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This video shows you how to make HANDMADE rivets from SCRATCH, not how to use pre-made ones!
These are NOT hand-made, these are pre-fabricated by machine. What fun is that? You'll learn to make them yourself out of metal tubing!
Off The Street, On The Beach, Robert Ebendorf, 1992, mixed media of found objects, mostly plastic
source: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/robert-ebendorf-1391King of the Road, Robert Ebendorf
source: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/robert-ebendorf-1391American Rainbow Collar IV, Jan Yager, 2005, used plastic crack vial caps found on the sidewalk around her inner city studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and insulin syringes given to her by an artist living with diabetes. It is modeled after the beaded collars associated with contemporary East African Maasai. Materials include: 1431 plastic crack vial caps, 10 used insulin syringes, 2 sterling silver cast crack caps, steel music wire. Diameter, 46.5 centimeters. Collection of the artist. Photograph by Jack Ramsdale.
Water Lilies by Claude Monet
When despair is all around us, there is an opportunity to look a bit deeper and find beauty. Julián Zugazagoitia, Nelson-Atkins Director and CEO, discusses Claude Monet’s famous Water Lilies and how it provided peace to the artist during World War I.
'Hanging in the Balance' by Wendell Castle
Artist Ke-Sook Lee tells the story of her piece 'Green Hammock'
'Etymon' by Cynthia Schira
'Nocturnal Passage' by Harvey Dinnerstein
image via Dan Lam
Excellence in art requires focused practice.