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A Man And His Mosaics: Owatonna Native Michael Swere Stumbled Onto A Profession In The Art World Starting, With All Things, Cereal Boxes, Melissa F. Kaelin
A Man And His Mosaics: Owatonna Native Michael Swere Stumbled Onto A Profession In The Art World Starting, With All Things, Cereal Boxes, Melissa F. Kaelin
Melissa F. Kaelin
Sweere is a mosaic artist. It’s a profession he stumbled upon after about 20 years of work as an art director for an advertising agency. For decades, he designed packaging for companies like ConAgra, General Mills and Pillsbury — work which resulted in piles of cereal boxes and other assorted samples lying around his office and his home. Anxious to reuse and recycle, Sweere saved the samples for a rainy day, and soon began to tease artwork out of them.
Not Your Beeswax: Textile Artist Moves Into The Realm Of Rozome, A Japanese Art Using Silk, Dye And Wax, Melissa Kaelin
Not Your Beeswax: Textile Artist Moves Into The Realm Of Rozome, A Japanese Art Using Silk, Dye And Wax, Melissa Kaelin
Melissa F. Kaelin
Surrounded by beeswax and paraf- fin, Judy Saye-Willis brushes a radiantly colored dye onto a canvas of silk fabric in her studio just south of Northfield.
Saye-Willis, who used to work in textiles, practices a Japanese cloth art called Rozome. To create Rozome, a silk cloth is colored with acid dye, then brushed with both beeswax and paraffin to enhance the colors. The steps of dyeing and waxing can be repeated several times to create the desired effect.