The owner of Mosaic4U, a company based in Herzelia, Israel, says artists working with the centuries-old technique of selecting and laying glass mosaic by hand have nothing to worry about from his new robotic system. “Personally I do not think that we are a threat to the conventional mosaic artist community,” wrote Boaz Glass, the [...]
Entries from March 2010
March 30, 2010
3 Questions For … Marc Petrovic
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Marc Petrovic: I just finished a collaboration with Tim Tate. The piece is a nine-part installation entitled Apothecarium Moderne, and it will be displayed as part of the Museum of Arts and Design‘s show entitled “Dead or Alive” opening on April 27th.
March 29, 2010
Australian artist takes first prize in Bullseye’s e-merge 2010
On Saturday, March 27th, approximately 60 glass artists, enthusiasts, and Bullseye staff gathered on the second floor of the Bullseye Gallery in Portland, Oregon’s Pearl District for the announcement of winners in e-merge 2010, the sixth biennial kiln-glass exhibition for emerging and intermediate level artists.
March 29, 2010
KiKi Smith’s glass artwork featured in New York Times
In an article in Sunday’s New York Times (also published on its website) arts writer Dorothy Spears discusses Kiki Smith‘s numerous current projects that involve glass.
March 26, 2010
UPDATED: Help Wanted: Entry-level glass instructor position opening up at University of Miami
UPDATED 03/29 In a follow-up email circulated among glass artists, William Carlson, head of the University of Miami art department, has put on hold his preliminary search for a replacement for glass program instructor Brent Cole, who is leaving for a position at Ball State University in Indiana.
March 26, 2010
Seen: Flo Perkins at Grounds for Sculpture
UPDATED 03/29 Through April 18th, the indoor gallery of Grounds for Sculpture, a sculpture garden in Hamilton, New Jersey, is showcasing the playful blown-glass musings of Flo Perkins. Entitled “The Common as Uncommon” the exhibition features Perkins’ whimsical explorations of the interpersonal dynamics of bright orange traffic cones and bowling pins. By giving human emotion [...]
March 25, 2010
Guided by feel, glassblower overcomes visual impairment
Imagine a gaffer who is legally blind working with molten glass at the bench. Before your mind goes to a cane and dark glasses, or, worse, third-degree burns, think again. Nathan Paluzzi, a glass artist in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, may have been declared legally blind after he was born prematurely, but he can see well enough [...]
March 25, 2010
Now we’re even easier to find at www.glassquarterlyblog.com
Good news for those who’ve had trouble remembering the Hot Sheet‘s Web address: http://blog.glassquarterly.com. For those who can’t part with their “www” prefix, we’ve added a second URL to make it even easier to find us, or to tell your friends about us.
March 24, 2010
International Flameworking Conference attracts 400 for opening night
Celebrating it’s 10th year, the International Flameworking Conference brought a reported 400 visitors to the Southern New Jersey campus of Salem Community College for its opening night last Friday, for which conference founder and area artist Paul Stankard was honored as the featured artist for 2010. About half the opening-night attendees stayed on for the [...]
March 23, 2010
One week left to apply to exhibit at first GlassFest in Corning, New York’s Gaffer District
Inspired by the healthy turnout for the Glass Art Society conference in 2009, the town of Corning, New York, is trying to make a celebration of glass into an annual summer event. The organizers of the first GlassFest FireArts Show, set to take place on May 29th and 30th, are inviting artists working with glass, [...]
March 22, 2010
Timed to the GAS Conference, the 21c Museum will unveil multimedia installation by Louisville, Kentucky, native
On June 10, 2010, the 21c Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, will unveil a giant tornado by Brooklyn-based artist Anne Peabody. Measuring approximately 24-feet in height and 18-feet across at its widest point, the piece entitled Wheel of Fortune (2010) will have a skeleton of steel beams overlaid by a collage of thousands of silvered wood [...]
March 20, 2010
3 Questions For … John Kiley
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? John Kiley: I’m just finishing up a week-long residency at The Museum of Glass in Tacoma. The pieces we’re making are comprised of at least two individual parts joined together hot. The finished sculptures are created by cutting away sections of the blown “blanks”, and then [...]
March 19, 2010
Open Studio: Glimpse the next generation of glass artists at RISD tonight
This evening, from 8 PM to 10 PM, the students of the Glass Graduate program at the Rhode Island School of Design will throw open the doors to their studios for a rare chance to see the future of sculpture, installations, and material explorations using glass as a central element.
March 18, 2010
Opening: The Price Collection at the Bellevue Arts Museum
Opening today and running through August 8, 2010 is the exhibition “Eyes for Glass: The Price Collection” at the Bellevue Arts Museum. Focusing on the glass objects by Northwest artists in the collection of John and Joyce Price, this exhibition includes 170 individual works by some 70 individual artists, many of them Native Americans. The [...]
March 17, 2010
The hottest courses of summer 2010
As sure as winter turns to spring, this time of year sees the mailboxes (and email inboxes) of glass enthusiasts jammed to overflowing with summer catalogs from the major schools: Arrowmont, Bild-Werk Frauenau (Germany), Corning Studio, Glass Furnace (Turkey), Haystack, North Lands (Scotland), Oxbow, Penland, Pilchuck, Pittsburgh, and UrbanGlass. To help sort through the dizzying [...]
March 16, 2010
3 Questions For … Jiyong Lee
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Jiyong Lee: I see my work as a process of query and research. My finished work can be compared to meditative note-taking based on my investigations. Recently, my interests have widened to include a variety of microscopic images of organisms which are inspiring my sculptural work.
March 15, 2010
Art auction raises money for Washington D.C.-area glass artist
Over $1,000 has been raised so far in a series of online auction fundraisers for Nicole Puzan, a 27-year-old glass artist and instructor at The Washington Glass School, who was diagnosed earlier this year with Stage IIIc ovarian cancer.
March 13, 2010
Call for Donations: Beadmakers group seeks jewelry for online fundraiser
The International Society of Glass Beadmakers is seeking donated glass beads, jewelry, and other small functional items in glass for its first-ever online fund-raising auction entitled “The Rites of Spring.” From April 5th through the 26th, donated items will be available for bidding through EBay‘s nonprofit site MissionFish.
March 12, 2010
Bild-Werk Frauenau, the Pilchuck of Europe, will have founder Erwin Eisch as artist in residence
Located halfway between Munich, Germany, and Prague, Czech Republic, the school known as Bild-Werk Frauenau in Frauenau, Germany is situated on the edge of the Bavarian forest. Since 1988, this has been the site of a Pilchuck-like summer glass program in the woods. While Pilchuck’s patron saint has been Dale Chihuly, here it is Erwin [...]
March 10, 2010
Canadian glass sculptor Ione Thorkelsson wins $25,000 Saidye Bronfman Award
Living in a small town in the prairie lands of Manitoba, nearly two hours from Winnipeg, sculptor Ione Thorkelsson has developed her own unique techniques of casting and her own subject matter — provocative glass skeletal forms that manage to be both organic and other-worldly. In her 2009 work Rex (pictured), a viewer is confronted [...]
