#Sondra Sherman

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Sondra Sherman majored in painting and jewelry at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia before moving to Germany in 1984. At the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Sherman's work reflected the school's emphasis on strong design. More recently, however, the artist's work has begun to express a sense of human character and emotion. Via Smithsonian

Sondra Sherman (born 1958) is an American painter and jewelry maker. Sherman's work has been praised for its "deeply personal" expression of human emotion and of the subjects inspired by them.[1] Sherman's skills and reputation as a jeweler have earned her many awards, including a Tiffany Foundation Emerging Artists Award, various fellowships, and a Fulbright Scholarship.

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Tipp: Sondra Sherman - The Gemstone Apothecary

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Sondra Sherman – The Gemstone Apothecary: Idar-Oberstein bis 16. 07. 2024

Können (Edel)steine heilen? Sondra Sherman beschäftigt sich in ihrer „Edelsteinapotheke“ mit der Psychologie des Aberglaubens an Heilsteine und Amulettschmuck. Abstrahierte Psychopharmakologie, botanische Heilmittel, Tintenkleckse und Glücksbringer bilden den Rahmen für diese „heilenden“ Steine. Ausgehend von der Wirksamkeit des Glaubens bzw. des Placebos und den psychosozialen Funktionen von…

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Sun hinge bracelet, gold over bronze, Sondra Sherman, 1988

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From living rooms to national galleries, art spaces shape and inform the art contained within them. They also often reflect their contemporary social mores, and are a central aspect of understanding the artwork itself. In recognition of the importance of art spaces, we bring you a discussion of 5 different exhibition spaces, and how they have shaped the art of their times:

1.       Japanese Department Stores In 1907, the Mitsukoshi department store began to display and sell the works of prominent contemporary artists. This quickly became a trend, allowing the rising urban middle class to decorate tokonoma (decorative alcoves) of their new houses – a practice associated with the social elite. Creating these art spaces allowed the middle classes to legitimise their own status in this social hierarchy

2.       Street Art Why and how do street artists use public spaces? Sondra Bacharach argues that by using these spaces without permission, street artists are able to force a response from the onlooker, which allows them to explore and further their own socio-political agenda

3.       Copenhagen Private Art Collections During the Napoleonic era, private collections became increasingly accessible in Copenhagen. In this wartime climate, the exhibiting of private art collections was increasingly represented as an act of patriotism and charity, which solidified Danish national feeling

4.       Parisian Immigration History Museum Harnessing art’s potential to provoke, subvert, and prompt reflection, the French Immigration History Museum has attempted to create an art space which celebrates French art and history, but does not cover up shameful and troubling aspects of France’s past. While the institution has made bold steps, Daniel Sherman argues that the nature of institutional structures restrains such honest reflection on cultural history

5.       Victorian Museums A recent study examines what we do when we curate historical art collections, and how museums founded in the Victorian period – such as the National Portrait Gallery – intrinsically shape the art they curate with a Victorian slant

Image credit: Patricia Ready Gallery of Art by Antenna. Public Domain via Unsplash. 

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HANDBELLS UPDATE: 3/9/2020

03/05/2020

BY JESSE RATCLIFFE

HANDBELLS UPDATE: 3/9/2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS

Normal rehearsal this week      :  o  )

Please make sure the next two “rings” are on your calendars and let me know of any planned absences immediately so I can plan accordingly.

3/29 – since we’re in Lent, can we do Black on Black? That’ll match the choir’s vestments.

This is a final plea—we need two ringers for 3/29 and 4/26. Please connect me with any folks you think that might be interested!!

Tentative Schedule for Spring 2020:

March 29

Prelude: Grazioso – Sherman

Processional Hymn: In Babilone (no recording)

Communion Meditation: My Jesus, I Love Thee – arr. Patricia Cota (no recording)

April 26

Prelude: How Can I Keep From Singing? – arr. Sondra Tucker

Processional Hymn: Aurelia arr. Peery

Anthem: Coronation –Craig Courtney (bell obligato using 8 bells)

No rehearsal 4/28

May 5 – Polish bells and pack-up for summer

May 22 – Year End Party!

