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Hiroshi Yamano's From East to West "Scene of Japan" (FS #159), H 18 1/2, W 26, D 17 3/4 in.

Friday August 1, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Hiroshi Yamano’s “Branches” exhibition explores natural beauty
FILED UNDER: Award, Exhibition, New Work, News, Opening
Art, at its best, is interpretation. It allows the viewer, for a brief time, to share in the artist’s perspective on reality, be it the physical or the metaphysical — and gain new insights into one's own experience as a result. In the joint exhibition “Branches,” which opens at the LewAllen Galleries in the Santa Fe Railyard on August 8, artists Hiroshi Yamano and Pedro Surroca offer up different perspectives on the understated beauty of tree branches.  

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Saturday July 26, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Jim Loewer’s Asian-influenced bowls and vases featured in museum shop exhibit
FILED UNDER: Design, Exhibition, Museums, New Work, Opening
The Alternatives Museum Shop at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts will feature the intense colors of Jim Loewer's glass vessels in a special exhibition debuting July 31st and running through September 25th, 2014. Based in Philadelphia, Loewer was trained as a painter, but now devotes himself to flamerworked borosilicate glass vases and bowls based on forms influenced by Japanese vesselware. He is self-taught and appreciates slight irregularities in his work which adds to their character.

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Kim Harty in a 2012 photograph.

Wednesday July 23, 2014 | by Andrew Page

College for Creative Studies names Kim Harty head of glass program
FILED UNDER: Announcements, Education, News
The College for Creative Studies in Detroit has announced the appointment of Kim Harty to head the private college's glass program. Harty, whose title will be assistant professor in the college's craft department, will take over from Herb Babcock, who had led the glass section since 1974 until his recent retirement. Harty will be leading the glass program starting with the fall semester 2014, and will be part of a new generation of glass artists assuming academic positions in college and university art programs. She holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago (2013) and a BFA from RISD (2006). Harty is currently a board member at the Glass Art Society and editor of the organization's GASNews publication. (Disclosure: Kim Harty is also the former managing editor of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly.)

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.)

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