Looking back sure does give us some interesting perspective. Recently I ran across the 1992 Exhibitors Catalog for the American Craft Council’s annual show in Baltimore. Only 3 polymer exhibitors were listed there: Martha Breen, City Zen Cane (aka Ford/Forlano) …
Who would have guessed that the winter of 1997 would become especially significant to polymer history? Let’s look back 15 years to the Winter 1997 “PolyInformer”, the newsletter of the then 6 year old National Polymer Clay Guild , to …
The Mingei International Museum of Art show, “New Jewelry in a New Medium”, includes the work of 64 artists. This exhibition evolved out of work acquired by the Mingei from Elise Winters’s Polymer Collection Project and the absorption of the …
Polymer, polymer clay, FIMO, Sculpey, Premo, Katoclay, Cernit? Have you ever wondered how and why this colored, synthetic modeling material got its common name? Prior to 1990 both artists and publications describe the material using a brand name like FIMO …
“New Jewelry in a New Medium”, an exhibition of polymer art opens today on the Balboa Campus of the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California. The show focuses on individual beads and beaded adornments such as necklaces and bracelets. …