by StaceyHB | Mar 6, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Travel, Weaving
This week I have to do my first masters presentation. OK, no big deal….! So far this semester, I’ve been attending a geology module, and the contextual art lectures. But I haven’t been doing anything specifically for the MA… But now I have a...
by StaceyHB | Feb 13, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Psychology
Homework…. Normally a word to make you shudder – the dread anticipation of hours lost doing things you don’t want to do, have no wish to learn, or things you know you ought to know but don’t really want to; or maybe wishing you’d spent...
by StaceyHB | Feb 6, 2011 | Life, Nature, Psychology, Weaving
Hurrah! Spring is on the way!! Truly!! I promise!! Especially to our friends currently immersed in piles of snow in the mid-west of America! You may only see white out of your windows – if you can see out of your windows at all!! – but I can assure you...
by StaceyHB | Jan 30, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Weaving
Birmingham’s Museum & Art Gallery is thriving! Each time I visit, I am amazed at the sheer amount and diversity of people who are strolling through its galleries, stopping at this painting, or that piece of glass, reading the info boards and generally...
by StaceyHB | Jan 23, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Psychology
Did that get your attention? I thought it might. What I’m talking about this week is something that raises temperatures, emotions and voices. Why is it that the small proportion of men in textiles seem to get lots of attention and publicly lauded? This question...
by StaceyHB | Jan 16, 2011 | Life, Psychology, Publications, Weaving
A while ago, I wrote a post saying about how my brain lags about 3 weeks behind everyone else when I’m doing a course or a workshop or something similar, and that I’m usually in a total fuddle and have to let my brain just filter it through in its own...
