Art Glass News

Mid-century ranch holds modern mixture
Indianapolis Star
Matt Detrich / The Star Christopher Blice left his art glass studio in the Stutz Building to pursue a career as a pastry chef. His specialties are liqueur ...

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Susan R. Pollack Welcome Mat
The Detroit News
Shown here is glass art by John Fletcher. The art fair, celebrating its 30th year, runs from 10 am to 5 pm Monday in the village center on Franklin Road ...

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PR Web (press release)
'Fine Mountain Arts and Crafts' Show Opens Sept. in Big Canoe With More Than ...
PR Web (press release)
Breed teaches pottery and fused glass at the John C. Cambell Folk School. Rex Benson's whimsical high-fired stoneware sculpture with acrylic embellishments. ...

Curtiss Brock at Flame Run - Nurturing Louisville Glass Art
The Open Press (press release)
Flame Run™, Louisville's newest and largest contemporary glass art studio and gallery, is owned by Brook Forrest White Jr. The renovated 12500 square foot ...

Museums Sprout Wings
Wall Street Journal
20, a 121307-square-foot new wing to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Foster & Partners opens with a 63-foot-high glass-roofed courtyard and symmetrical ...

Chilhuly exhibit in Tennessee has been a big draw — would a similar Seattle ...
Seattle Times
He is regarded as a master of contemporary glass art, and his work has been displayed around the world, including in Jerusalem and Venice. ...

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Workshop on set design
Alberni Valley News
... painting, glass fusing, sculpture, and printmaking. Stage design has been an interest of his since he lived in England and had a theatre company.

DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
Lori Murga, chief executive, Just Beadiful, Carlisle
DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
Job description: I am a glass artist and I specialize in Italian glass. I enjoy lampworking, cold working and fusing glass for jewelry and art pieces. ...

Vail Valley Bizwatch: PISMO Gallery, Beaver Creek, Vail
Vail Daily News
PISMO is a fine art gallery specializing in one-of-a-kind glass art. We have have more than 150 glass artists from around the world. ...

Learn how to make clay that will not cost you a lot of money or time. There are many ways to make glass clay and most of the binders are based on CMC, which is a powder organic starch.

First Friday art walk in Ashland
Ashland Daily Tidings
ART FX: 45 E. Main St., 541-482-1499. Fine custom jewelry, glass and ceramic art by various artists and refreshments. Ashland Art Center: 357 E. Main St., ...
Arts Alive!North Coast Journal
On DisplayCorvallis Gazette Times
First Friday Art Walk kicks off holiday weekendPress & Sun-Bulletin

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Cloudy skies a friend to crafts festival
Delmarva Daily Times
The show features works in oil and watercolors, woodworking & furniture, stained glass, glass art, candles and pottery. “We take a lot of time to make sure ...

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The difference between a blog and Facebook?

On a blog, no one talks to you. Ask a question? Good luck. On Facebook everyone is so busy yabbering that your questions are drowned out by all the other chatter. But more often than not, people respond. Silly stuff sometimes. But at least you’re heard.

It’s kind of like speaking on stage compared to blathering in the local pub. And with Facebook you don’t really need a prepared speech. Anything seems to fly.

Get AWAY from me with that stupid camera – go embarrass some of your human friends!

“I just pulled a burr out of my cat’s nose”

”Ewwww, I’ve done that.”

”Yes, he’ll hate you for a minute but you MUST do it.”

This is probably why I’ve spent so much more time on Facebook than on this blog in the last year.

This summer I dropped a bunch of pictures and drive-by spoutings onto my FB wall and almost nothing onto this blog. Now I’m back here feeling the same daunting silence. And the guilt of having neglected the thing.

