Rowena Art

Chihuly's "The Moon" - Photo by Lynette Tritel

Lynette Tritel shows Western photos at Phippen - Navajo, Hopi, Cowboys and Horses

Lynette writes, "Yes this picture I took at the Phoenix Botanical Gardens last month - PBG is featuring Chihuly's "Nature of Glass" through the month of May.  If your able to go and see the exhibit - its like a treasure hunt through the Gardens - I think there are 27 featured pieces - when I got home I found I discovered all but one - darn, that one I found later was in the middle of a lagoon at the back of the garden."

Lynette Tritel Photography
www.lynettetritelphotography.com
e-mail: [email protected]

"Pink Lady" - Off Loom Bead Weaving

Here is a necklace I did some time ago. I called it "Pink Lady".

What's better than to surround your Lampwork Beads with Off Loom Bead Weaving?

I created the focal piece with Model Magic by Crayola as learn in a Nanc Meinhardt class. I used mainly Peyote Stitch creating this necklace. Note the smaller Lampwork Beads on the bead covered Model Magic center piece.

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A Brooch of Kahlua Recycled Glass - Prescott Art Walk

This piece was lampworked from the bottom of the Kahlua Bottle. With careful working I am able to keep the bottle design on the piece. I think this gives the Brooch a bit more character. 

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A Kahlua bottle has enough glass to create many beads but there is only one bottom. From that bottom of the bottle I get two pieces and sometimes 3 to work with.

This piece along with all of my work is showing at Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery.

Drop by and visit our gallery on Historical Whiskey Row and enjoy 24 local artists work.

Every 4th Friday Prescott enjoys their
4th Friday Art Walk.
Pick up your art walk guide and Gallery Calendar at
Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery.
Enjoy the Artist Reception and meet the artists.
Call 928-776-7717 for more information

Answer to Comment "Used Spinning Wheel"

Here is a used Spinning Wheel which Jo Manginelli, a Prescott Spinner and Weaver has for sell. She has 5 wheels and decided to downsize her wheel collection. The Saxonie is a sweet deal.

Saxonie Spinning Wheel
Classic Style, super smooth heel and toe treadling, can be reversed for left or right spindle, frictionless ball bearings and pitman drive, single hook flyer and easy change bobbins, lightweight, five ratios.

This wheel has a Scotch tension brake and flyer lead. The body is made of native New Zealand Rimu wood (distinctive reddish brown) and has turned wood spindles in the flywheel. The flywheel is made of a wood grain finished composite material so it should not warp and should run very true.

The speeds are changed by moving the stretchy drive belt from one groove into another. The stretchy belt takes care of belt tension, no need to fiddle with a belt adjuster.

Contact Jo at:[email protected]  928-776-0052

Jo Manginelli also reports, "Les Femmes des Montage first annual Spring Art Boutique and Mini-Workshop Day will be held at the Yavapai Hills Club House, Prescott, Saturday, May 2,
2009 from 9 am til 4 pm.  Come and spend a Spring day with us, browse through our wonderful artists' new collections and see the works of art completed in our workshops.  Socialize and relax at our refreshment table. Enter our FREE raffle (a basket filled with our artists  diverse work).

The artists of Les Femmes des Montage are:  Aumtumn Summerfield, Sharon McFeely, Maria Lynam, Jo Manginelli, Barb Wills, Mary Schulte, Cindi Shaffer, Betsy Khalife and Patricia Tyser Carberry.

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Off Loom Bead Weaving - Cover the Kukui Nut With Peyote Stitch

A This piece has no closure to deal with. The necklace is long enough to fit over the head easily. The main stitch is Tubular Peyote.

Kahlua recycled bottle glass was used to lampwork the focal bead which is adorned with a Vintage German Button. Throughout the necklace you will find smaller Kahlua beads, fresh water pearls, an African Amber Bead and several fun glass beads and buttons. Note the round Kukui nuts covered with Peyote Stitch. One Kukui nut is showing through the Peyote Stitch covering. This is just one form of many that I love to use during the Off Loom Bead Weaving process.

A fit of information about the Kukui nut taken from http://www.islandlotions.com/kukuinuts.htm
"In 1959 the Kukui nut tree became the official state tree of Hawaii. Botanically it is classified aleurites moluccana. Since scientists have found traces of Kukui pollen in ancient geological deposits, it may be assumed that the Kukui nut tree is indigenous to Hawaii."

"Of all the Hawaiian trees, the Kukui has the lightest colored foliage. Silver-grayish powder on its leaves makes it quite conspicuous in the forest and it is easily spotted. Trees grow on the lower slopes of the mountains, mostly in gulches. When cramped in narrow gulches, the trunks grow straight upwards, attaining heights of 80 feet or more, with diameters of about 2 1/2 feet."

"Trees branch 30 feet or more above the ground and at the end of the branches small greenish-tinged white flowers bloom. These flowers, along with the trees distinctive leaves, are often seen entwined in leis. The fruit of the Kukui is about 2-inches in diameter. The outer part of the fruit is a hard green covering about 1/4 inch thick when immature and as it matures it turns a dark grayish-black and softens. This portion of the fruit decays rapidly after it falls to the ground. Enclosed within are one or two hard, stone like, wrinkled nuts. When young the shell of the nut is whitish, but as it matures it turns brown, then black."

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Yavapai College Woodturning and Wood Marquetry Art Show at Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery

Woodturning and

Wood Marquetry

 

Juried

YCC Student Guest Show

 

 

Jim Dotseth

Josh McClintock

David Piatak

Doris Benally

Doug Askerman

Dick Kelly

Tom Saylor

Reception: April 24, 2009 - 6pm — 8pm

This Reception is hosted by the guest artists during the Art Walk. Drop by Arts Prescott for the Reception and pick up your Art Walk Tour Guild.

Prescott's 4th Friday Art Walk
Beginning this Friday April 24 at 5 p.m.
For a map with gallery listings
www.ArtThe4th.Com

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Prescott's 4th Friday Art Walk

You Are Invited!

Prescott's 4th Friday Art Walk
Beginning this Friday April 24

at 5 p.m.
For a map with gallery listings
www.ArtThe4th.Com
For Art Walk Special Events

OR
Drop by Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery on Historical Whiskey Row and Pick up your Art Walk Guild!
http://www.artthe4th.com/events/index.html

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Distaff by Will Taylor Found at Loom N Essence

While checking the web site of Loom N Essence I found the new Free Standing Distaff made by Willard Taylor in the Bay Area.

Normally I get to see Will's newest work when I visit Spinning at The Winery where over 100 Spinners meet to Spin for the day among a few great Vendors. This year I won't make it so here is a photo I picked up at Loom N Essence of Will's newest creation.

Sharon Poplawski writes,

"Will designed this free -standing distaff with all the needs of the spinner in mind.  Notice the clay pot (for adding water) which is strategically positioned for your ease and comfort.  Mobility - spinners no longer need to worry about how to affix their distaff to their wheels, just place your free standing distaff where you feel most comfortable.  Topping off the design is the striking reed distaff basket.  As a fellow spinner, you immediately recognize Will's quality woodworking but add to that is your appreciation of his total attention to detail.  Available in oak, cherry, walnut."

               Available thru Loom N Essence --  www.loomnessence.net

Phone: 319-210-7775 

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Donations to The Bead Museum - Glendale, Arizona - Buy Beads at The Bead Musuem Bead Shop

 

Greetings Everyone From The Bead Museum!

 

We wanted to give you a quick update about where the Museum is at with our current situation. Currently we have over 50,000 dollars in donations and pledges! We are half there and are very thankful to those that have donated and shown their support.

 

But the road is still long and any help would be great. Gabrielle Liese, our founder has donated some of her private collection to sell in the store. These profits will go directly to our 100,000 goal.

 

We also have a trunk show this weekend with Doost Gems April 16-18, featuring faceted gems. Please come by the Museum and Museum Store and see how you can help save the Museum. Here is list of just a few stones that will be available at the trunk show: Blue and white tiger eye, carnelian, labordorite, coral, chalcedony, rhodocyosite,saradonyx and much more!

