Archive for the '1997' Category

MIPCES Exhibition: Tory Hughes

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 [...]

MIPCES Exhibition: Amy Zinman

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.

LIZARDO DIABLO 11”L x 7½”W x 7”H
For the MIPCES catalog, Amy Zinman wrote:
“Just as the chameleon can change its appearance to blend into the environment, polymer clay can [...]

MIPCES Exhibition: Margaret Maggio

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.

FABLE VESSEL “THEY WERE PROBABLY SOUR ANYWAY”
6”h x 5 1/2″ x 5 1/2″
For the MIPCES catalog, Margaret Maggio wrote:
“In the fable series I’m having fun playing opposing elements [...]

MIPCES Exhibition: Lindly Haunani

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 [...]

MIPCES Exhibition: Susan Hyde

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.

JESSE ELEANOR JONES
For the MIPCES catalog, Susan Hyde wrote:
“This piece is a portrait of my mother from her high school photograph in 1929 when she was 18. [...]

MIPCES Exhibition: David Forlano

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.

UNTITLED, polymer clay painting
8” x 11”
For the MIPCES catalog in 1997, David Forlano, of Ford/Forlano, wrote:
“This series of polymer clay paintings and objects is a returning to [...]

MIPCES Exhibition: Gwen Gibson

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.

EXPRESSIONS OF TIME, IV
10” x 10”
For the MIPCES catalog, Gwen wrtote:
“By moving from the body (jewelry) to the wall, I found freedom to be more innovative, less polished. [...]

MIPCES Exhibition: David Edwards

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.

THE BURGESS SHALE
20” x 23” x 1½”
For the MIPCES catalog, David Edwards wrote:
“The Burgess shale was discovered in 1909. Its exquisitely detailed fossils are among the most [...]

MIPCES Exhibiton: Kathleen Amt

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.

HOUSES
7 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ x 1 1/4″
For the exhibition, Kathleen Amt presented a sort of “housing development” which consisted of 7 houses ranging in size from 4″ [...]

All About: The First NPCG Conference at Arrowmont

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 second of these posts and we hope to follow up with more. Special thanks to Steven Ford who provided this information about the Arrowmont Conference.
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