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Eric H. Neil, currently director of the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, will take over as director of the Chrysler Museum of Art in October 2014.

Thursday July 3, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Chrysler Museum of Art announces new director to replace retiring William Hennessey

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Museums, News

The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, has announced that Eric Neil, currently the director of the Academy of Art in Easton, Maryland, has been selected to replace the outgoing William Hennessey, who has led the museum since 1997. (Hennessey announced his retirement last fall). On October 6, 2014, Neil will take the reins of this recently renovated museum that has a unique focus on glass art, not only in its substantial holdings, but also in an adjacent working glass studio where performance art and demonstrations have been a focus of the institution's diverse efforts to involve the community.

The bench by Ginny Ruffner is created out of aluminum and sits in Olympic Sculpture Park, a 20- minute walk from the Seattle Art Museum. photo: carrie dedon. courtesy: seattle art museum.

Tuesday July 1, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Seattle Art Museum unveils memorial bench designed by Ginny Ruffner to honor the late Mary Shirley

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Public Art

On June 27th, the Seattle Art Museum unveiled a new sculptural bench at Olympic Sculpture Park that honors the life and legacy of the late Mary Shirley (1941 - 2014), a Pilchuck board member as well as a Seattle art patron and longime supporter of the museum. The aluminum bench was designed by Ginny Ruffner, and was completed in time for the museum's annual Party in the Park fundraising event last Friday night. Entitled "Mary's Invitation—A Place to Regard Beauty," the work is a functional piece of outdoor furniture offering impressive views of the sculpture garden as well as the nearby Puget Sound. But with its voluptuous swooping lines, it is also Ruffner's expression of the passionate approach to life and art of the art collector it memorilizes who died earlier this year at the age of 73. The bench is made of aluminum and measures 4-feet-high by 9-feet-long.

The first gallery is organized around works inspired by nature, and this exhibit will be anchored by Katherine Gray’s 2009 work Forest Glass.

Sunday June 29, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Corning Museum of Glass pushes back opening date for new contemporary wing

FILED UNDER: Design, Exhibition, Museums, New Work, News

Originally set for a December 2014 opening, the new North Wing of the Corning Museum of Glass is now going to open to the public on March 20, 2015. The construction of the ambitious expansion project with a $64 million budget is on schedule, according to a Corning Museum spokesperson, but the additional time is needed for installing the 70 works that will be the hallmark of the new 26,000-square-foot gallery dedicated to showcasing the larger scale typical of contemporary work in glass. "We will begin installing our objects in the galleries once the building is complete," writes Yvette Sterbenk, the museum's senior manager of communications in an email exchange with the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet. "As the caretakers of the world’s most important collection of glass, we want to make sure we give ourselves time to do this appropriately. Instead of opening in the winter, we set the opening around the vernal equinox – the start of spring – which gives us a great opportunity to celebrate the idea of light, as befits the new building."

Tuesday June 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

EXHIBITION: Glass exhibition on Bainbridge Island puts the focus on Seattle scene

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, New Work, News, Opening

Through June 30th, 2014, the Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gallery is hosting "Blown Away, Cast Away," an exhibition curated by GLASS Quarterly contributing editor Victoria Josslin. Featuring the work of Granite Calimpong, Bruce Greek, Janusz Pozniak, Lynn E. Read, Boyd Sugiki, Takuya Tokizawa, and Lisa Zerkowitz, the exhibition combines sculptural and design works in glass.

Using motion capture technology, as well as chronophotography and projection, Harty recreates the silhouettes of Venetian glass forms.

Sunday June 8, 2014 | by Andrew Page

EXHIBITION: Kim Harty’s quest for motion capture informs a wide-ranging body of work

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, News

The photos are lined up neatly, like a checkerboard, fixed to the wall with binder clips. They feature a blurred figure caught in motion, her arms tracing the lines of sculptures in front of her. This is just one piece by artist Kim Harty, BOLT Resident artist, as she breaks down artmaking frame by frame in her new exhibition "Human Factors." Using motion capture technology, chronophotography, and projection, Harty's pieces seek to record the elusive artistic process and examine the dichotomy between human expression and industrial efficiency. The solo exhibition is on view at the Chicago Artists Coalition throughl Tuesday, June 14. (Disclosure: Kim is the former managing editor of GLASS Quarterly.)

April Surgent, Overshadow, 2014. Cameo engraved glass. H 14 7/8, W 20 1/4, D 2 in.

Friday June 6, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: April Surgent’s photographic glass panels debut at Heller Gallery

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, Opening

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Thursday May 29, 2014 | by Andrew Page

GLASS subscribers receive special bonus of latest edition of Corning’s New Glass Review

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Special Offer

At no extra charge, current subscribers to GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly will receive the latest version of The Corning Museum of Glass's annual exhibition in print of notable new work, juried this year by GLASS contributing editor James Yood, Van Teetterode Glass Studio director Caroline Prisse (Amsterdam), architect Paul Haigh, and Corning curator of modern glass Tina Oldknow. The four have chosen the 100 most important works in glass from the submissions of over 900 artists around the world. Subscriber copies will arrive in mailboxes shortly, shrink-wrapped with the extra bonus of the beautifully printed New Glass Review 35.

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Sally Resnik Rockriver at work in the studio. photo: michael schwalbe

Wednesday May 28, 2014 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions For ... Sally Resnik Rockriver

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, New Work

GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Sally Resnik Rockriver: In the past, I made geochemical reefs growing on underwater architecture. This theme has come back to me, except the lost city is not Atlantis, but one from our future. My new pieces have buildings that are overtaken by creatures from another place in time. I am making structures out of refractory materials and clay. I then kiln-fuse these walls with ceramic glazes and blown glass. The body of work is a group of scenes which tell the story of tension between the past and future. In these pieces, otherworldly specimens encounter the confines of an aging society. As a resolution, the bricks expand to allow enough space for new formations.

Amber Cowan, Shell Pink Bowl, 2013. Flameworked and fused American pressed glass. D 17 1/2 in. copyright: amber cowan

Tuesday May 20, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Amber Cowan awarded 2015 Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Commission

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Museums, New Work

Artist Amber Cowan, who is also an adjunct professor in the glass program at the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, has been awarded The Corning Museum of Glass's 29th Rakow Commission. The program provides $25,000 to encourage artists working in glass to explore new types of work without concern for financial limits, and has been offered to select artists each year since 1986, when the late Dr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Rakow created it. The award goes to an artist not yet represented in the museum's collection, and who is identified by the curator of modern glass, currently Tina Oldknow. The Rakow Commission works become part of the Corning permanent collection.

Marc Petrovic leading a demo at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Spring. The campus visit was an audition for the position he has been awarded after an international search. photo: robert muller

Saturday May 17, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Marc Petrovic hired to chair glass department at Cleveland Institute of Art

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Education, News

After an international search, the Cleveland Institute of Art has hired Marc Petrovic to chair its glass program, selecting him from the 35 qualified applicants for the position. The artist, a Cleveland native and alumnus of CIA, will join its faculty as an assistant professor for the upcoming Fall semester, taking over for his former professor and the longtime glass department chair Brent-Kee Young, who is retiring after 41 years. Petrovic will be relocating from Connecticut, where he has lived and worked for the past 20 years, and returning to the city where he was born, and where he earned his B.F.A. from CIA in 1991.

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