{"id":358,"date":"2005-07-19T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/more-on-niada\/"},"modified":"2005-07-19T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T15:04:40","slug":"more-on-niada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/more-on-niada\/","title":{"rendered":"more on NIADA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start posting about dollmakers I met in Philadelphia, in no particular order.  I have a pile of business cards, postcards and a few magazines and I&#8217;m going to start shuffling through the pile.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/7:19:lesliem.jpg\" alt=\"leslie molen\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These dolls are made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootie.com\/\">Leslie Molen<\/a> of Rootie Studio.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootie.com\/home\/photos\/gallery\/jap-girls-big.jpg\">Here <\/a>is a much better picture!  These dolls just pulled you in- they have such sweet faces and expression.  Also beautiful hair and costuming.  Well, I could go on and on I guess, but then I&#8217;ll never get through!<\/p>\n<p>One of the first people I met when I got to Philadelphia was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odaca.org\/bios\/oldenburg.htm\">Maryanne Oldenburg<\/a>&#8211; what a friendly and welcoming person she was.  She helped me feel part of the event right from the beginning.  And what a sweet pea her little fellow was!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/15.jpg\" alt=\"maryanne o\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I met several artists who do minature work.  This is an area of dollmaking that I had never appreciated before.  I don&#8217;t think I could have without seeing them in person.  There was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odaca.org\/bios\/hanson.htm\">Gisele Hanson<\/a>, whose work was next to mine at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cozy.org\/pics\/NIADA\/DSCN1565\">critique<\/a>.  She is obviously a very patient person since she never said a word about having to answer all my dumb email questions before getting to Philadelphia- she was one of the contact people for the conference, a job I don&#8217;t envy!<\/p>\n<p>There were 2 NIADA artists who do minatures at the Philadelphia show.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsdartistdolls.com\/\">Jane Davies<\/a>, who did the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cozy.org\/pics\/NIADA\/DSCN1610\">demonstration<\/a> of minature sewing and showed this amazing creation-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/7:19:davies.jpg\" alt=\"davies\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other artist was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanscogin.com\/\">Susan Scogin<\/a> who showed this piece-<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/images\/7:19:scogin.jpg\" alt=\"scogin\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I never had a chance to talk with her, but was amazed by how much life she could put into something so little!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to start posting about dollmakers I met in Philadelphia, in no particular order. I have a pile of business cards, postcards and a few magazines and I&#8217;m going to start shuffling through the pile. These dolls are made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/more-on-niada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}