ARTIST STATEMENT I was fortunate to have grown up in a rural area near Utica, New York.  From an early age I loved the outdoors.  It was great fun to search the nearby fields and ponds for wildflowers and wildlife in every season. After becoming a mathematics teacher, I returned to central New York to raise my two daughters. Retiring from teaching in1997, I designed floral arrangements at a local florist shop. This experience aided ... Read More

Our 3D Guest Artist for the month of April is ceramics artist Michelle McCarthy.  Michelle has been following her dream of creating pottery and ceramic beads and pendants for the last 18 years, and is well known for these miniature works of art.  Her beads have been published numerous times in bead magazines and have been on the cover of Stringing Magazine.  She has a successful Etsy shop and exhibits her pottery and ceramic bead ... Read More