 

And of course you can donate!

www.beadmuseumaz.org

Sarah Foster Jewelry

Drop by Historical Whiskey Row Arts Prescott Gallery to see the Sterling Silver Jewelry Designs by local artist Sarah Foster.

Arts Prescott
134 S. Montezuma St.
Prescott, Arizona
9280776-7717

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Fiber and Beads Necklace

This piece is created with my Hand Spun Yarns, Vintage Buttons, Stone and Glass beads as well as Lampwork Beads.

The necklace closure is found in the front of the piece, which is created with a magnet closure.

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Arts Prescott's Easter Tree Window Display Brings Much Attention

Walking by Arts Prescott this week is difficult to do. Few people walk by...they walk in!

The Easter Tree Window Display has created much interest for everyone.


 

 Gourd Artist Maureen Hawthorn created several Artful Hand Painted Egg Shaped Gourds to honor the Easter Holiday.

Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery

134 S. Montezuma St.

Prescott, Arizona - 938-776-7717

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Jewelry Designer Mary Kaye O'Neill Enjoys the Easter Holiday at Arts Prescott

Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery members know that a holiday is coming just by checking out Mary Kaye O'Neill's Jewelry Case.

This Easter Mary Kaye has her own Easter Egg Tree. Bunnies are found throughout her Sterling Silver Jewelry Design.

Easter Bunnies among Mary Kaye's jewelry bring attention to the detail in her work. Wouldn't you love to have one in your Easter Basket?

Here is one of Mary Kaye's signature pieces. Sterling silver  Cactus on Sterling

Silver, of course.

Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery

134 S. Montezuma St.

Prescott, Arizona - 928-776-7717

www.artprescott.com

Workshop Instructors Needed for Arizona Federation Conference 2010

Calling: Instructors for Fibers Through Time 2010!  --  http://www.azfed.org/

Workshop Instructors applications close May 30, 2009 -Vendors welcome until spaces are gone.

The Arizona Federation of Weavers and Spinners Guilds, Inc. is planning their sixth biannual conference for April 15-18, 2010. The name of the conference will be "Fibers Through Time 2010" and the theme is "Fiber Odyssey".

This conference will be held at the:

Crowne Plaza, Phoenix Metro Center
2532 W. Peoria Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85029
(Located at I-17 and Peoria Avenue)

The conference registration will begin Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 3.00 PM.
Friday and Saturday classes will be about six hours each day. There will be
a catered lunch provided both days. Sunday classes are morning only, from
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM. This is a total of 15 hours of teaching time.

This year we would like to try something new and add a limited number of
one-day-only classes. These would run for five or six hours on Saturday, and
the classes would each have six students.

Photos taken from The Arizona Federation Web Site 2008 "Fibers Through Time in Tucson".


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Monsoon April Issue Features Arts Prescott 15th Anniversary May 22, 2009

Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery is featured in the Monsoon Magazine in April. Page 13

http://www.sparrowpress.com

The feature is great. The press release I sent has one error...the date is in May during the 4th Friday Art Walk not April.  No Worries...if you do drop in in April during the Prescott Art Walk you will enjoy a wonderful reception hosted by the Yavapai College Wood Turning Group. 

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The Bead Museum - April/May 2009 Events - Glendale, Arizona

Events at The Bead Museum for April and May
Help support The Bead Museum by attending these events

Join us Saturday April 4th as we start our "Save The Bead Museum Campaign" with a raffle and fun activity for kids. The Jazz Festival will be here so come early.

 

Seed Beads have come in, come see the largest collection of colors in Japanese size 11 and size 8. New bugle order too.

 

April 17 - 19

Friday - Sunday

Amy Loh Kupser will be coming to teach at The Bead Museum. We are very excited to have her here. Follow this link for a list of classes she is offering http://www.i-bead.com/classes.html, then call us to make a reservation 623-930-7395. 

