Category: Art
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Day 289 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: The art of Tina Fung Holder
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Last week at the Variations Fiber Arts Show in Washburn, Wisconsin, I met Tina Fung Holder. Born in Guyana, she spent many years in Chicago and then found her way to Northern, Wisconsin where she…
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Day 289 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: Have you ever seen a dream walking?
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Connecting Loose Threads The power of music is obvious to me, but sometimes in unexpected ways— like this morning when thinking about how to title this post. But before I travel too far down that…
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Day 287 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: Keoni’s Wood Reimaginings
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. At long last, I made it to the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, DC last weekend. A fellow artist and good friend in tow, life does not get much better than spending two days surrounded…
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Day 285 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: Dextra Quotskuyva
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Dextra Quotskuyva,a granddaughter of Nampeyo, chose not to limit herself to “the big six,” as she called the perceived canon of Hopi-Tewa designs. “Dextra said, ‘I dream about different designs. I dream this should be…
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Day 284 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: The baskets of Kari Lonning
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Sleek lines of modern architecture. The clean and spare aesthetic draw me like catnip. I toyed with building such a house when I came back to Wisconsin. The truth is I am most at home…
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Day 283 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: Fruition
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. According to my phone photos, I began to experiment using a basket weaving technique to hand weave my round rug on Valentine’s Day. Appropriate given it was an experiment in which love for it grew…
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Day 282 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: A beautiful fit
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. The “right” fit is a thing of beauty. Finding the person(s), situation, profession — the place where we or something else looks as if part of something organic. A sensation close to perfection. A sublime…
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Day 280 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: The World of Esherick
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. In feeding the creative beast, I have banqueted the county library system seeking out artists who have recently become known to me like Wharton Esherick . Researching the sculptor/furniture designer brought me to discover a…
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Day 279 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: Flow and the Realization of Dreams
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. The exhileration of touching potential In my last full-time job, I had a big staff and a very large communication program to run. I thrive on audacious challenges, but even so, 40 people and an…