Category: Art and Design
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From Waste to Fashion: Creating Eco-Friendly Sportswear
Making my own clothes allows me to express my identity in fit, color, garment type, and style. Recently, I had the opportunity to showcase my sustainable fashion creations at Hidden Villa’s Sheep Shearing and Fiber Arts Festival. The ensemble on the left is called From Bottles to Sportswear. I am an athlete and rarely find…
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V&A Africa Fashion at PAM
I had the opportunity to see the traveling Victoria & Albert Africa Fashion exhibit at the only West Coast location, the Portland Art Museum. The exhibit includes over 50 outfits by more than 40 designers from 21 countries. Below are some of the ensembles that caught my eye. Note: In some cases to focus on…
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Memoirs on How to Take Root
Recently, I’ve been sick and used the time to read and enjoy some books. Fortunately, I could do that. Book Marks: An Artist’s Card Catalog The first was Book Marks: An Artist’s Card Catalog, Notes from the Library of my Mind by Barbara Page published in 2021. Book Marks’ six chapters contain Page’s biography of…
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Get the Inside Scoop on How Heath Ceramics Makes Artisanal Ceramics at Scale
Visit the manufacturing facility of a 75 year old ceramics woman founded brand, Heath Ceramics, to learn how things are made.
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Unlock a World of Possibilities with Visionary Fashion Design
When I was introduced to Midjourney, an AI program that creates images from text and image prompts, I realized immediately that is the perfect tool to use to imagine and explore different visions of fashion design. I’ve been fascinated by the high/low culture idea of a denim suit. If you’ve been following along for a…
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Guo Pei’s Couture Fantasy Report
While much has been written about China’s global couturier Guo Pei, what touched me most was her focus on the details.
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Still Life: Beth Lipman: All in Time
In my quest to put ideas into the creative hopper this summer, I went to see Beth Lipman’s still life show, All in Time, at the Wichita Art Museum. In our pseudo-post-COVID state, we’ve all been working to figure out what is still life, and what we want to preserve. Do we go into the…
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Wrestling In Between
Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson ©2018 I just finished this drawing today. The figure on the left mounted in some sort of carriage came first and easily. From there I created additional sections and kept them related to one another. The whole thing took about 12-15 hours over two months. It occurred to me that film is a color…
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Making Peace
Some interesting things have been going on in my life lately and how I feel about them has been a struggle. I decided to start drawing again. I didn’t intend to work through things through drawing but it became obvious that I am. In each drawing I’m creating and reconciling differences. There’s enough tension to…
