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Gwen Fisher

@gwenbeads.bsky.social

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I teach math and make art. Ph.D. Mathematics Education beads, fabric, paint, pencils Etsy: https://gwenbeads.etsy.com

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Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · Jan 8

Hi. I’m new here. I’m a math tutor who loves math and making art. I weave beads using math and geometry, sew and mend clothes, draw, and paint. I like math art and rainbows. Two of my favorite things to paint are black holes and color wheels. 
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 #mathart #blackhole #introduction

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Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 3d

A little color therapy always helps. It’s been a while since I played with my seed beads, but I thought I’d thread a needle and make some of my old favorite designs, like these Victory Pod Earrings in purple and gold.

Happy Sunday!

Pair of beaded earrings sitting on a watercolor painted color wheel. The earrings are pod shaped and have rows of seed beads.

Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 21d

I did a search on “frito lay salt crystal shape” and found what you described: a hollow square pyramid. Very cool.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 23d

15 September 1935 | The Nuremberg Laws - discrimination, racist & antisemitic laws, were enacted by the Reichstag in Nazi Germany. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship, disenfranchised them, and deprived them of most political rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

Image of a historical document titled 'Die Nürnberger Gesetze' (The Nuremberg Laws), presenting various charts and texts in German that outline racial policies enacted in 1935 Nazi Germany.

A scanned image of a historical German document dated September 1935, containing dense text and several sections marked by numbers and titles in bold, likely from a legal or governmental publication. The Nuremburg laws.

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Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 24d

It always makes me happy when my artwork finds a new home, but I’m really going to miss this particular painting. It’s acrylic on canvas.

👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 24d

Very excited to have some original @gwenbeads.bsky.social art hanging in my home!!

Cool painting based on cellular automata hanging above an upright piano

Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 24d

Wow! What an honor to be hanging over your piano! Thank you so much Isaac. I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I have. Good timing too because we just send the files for the book to the publisher last night.

Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you so much. Making art can be meditative.

Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 28d

Circular dogs are much easier to draw than dog shaped dogs. This painting exists to prove that you don’t have to know how to draw in order to have fun with paint. #painting

Circles of different sizes, each with a simple cartoon dog face. The circles appear to be in different layers and in different orientations.

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Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · 28d

I wish someone would make a captcha with Donald’s signatures.

“marco.foster • 1h
Does anyone actually believe Donald Trump didn't sign that letter to Jeffrey Epstein? The fact they are so desperately trying to deny the obvious is just more evidence that he is completely guilty of it all”

Below is an array of 9 versions of Donald’s signature that are all virtually identical, including the one on the Epstein birthday card in which Donald alludes to raping children.

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · Sep 8

For example, the Republicans' effort to stop Revolution Wind project has gotten a minor amount of mainstream and social media attention, but @magaziner.house.gov committee hearing questioning about their arbitrary and capricious attempt to stop it has less than 500 views.
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Trump Administration Unprepared and Evasive Under Magaziner’s Questioning About Revolution Wind

YouTube video by Rep. Seth Magaziner

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Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · Aug 23

Often when we “cancel” we can describe that more specifically by saying that we are factoring out a giant 1. The giant 1 distinguishes that particular type of cancelling from other inverse operations like adding x-x, or taking ln (e^x), for example.

Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads.bsky.social · Aug 23

I used to teach Math for Elementary Teaching at the university, but now I am a private math tutor. One of the most important things I’ve learned from the kids I teach is the notion of the “giant one” like 5/5 or x/x. We use giant 1s for finding equivalent fractions, simplifying and division…

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Cubes_Art @cubesart.bsky.social · Oct 15

Here are four ways I’ve found to solve an nxnxn cube to embed a trefoil knot. Five layers is the smallest cube I’ve been able to put this knot on. On a 9cube, I’ve found solutions that use 2 colors of thread, 2 faces, and a solution that leaves the reverse side solved as solid colors.