We interrupt our regular programming for this commercial announcement…
I just received news that my polymer work is featured top and center on the cover of a new book about contemporary art jewelry. Of course I’m pleased for personal reasons, but more importantly, polymer garners added status within the field of contemporary art jewelry. [...]
Martha on Apr 11 2008 | Filed under: 1997, Allen, Amt, Breen, Dever, Dewey, Dustin, Feiss, Ford, Forlano, Gibson, Grove, Haunani, Hughes, Kato, Liska, 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 [...]
Elise on Apr 08 2008 | Filed under: 1995, 1997, Julie: Artisans Gallery, MIPCES, NPCG, OCCC School of Art, Voulkos, Winters
Twice in my lifetime I’ve held golden treasure in my hands, two unrecognized artistic creations that were being offered up for sale — at the price of lead or tin. Buying both of those objects altered my life and led me to where I am today.
The second purchase, a pair of polymer clay earrings in [...]
Lindly on Feb 19 2008 | Filed under: Haunani, Tube Beads, Winters
This event remains crystallized in my mind like a fly in amber, and may have not been what happened at all… Elise and I had just finished constructing the first all metal tube bead cutter on her deck, when we spotted a small green inch worm making its way across the deck railing. We took [...]
Elise on Jan 11 2008 | Filed under: 1995, Haunani, Liska, Shrinemont, Tube Beads, Winters
It seems to me that innovation in the medium of polymer often resembles our own adult version of “telephone.” One artist comes up with a great concept, something she just has to tell a colleague about. In a rush of excitement, that second person passes along the original idea, inevitably adding a personal twist or [...]
Elise on Oct 20 2007 | Filed under: 1993, 1994, Julie: Artisans Gallery, Voulkos, Winters
Some people pick up comic books to discover a superhero. I simply stepped into Julie Artisans’ Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City. There, in 1994, I discovered Pier Voulkos, who has been a creative idol for me ever since. Having just discovered polymer clay, I made a mecca to Julie’s where I was [...]