JAMDrops

@jamdrops

Illinois artist specializing in radiant reuse. I post about art and art career opportunities. Trophy ex-wife. CFI Secular Celebrant. She/Her/Mom jamfinearts.com

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JAMDrops@jamdrops· 15d

"Catalogue of Catalogues", 2026. Hexagonally woven beads. From the Library of Babel series. This piece will premiere at the Harold Washington Library in October.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Jul 3

My favorite thing I learned from a family visit to the Adler Planetarium yesterday was this hand-plotted, first ever image of a black hole interpreted from data in 1978 by Jean-Pierre Luminet.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Jun 5

Join us for CAVA's Small Works exhibition reception on June 12, 2026 from 6 to 8 pm at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Jun 4

Gorgeous morning at the pond

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Jun 3

Check out this absolute unit of scrap stained glass! I need at least 7 of these triangles for the first staircase piece.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Jun 2

Possible pattern for the staircases. I’m going for an Escher type feel with spiral staircases. Ignore the art underneath. That is going away.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 26

One of the patterns for a piece for the Library of Babel. The series will be debuted at my show at the Harold Washington Library starting in late October.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 25

I'm working out a way to use this diagram in a coming Babel piece for the stairways and broken stairway. I just love it.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 11

These hexagonal crafts from Latin America are the inspiration:

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 11

Today’s ArtDrop is a baked clay prehistoric mother goddess sculpture, Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük, created circa 6000 BC.

The image shows a massive female figure seated on a throne-like chair with the heads of two great cats adorning the arm rests. The woman is giving birth with the baby’s head between her ankles.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 10

Today’s ArtDrop is a Roman marble copy c. 130 AD of a Greek bronze sculpture c. 350 BC known as “Leaning (or Resting) Satyr” attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles.

The image shows a classical white marble figurative sculpture of a youthful faun or satyr. The creature has all of his weight on one leg and a bent second leg allowing for an elegant and natural S-curve in the figure. The satyr is nude except for the skin of a panther draped across his torso with the head dangling over the right shoulder and onto the chest. He holds a pipe in his right hand. That arm is supported by a part of the tree trunk that he’s lounging against. The other hand rests languidly on his left hip.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 9

There is a soft opening at the Obama Library today. I don’t have tickets.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 8

Today’s ArtDrop is a suprematist painting circa 1920 by Kazimir Malevich. “Mystic Suprematism” is an oil on canvas.

The image shows a simple geometric painting of balanced shapes. A black circle hangs just offset to the right in the upper part of the work. Layered over the circle is a large red cross extending through most of the piece on a slight angle. A few more red rectangles and strips balance the black circle at the bottom. The background is a textured cream color.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 8

I hung the newest piece, Delirious Divinity. It’s chillin’ with Lovers ai. I have to make more tiles for the scroll today.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 7

The “Crochet Coral Reef Project” was a series of international collaborative crafting workshops & exhibitions raising awareness about the dangers to ocean life of global warming through fiber arts. The project was founded by Margaret and Christine Wertheim in 2007.

The image shows a section of a colorful fiber arts coral reef with a myriad of patterns, textures, and organic forms.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 6

Today’s ArtDrop is an Egyptian sculpture from the Middle Kingdom c. 1900 B.C. It is carved out of Gabbro or diabase and paint.

The image shows a sculpture of a woman sitting back on her heels. She wears a light Egyptian gown and a longish wig or head covering that curves behind her prominent ears to a blunt cut just above her breasts. One hand rests on her right thigh. The left hand reaches up to cover her left breast which appears to be exposed.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 6

Work in progress- this is a scroll mosaic on a 32” column vase

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 6

Today’s ArtDrop is an oil on canvas from 1934 “Girl in a Red Dress” by Charles Henry Alston.

The image shows a portrait of a young lady from the waist up. She is seated in front of a blackboard or a dark window. The girl wears a red dress with a white collar and a red earring. Her hair is short. The artist has exaggerated the length of her straight, graceful neck.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 4

Today’s ArtDrop is an oil and acrylic painting “Forces of Change” from the Great Lakes Cycle series by Alexis Rockman. This piece is from 2017.

