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Meet Me at RAM

Barbara Sperling and Michael Sakash, Koi Bowl with Lilac Stand, 2006
polymer, lilac twigs, stain, tung oil
13″ h x 16″w x 12″d
The Polymer Collection at the Racine Art Museum will make its debut in an exhibition scheduled for the fall of 2011. This recent acquisition of more than 180 pieces of jewelry and sculpture by [...]

Polymer SNAGed

Ford/Forlano neckpiece detail
Here’s another sign that polymer continues to gain prominence in the established craft arena.

Out and About…

I’m on the road delivering works from the collection to their new homes in museums on the east coast. More details to come later this fall.

Selection from the Collection: Orrery Neckpiece

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 [...]

New Year Update

This week we celebrated the first anniversary for Polymer Art Archive and I’ve been thinking about what we might call the “most pressing needs” for a New Year’s update to this website. Number one on my list for 2009 was a Bibliography page, recommendations of specific books that may be of interest to committed readers. [...]

Focus on the Essential

Several emails have come to this blog, disputations on the general theme of “who-did-what-first.” So let me lay out for the readers who gather here how I’d like to handle this issue.