{"id":11421,"date":"2015-11-27T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=11421"},"modified":"2015-11-23T11:23:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:23:52","slug":"the-first-polymer-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-first-polymer-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Polymer Pioneer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sigrid-Smolka-cover\"<\/a>On the last page of the\u00a0Winter 2015 issue<\/a>, we have a very, very special Muse’s Corner article. It was brought to us by Anke Humpert, who had the good fortune to connect\u00a0with a polymer artist who may very well be the first published polymer pioneer, unknown to most all of us. The reason we may not\u00a0recognize\u00a0the cover of this book, or the author, is probably that\u00a0it was written in German. Which makes sense since that is where polymer clay was invented and first produced commercially. But how have so few of us even known of dear Sigrid Smolka?<\/p>\n

Here is the thing that so shocked Anke (and, later, myself) when she\u00a0first found out. This book was published years before Nan Roche’s seminal book The New Clay<\/em>. Now,\u00a0we aren’t talking 3 years, or 5, or even 10. This book was published 17\u00a0years before, not too long after the clay actually hit the market. Isn’t that\u00a0amazing?<\/p>\n

All on her own, Sigrid developed techniques and processes that we will all find familiar and common today. I guess that really shouldn’t be a surprise. The clay can leads us\u00a0to obvious conclusions even now. But it was just so early on and she did this all on her own and so hidden from the rest of us. But not anymore.<\/p>\n

You can read Anke’s whole story about Sigrid Solka in the Winter\u00a0issue. Get your copy ordered<\/a>, if you haven’t already, so you can read this and all the other wonderful contributions your fellow polymer artists shared\u00a0with you in this issue.<\/p>\n

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