The large artwork gives visitors a view above and beneath waters of the Great Lakes. Here, the artist is showing how decaying industry, pollution, invasive species, and microbial overgrowth endanger the health of the Great Lakes habitat. Amusingly, there is an invasive kaiju-like “E coli monster” burrowed into the lake bed with extended tentacles guiding snacks to its toothy maw.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 3

Today’s ArtDrop is an abstract sisal fiber sculpture ‘Abakan Red’ from 1969 by Magdalena Abakanowicz. This piece is from the artist’s Abakan series.

The photo features the artist in black standing next to her monumental organic woven sculpture suspended from the exhibit space’s ceiling. The sculpture is dyed red and resembles female anatomy.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 2

Today’s ArtDrop is a portrait of “Lexington”, a thoroughbred horse painted around 1860 by Edward Troye.

The painting shows the famous racehorse in a warm-palette landscape with a creamy colored hazy sky. The horse is mostly a reddish color with dark mane, tail and lower legs. He has white socks markings above his hoofs.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· May 1

Today’s ArtDrop is the ‘Haymarket Martyrs Memorial’ sculpted by Albert Weinert. It is a national historic monument in Forest Park Cemetery in Illinois commemorating a labor protest for workers’ rights that ended with a bombing & rush to execute several protestors as a deterrent to further activism.

The photo shows a bronze figurative sculpture of a draped and hooded woman with rolled-up sleeves defiantly protecting the body of a fallen male laborer. The figures are installed in front of a roughly obelisk-shaped stone with an ornate capstone. The base of the obelisk steps up from the ground to the figure. Underneath the figure is the year 1887 in raised text. Beneath the 1887 rests an arrangement of bronze palm fronds. A visitor has tucked some pink flowers into the fronds. The bottom level of the base has a raised inscription that reads “THE DAY WILL COME WHEN OUR SILENCE WILL BE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE VOICES YOU ARE THROTTLING TODAY."

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Apr 30

Today’s ArtDrop is a Victorian hair craft memento woven into the shape of a tree and tiny bouquets under a bell jar from the mid 1800s. (Artist unknown.)

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Apr 30

I installed "Flourish" this morning. I am so happy with how it looks in her parlor with East-facing windows.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Apr 29

Today’s ArtDrop is an installation project introduced in 2013 my Ian Berry. 'Record Store’ features reproductions of classic LPs and other paraphernalia of record stores made out of denim. The photograph shows a standing flip rack and wall display of LPs made out of denim.

The photograph shows a standing flip rack and wall display of LPs made out of denim.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Apr 29

Today’s ArtDrop is a Florentine Renaissance oil on panel “Venus and Mars” circa 1485 by Sandro Botticelli.

The image is a long horizontal panel of the god and goddess reclining in a forest. Venus in a diaphanous gown looks at mostly naked Mars who is dead asleep. He might be exhausted after enjoying Venus’ charms. She seems calmly disappointed by his lack of attention. Four mischievous child fauns are playing with Mars’ helmet and lance. One of them is about to startle Mars awake by blowing a horn in his ear.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Apr 28

Today’s ArtDrop is a classic manga series of Japanese comics published from 1970-1976. “Lone Wolf and Cub” was a collaboration between Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

The image shows a black and white ink brush illustration of a fierce ronin assassin wearing all black tenderly carrying his toddler son in his arms as they are surrounded by a pantheon of helpful Shinto spirits and ancestors behind them. (Think ‘Mandalorian’.)

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Apr 26

Today’s ArtDrop is a black and white selfie from 1927 by surrealist photographer Claude Cahun.

The image is mostly dark. Highlighted from the background is the artist’s face. They have sculpted their hairline into a gothic bat-like line. Their arms and hands are posed in an angular fashion framing a mirrored sphere. The box camera can be seen in the mirror set up in front of a window that is the only light source. At the bottom of the photograph, the highlights of the composition are repeated by a glimpse of silky fabric glimmering in the light.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Apr 25

Today’s ArtDrop is a piece of street art by Will Coles. This image of the work was uploaded in to JAM Project Flickr account in 2011. “Think” is a life-size cell phone cast in concrete and mortared to a brick wall.

The image shows a grey brick wall with a concrete cell phone painted over in the same color attached to it. The leaf of a fern encroaches from the top left.

JAMDrops@jamdrops· Apr 24

Today’s ArtDrop is '7000 Oaks: City Forestation Instead of City Administration’, a long term public art installation in Kassel, Germany by Joseph Beuys. The piece is comprised of planted trees, each of which has an accompanying basalt stone installed at the base of its trunk.