by StaceyW | 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 StaceyW | 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 StaceyW | Jan 9, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Teaching, Weaving
Wow! I nearly fell off my chair when I picked up the latest edition of Crafts magazine from the Crafts Council. There was a 4 page excerpt from the coalition government’s minister of state for further education, skills and lifelong learning, John Hayes,...
by StaceyW | Jan 2, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Travel, Weaving
I’m very excited about 2011. Not about the financial and political situation we find ourselves in – we don’t have much control over the bigger picture there – but about things that we do have control over – our choices and how we choose...
by StaceyW | Dec 26, 2010 | Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, Weaving
OK. So how many of us woke up this morning wondering why we ate so much yesterday and promising ourselves that we will get back to our pre-Christmas weight in January? And how many of us woke up wishing we hadn’t drunk quite so much Christmas tipple, promising...
by StaceyW | Dec 19, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Nature
Like so many people I know, I’ve spent a large part of the last week in bed with proper flu. It’s left a lingering chesty cough and I was a little concerned about how I would cope with playing tenor sax for the Trent River Big Band who were performing...
