Throughout my teaching career, I’ve taught young, old, male, female, motivated and not-so-motivated. I’ve had a genuine concern for all of my students. During the years I taught my course, “Women in the Visual Arts,” at St. Cloud State, I taught with the intention to bring the vast number of history’s creative women to the …
From the time I was small, I was interested in tools. I was fortunate to have a father who had a shop full of tools, and he didn’t mind sharing them. In fact, my brother and I had free rein in Dad’s shop with the exception of the table saw and the propane torches. Furthermore, …
I don’t know why it is, but I’ve always been attracted to patterns. Textures hold a special appeal, too, but an interesting pattern can stop me in my tracks. That’s what happened one day, a few years ago, when I was visiting my friends, Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Peter Wakelin in Wales. Peter was showing me …
All righty, then… there have a been a few days since I posted my first round of paper jewelry maquettes and meanwhile, I’ve been working on several others, punctuated by further progress on my new studio building and a very quick trip to Washington, DC. Here are the latest maquettes: A bracelet made up of …