A couple of years ago, I spent a few days at Arlene Groch’s house claying nonstop alongside Arlene, Ellen Marshall and Melanie West. During the course of the claying frenzy, I made some bracelets with long beads usinga variety of techniques.
In October, Barbara McGuire taught a master class in Philadelphia and was the guest artist at the Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild’s monthly meeting. She saw my bracelets and remarked that I had used oneof the stamps she designed. Then I remembered admiring one of Arlene’s stamps and using it to texture some of the beads. Arlene bought the stamp on Barbara’s web site.
Barbara McGuire is the author of two of my all time favorite polymer clay books,Foundations in Polymer Clay Design and Wire in Design. So I was looking forward to her demo at the meeting. I was not disappointed. And the members who took her face canes class gave it rave reviews. The Guest Artist Program is one of the best perks of PAPCG membership.
If you want to see pictures from the meeting, go to the guild’s Flickr site. If you’re in Philadelphia this weekend, try to catch the PMA Craft show where Melanie West is participating as an emerging artist.
And not for the last bit of Klay Kismet: Arlene happened to go to school with my boss. How Kool is that?
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that’s a beautiful bracelet! I love Barbara’s work. I try to follow who’s doing what in polymer but am just getting around to blogging: I’ve been too busy with my website. Anyhow, nice to meet you!