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Scholarship applications for the Pilchuck Glass School's Summer and Fall 2018 sessions are due on February 1st. courtesy: pilchuck glass school.

Friday January 26, 2018 | by Malcolm Morano

Only five days left to apply for a Pilchuck Summer 2018 scholarship

Pilchuck Glass School is offering a robust series of scholarships for its Summer 2018, and week-long Fall 2018, sessions. Due by midnight – Pacific time – on February 1st, scholarship applications will put students in consideration for general scholarships, a long list of specialized scholarships, and two incredible artistic merit scholarship opportunities: a residency at Norway’s S12 Open Access Studio and Gallery, and a multi-week live/work program in the glassmaking Mecca of Murano, Italy (supported by Laguna B).

Tuesday December 12, 2017 | by Malcolm Morano

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Here at Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly, we're committed to spreading the appreciation of glass art. That’s why, this holiday season, we're offering a special gift subscription offer. Purchase a gift subscription using this link, and your gift recipient will receive a free copy of both Glass Quarterly and Corning Museum’s New Glass Review in time for the holidays!

Tuesday November 21, 2017 | by Malcolm Morano

GLASS Quarterly's online directory, an exhaustive list of education programs and suppliers, is a searchable treasure-trove of information

GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly has launched a comprehensive online directory of glass schools and suppliers. Organized by areas of focus, this directory is an exhaustive list of every glass education program – degree and non-degree granting – and all glassmaking material, equipment, and tools suppliers we were able to locate. Visit glassquarterly.com/resources (or simply click the “Resources” tab at the top right of this screen), and start using the definitive, up-to-date resource for the glass art field.

Friday August 11, 2017 | by Malcolm Morano

The late Ron Desmett’s legacy to be commemorated in new glass art award

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Award, News

When Kathleen Mulcahy and husband Ron Desmett founded the Pittsburgh Glass Center in 2001, Desmett, then a painter and ceramist, had never made glass work of his own before. That changed in 2002 when Mulcahy tasked artists from other materials to “think in glass,” as she told the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet, for a show at the Glass Center called "Artists Crossing Lines." Ron came back with the decision to blow opaque black glass vessels shaped inside hollowed out tree trunks, a body of work that would come to define his practice until his death in December 2016. “[Glass] changed his life,” she said, “and from that moment where he thought about that work in 2002 – that work is the work that is in the Tacoma Museum [of Glass], the Smithsonian, and the Corning Museum, and the Carnegie Museum. It’s unbelievable – that moment of saying guess what, nothing is impossible.”

Cerith Wyn Evans' massive neon work in the Tate's Duveen Galleries engages with viewers and the architecture.

Wednesday July 19, 2017 | by Malcolm Morano

A mile of neon tubes illuminates Tate Britain’s sculpture galleries in monumental work

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Museums, New Work, News

When Tate Britain unveiled a monumental neon installation by Welsh sculptor and filmmaker Cerith Wyn Evans in Spring 2017, the project was certain to have a massive impact on the field of light art for its sheer scale alone. Forms in Space...by Light (in Time) was produced for the 2017 Tate Britain Commission, which invites contemporary British artists to respond to the museum’s Duveen Galleries, the oldest galleries in England specifically designed to show sculpture. Made from over a mile of glass tubing, Wyn Evans’ bright white neon installation hangs just over museum-goers' heads, arranged to invite viewing from multiple angles, all the while redefining the space and activating the museum's high-ceilinged airy architecture. It remains on view through August 20, 2017.

Pilchuck announces its 2017 John H. Hauberg Fellows, Tempestuous Commons. courtesy: pilchuck glass school.

