GLASS: What are you working on?
KeKe Cribbs: I’ve been working with fired enamels on glass since 1995, in part because it gave me a way to paint on glass and cut the painting into parts for mosaics and sculptural elements. It recently occurred to me that I’ve spent the past 15 years turning flat glass [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 31, 2009
3 Questions For … KeKe Cribbs
October 30, 2009
Live streaming from the hotshop no longer a Museum of Glass exclusive
Videos of glass demos have been available on the Web for almost as long as YouTube has been around (a search for “glass demo” brings up more than 1,500 results), but it has been the Museum of Glass in the highly digital Pacific Northwest that has pioneered real-time broadcasting of the goings-on in the museum’s [...]
October 29, 2009
On Other Blogs: Multimedia British artist’s glass models of viruses
British multimedia artist Luke Jerram’s exquisite glass sculptures depicting deadly human viruses was spotted by a science blog and that, in turn, was spotted by a Seattle weekly newspaper’s blog, helping to take his highly conceptual artwork to a wider audience. By limiting the series to well-known viruses that are often lethal, Jerram heightens the [...]
October 27, 2009
$1-million-plus Pilchuck auction results deemed success despite lower results
Raising a total $1.175 million, the Pilchuck Annual Auction last weekend was down slightly from the 2008 results ($1.2 million) but organizers view it as a resounding success considering the economic climate. The impressive total includes Friday night auction results as well as sponsorships, ticket sales, and donations for the four days of activities [...]
October 27, 2009
Lalique expert will discuss the influence of nature on a master of Deco design
On Tuesday, November 3, Nicholas Dawes will deliver a lecture on the work of Rene Lalique at the New York Metropolitan Glass Club titled “Rene Lalique and the Natural World.” The presentation will explore Lalique’s relationship with nature, and how it functioned as a primary source of inspiration for much of his work.
Because Studio Glass [...]
October 26, 2009
3 Questions For … Nancy Callan
GLASS: What are you working on?
Nancy Callan: I’m working on a few different series right now, the most recent being blown glass sculptures I call “Clam Clouds” or just “Clouds.” These are technically very challenging for me to make. They’ve got several layers of cane work and various twists to the pattern. For me, they’re [...]
October 26, 2009
Seen: Glass as lens on dislocation in haunting yet sublime installation at New York’s Heller Gallery
The pairing of glass and neon effects transcendence in Hiromi Takizawa’s new installation at Heller Gallery in Manhattan. Opening on October 30th, Crossing the Pacific Ocean addresses the artist’s sense of being dislocated from her family in Japan while at the same time connecting with others in the United States. The mediums of light and [...]
October 24, 2009
Corning takes the wraps off its 24th annual Rakow Commission
The Corning Museum of Glass unveiled its 24th annual Rakow Commission on October 16th. The 2009 commissioned artist was Isabella De Obaldía, a Panamanian native who has trained in several artistic forms. With the $10,000 provision granted by the late Dr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Rakow, De Obaldía created Rey del Cenote, which [...]
October 23, 2009
Barely Cool: John de Wit exhibits new work shortly after artist residency
Next week, John de Wit will unveil a new body of work at Seattle’s Foster/White Gallery, much of it just out of the annealer from his September residency at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. “Incise,” the title of de Wit’s new exhibition—refers to the techniques used in the process of creation—will debut at [...]
October 21, 2009
Preview of the 2009 Pilchuck Annual Auction taking place this Friday evening
On Friday, October 23, the glass world will convene at the Westin Seattle ballroom for the 31st Annual Auction Gala supporting the Pilchuck Glass School. After the $1.2 million raised in the 2008 Pilchuck auction, this year’s results will be closely watched. With the Bellevue Arts Museum setting a new record with its annual fundraiser [...]
October 20, 2009
Provocative lecture on the death of the craft movement now available as a print-on-demand book
Ceramics dealer and prolific author Garth Clark has a message for those working in craft media such as ceramics, metal, wood, fiber, or glass: The craft movement that sought to elevate craft objects to the status of fine art is, for all intents and purposes, “dead.” The results of Clark’s inquest indicate that the [...]
October 19, 2009
3 Questions For … Cirque De Verre
GLASS: What are you working on?
Cirque De Verre: Our current project is our Cirque De Verre performance at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion taking place on Oct 30th. Our performances have become curated exhibitions in the hot shop, and we want to continue in that direction. We have worked hard to get [...]
October 17, 2009
Repost: On Other Blogs: Seattle cut-and-paster keeps tabs on glass scholarship
UPDATED 10/17
On a one-person campaign to raise awareness of the critical discourse about a medium, Seattle blogger Lauren Fujii has set out to chronicle “the written historical record of glass” with her ABJ Seattle Glass Online blog. Updated sporadically with text excerpts quoted in their entirety from various sources, the texts are not linked back [...]
October 17, 2009
Finding valuable lessons in the glass process, arts organizations reach out to at-risk youth with special programs
Visualize this: a group of teenage boys go from “moaning, groaning” about having to be there to, just weeks later, describing their work on a glass project with undisguised pride. This transformation was observed by Pittsburgh mosaic artist Daviea Davis when she led a team of first-time juvenile offenders in the creation of a large [...]
October 16, 2009
British online auction site conducts first sale of post-war and contemporary glass
UPDATED 10/17
Until October 21st, online bidders can make their best offer on post-war and contemporary glass design such as a rare Stig Peterson Darlington Glass “Pitter Platter” (circa 1970) with an £150/$245 low estimate, or a Frank Thrower Margueritte Floor Vase (circa 1994) with a £200/$327 low estimate, at the first glass auction by Auction [...]
October 15, 2009
Seen: Seared by personal loss, Weston Lambert leaves figuration behind in first solo gallery exhibition
While studying for his BFA, Weston Lambert’s work was featured in the Spring 2007 edition of GLASS Quarterly (#106) when he was chosen by Rick Mills at the University of Hawaii for a special article titled “Director’s Cut” that identified strong student work. Lambert’s newest body of work, on display at the Museo Gallery [...]
October 14, 2009
Historic British glass museum saved from closure thanks to international campaign
After a 10-month battle that energized Britain’s Glass Association, and spawned new groups such as Save Our Glass Heritage, the fight to save Broadfield House glass museum is over. Those fighting the proposed closure of this West Midlands, England, institution that boasts one of the most important collections of historic glass designs from this [...]
October 10, 2009
Holsten Galleries co-director Jim Schantz buys out longtime partner Kenn Holsten
After 27 years of working together, Kenn Holsten and Jim Schantz are splitting up. In a completely amicable separation that became official on October 2, the 31-year-old high-end Stockbridge, Massachusetts, gallery specializing in contemporary artists working in glass will change its name to Schantz Galleries to reflect the new ownership. Longtime Holsten creative director Schantz [...]
October 9, 2009
Seen: NYC glass mosaic showroom says it with flowers
Walk past the SICIS: The Art Mosaic Factory showroom on Broome Street in SoHo, and you can’t help but gape at the brilliant panoply that is the shop’s window display. Large glass mosaic flowers—perhaps 18 inches in diameter—are suspended from heavy chains along the storefront and ceiling, flashing gold and scarlet against the [...]
October 8, 2009
Glass Curiosities: Vitragylphic process allows rapid prototyping of glass objects
Solheim Labs at the University of Washington has been innovating the art of rapid prototyping, according to an article on the University of Washington’s news website. Using everything from ceramics to sugar they are able to “print,” objects made of miniscule particles. Their latest material success: 3-D printing with glass, which is known as “vitraglyphic [...]
