A review in last Sunday’s providence journal sparked my interest in the Fuller Museum of Crafts current exhibition, The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft. The show presents work that, although made by traditional craft artists,…
While I was in D.C. recently I spent a day touring the mall and the Smithsonian Museums. I’m pretty proud of myself for seeing four monuments, three museums, one gallery, and the White House (much less impressive that I’d imagined)…
So, we’ve been working hard to install the show at Honfleur Gallery, and it’s looking great! Although the opening is tomorrow, after making a list of all the tasks that we have left to address, we decided that we had…
Colleen Heineman is part scientist. She investigates, analyzes, sorts, charts, decodes, and reconstitutes information into art objects that reflect her concepts and processes. I’m really drawn to Colleens’ artistic process, her methods of investigating and understanding her materials lead to…
Andrea Miller has just completed her Masters program at University of Wisconsin, Madison with a degree in Art Metals. Her most recent body of work, Peripheral Systems, Parts 1-5, is a series of necklaces that compare elements of our constructed…
It’s no secret that I’ve had an art-crush on Robert Longyear’s work for quite a while now. And maybe the theme for Objectified was a little of an excuse to have an opportunity to see his work in real life,…
This past week I had the opportunity to see a newly finished piece by Jeanne Jo, one of the very talented artists participating in the show that I’m curating, Objectified. I have always been a fan of Jeanne Jo’s work,…
Breathtaking. Although I chronically peruse the website, I don’t usually expect to find anything on Design*Sponge that throws me into an all out tizzy, but there’s a first for everything! I noticed that have featured an amazing two finger ring…
Devienna Anggraini and I have been collaborating on the curation of Chromophilia, an upcoming exhibition of contemporary art jewelry focusing on color and material. We’ve had some amazing makers agree to participate in this endeavor, and I’m simply ecstatic about…
So, I was just perusing the internet when I cam across an amazing artist, Alissia Melka-Teichroew. Seriously, her series of jointed jewels makes my head hurt a little! Alissia seems to be part jewelery, part industrial designer, and part magician.…