Wednesday March 15, 2017 | by Malcolm Morano

Pilchuck announces a female-focused multi-media collaborative as 2017 Hauberg Fellows

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Fellowship, News

Pilchuck Glass School has announced its 2017 John H. Hauberg Fellowship recipients, a group called Tempestuous Commons, who plan to “explore the female form as a narrative tool for expression,” according to the announcement. Tempestuous Commons, a newly formed group of emerging artists working largely in mixed-media sculpture, is comprised of Ashley Berkman, Jade Usackas, Kelsie McNair, and Nadira Narine. Their Pilchuck residency, which provides living accommodations and access to all Pilchuck studios except its hot glass shop, will take place from April 26th to May 12th, 2017.

Monday January 2, 2017 | by Malcolm Morano

North Lands Creative Glass announces first summer program under artistic director Jeffrey Sarmiento

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Events, News

North Lands Creative Glass has announced its 2017 summer program, its first under recently appointed artistic director Jeffrey Sarmiento. The program of classes and a conference will be centered around the theme of faith. The program, titled "Leap of Faith," is billed as exploring the relationships between glass and belief in its varied forms — religious belief, social dogmas, and artistic conviction. Master-classes will be headed by artists Anne Vibeke Mou, Annie Cattrell, Beth Lipman, and the duo of Michael Schunke and Josie Gluck. The one-day conference, "Taking a Leap: Concept, Conservation and Innovation in Architectural Glass," is organized in collaboration with Bullseye Glass Company, and will take place on July 16th, 2017, in the county of Caithness in the northern reaches of Scotland.

Sydney Cash Broadway Windows1987 Daytime View

Original image of Sydney Cash's Broadway Windows Gallery installation of 1987. courtesy: heller gallery.

Thursday December 15, 2016 | by Malcolm Morano

OPENING: NYC Sydney Cash retrospective uses optical properties of glass to engage passersby

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, Opening

The unique optical qualities of glass — its translucency, transparency, reflection, and refraction — have served as rich terrain for artist Sydney Cash, who developed a lifelong relationship with the material after working with curved mirrors. Opening tonight, a retrospective exhibition of Cash's kinetic sculptures at Heller Gallery will showcase the artist's evolving visual vocabulary from the 1980s through the present, and will include a reprise of the now-legendary glass window installations from Cash's seminal Broadway Windows Gallery exhibition in 1987. Activated by passersby on the street, the three windows will make the city street part of the exhibition entitled "Pre-Net," and will likely have viewers moving back and forth before the gallery's large windows on 10th Avenue in the Chelsea area of Manhattan.

Jacob Fishman, It Is What It Is. Neon. courtesy: bergstrom mahler museum of glass.

Wednesday December 7, 2016 | by Malcolm Morano

The Bergstrom-Mahler’s neon exhibition taps into the special allure of sculpture that glows

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, Museums

There's something magnetic about neon. An object emitting light attracts the eye, no doubt the main reason neon has been so popular for so long as a medium for commercial signs. Executive director of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass Jan Smith thinks this provides a special opportunity for neon art. "A sense of familiarity with its history in signage gives people an entry point," she told the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet, "and the journey into the sculptural realm takes them into a surprisingly new dimension." The museum hopes to guide visitors on that journey with "Bending Brilliance," a neon and plasma group exhibition currently on display through February 19th, 2017.

Cover of 'Chihuly Faxes,' available now through Chihuly Workshop. courtesy: chihuly workshop.

Tuesday November 22, 2016 | by Malcolm Morano

BOOK REPORT: Dale Chihuly: Fax Machine

FILED UNDER: Book Report

Faxes may have given way to email, but contemporary technology was an integral part of Dale Chihuly’s artistic practice throughout the 1990s. Now, a new book entitled Chihuly’s Faxes compiles 130 of these faxes hand-picked from an archive of 7,500. Treated as a medium for design ideation and instant communication, Chihuly’s faxes are described by lauded novelist, essayist, and critic, Francine Prose as “dreams about art.” Prose, a former president of PEN American Center, has written a foreword to the book, and her essay includes an analysis of “technology’s role in communicating bold ideas.” The new book is available now through Chihuly Workshop.

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