Micah Altman - Arden Lamp Works
Africa Lamp
My artwork includes Lamps, Beaded Jewelry and Painted Jewelry Hangers.
As a young child, my home was full of lamps, which my father crafted from found objects – wallpaper rollers, vases, and sculpture. Likewise, I find beautiful art objects and fashion them into lamps. I then create one-of-a-kind shades to complement these unique table lamps.
As a child I enjoyed crafts, moving into custom macrame belts and beaded jewelry in my teens.
As a Double Major in Fine Art and Biology at Sonoma State University in California, my emphasis was on drawing from nature – bones, trees, flowers, insects, and animals. During this period I discovered the field of Psychology. Following this new passion, halfway through my BA, I changed majors to Psychology, completing my Doctorate at Hahnemann University in 1986.
Not until the new millennium, did I find the time and energy to return to art and crafts, having devoted myself to a Psychology career and to my family. During this period, I again took up creating beaded jewelry, trained in the creation of lamps and lampshades, and began repurposing old, ornate picture frames into earring wall hangers.
Buddha Lamp
Bamboo Grass Lamp
Brass Lamp with Dill
Cloissene Dragon Lamp