In her talk, she will show many examples of objects that she has beaded and explain the forms that they use. Applying mathematics to bead weaving will be explained and she will help us identify and classify many of her elegant beaded structures. For example, a triangle is composed of 3 line segments, and a cube has 12. She began weaving beads in 2005, and by 2007 she had left her tenured position at Cal Poly to become a full time “mathematical artist” ~ we are going to find out what that means and how she has created a new meaning to being a math wiz.Ī bead is anything with a hole, and that hole can be thought of as a line segment that is oriented in a three-dimensional space. The neatest part is that she translates her over 15 years of mathematic expertise into use with beads into creating a physical object that you can hold in your hands and actually SEE the math lesson come to fruition. Gwen creates little clusters of beads that become as small as a charm or as large as a sculpture that can sit on your desk. The neat thing about bead weaving is that it can be created to any scale. Pattern and order appeals to most people and her bead art appeals to the discovery of the familiar in the “unfamiliar”.
She uses mathematics as an inspiration for the structure of her creations. Gwen Fisher weaves with beads to appeal to people an affinity to design.
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