Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Jamie Forbes ~Hollyhocks Summer past 2023~ Oh No the houshold deer ate my garden!!!

Jamie Forbes: I am lamenting the fact our "Household Deer" ate all the Hollyhocks for the last three summers. As one of my favorite flowers it's a "bummer"

I live on a creek where wild life is diverse. Your back yard no matter where you in a live city, suburbs or have a rural landscape is unique. We all vote to actively engage with our surroundings through our actions. Wether or not we use pesticide, purchase vegetables & fruit grown with NON GMO seeds or use nitrates in our family gardens we are effecting the Environment. I encourage you to look around see what everyday choices you may make to change our world daily.

Find my thoughts on Environmental stewardship and beauty below in the sites !!!

https://sites.google.com/backyardenvironmentalist.com/backyardenvironmentalist/home

https://sites.google.com/view/eco-advocacy/home

rights reserved, Jamie Forbes ~Hollyhocks Summer past 2023~SunStormArtsPub.Co. Inc2026

Another Hamptons Fine Art Fair event July 23-28, 2028 catch the Hamptons Jewelry Show!!!!!

Want some blin to ward when sitting with your art finds for the Hamptons Fine Art Fair? The Hamptons Jewelry Show has it all. See below info!!

An "Only in The Hamptons Extraordinary Experience"

"Rivals some of the world's biggest gem & jewelry shows" - Forbes

July 23-26, 2026 | Southampton Fairgrounds

Tickets

Ticket holders to the July 9-12 Hamptons Fine Art Fair
receive gratis access (you will receive a promo code 2 weeks prior to the Hamptons Jewelry Show in same ticket category)

Piazza Italia

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Carbon Watch

Zydo

Buy Direct & Save!

Meet 100 famous contemporary designers, goldsmiths, revered estate dealers and prestigious international brands. This astonishing lineup of curated, best-in-class jewelers are from an amazing 13 countries (USA, France, Italy, Japan, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Belgium, South Africa, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Brazil, and Ecuador.) Industry experts are already calling this event one of the highest caliber "direct to the public" jewelry shows in the nation.

Curated for The Hamptons' Lifestyle and Sensibility

Join us for the much-anticipated and chic Opening Night Preview, July 23, 5-9:30pm, benefiting the Parrish Art Museum, hosted by Spotlight Magazine
Select from an astounding world-class selection of rare & fine jewelry and luxury timepieces for all genders
Shop the finest and rarest estate signed jewelry from Buccellati, Boucheron, Bulgari, Cartier, Chanel, David Webb, Graff, Piaget, Tiffany, Harry Winston, Hermes, Van Cleef & Arpels
Prices for exquisite curated pieces range from an accessible $200 to $200k - buy directly and save
Piazza Italia presents The Italian Designer Pavilion - witness and benefit from the power of Made in Italy - a first ever in The Hamptons
Studios Artists Galleria - buy directly from the most creative jewelry artisans in the nation
Choose from the largest selection of luxury watches in the region; Rolex, Patek Philippe, Cartier, Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin, Richard Mille, Charles Oudin Paris, Piaget, and many others
Establish relationships with a cross-section of the most respected dealers and "star" designers in the world
Join us at the Going for the Gold reception, Sunday, July 26, 11-1pm benefiting the Southampton Arts Center
Enjoy wine and spirits at the hip Diamond Bar

Show Hours

Thursday, July 23, 5-9:30pm
Friday, July 24, 11am-6pm
Saturday, July 25, 11am-6pm
Sunday, July 27, 11am-5pm
Expect very tight security

Tickets

Ticket holders to the July 9-12 Hamptons Fine Art Fair
receive gratis access (you will receive a promo code 2 weeks prior to the Hamptons Jewelry Show in same ticket category)

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Raven Halfmoon:Flages of Our Mothers organized by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts exhibits at Oklahoma Contemporary opens November 18, 2026, This looks like is worth a special trip!!!

THis is a must see exhibition if your in the area or can make a special trip!!!!!.

People explore a gallery full of oversized sculptures painted in red and white

Raven Halfmoon's larger-than-life sculptures come to Oklahoma Contemporary

Opening Nov. 18, 2026, in the Mary LeFlore Clements Oklahoma Gallery, Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers brings larger-than-life ceramic sculptures to Oklahoma Contemporary.

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers is the first major traveling exhibition for Halfmoon. This exhibition is organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Halfmoon was commissioned by both institutions for the exhibition to create some of her largest works to date, including Flagbearer, a three-part stacked ceramic sculpture standing over 12 feet tall.

