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I visited the Racine Art Museum on Saturday, October 29, 2011, to see Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads. I was there with three members of the Metro Milwaukee Polymer Clay Guild. The exhibit is breathtaking. To see polymer clay art displayed in a formal setting of a museum was amazing.

There are over 200 exhibit pieces in the second-floor gallery. Many of the pieces are a gift to the museum and will go in their permanent archives. Others are on loan from artists, collectors, and galleries. Thirty-four artists were featured, but the spotlight was on eight Boundary Breakers: Bonnie Bishoff and J.M. Syron, Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Kathleen Dustin, Steven Ford and David Forlano, Tory Hughes, Cynthia Toops, Pier Voulkos, and Elise Winters. Other artists were also featured: Jamey Allen, Kathleen Amt, Rachel Carren, Dan Cormier, Debra DeWolff, Gwen Gibson, Linda Goff, Michael Grove, Ruth Anne Grove, Lindly Haunani, Carl Hornberger, Donna Kato, Ronnie Kirsch, Judy Kuskin, Maggie Maggio, Wendy Wallin Malinow, Sandra McCaw, Linda Pedersen, Nan Roche, Sarah Shriver, Carol Simmons, Barbara Sperling, Melanie West, and Amy Zinman.

Sharing is a gift that keeps giving . . . .

As many of you have experienced sharing your talent is a reward unto itself. Over the years we’ve heard so many positive reports on guild family and kids events.

There are 1200 kids per day through this exhibit along with their teachers and parent chaperones.  This is the place where they have to reinforce the tables so that the kids don't collapse them as they lean on them and make their projects.