2 Trunk Shows!
Doost Gems and Wild Things

April 17 - 19

Friday - Sunday

 

Doost Gems Trunk Show

 

Come meet Azima with his semi-precious stones, specializing in faceted stones inclunding; Chrysoberyl, Chrysocolla, Citrine, Garnet, Labradorite, Opal, Quartz, Sapphires, and much more. 

 

Come see cuts you will not see anywhere else.

 

May 1 - 3

Friday - Sunday

 

Wild Things Trunk Show

Our old friend, Guy, is back with everything from semi-precious stones, carpets, baskets, Czech glass, bone, wood, and metal beads, pendants, key chains and few more suprises. You name it and Guy has it, you will not want to miss this show.


Nagaland Lecture
Harry Neufeld

Naga Exhibition Lecture Series

 

THE MEASURE OF A MAN IN A HEAD-TAKING LAND: Tribal Adornment of Nagaland India

 

Funded by the Glendale Arts Commission

 

Free to the Public Sunday, May 17, 2009 2-3:30 PM

Bead Room Annex

 

Adornment Makes the Naga Man and Woman as the collector of the objects featured in the exhibition, Mr. Neufeld discusses how ornamentation separated Naga tribes from one another, distinguished classes within tribes, and how distinctions broke down under British rule.

Janet Childress - The Easter Bunny Clay Art

Clay Artist Janet Childress shows her Easter Bunny Art in the Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery Easter Egg Window 2009.

A bit of history about The Easter Bunny:

As written on the web site: http://www.easterbunnys.net/easterbunnyhistory.htm

"The Easter bunny has its origin in pre-Christian fertility lore. The Hare and the Rabbit were the most fertile animals known and they served as symbols of the new life during the Spring season."

"The bunny as an Easter symbol seems to have it's origins in Germany, where it was first mentioned in German writings in the 1500s. The first edible Easter bunnies were made in Germany during the early 1800s. These were made of pastry and sugar."

"The Easter bunny was introduced to American folklore by the German settlers who arrived in the Pennsylvania Dutch country during the 1700s. The arrival of the "Oschter Haws" was considered "childhood's greatest pleasure" next to a visit from Christ-Kindel on Christmas Eve. The children believed that if they were good the "Oschter Haws" would lay a nest of colored eggs."

"The children would build their nest in a secluded place in the home, the barn or the garden. Boys would use their caps and girls their bonnets to make the nests . The use of elaborate Easter baskets would come later as the tradition of the Easter bunny spread through out the country."

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Tony Reynolds Joins Arts Prescott - Clay Sculpture

  Arts Prescott Cooperative
Gallery is happy to feature Tony Reynolds as part of the Arts Prescott Gallery.

[email protected]
www.tonyreynolds.com
www.tonyreynolds.com/blog
www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=101&l=1

Here is a Tony Reynold's piece in our home on Peppertree in Prescott. Along with the Tony Reynold's Tree Sculpture is 2 of Cindy Myers' Hand Blown Glass Lamps. I love glass and clay art work.

Tony writes on his web site:

"Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious."

Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia 1918

"A couple of sentences lifted from a old book, not even the whole story, but they have hit one of those chords you get now and then when things and events seem to come together auspiciously."

 "I began these landscapes as an extension, a progression, of the work I was doing with ceramic vessels and crystalline glazes. I had never really been a potter but the clay seems to feel right in my hands. Most of my explorations have been sculptural, but working in the vessel form has allowed me to concentrate on volume and abstraction. However, it was inevitable that I would return to the sculptural so that I could narrate my mind’s stories rather than make universally familiar objects."

Arts Prescott's Easter Window Up For You to See - A Bit of History on Easter and The Easter Egg Tree

Welcome to Arts Prescott Cooperative Easter Window Show 2009

Local Guest Pysanki Egg Artist
Sunny Klapp is showing this year as described in earlier posts this week on my blog.

While strolling Whiskey Row drop in at
Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery 134 S. Montezuma Street to see their Easter Window.

 

Here Sunny Klapp is hanging her Eggs on the Easter Tree.

