Studio Notes
Studio notes from mixed media artist Werner Glinka. Process photos, material experiments, and working thoughts from the Center for People and Craft in Minneapolis.
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Found a Home
Yesterday I came to my studio and found small paper rolls on my workbench with a pink post-it: "Want these? — Anna." My friends at the Center know I am always looking for materials.
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Serendipity
I spilled the shredder output on the floor. What I saw made me stop. The random tangle of paper strips — fragments of text, no longer readable as language — looked like something I could use.
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The Boat Form
I spent a lot of time walking Princeton Harbor on the Half Moon Bay coast. A working harbor shows you boats in every state — including stripped down to keel and ribs, the structure laid bare. That form got into me through repeated seeing.
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Recurring Forms
Stadium shapes and circles keep surfacing in my work — forms absorbed from an industrial German childhood. New pieces in cardboard clay push these obsessions into three dimensions.
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First Piece
First piece combining stacked cardboard and paper mache clay. Dark corrugated layers, rough stone-like center strip, decorative rivets.
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Paper Mache
Making paper mache clay for sculpture. Recipe, technique, and a beginner's mistake worth avoiding. Thin layers over foam core for controlled drying.
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Cardboard
What can a serious artist do with cardboard? I understand the skepticism. We see cardboard as packaging, as the thing we break down for recycling.
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Back in the Studio
Ten years away. A new city, a new studio at the Center for People and Craft in Minneapolis. Time to start again.
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Finding a Place
After ten years away from making art, I wasn't looking for a studio. I was looking for community. The Center for People and Craft found me.