Bullseye, Dan and I have been pretty busy this year – especially this summer. Here’s a few of the highlights regurgitated from that Facey Place:

After de-installing our stand at COLLECT, I dashed up to Scotland where Bullseye Gallery’s former head preparator Jeff  met me to install some more art in The World’s Most Obscure Museum of Kilnformed Glass (aka Latheron House aka our home in the Highlands)

North Lands Spring kiln-glass resident Mel Douglas explaining the subtleties of her clear-over-charcoal kilnfired panels to Jeff, pre-install.  (Watch our gallery page for Mel’s upcoming solo)

Barely moments after Mel’s North Lands residency ended, another group arrived. Led by Steve Klein and Richard Parrish, the IN PLACE residency was likely the most charged and productive gathering of artists I’ve had the pleasure of watching in the North Lands’ studios. But I actually did blog about that (little and late), so consider this just one more picture to add another 1000 words:

IN PLACE resident Alex explains the concept and design issues behind the samples for her St Mary’s church proposal.

From the Highlands to the High Desert:

The action-packed middle of Bullseye’s summer played out in Santa Fe, New Mexico where we opened our first factory-owned resource center outside of Portland.

Meeting the exceptional community of Santa Fe artists and introducing them to the materials and methods of Bullseye glass has been a remarkable experience for us.

Those artists were out in force – along with collectors and glass lovers from as far away as Japan – at the two fairs where we exhibited in July.

We showed Mel George, Steve Klein, Richard Marquis, Klaus Moje, and Yoko Yagi at the second annual SOFA WEST fair.

At Art Santa Fe – just a week later – we exhibited Cobi Cockburn, Carrie Iverson, Jess Loughlin, Michael Rogers, and Richard Whiteley.

Just prior to, during, and after all this we installed a selection of remarkable works in kiln-glass from around the world at our new residence/private viewing space just north of Santa Fe.

Bullseye Gallery preparator Ryan and registrar Michael installing a Kaneko slab at Casa de Asterion.

Back Across the Pond Again:

A week after returning to Portland it was off to the UK again where I had the pleasure of attending the International Festival of Glass for the first time and seeing the British Glass Biennale.

The Biennale had some exceptionally good work in it (I fell in love with Tracy Nicholls‘ textile-like creations). The preview reception was utterly packed, a hall of anyone-and-everyone in British – and occasionally American – glass, hugging, chatting, carousing, awestruck, sometimes insightful, more often glib, going on about everything and nothing in the most wonderful ways.

A bit like Facebook. Except I didn’t hear a thing about burrs or cats’ noses.

Princeton University
Sculpture in chemistry lab bonds science and art
Princeton University
The clusters of translucent orbs suspended from the 75-foot-high glass roof into the atrium call to mind shapes seen through a microscope lens. ...
Elements of new Frick lab join to create 'best infrastructure' for chemistryPrinceton University
Frick Chemistry Laboratory Fact SheetPrinceton University

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Students learn about glass art
The Herald-Times (subscription)
Ross Thackery from ABR Imagery assists David Lawrence and Annie Stephenson, students at Pinnacle School, in making fused ... Please log in to read the rest ...

Glass project fuses learning with art
Battle Creek Enquirer
The YMCA teamed up with West Michigan Glass Art Center offering a summer program exploring glass art for neighborhood youth. The 'Glass Arts Summer Learning ...

Rosewood Art Centre lists fall classes
Times Community Newspapers of Greater Dayton
Mr. Grillmeier has worked as a professional glass artist for 25 years and established Renaissance Glass Studio in Kettering in 1987. ...

Glass worth seeing: New exhibit
Mansfield News Journal
The Marion Avenue center has filled its main gallery with 72 pieces of glass art, creating an exhibit that Executive Director Paul Kemerling believes has an ...

New York Times
Carrying the Spear (and Dagger) for a Fading Art Form
New York Times
Here and there in this ever-more-steel-and-glass metropolis where old neighborhoods disappear from one month to the next, there is a glimpse of what the ...

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Show cracks art scene glass ceiling
UNM Daily Lobo
... to show attendees that it is possible to encourage more involvement in the art community, specifically what Lawson described as a do-it-yourself scene. ...

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