Art and Crafts
Sugar skulls are part of Day of the Dead celebrations. The Mexican holiday of Dia de Muertos, or in English Day of the Dead, is a celebration of life as well as death. The multi-day holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died,…
Visiting the studios is a fascinating opportunity to catch a glimpse of works before they’re gallery-ready, and to see how our artists turn sparks of inspiration into the art you see displayed. Today, Marika is giving us a behind-the-scenes insight into her current upcycling project. Marika’s Creative Recycling This unusual project started a few…
A new fused glass garden stake project is unfolding in the AMusinGlass studio. Here's a peek behind the scenes at the work in progress.
About a week and a half ago, I attended a fused glass class at the Santa Fe Bullseye Resource Center called “Working Without Expectation,” taught by Catharine Newell. Classes at Bullseye are always fabulous and this one was no exception. It was a truly wonderful class whose entire point was to let go of your…
After the Sedona Arts Festival show was over, I decided to make another raindrop bowl. I have a bowl mold that I hadn’t used before that I wanted to try out and I thought it would make a good experimental mold for the raindrop bowls. So, I used this mold for my next bowl and…
One of the wonderful things about working with an art medium such as glass is that you have the ability to create items that are truly one of a kind. Whether you are just starting out with collecting fused glass art or you have been doing it for quite some time, you will find that…
I’ve made a few new raindrop bowls lately, and the image to the left shows off the new green raindrop bowl that I completed a few days prior to the Sedona Arts Festival show I attended a few weeks ago. I’ve been playing with putting more clear in the bottom layer of the bowl to…
A bit over a year ago, I posted the picture on the left as I blogged about my “Recent kiln disaster” while trying to make a pair of backsplash tiles. In that post, I had mentioned that there was no way to save the piece with the splits in it. Terry and I have collaborated…
Between the studio construction and my recent focus on the Sedona Arts Festival last weekend, I haven’t made time to post new work here in quite a while. Here’s the first of several posts to catch you up on what we’ve been up to in the studio lately. The picture to the left is my…
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been that I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve mostly been in the studio (with the brief exception of a houseboat trip on Lake Powell) frantically making work for my next show. If you’re in town next weekend, Sedona will be hosting the 2015 Sedona Arts Festival again and…