Halfmoon’s practice spans torso-scaled and colossal-sized glazed stoneware sculptures, with their enormous scale and visual power opposing existing stereotypes and biases to create new monuments that honor the artist’s Caddo Nation ancestors and their traditions, including her elders from whom she learned about ceramics as a teenager. Inspiration stems from ancient Indigenous pottery, the colossal Olmec stone heads in Mexico, the Moai statues on Easter Island and the major earth mounds her Caddo ancestors erected as temples, tombs and residences for tribal leaders and priests. Halfmoon fuses Caddo pottery traditions — a history of making mostly done by women — with more contemporary gestures, often tagging her work as a reference to Caddo tattooing and ancient pottery motifs. Her works reflect stories of the Caddo Nation, specifically her feminist lineage and the power of its complexities.

“Oklahoma Contemporary is honored to present Flags of Our Mothers, a powerful and deeply resonant exhibition by Raven Halfmoon. This body of work carries a remarkable sense of presence, both physically and culturally, grounding contemporary sculpture in the enduring strength of Caddo traditions while pushing boldly into new forms of expression,” said Oklahoma Contemporary Executive Director Trent Riley. “This exhibition speaks to lineage, identity and the complexities of history with a force that is at once intimate and commanding. We are especially grateful to Art Bridges for their partnership in helping bring this important exhibition to Oklahoma. It is a privilege to welcome this work home, where Raven’s story began, and to share her extraordinary vision with our community.”

Working mainly in portraiture and hand building each work using a coil method, her surfaces are expressive and show deep finger impressions and dramatic dripping glazes — a physicality that presents her as both maker and matter. Her specific palette matches both the clay bodies she selects and the glazes she fires with: reds, after the Oklahoma soil and the blood of murdered Indigenous women; blacks, referencing the natural clay native to the Red River; and buff creams. Oftentimes she stacks and repeats imagery, creating totemic forms that represent herself and her maternal ancestry while also referencing the multiplicities that exist inside all of us. Flags of Our Mothers is a tribute to the matriarchs in her life and all the Indigenous women, who over many centuries, have created and endured, keeping their stories and traditions present, active and alive.

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers is co-curated by Bemis Center’s Chief Curator and Director of Programs Rachel Adams and The Aldrich’s Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart. The exhibition is on loan from Art Bridges. Flags of Our Mothers will be on view at Oklahoma Contemporary from Nov. 18, 2026, to May 24, 2027.

About the Artist

Raven Halfmoon is an artist and sculptor from Norman, Oklahoma. She is a citizen of the Caddo Nation and also Choctaw, Delaware, and Otoe Missouria. Halfmoon holds a double bachelor’s degree from the University of Arkansas, where she majored in ceramics/painting and cultural anthropology.

Halfmoon’s sculptures are in the permanent collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; and the Montclair Art Museum. In 2023, she was selected as an Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellow (Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN), and in 2024, she was a finalist for the international Loewe Craft Prize (Loewe Foundation, Madrid, Spain). 

Halfmoon is represented by Kouri + Corrao Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and by Ross + Kramer Gallery in New York, NY. Salon 94 represented her for her solo exhibition in September 2024.

About Oklahoma Contemporary

Oklahoma Contemporary, formed in 1989 as City Arts Center by Christian Keesee and Kirkpatrick Foundation Director Marilyn Myers, is a nonprofit organization committed to providing quality, accessible and affordable arts programming. With a mission to encourage artistic expression in all its forms through education, exhibitions and performance, Oklahoma Contemporary is committed to instilling in the public a lifetime appreciation of the arts and enthusiasm for creative practice. For more information on free exhibitions, class schedules and public programs, visit oklahomacontemporary.org.

About Art Bridges Foundation

Art Bridges Foundation is the vision of philanthropist and arts patron Alice Walton. Founded in 2017, Art Bridges creates and supports projects that share works of American art with communities across the United States and its territories. Art Bridges partners with a growing network of over 300 museums of all sizes — impacting 25 million people nationwide — to provide financial and strategic support for exhibitions, collection loans and programs designed to educate, inspire and deepen engagement with local communities. The Art Bridges Collection represents an expanding vision of American art from the 19th century to present day and encompasses multiple media and voices. For more information, visit artbridgesfoundation.org.

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More information can be found in the media kit at https://bit.ly/FlagsOfOurMothers. An exhibition webpage can be found at okcontemp.org/ravenhalfmoon. Past press releases and information are archived at okcontemp.org/media.

