Polymer clay in style

by Cynthia Tinapple on February 16, 2009 · 8 comments

Need a shot of inspiration to jumpstart your week and validate your choice of polymer clay as your medium? Take a look at American Style magazine’s February April issue. (I must have gotten an early copy…it should be on newstands very soon. Read the web version for now.)

Arts Focus: More Than Meets the Eye looks at how polymer clay is stretching the boundaries of art and covers a few artists who are moving the medium forward (like Merrie Buchsbaum whose pendant is pictured here).

Not only are there flattering profiles of fourteen polymer clay artists, but also three full pages of polymer art ads (click each page to see a larger version). Pretty impressive showing!

Blog Widget by LinkWithin

Leave a Comment

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

Susan February 16, 2009 at 6:24 am

Polymer clay rising indeed! For those of us who love the medium, we welcome this long-overdue validation with open arms, full hearts and renewed conviction to continue our work with polymer clay.

Congratulations to all of the artists featured in the article – well deserved accolades for outstanding designs, skill and craftsmanship.

And thanks Cynthia – for always having your finger on the pulse of the polymer clay world!

Reply

Christy Dickerson February 17, 2009 at 12:59 am

Cynthia,

Went to find the February Issue of American Style and it was a blue cover with no polymer clay. I hope it’s the March Issue?

Reply

Michelle February 17, 2009 at 2:53 pm

It’s the April issue. It’s a great feature! ‘Would’ve loved to have been included…maybe next time.

Reply

Sherry Bailey February 17, 2009 at 3:10 pm

Yum! Beautiful stuff for the world to see!

Reply

Lisa Clarke February 17, 2009 at 5:03 pm

Thanks for the heads-up on this! I just ordered a case of them :-)

Reply

Kate Clawson March 2, 2009 at 11:10 am

Great Article, and great they are finally realizing it is a true ‘ART’ medium. I just wanted to add a correction here if I may. There was another full page ad with 16 more artists ( I was one of them :) ) So all in all we made a pretty big impact to let the art world know what can be done with ‘plastic’ ;)

Reply

Pat March 7, 2009 at 9:33 pm

I have worked in Polymer clays for years…. I’m so happy to see this site!
I do art dolls in Polymer clay~
Pat

Reply

Dora March 15, 2009 at 6:40 am

How wonderful that polymer clay is finally receiving recognition as a ‘serious’ art medium ! I will definitely get a copy of American Style !

Reply

Previous post:

Next post: