I'm in Calgary, Alberta for a week with Five Ton Crane and the Raygun Gothic Rocketship. After travel through the Black Rock System, The Crucible Belt, Maker Fair, NASA Ames, and two and a half turns round Sol on the San Francisco embarcadero, our fair...
I'm honored to be a part of a group show that has been housed for several months in several exterior windows of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, or MOMA. The installation is created by the most amazing crew of artists I've personally had...
It's been 20 years since Nan Roche published "The New Clay," and polymer clay has come a long way baby. I picked up polymer about the same time as Roche published her book, generally recognized as the first serious assessment of the material in print....
Two weeks ago sculptor Katherine Dewey pulled me deeper into my latest obsession with this photo of her latest sculpture. [caption id="attachment_1160" align="alignnone" width="717"] Digital Sculpture by Katherine Dewey[/caption] The catch? It's not clay but a digital rendering--an image of a computerized 3D model that Dewey created...
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People are usually surprised when they hear that metal clay exists. When explained, it makes sense though. It's powdered metal, mixed with an organic binder and water. It feels and looks similar to ceramic clay. It air dries and can be worked in dry form,...
Back in 2003 I was fortunate to take a class from metal clay pioneer Hadar Jacobson. At the time, the only clays available were fine silver and gold. Faster firing and stronger versions of silver clay soon followed. In recent years bronze...
In 2009 I created two sets of retro styled rayguns. One went to the Fuller Craft Museum and the other was installed in the Raygun Gothic Rocketship. I've posted a gallery of images from the construction process to my new Polymer Clay Beads facebook page...