Upcoming Classes in
Orlando and Phoenix
Space still available.
The Orlando venue is the Clay Fandango retreat March 13 - 17, with instructors Maureen Carlson, Christi Friesen and Sarah Shriver. It sounds wonderful!
The Phoenix event, April 26 and 27, is a class on polymer clay Wall Dolls with Attitude. Details are still being posted. So check back! I should have a class sample on my class list by this weekend!
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Face-Making with Kobe and Carlson: Saturday, March 29
Surface Design with Barb Kobe:
Sunday, March 30
Fantasy Week:
Monday through Friday, April 14 - 18 with extended stay April 19 - 20
Coming also are
classes with:
Katherine Dewey
Diane Keeler
Lindly Haunani
Jeff Dever
Robin Aronson
Val Daniels
Victoria Hughes
Featuring:
* Small Class Sizes
* Evening Studio Time
* Master Classes
* Concentration on
a specific style or technique
* Dormitory
* Small-town Charm
* 35 miles SW of
Minneapolis, MN
For more info, click Classes at Maureen's
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Maryland's
Cabin Fever Clay Festival
Cabin Fever Clay Festival, or CFCF, was a success!
This Laurel, Baltimore conference, held Feb. 17 - 20, met with such positive response that Kathryn Ottman, the organizer, is planning to do it again in 2009. If you'd like to keep up with what's happening there, go to the Yahoo link and join the group. No fees, just access to the discussions and photos and info for next year - as well as a possible second conference in Wisconsin later this summer.
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Contact Info
Maureen Carlson
952-492-3260
maureencarlson.com
Dan Carlson
888-933-3655 (toll free)
local: 952-447-3828
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Introducing:
Check out our new Sculpting Shortcuts!
Maureen has designed 4 rubber molds to help you quickly form the basic shapes that make up a face. Use polymer clay, or any other medium that can be used with a rubber mold, then put the pieces together, like pieces of a puzzle, to complete the basic face structure. And the pieces of all four molds are interchangeable. Think of it a bit like a Mr. Potato Head for sculptors.
Future Puzzle-Face™ push molds, hopefully, will include baby faces, larger faces, animals, etc. It will be exciting to develop each one. (So many possibilities!) We encourage you to email us with your suggestions for a specific face structure.
Presently, Dan is pouring the rubber molds himself, but we are looking into licensing in the near future for mass production. We also are working on an instructional DVD so you can see Maureen using the molds. Preorder molds now. These are hot off the press! Should be ready to ship in two weeks. More info for ordering
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What I learned at the Synergy NPCG Conference
February 21 - 23, 2008 in Baltimore
Written by Maureen
1. The possibilities for what can be done with Polymer Clay are endless! I've been working with polymer clay since the mid 70's, and selling it professionally since 1979, yet I'm still amazed.
Check out this mixed media polymer clay work by Margaret E. Polcawich. And be sure to check her furniture and boxes at her website: hand sculpted furniture
Another inspiring furniture site which combines highly detailed wood sculpture and polymer clay is that ofJ.M. Syron and Bonnie Bishoff .They were selling their work at the Baltimore ACC show, plus Bonnie was a presenter at Synergy. To see more of the work that was exhibited at the ACC show, go to American Craft Council/Baltimoreand click on any of the categories, then visit the artists' websites. Awesome.2. The computer is our link to the community of polymer clay artists - and the world. The week after Synergy I kept returning to my laptop again and again to see what people were saying. It was as if a week with polymer clay people left me hungry to keep connecting. To see a bit of what people were saying, check out these links that Amy A. Crawley listed on her blog, Musings from the Moonroom: a List of BlogsAlso check out what Lindly Haunani has to say atLindly's Talking Color3. That I need to do more work, do more work, do more work. I want to complete more work, complete more work, complete more work! So many ideas are twirling in my head. I need to get my ideas out there so that I can see the visual reflection of who I am. I think that's what makes an artist an artist. It isn't the level of skill or the subject or the material. It's the passion to put thoughts into visual form. To get the ideas out of that whirling around internal space and into the world. You can read more about this at my blog, which combines my thoughts about creativity, spirituality and inspiration: My New Blog
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What Happens During Classes at Maureen's? Click Class Photos to see. Pictured is Diane Keeler's 2007 class. I'm still uploading past classes,
so if yours isn't there, check back!
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Call for Entries: Fine Art and Fine Craft Festival
The 5th Annual Jordan Art Festival in Jordan, Minnesota, USA is looking for applicants for the 2008 festival. For more info, go to Jordan Chamber Of Commerce website to download application
Join Maureen and up to 75 other artists in a celebration of creativity.
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