UPDATED 06/30/2009 Dan Klein, founding director of North Lands Creative Glass in northeast Scotland, prolific author on art made from glass, art dealer, and the former director of 20th century decorative art for Christie’s auctions, died of complications resulting from cancer on Sunday, June 28. With his passing, the world of art made from glass loses [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 26, 2009
3 Questions For … Christina Bothwell
GLASS: What are you working on? Christina Bothwell: My latest body of work involves using bits of taxidermy. In the photo, I’m working on a piece that will become a woman holding an owl. Beneath the owl’s abdomen will be a small human baby. The woman will have taxidermied geese feet instead of human feet [...]
June 25, 2009
An ambitious juried exhibition identifies emerging visions in glass
Columbus, Ohio will play host to a dynamic international survey of glass art this summer in the form of an ambitious new exhibition entitled B.I.G.G.: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass. A jury made up of artist Lino Tagliapietra, curator Tina Oldknow, and art dealer Tom Hawk have selected 43 artists who create innovative pieces “with [...]
June 24, 2009
Admission price for the Tacoma Museum of Glass to rise 20 percent
Rush to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma before July 11 to save $2. Admission to the leading museum in the Northwest for glass as an art form is about to increase by 20 percent, with general admission rising from $10 to $12. Youth tickets will see only a $1 increase, from $4 to $5. [...]
June 19, 2009
New executive director of the Fuller Craft Museum to emphasize public outreach
New England’s Fuller Craft Museum, which has featured glass exhibitions of work by Ricky Bernstein, Preston Singletary, and Steven Easton among many others, will be using glass and other craft media as a community teaching tool, creating hands-on experiences for patrons as it continues to showcase glass art, says newly appointed Executive Director Wynona Lynch-McWhite. [...]
June 19, 2009
The Glass Art Society Takes Over Corning
Wednesday night is “Karaoke Night” at the Glory Hole Pub on Market Street in downtown Corning, New York (population 10,000), where the 39th annual GAS conference and its more than 1,000 attendees temporarily increased the size of the town by more than 10 percent. The evening of June 10th, as glass artists from around the [...]
June 18, 2009
Exhibition takes a closer look at Scottish diversity, identity
Inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands know a thing or two about migration. The turbulent history of the region is fraught with movement, as periods of cultural strife and economic upheaval sparked mass migrations, leaving the mountainous regions the most sparsely populated in the country. It is fitting, then, that the Scottish Glass Society‘s retrospective exhibition [...]
