Participating in a World Art Project.
My 4 x 4 tile As any of you who read my blog regularly know, I love working with polymer clay. 50 years ago the company ‘FIMO’ made the first polymer clay in Germany. Fimo is now world famous and there are also many other companies who make different brands of it. Fimo has 115+ colors and is used in 60+ countries. As part of the 50 year celebration, The Fimo 50 World Project is under way. This world project is a way for polymer artists to participate in a collaborative art project that will benefit charity. It works this way: an individual polymer artist makes a unique 4” x 4” tile that is sent to a central site. The tiles will then be placed on a large scale sculpture symbolizing the earth. Once the ‘Fimo World’ is finished, it will be dismantled and each piece will be auctioned. All profits will go to (1) Dr. Ron Lehocky’s Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies and (2) the Samunnat community in Nepal. As I look at s...