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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This piece is not in my solo show opening October 11 at the Harold Washington Library. I will have over 30 other works on display through the end of December. Check it out when you are in the neighborhood!

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Packing up…and ready to go! Will it all fit in the van for my solo show at the Harold Washington Library opening on October 11?

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Crimson Hexagon is still in progress but you can see a few other artworks from the Library of Babel series starting October 11 on the 8th floor of the Harold Washington Public Library.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I got two telescoping TV/monitor boxes for the spoken for diptych. It is reusable for possibly packing her and immediately taking to the Tiffany glass show, if it is accepted.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've been packing my show for the Harold Washington Library and trying to finish the Crimson Hexagon. I'm waiting for news on some other things I applied for. I also have two people who want this or want a version of this:

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Scroll of Babel", from the Library of Babel series, stained glass, glass paint, on a cylinder vase. 32"x 7" x 7". I will show this piece at Julie Mars: Visions in Glass at the Harold Washington Library starting this October.

32" tall cylinder vase featuring a groutless mosaic of stained glass hexagons. The hexagon tiles are vellum colored at the bottom with characters from world alphabets inscribed on them. As the design spirals upward the vellum-colored tiles transform into hexagonal circuit board tiles.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Winter Garden Diptych, 2026, stained glass, woven and loose bead mosaic on preowned frames. These will be on display at Harold Washington Library in Chicago starting in October 2026. I just entered them into the Tiffany glass show at EAC, as well.

Set of two floral stained glass mosaic panels with champagne-colored beaux arts acanthus frames. The diptych is installed on a beige wall above cream wainscoting. The mosaic also has woven copper bead hexagon flower accents contrasting with the verdigris, cream, & brown glass color palette. The work is an homage to the Harold Washington Library's Winter Garden and the Beaux Arts imagery on the verdigris roof.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"This Circular Book is God", 2026, stained glass, circuit board, hexagonal beadweavings on a used mirror. From the Library of Babel series. This piece will be on display at the Harold Washington Library in the show Julie Mars: Visions in Glass starting Oct. 11.

40" round mirror with a layered mosaic of stained glass, hexagonal beadweaving tiles, and circuit board in the rich colors of an antique library. The Library of Babel is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges wherein the denizens of an absurd and possibly infinite library attempt to create meaning in their lives with scholarly lore, religiosity & rumor.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Gorgeous morning at the pond

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

These hexagonal crafts from Latin America are the inspiration:

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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."

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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.)

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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’.)

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Today’s ArtDrop is an International Gothic painting from 1434-45 by Bernat Martorell of ‘Saint George and the Dragon.’

Crouched in the lower right of this image is a detailed painting of a vicious dragon with tongue and teeth snarling out of its snout. It has splayed bat-like wings and claws aimed at its attacker. Behind the dragon, its tail snakes toward its cave lair. Above the dragon riding a beautiful white horse with gilt saddle and harness is the dashing Saint George. He wears full armor with a white long cape emblazoned with a cross emblem that flutters behind him, as he raises his long spear to dispatch the menacing beast below him. Standing above the dragon’s lair is a chaste and fair princess in rich pink robes praying devoutly. In the background at the top of this vertical painting is a town with a stone fortress. From its walls can be seen crowds of onlookers watching the event below.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Earth Day’s ArtDrop is a 15th Century illustrated depiction of the Earth as a sphere by Master of Anthony of Burgundy illustrated between 1467 and 1475. It is from "De proprietatibus rerum” by Bartolomeo Anglicus in the book about astronomy.

The illustration shows four learned astronomers discussing their observations of the celestial bodies and the Earth. This is a very early depiction of the Earth as a sphere with tall buildings radially shown pointing upward into space with the sun and clouds on the day side and the moon and stars on the night side of the Earth.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day! This is one of mine. "Oceanic Panopticon" woven bead mosaic on a 48x48" convex mirror.

Woven bead mosaic of the Pacific Ocean from space on a round convex mirror.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Today’s ArtDrop is “A Ton of Tea” by Chinese activist artist Ai Wei Wei. He made this work of compressed pu-erh tea in 2007. The image shows a one cubic ton block of compressed tea on a low natural wood base. Can you imagine how fragrant this artwork is?

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today’s ArtDrop is a Chinese work 'Calligraphy of the Character Hu (Tiger)' made with ink on paper by Weng Tonghe circa 1890. The symbol for tiger is painted in a few strokes to resemble the foreshortened creature.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I won't be able to get a good picture of this until after it's installed. Flourish is 41 x 26.5". I will transport it to the client's house on this makeshift cushioned stretcher. Two pieces on the side have to be glued in after we lift it onto the French cleat.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Today’s ArtDrop is a contemporary porcelain vase by Jonathan Adler. ‘Kiki de Montparnasse Vase’ is from Adler’s 2020 Muse pottery series.

The image shows an unglazed white porcelain vase with a relief of concentric rows of breasts circling the round pot. The breasts get smaller as the vase tapers at the top.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Today’s ArtDrop is the neoclassical sculpture ‘Liberty Enlightening the World’ by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. The monumental copper sculpture was inaugurated as a gift from France to the U.S. in New York in 1886.

The image shows a female allegory of Liberty. She is draped in voluminous long robes and wears a spiky halo. She holds a torch aloft in her right hand and clutches a tablet bearing the date of the Declaration of Independence in her left hand.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Today’s ArtDrop is ‘Le Femme Chauve-Souris' an 1890 fin de siècle femme fatale themed oil on canvas by Albert Joseph Penot.

The image is a gothic erotic fantasy work of a nude woman with bat wings and a piercing hypnotic stare. She descends ominously from a cloudy sky with her arms upraised as if about to capture her prey.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Today’s ArtDrop is a naturalist botanical landscape painting by Martin Johnson Heade. He painted this work in oil on mahogany in 1871 while in Brazil.

The viewer is presented with a lavish tropical landscape describing a pink/purple Cattleya orchid and three hummingbirds situated in their Brazilian habitat. One mated pair of hummingbirds perch and hover above their nest with tiny eggs. Another exotic bird species with a long red tail perches along the same branch. In the background is a lush rainforest under a dark moisture laden sky.

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JAMDrops @jamdrops.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Today’s ArtDrop is a post-impressionist oil on canvas, ‘Washerwomen of Arles I’ by Paul Gauguin from 1888.

The image shows a colorful scene of six women, four of whom are bent over on the banks of a canal or small river scrubbing laundry. The two other figures have bundled their laundry and are leaving. Across the waterway, are the trees of a young orchard and giant haystacks. The colors are rich and warm.

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