Sean Neligan writes, "The celebration of Easter occurs each year, usually between March 22 and April 25. This celebration has its earliest roots thousands of years ago when our ancestors believed that a goddess was responsible for the return of spring each year. To make sure that the spring goddess returned, people held festivals in her honor. Today, Easter is the name of a religious festival which signifies the rebirth of Christ.

"For as long as there has been Easter, there has also been Easter eggs. The egg is seen as a symbol of new life. For thousands of years, it has been the custom to give eggs as gifts at spring festivals. A question often asked by children is, "Why does a bunny bring Easter eggs and not a chicken?" There seems to be two explanations. First, the goddess, Easters's, favorite animal was a hare; hence it was believed that a hare delivered her eggs. A second explanation is based upon a legend about a woman who dyed eggs for her children at Easter. She hid them in a nest and when the children found the nest, a big rabbit hopped away. They thought the rabbit brought the eggs, and the story spread."

"Easter is a major celebration in the Ukraine. Part of this celebration involves the decoration of eggs. Eggs decorated with plain colors or simple designs are called krasanki. Pysanki are extraordinary, distinctive eggs which may take 6-8 hours to decorate. An old Ukrainian custom involved single women dropping their pysanki into a stream in hopes that the eggs would be retrieved by a suitor, for the girls had inscribed their names on the eggs"

"The Easter Egg Tree is a custom that has come to us from several European countries, particularly Germany and the Ukraine: "The Easter egg tree had become a fairly recent tradition in America because of the widespread popularity of Katherine Milhous's children's book, "The Egg Tree." This custom of decorating evergreens or leafless trees with colored eggs had its origin in the years following the Civil War. The older practice of suspending eggs in their natural colors on bushed and small trees outdoors was a custom of earlier date." 

Lampwork and Off Loom Bead Weaving

"Loves Merlot" is created with Lampwork Beads and some off loom bead weaving on the focal pendant.

Recycled Merlot Bottle Glass is one of my favorite wine bottles to create my beads. The dark green color stands out when worn.

Note the two hollow lampwork beads on this piece. Hollow beads reflect more light and they naturally are lighter in weight. I use a lot more off loom bead weaving in most of my pieces, but this necklace is simply Merlot.

The brooch is Right Angle Weave Off Loom Bead Weaving with size 11 seed beads. All of the seed beads are from my tray of Arizona Bead Soup.

The Light Green Lampwork Beads are created with Chardonnay Recycled Glass. The pin back runs vertical so you may also slip it through a chain and wear it as a pendant.

The focal piece is a Vintage Glass Button.                                 www.artsprescott.com

My work can be found at Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery on Historical Whiskey Row.

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Monsoon Magazine Features Rowena Tank in March Issue - Speaking at The Verde Valley Spinning and Weaving Guild

http://www.sparrowpress.com/Monsoon/current.pdf

Art in Reflections - Cindy Myers - Ed Branson - Prescott, Arizona

I see art in the reflections of the sun and it changes throughout the day. Sometimes by the time I get my camera out the reflection has changed once again.

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Here is my straw turtle which I found at a Sun City, Arizona Estate Sale. The turtle houses a Hand Blown Glass Bowl by Cindy Myers which holds my great Glass Marble Collection. One thing I always notice at Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery on Historical Whiskey Row is when the light hits Cindy's glass art it creates more art on the wall with light reflections once again.

I checked Wikipedia's idea of glass reflections and they write, "
"Critical angle" redirects here. For the aviation term, see Angle of attack.

"The larger the angle to the normal, the smaller is the fraction of light transmitted, until the angle when total internal reflection occurs. (The color of the rays is to help distinguish the rays, and is not meant to indicate any color dependence.)"

  This Clay Art sculpture was created by Ed Branson during his teaching career at Yavapai College in the Art Department.

I purchased this piece at a Yavapai College Art Gallery Show in 2000.

Ed Branson writes, "During the thirty years that I have been at Yavapai College, several interests have affected the images in my art. My response to those influences has been shaped by my instinct to see things from a designer/craftsman point of view as opposed, for instance, to a painterly outlook. I have always liked to draw, and even in my ceramics I look for edge and line, as well as responding to the clay itself."