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S. Neil Fujita
Graphic design great S. Neil Fujita died last Saturday, at age 89. I'm sorry I never got to meet him. He lived in Southold NY, just down the road from Greenport, where I summered for several years. I had no idea he lived there until I did some research on him last year for another post.
See last year's See Saw post on Fujita and Dave Brubeck
So sad to see another great gone to Heaven, but I'm sure he will make it an even more beautiful place.
shinzi Katoh, tea for two. At Small Equals. Photo Liza Cowan
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Queen City Craft Bazaar, Holiday 2010
I hope some of you will be able to come to this one day event. Several of the artists from The S.P.A.C.E. Galery, (home of Small Equals) will be there too. I'll be selling my Keepsake Card Kits, and many of the fun and exquisite things that go in them.
See you there!! If not, remember to check my
Necklace by Saada. Pate de Verre, wood and L'Argent Tuareg
How gorgeous is this necklace??? I'm totally smitten. It's made by a beautiful jeweler from Mali, a woman named Saada. A few years ago her son -in- law brought a few of her pieces to Pine Street Art Works to see if I was interested in selling them. Of course I was, and I did sell them. I didn't think I'd ever see him again but last week he called me on the phone and said he was back in Vermont with his wife and her mother, and they had more jewelry for me to see. Yay.
Saada, jeweler from Mali, at Small Equals with her two daughters
Here she is at Small Equals with her two daughters. We spent a wonderful hour or more going through all of her beautiful colliers - necklaces, made of perles, beads. And yes, I got to ramble on in my fractured French, with lots of help translating into English from Saada's daughter and son-in-law.
necklace by Saada. Made of roots, glass beads, and beads from Ghana
Necklace by Saada. Beads from Ghana, shells from Mauretania.
Necklace by Saada. Ebony, silver, wood.
Saada, jeweler from Mali, at Small Equals.
These are the things that make me love my job. I get to meet amazing people and experience the wonderful things they make. Pure joy.
These pieces and more are available at my