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I actually did take jewelry and metalsmithing for a year in college, and I know just enough to say that is solid advice. However there is a huge cavat to that idea.

Assembly line work at a jewelry company is accessible and a very very common way to get the training you need, but they are really really bad about demanding 12-15hrs a day for the lowest legal pay possible and then still treating you as a person like shit. But here is where the baby boomer advice of just putting your nose to the grindestone works in spades. About half the people in my class for both semesters had started as assembly line jewelry makers and had, with loans and government aid, made enough money to take university classes so they could major in jewelry/metalsmithing and get really started on thier careers.

Apprenticeships cost money. They can cost upwards of a few thousand up front. However because your teacher is the one controlling the contract, you can negotiate to pay in installments over the course of your training or to pay when the contract was completed. You'll want to look for a professional with at least a few years of experience in the job of jewelry making that you want who has apprenticed someone before. Hopefully with many apprentices before. Because there are a few rotten apples that will take you on and not teach you want to need to know, either cause they don't know how to teach or because they're scaming you or because they're avoiding creating new competition. This is generally the same accross most trade careers where you can apprentice.

I am no goldsmith, but my teacher was Sondra Sherman who is a world acclaimed goldsmith and artistic jeweler and who actually did apprentice back in Germany the 80's after getting her BA with a jewelry and sculpture concentration

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Reports persist of UFOs, crop circles, cattle mutilation—and shapeshifting creatures impervious to bullets.

Some have called it a supernatural place. Others have deemed it “cursed.” Terry Sherman got so spooked by the happenings on his new cattle ranch that 18 months after moving his family of four to the property now known by many as “Skinwalker Ranch” in southeastern Utah, he sold the 512-acre parcel away.

He and his wife Gwen shared their chilling experiences with a local reporter in June 1996: They’d seen mysterious crop circles, the Shermans said, and UFOs, and the systematic and repeated mutilation of their cattle—in an oddly surgical and bloodless manner. Within three months of the story’s publication, Las Vegas real estate magnate and UFO enthusiast Robert Bigelow bought the property for $200,000.

Under the name the National Institute for Discovery Science, Bigelow set up round-the-clock surveillance of the ranch, hoping to get to the bottom of the paranormal claims. But while that surveillance yielded a book, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah, in which several of the researchers claimed to have seen paranormal activities, they were unable to capture any meaningful physical evidence supporting the Shermans’ incredible stories.

The ranch was resold to Adamantium Real Estate, which has since applied to trademark the name “Skinwalker Ranch.”

Had the Shermans been lying about what they saw? Or under the spell of a collective delusion? Without evidence, the stories they told are difficult to believe, but they’re hardly unique. The Uinta Basin of southeastern Utah has been such a hotbed of paranormal sightings over the years that some extraterrestrial enthusiasts have deemed it “UFO Alley.” “You can’t throw a rock in Southern Utah without hitting somebody who’s been abducted,” local filmmaker Trent Harris told the Deseret News.

Indeed, according to Hunt for the Skinwalker, odd objects have been spotted overhead since the first European explorers arrived: In 1776, Franciscan missionary Silvestre Vélez de Escalante wrote about strange fireballs appearing over his campfire in El Rey. And before the Europeans, of course, indigenous peoples occupied the Uinta Basin. Today, “Skinwalker Ranch” abuts the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation of the Ute Tribe.

Were the Shermans seeing things that nearby Native Americans had taken note of centuries before?

READ MORE: History's Most Infamous UFO Sightings

Mysterious creatures

A fence that surrounds the main buildings on Skinwalker Ranch.

Not everything the Shermans saw on their ranch was sky-borne UFOs. They also claimed to see mysterious large animals: most notably, a wolf three times the size of a normal wolf that Terry shot at close range multiple times with a rifle—to seemingly no effect.

Then, on the night of March 12, 1997—after the ranch had been sold off—biochemist Colm Kelleher, working with Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science, claimed to see a large humanoid creature spying on the research team from a tree.

