Colleagues’ Work Category

I subscribe to Beads-List, a listserve with beads and beadwork as its focus.
A few months back, I received a posting about the beaded virus models being created by scientist Dr. Holly A. Wichman, a Professor of Biology at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.  

I knew nothing of virus structures, let alone that they could be modeled in beads….or that such potentially deadly organisms could be rendered so beautifully.  In her scientific research, Dr. Wichman studies the Microviridiae family of viruses.   A few years ago she took up beading, and at a certain point she…

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December 31, 2008

We e Chicagoans are fortunate to have Kiff Slemmons living among us, after she and her husband Rod relocated from Seattle a few years ago.  Rod is the Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College of Chicago.

For many years Kiff has been one of the world’s leading art jewelers….although I am not sure that the term does her justice.  She’s more of an artist who happens to work  in the medium of jewelry.

Her latest body of work is being featured at the Douglas Dawson Gallery in Chicago from December 13, 2008 to…

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