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Tipton polymer clay art,caters to Beaux Arts Bizarre crowd

by Aarik Danielsen

This weekend's Beaux Arts Bizarre at the Missouri Theatre promises to be another gathering of fascinating artists with stimulating works to share with all Columbia. The weekend's exhibit will feature culture-makers working in a variety of mediums, everything from jewelry to painting, ceramics to fibers, photography to woodworking and much, much more.

One of the distinctive artists who'll be present is Mo Tipton. Tipton has a taste for miniatures hand sculpted from polymer clay. Her online Etsy store, The Mouse Market, features miniature dollhouse food items and food-inspired jewelry. In a recent e-mail, Tipton said her work covers a spectrum of sizes "from roughly the size of a pencil eraser to slightly larger than a quarter. They're quite tiny."...

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