Disposable tray with coffee cups and found objects like doll arms, spiky ball wearing doll sunglasses resembling the COVID-19 virus and city buildings made from scratch by artist.

Architects' Java With Visitor

Matching 22 inch necklace circling a 10.5 inch bracelet. Pink wire knit into a rope with freshwater pearls, pewter cubes, filigree end caps, and shepherds hook clasps. Each rope has a knot in its center.

Clutch Your Pearls

A dragon with feathered wings lying down with front feet crossed. Coloration is iridescent teals and blues within a swirl of clear and black resin.

Labradorite Szerense Dragon 

Various materials used to create a 3D canvas sculpture of a loon from the face-on perspective: canvas, Gorilla glue, wood putty, hockey tape, and Amazon boxes. Painted with oils to enhance the third dimension.

The Loon

Sterling Silver one inch round bead containing a bright red orange transparent Mexican Fire Opal inside. The pierced cut out  Design has flowing openings that allows light to illuminate the opal from all angles. The opal glows brightly when the light hits it. The textured silver emits a soft muted glow.

Toby's Bead

A beadwoven box with six legs shading from cream to pink to red. The lid is a hexagon in the same colors with a brown band around the edge.

Kimono

A small oval tin shrine surrounded by aged metal gears with a robot made of found parts inside.

St Roboto

A wooden box with a door. An animated figure has a foot on the threshold as if stepping in. Inside are images from a past Foot In the Door exhibit.

I got a foot in the door!

A suspended kinetic sculpture made from red acrylic and brass wire that depicts a fish's flowing pectoral fin.

Pectoral Fin Study in Red

A discarded gold-pronged computer motherboard element is suspended in eco-friendly resin held in a bezel created from recycled sterling silver. Water-cast sterling silver discs and pale pink Coral branches that were reclaimed from vintage jewelry dangle from the bottom of the pendant as well as on each bail. The entire piece is lashed to a steel collar frame, made from the underwire of a surplus bra.

Reclaimed Coral and Motherboard with Water-cast Silver necklace

This sculpture consists of a King James Bible with three Spinosaurus teeth embedded into it, encased in an acrylic dome on a wood base with an acrylic stand. 

Facts Over Faith

Three pieces of blue gray handmade paper are standing in a slumped position. They are like old trees that have turned to rock. The paper is made from family rags. I made and entered this same piece in the first Foot In The Door show in 1980 when I was just beginning to make handmade paper. 

Cenolith

A small sculpture with a base comprised of a wooden panel raised by push pin feet with scaffolding of painted wood suspending a blue pamphlet over the base forming a triangular wedge that hovers over black rectangle of sandpaper.

My Levitating House

Double-sided decoupage on a flared glass vase featuring a variety of bees and honeycomb, black, white and gold patterns.

Honeycomb Bees

A Padauk and Ebony wood turned sculpture with gold gilding in the form of a Portal with Art Nouveau design influences

Portal

Four forged and fabricated small red and black lady bug sculptures made of steel

Lady bugs

This is a glass mobile, with 3 objects: the red & clear Alpha, a multi-colored star or flower shaped symbol for the Big Bang, and a white and clear Omega.

Fire and Ice: I Am the Beginning and the End

A red painted sculpture having symmetrical shapes with curved lines and flat planes.

Winged

A yellow stained glass sunflower stands up off of a mosaic mirrored background. The clear beveled glass center is painted with a Fermat spiral of sunflower seeds and reflects onto a background created from a CD, for a luminescent rainbow effect.

A Fermat Sunflower

A small glass sculpture of a winged red dragon with a white head and feet, standing on a base of gray/green twisting abstract shapes.

Red Dragon

This  sculpture of an angel was created with things found in my studio during COVID lockdown. She has sheet music on her arms and book pages for her skirt. Handmade lace doilies complete her skirt. Her wings came from a bird that perched in the Christmas tree. She holds an antique stick pin that acts as a pinwheel ."Hope" signifies that we can find beauty and fun wherever and whatever the circumstances of life.

HOPE

a metallic gold thumb disembodied just above the lower knuckle, standing upright on a blank surface

online [left thumb]

This bowl was created from a casting (round plastic pail) blank and turned on the lathe. The unique characteristics of this bowl is the encapsulation of the Lichen which grew on the Diamond willow tree..

Lichen encapsulated

This is a red brass necklace composed of large orange crackle agate rice and black onyx rondelles, nestled between byzantine weave section.

Byzantine Crackle Agate

A small birdhouse with two heart openings painted with a rainbow that blends from red through blue in front of green lilac bushes.

Rainbow Birdhouse

SWIRLING SPIRALS IN A UNIVERSE OF YELLOWS, BLUES AND VIOLET PAINTED ON A SMALL WOODEN CHAIR.

SPIRALS

A figure based on a Kertesz circus mirror photograph, with head on arms, back arching up and curving around and down to hips and kneeling foreshortened legs, thus defining an oval inner space.

Andre Kertesz 147

Sculpture of a red car made out of cardboard and plastic bottle caps sitting on a street.

Dream Machine

A darkened copper form with smooth, almost reflective surface started as a perfect square of sheet metal that was forced into a doming-mold that was too small for it, causing a partially domed-effect while also creating folds and crimps in the metal where it responded to the impact. 

FORCED/FORCE individual

The integration of red and clear glass faceted in both classic and unique ways to bring out the color and reflective qualities. 

Integration Stone 2

Plastic caps of all colors that are found in a box of markers lined up in rows haphazardly. A river curving across horizontaly piled with an array of small colorful plastic toys. 

Architects' Java With Visitor, 2020

Mary Newman