Editors' Blog
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This week, I interviewed Laura Wood (founder of the East Carolina University [ECU] Metals Symposium, Material Topics) and Leia Zumbro (coordinator of this years symposium, Material Topics: Merging Methods ) . This year's symposium took place January 13...
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Somedays working here isn't nearly as glamorous as some people might imagine. There is loads of paperwork, lots of checking, (and rechecking) for typos, grammar, continuity of instructions, image resolution, updating the database, website, cursing at...
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Here at Kalmbach (the parent company of Art Jewelry magazine), we're very proud of The Bead&Button Show. With nearly 400 vendors and over 750 classes, it's the largest jewelry and bead show in the world. And at Art Jewelry , we're particularly proud...
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A couple weeks ago, I had lunch with a new friend, Brenda Schweder , who authored a fantastic book I am honored to be included in, Steel Wire Jewelry . After a yummy lunch, and creative conversation at a hidden gem of a restaurant, I was more inspired...
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Has everyone had enough holiday festivities? If anyone is hungry, I still have about 12 pounds of leftover fudge and cookies sitting in my kitchen. With so many family and holiday gatherings it was also a great excuse to "unplug." I don't think my computer...
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Have you ever thought that while looking around at a store or gallery? Of course you have. Especially in a harder economic climate where you're already trying to see what you can do without, the idea of spending money on something that you could make...
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Last weekend kicked off the post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping season here in the United States. Initially named by the Philadelphia Police Department in response to the massive traffic jams that occurred on the Friday after Thanksgiving when shoppers...
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It's the most stressful time of the year... I might have gotten out of cooking the traditional giant holiday meals this year, but the winter holidays always leave me exhausted and more oft than not, sick and rather crabby. Compound that with the fact...
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When I received the opportunity to come to Wisconsin to work for Art Jewelry, I'd lived in Philadelphia for a whole decade. I hadn't expected to love the city as much as I do when I first moved there. After all, I grew up in central Pennsylvania...
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The Sculptural Object and Functional Art show in Chicago may have been a week and a half ago, but I am still assimilating all of the things that I saw - it was far too much to take in in a whole weekend, much less the one day that I went. Crushed among...
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"Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler" is an exhibition at New York's Museum of Arts and Design of over 200 little-known works of wearable sculpture by 135 well-known artists including Louise Bourgeois, Georges Braque, Louise Nevelson...
Filed under: New York, Arman, Lucio Fontana, Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, Louise Nevelson, Frank Stella, Max Ernst, Lapidaryouise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Bernar Venet, Anish Kapoor, Georges Braque, Diane Venet, Museum of Arts and Design, Magdalent Abakanowicz, Roy Lichtenstein
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My husband's family lives several states away. Although this eliminates surprise drop-in visits, it creates a different set of obstacles to spend any time together. For numerous reasons our trips tend to keep all wheels on the ground, but we are well...
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For our September 2011 issue, I had the true pleasure of talking with Bruce Pepich, who is the executive director of the Racine Art Museum (RAM) in Racine, Wisconsin. The occasion was the acquisition of a truly amazing collection of polymer art, which...
Filed under: Art Jewelry Magazine, polymer clay, Racine Art Museum, Melanie West, Upcoming shows, exhibitions, collections, Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Dan Cormier, Bishoff & Syron, Elise Winters
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Hello Fall! Green has given way to all the bright, burning colors; we're surrounded by all the golds, russets, and umbers that harvest provides. Though not my favorite season (I don't like the cold!) Fall never fails to take my breath away with...
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Triggered by a telephone conversation with one of my most influential mentors, I have spent this week thinking a lot about my journey as an artist and the path that led to where I am today. Like many of you, I have a string of influential makers in my...
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