Monthly Archives: November 2010
OPENING: Three glass galleries will be exhibiting at this year’s Art Miami kicking off this evening
Tonight, when the 21st edition of Art Miami gets underway with a preview party, visitors to the city’s longest-running contemporary art fair may notice a subtle but significant change. In recent years, galleries specializing in glass have been all-but-absent among … Continue reading
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Help Wanted: Bowling Green seeks assistant professor for tenure-track position
Bowling Green State University has just posted a job listing for an assistant professor of glass who will head the department. The position in the university’s glass program, an “area” within its three-dimensional-studies program, will begin in August 2011, and … Continue reading
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3 Questions For … Lance Friedman
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Lance Friedman: I have no desire to make work that doesn’t have an idea as its armature. Purely decorative work can’t hold my interest and makes me restless to do other … Continue reading
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The new director of the Toledo Museum of Art on plans to celebrate the birthplace of Studio Glass in 2012
The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet caught up with Brian Kennedy three months into his new job as the director of the Toledo Museum of Art. Many consider the museum, where Harvey Littleton held his seminal workshops in 1962, the birthplace … Continue reading
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Three Hilltop students exhibit work at Vetri Glass in Tacoma
For the sixth time, Vetri Glass has opened its doors to artists from the Hilltop Artists in Residence program for an exhibition of student work. Hilltop uses the intensity and focus glass requires to teach valuable lessons to at-risk youth, … Continue reading
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Help Wanted: Alfred University seeks full-time visiting glass professor for three-year stint
Alfred University’s glass program, headed by Steven Dee Edwards and staffed by Fred Tschida and Angus Powers, is looking to add a full-time faculty member to its ranks. Though the position will not begin until August 2011, the December 3rd, … Continue reading
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Before winter closing, GoggleWorks hot shop will rock Saturday night
As the calendar clicks from 2010 to 2011, the furnace flames will go out, hopefully temporarily, at the Reading, Pennsylvania-based open-access glass studio of GoggleWorks. Despite the overwhelming popularity of the regular glassblowing demonstrations, the hot shop has proven to … Continue reading
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OPENING: Paula Hayes’s blown-glass terrarium sculptures at MoMA
Part of her ongoing body of work referencing her memories and impressions of a rural upbringing through the use of indoor terrariums that bring the wonder of nature indoors, New York-based artist Paula Hayes unveils a commissioned installation entitled Nocturne … Continue reading
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Tyler to hold 24-hour “Blow-a-thon” fundraiser for visiting artist program
Starting at noon on Thursday, November 18th, the Tyler School of Art will be turning up the gas at its 10,000-square-foot studio for a marathon blowing and hot-casting session designed to raise money to bring visiting artists to Philadelphia. Recently … Continue reading
British Artists Take Top Honors at European Triennial
Of all the artists participating in the second edition of the European Triennial for Ceramics and Glass, two British artists caught the eyes of the jury. Ceramicist Katharine Morling was awarded the Triennial’s highest honor, the Wallonia-Brussels French Community Prize … Continue reading
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Future Gazing: Corning technology officer on new uses of glass in design
The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet had the opportunity to interview one of Corning Incorporated‘s leading visionaries on the future directions for glass in technology products. Since 2007, Dr. Peter L. Bocko has served as Corning’s chief technology officer for East … Continue reading
Toledo glass auction Friday evening will benefit area arts organization, and those who donated
As glass fund-raising auctions have proliferated, artists have become subject to a steady stream of requests to donate art in exchange for a small percentage of the sales price. It’s an offer many can’t refuse because the donation offers them … Continue reading
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Glass Curiosities: Glass roof tiles offer simple way of capturing solar heat
Winners of the 2010 “hottest new material” award at a construction materials trade show in Sweden, SolTech Energy is getting notice for its simple but effective way of harnessing the sun’s power to supplement building heating systems. Forget costly and … Continue reading
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Seen at SOFA: John Miller’s oversized goblet project is a novel approach to collaboration
John Miller together with top-tier glass artists such as Therman Statom, Stephen Rolfe Powell, and Dante Marioni interpret the goblet by way of their own signature styles. Miller provided the idea and the sense of scale, which, as in most … Continue reading
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Video Exclusive: SOFA founder Mark Lyman on the changing 2010 fair and his future plans
The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet caught up with the founder of the Sculptural Objects Functional Art fair, Mark Lyman, on the second day of the SOFA CHICAGO 2010 exhibition. We asked him about the changing mix of dealers at the … Continue reading
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Red Dot Report: Lino Tagliapietra work sells for $245,000 at SOFA
Taking over three months to make, and featuring 125 individual elements, Lino Tagliapietra‘s wall-mounted homage to the history of Murano glass and its Roman and Islamic influences was sold for nearly a quarter-of-a-million dollars on Saturday, November 6th, to a … Continue reading
Red Dot Report: Dealers cautiously optimistic after first full day at SOFA
For the first full day of the biggest annual art fair for work in glass, Chicago lived up to its “Windy City” nickname with frigid blasts battering those brave enough to walk the long pathway along Navy Pier to get … Continue reading
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Japanese Island plays host to high level artists for annual glass festival
The annual Niijima Glass Festival is winding down this weekend, set on an island a two-hour high-speed ferry away from the Japanese mainland. but there are still a couple days of classes with a star-studded crew of visiting artists that … Continue reading
April Surgent to deliver lecture as part of solo musem show
Continuing its tradition of supporting living Northwest Coast artists with solo exhibitions, the Bellevue Arts Museum unveiled the work of April Surgent for an exhibition entitled “Into the Surface” that opened last week and will continue through April 3, 2011. … Continue reading
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