Image: Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers (installation view), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, June 25, 2023, to January 7, 2024. Photo by Jason Mandella.

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The Jewelry of Bernhard Schobinger at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston September 2026.

H All our Fine Art Magazine blog readers enjoy craft and art as one seen in the jewelry of Bernhard Schobinger om display the the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in September 2026

Bernhard Schobinger, Lightning Rod

Necklace (Blitzableiterkette), 1992. Lightning conductor, fire-gilded copper, rose quartz, stainless steel and gold.

In September, Going Underground: The Jewels of Bernhard Schobinger highlights the groundbreaking work of the Swiss avant-garde artist

In September the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present Going Underground: The Jewels of Bernhard Schobinger, tracing the radical career of Swiss avant-garde artist Bernhard Schobinger, who has created some of the most distinctive, influential and pathbreaking jewelry of the past five decades. This is the first exhibition in the U.S. to examine Schobinger’s groundbreaking work.

Alkek Williams chair of the MFAH, “Over the course of more than five decades, Bernhard Schobinger has articulated a singular and influential vision such as the above piece by Bernhard Schobinger,~Lightning Rod~

Necklace (Blitzableiterkette), 1992. Lightning conductor, fire-gilded copper, rose quartz, stainless steel and gold.

Going Underground will feature 53 pivotal pieces of experimental jewelry and select sculpture from 1968 to the present, with necklaces, bracelets, and rings drawn from prominent private collections and the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The installation will be on view on the second floor of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building September 3, 2026 – January 3, 2027.

Commented Gary Tinterow, director and Margaret

contemporary jewelry, positioning the medium

within the broader field of postwar art. This exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States, reflects the museum’s dedication to presenting rigorous, historically grounded examinations of artists whose work has redefined the boundaries of artistic practice.”

Cindi Strauss, Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design and Elizabeth Essner, Windgate Foundation Associate Curator of Craft, noted, “Schobinger’s practice engages deeply with the material and conceptual legacies of movements such as Dada and Concrete Art while embracing the disruptive ethos of punk. His works operate as complex assemblages in which found and precious materials coexist, challenging traditional hierarchies of value and inviting critical reflection on the cultural and physical histories embedded within each object.”

One of the most significant artists working in contemporary jewelry, Bernhard Schobinger (born 1946, Zürich) reimagines it as a subversive medium, using scavenged and alternative materials to reveal their hidden histories: fishing lures and wedding rings foraged over his decades of diving to the bottom of Lake Zürich, near his longtime home in Richterswil; metal and asphalt shards dug out of a decrepit New York City street in the late 1970s; salvaged glass, nails and sawblades.

Going Underground will explore the artist’s work in critical dialogue with the long shadow of World War II, the anarchy of Punk music, and the political and cultural forces that have shaped his life. Schobinger’s aesthetic inspirations include Dadaism and Concrete Art. His Swiss cultural inheritance as well as an abiding interest in Japanese culture have also shaped his jewelry. Schobinger’s pioneering work will invite audiences to explore the ways in which jewelry made from detritus, nature, and precious metals provokes new and unexpected meanings.

Going Underground: The Jewels of Bernhard Schobinger will be accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue with essays by Cindi Strauss, Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design, MFAH; Elizabeth Essner, Windgate Foundation Associate Curator for Craft, MFAH; Claudia Schmuckli, Holly Johnson and Parker Harris Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; as well by as the artist.

The MFAH will host the symposium Perspectives on Contemporary Jewelry: An International Symposium on September 26, 2026, focusing on Bernhard Schobinger and the German artist Dorothea Prühl’s work and influence across the field. Speakers include scholar Renate Luckner-Bien on an in-depth look into Dorothea Prühl’s life and work; artist Iris Eichenberg, head of metalsmithing at Cranbrook Academy of Art, discussing Prühl’s impact as a thinker, teacher, and form maker; Claudia Schmuckli, Holly Johnson and Parker Harris Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, examining Bernhard Schobinger’s practice and its relation to Swiss contemporary art; and

Cindi Strauss, Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, positioning Schobinger's jewelry as part of a global conversation within the field.

Organization and Funding

The exhibition is organized by Cindi Strauss, Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft and Design and Elizabeth Essner, Windgate Foundation Associate Curator for Craft.

Major support is provided by Sara and Bill Morgan. The exhibition is supported by:

Additional generous support is provided by:

Michael W. Dale Exhibitions

Endowment for Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Dr. Sara Sant’Ambrogio

Deedie Potter Rose

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