As he detailed in Hunt for the Skinwalker, the creature was approximately 50 yards away, watching the team safely from a tree perch 20 feet off the ground.

“The large creature that lay motionless, almost casually, in the tree,” said Kelleher. “The only indication of the beast’s presence was the penetrating yellow light of the unblinking eyes as they stared fixedly back into the light.”

After Kelleher fired at the creature with a rifle, it disappeared. “It was then that I saw it—a single, obvious oval track about six inches in diameter embedded deeply in the patch of snow... It looked unusual: a single large print in the snow with two sharp claws protruding from the rear of the mark going a couple of inches deeper. It almost looked like a bird of prey, maybe a raptor print, but huge and, from the depth of the print, from a very heavy creature.”

READ MORE: Interactive Map: UFO Sightings Taken Seriously by the U.S. Government

The ‘Skinwalker’ in Skinwalker Ranch

A view of one of the old homesteads from the top of the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch.

Repeated sightings of humanlike creatures have led some to invoke the name “Skinwalker,” a shape-shifting character from Navajo tribal folklore. Among the Navajo, skinwalkers are like werewolves: evil witches who can transform themselves into the creatures of their choosing.

But Sherman’s family ranch was 400 miles north of Navajo Nation. It was next to Ute territory. And when the Utes and the Navajo did cross paths, it was an acrimonious relationship, explains historian Sondra Jones, author of Being and Becoming Ute.

“It was not friendly,” Jones says. “The Navajo were more aggressive people; they took slaves, they had Ute slaves. And there was direct conflict when the Navajo attempted to move up into Ute territory,” at modern-day Pagosa Springs and Durango.

Cursed water, cursed lights

A small river runs through the property on Skinwalker Ranch.

While skinwalkers don’t feature in Ute religion, there are still aspects of the ranch that make sense within the context of Ute lore.

Other strange sightings have occurred directly next door, at Bottle Hollow—a 420-acre man-made reservoir on Ute land abutting the ranch, which was filled with fresh water in 1970 by federal government mandate. In 1998, a police officer saw a large light plunge into the reservoir and then reemerge, flying off into the night sky. One night in 2002, four young (non-Indian) men standing on the reservoir’s shoreline saw a blue-white ball enter the artificial lake.

According to the Hunt for the Skinwalker, the glowing ball dove into the water just a few feet from the shore, then emerged seconds later in a new form: a shimmering, maneuverable belt-shaped shaft of light. “After performing a brief writhing aerial dance, the belt of light zipped away at a high rate of speed, hugging the ground before disappearing below the top of Skinwalker Ridge.”

The appearance of the supernatural around Bottle Hollow makes sense with the context of Ute belief. According to Jones, amongst the Utes “springs and certain waterways were reservoirs of negative power… There were evil spirits or evil sprites that would rise up out of the water and drag you in.”

Don't miss the return of Project Blue Book, Tuesday January 21 at 10/9c on HISTORY.

from Stories - HISTORY https://ift.tt/30tp0EC January 17, 2020 at 10:01PM

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(Source: Pinterest via siennagallery.com/sondra-sherman.com) Jewellery by Sondra Sherman

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Sondra Sherman

'Listen the Wind' Hollow Constructed Pendant sterling 3" W x 2 1/2"H x1"D

charm, toy, crucifix....

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HANDBELLS UPDATE: 3/2/2020

02/24/2020

BY JESSE RATCLIFFE

HANDBELLS UPDATE: 3/2/2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS

No rehearsal this week – I’ve had an abrupt change in my schedule. My apologies.

I need your help to find THREE ringers.  Reach out to former ringers, or folks in the pews that you think would be interested in our ministry.

Tentative Schedule for Spring 2020:

March 29

Prelude: Grazioso – Sherman

Processional Hymn: In Babilone (no recording)

Communion Meditation: My Jesus, I Love Thee – arr. Patricia Cota (no recording)

April 26

Prelude: How Can I Keep From Singing? – arr. Sondra Tucker

Processional Hymn: Aurelia arr. Peery

Anthem: Coronation –Craig Courtney (bell oblligato using 8 bells)

No rehearsal 4/28

May 5 – Polish bells and pack-up for summer

May 22 – Year End Party!

