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Craft advocate and magazine publisher Wendy Rosen running for Congress
Wendy Rosen has spent the last thirty years advocating for craft artists and publishing both trade and consumer magazines devoted to covering the field, including her flagship publication American Style, which celebrates collectors as well as artists. Now the Maryland-based … Continue reading
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Executive director Michelle Bufano departs Pratt for Chihuly Center, hopes to find links between nonprofit and for-profit worlds
The executive director for the nonprofit Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, Washington, Michelle Bufano is taking up a new position as the executive director at the for-profit Chihuly Garden and Glass. (Her last day at Pratt will be February … Continue reading
Museum of Arts and Design celebrates 50th anniversary of Studio Glass with contemporary art exhibition from Venice
UPDATED 01/18/2012 and 1/19/2012 The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of Studio Glass in America, and the Museum of Arts and Design has made an unusual choice to observe this occasion through its upcoming exhibition “Glasstress New York: New … Continue reading
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OPENING: Hungarian artists hope to change perceptions with major exhibition
Despite sharing a border with Austria, and practically being neighbors to the Czech Republic and Poland, Hungary has never been known as a force in the glass arts. It wasn’t even until the 1950s that Hungary had any kind of … Continue reading
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OPENING: Bullseye Gallery turn its focus to the glass canvas
With an opening reception this evening, Bullseye Gallery kicks off a month-long celebration of two-dimensional painting on glass in their exhibit, “Facture: Artists at the Forefront of Painterly Glass.” The group exhibition will showcase kilnformed glass paintings (mostly frit on … Continue reading
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SEEN: Icy organic glass lighting and design take over Prague shopping center
Czech glass artist and designer Jitka Kamencova Skuhrava is currently exhibiting her work at the DBK, a major shopping center in Prague. The center’s fifth floor is a gallery space devoted to showcasing up and coming work by young Czech … Continue reading
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Glass installation by emerging artist Andrew Erdos gets notice at Art Miami
Andrew Erdos pictured with his glass and video art installation Texture of a Ghost (2011) at Art Miami. courtesy: claire oliver gallery, new york Art from glass is increasingly present at Art Miami (December 1st-4th) with Schantz Galleries, Heller Gallery, … Continue reading
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Artist Beth Lipman awarded prestigious $50,000 fellowship
Beth Lipman, a glass artist known for her austere three-dimensional still life sculptures largely devoted to examining extravagance, is one of 50 artists to be awarded the United States Artist Fellowship. Founded in 2006, the organization provides each fellow with … Continue reading
Berlin Glas, the first open access facility in this European art center, debuts
UPDATED 02/03/11 1:21 AM EST Berlin Glas, the first open-access glass studio in this international art mecca, will officially open its doors with a special evening of demos and performances a week from today on December 9th. Featured in the … Continue reading
OPENING: “BodyWork” features wearable glass jewelry at Bullseye Gallery
Tonight Bullseye Gallery presents a series of wearable artworks by nine female artists from around the world. Titled “BodyWork” the exhibit focuses on the performative nature of adornment and explores the relationship between the work and the wearer.
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Glass Art Society announces award winners for 2012
The votes are in. Glass Art Society has announced its 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Joel Philip Myers and Bertil Vallien. The wnners will accept their awards at the 42nd annual conferenc , which will be held at … Continue reading
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OPENING: Shanghai Museum of Glass celebrates Venini’s 90th anniversary
From now until February 8th, 2012, the Shanghai Museum of Glass will host a series of events surrounding the 90th anniversary of the Venetian glass design house Venini. The second-floor exhibit will pay homage to the various artists who have made their … Continue reading
Open access glass studio merges with New Orleans arts organization
Next Friday, the glass studio known as the New Orleans Creative Glass Institute studio will celebrate its grand re-opening under new leadership as a part of Young Aspirations Young Artists, an organization devoted to bringing arts education to inner city … Continue reading
DESIGN: The Veronese Vase revisited
The Veronese vase pictured above (beside the pillar near Mary’s cowering figure) has fired the imagination of glass designers as the only existing record of an exquisite glass object that existed in the 16th century when it was painted by … Continue reading
OPENING: The story behind the Chrysler Museum of Art’s new glass studio
The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, will officially take the wraps off its brand new Glass Studio tomorrow, Wednesday, November 2nd. The new facility boasts a 7,000 square foot studio complete with a hot shop, flameworking station, nine … Continue reading
OPENING: Jeff Zimmer’s political indictment at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
Glass artist Jeff Zimmer calls his work “politically charged,” but not necessarily polemic. In his most recent series “Whitewash,” on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show from November 10th through the 13th, he explores the American tendency … Continue reading
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The Smithsonian’s “Craft 2 Wear” debuts in Washington D.C. this weekend
This weekend, the Building Museum in Washington D.C. will be the site of a special fashion show called “Craft 2 Wear”, a sale and exhibition of 40 craft artists’ work that can be termed “wearable art.” The pieces on display … Continue reading
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RIT design students get a crash course in glass with input from The Corning Museum
Last year Josh Owen, associate professor of industrial design at the Rochester Institute of Technology, had the radical idea to team up his students with the design team at a major manufacturer and see what they could produce. The result? … Continue reading
OPENING: Kate Baker’s new exhibition “Cipher” debuts at Bullseye Gallery
This evening at Portland’s Bullseye Gallery, Australian artist Kate Baker opens her new show “Cipher,” a series of glass artworks that combine color with ghostly photographic portraits and textured engravings. This is Baker’s first solo exhibition at Bullseye. Concerned with … Continue reading
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Upcoming Paris auction documents Barry Friedman’s refined glass art aesthetic
This Monday in Paris, art dealer Barry Friedman will auction off 158 works of glass, many by artists he personally championed such as Michael Glancy, Giles Bettison (pictured at left), Yoichi Ohira, and Laura de Santillana. Organized by Camard & … Continue reading
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