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HANDBELLS UPDATE: 2/24/2020

02/18/2020

BY JESSE RATCLIFFE

HANDBELLS UPDATE: 2/24/2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS

Great ringing on Sunday!

REMINDER: REHEARSAL TONIGHT!

I need your help to find THREE ringers.  Reach out to former ringers, or folks in the pews that you think would be interested in our ministry.

Tentative Schedule for Spring 2020:

March 29

Prelude: Grazioso – Sherman

Processional Hymn: In Babilone (no recording)

Communion Meditation: My Jesus, I Love Thee – arr. Patricia Cota (no recording)

April 26

Prelude: How Can I Keep From Singing? – arr. Sondra Tucker

Processional Hymn: Aurelia arr. Peery

Anthem: Coronation –Craig Courtney (bell oblligato using 8 bells)

No rehearsal 4/28

May 5 – Polish bells and pack-up for summer

May 22 – Year End Party!

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HANDBELLS UPDATE: 2/17/2020

02/10/2020

BY JESSE RATCLIFFE

HANDBELLS UPDATE: 2/17/2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS

REMINDER:

Schedule Shifts:

I need your help to find THREE ringers.  Reach out to former ringers, or folks in the pews that you think would be interested in our ministry.

We ring THIS SUNDAY! I’m looking forward to sharing our music with our SJ family. You’ve done an excellent job ringing. After the 10:15, unless you must urgently leave, please help take down the tables and such.

Monday 2/24 instead of 2/25 due to Mardi Gras Party

Monday 4/6 instead of 4/7 to allow choir to rehearse for Holy Week

Tentative Schedule for Spring 2020:

Feb 23 – This Sunday! Gather ready-to-ring at 9:40. White tops, black bottoms.

Prelude : Jesus Shall Reign – arr. Eithun

Recessional Hymn: Hyfrydol – arr. Peery

March 29

Prelude: Grazioso – Sherman

Processional Hymn: In Babilone (no recording)

Communion Meditation: My Jesus, I Love Thee – arr. Patricia Cota (no recording)

April 26

Prelude: How Can I Keep From Singing? – arr. Sondra Tucker

Processional Hymn: Aurelia arr. Peery

Anthem: Coronation –Craig Courtney (bell oblligato using 8 bells)

No rehearsal 4/28

May 5 – Polish bells and pack-up for summer

May 22 – Year End Party!

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HANDBELLS UPDATE: 2/10/2020

02/05/2020

BY JESSE RATCLIFFE

HANDBELLS UPDATE: 2/10/2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS

REMINDER:

Schedule Shifts:

I need your help to find THREE ringers.  Reach out to former ringers, or folks in the pews that you think would be interested in our ministry.

We ring next Sunday 2/23! Bell tables will be in place on Tuesday 2/18–if you plan to be at the 10:15AM service this Sunday (2/16) please hang around after church to help set-up the tables and such. Thank you!

Monday 2/24 instead of 2/25 due to Mardi Gras Party

Monday 4/6 instead of 4/7 to allow choir to rehearse for Holy Week

Tentative Schedule for Spring 2020:

Feb 23

Prelude : Jesus Shall Reign – arr. Eithun

Recessional Hymn: Hyfrydol – arr. Peery

March 29

Prelude OR Anthem: Grazioso – Sherman

Processional Hymn: In Babilone (no recording)

Communion Meditation: My Jesus, I Love Thee – arr. Patricia Cota

April 26

Prelude: How Can I Keep From Singing? – arr. Sondra Tucker

Processional Hymn: Aurelia arr. Peery

Anthem: Coronation –Craig Courtney (bell oblligato using 8 bells)

No rehearsal 4/28

May 5 – Polish bells and pack-up for summer

May 22 – Year End Party!