At-Risk Youth Program summit at the Glass Art Society Conference

FILED UNDER: Education, Events, News

In the two decades since Hilltop Artists in Residence was formed in 1994, the unique power of hot glass to reach at-risk youth who may have been left behind by traditional education has been established. Programs using hot glass to teach life lessons have been cropping up around the U.S. separated by thousands of miles and limited communication. The distance between these programs is about to narrow considerably thanks to a summit taking place as part of the 2014 Glass Art Society conference. A special panel from 10:30 AM to 12 noon on Friday, March 21st, will offer instructors and program heads a chance to exchange best practices and share success stories. But the more important goal of this event (sponsored by the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation) is to build bridges that will continue into the future in hopes of advancing the field through shared knowledge and experience (Disclosure: GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet editor Andrew Page is also the director of the Robert Minkoff Foundation). To that end, a special Website at www.atriskglass.org seeks to be a hub for interorganization dialogue and cross-pollination into the future.

Tuesday March 11, 2014 | by Andrew Page

WheatonArts 2014 CGCA Fellowships announced

FILED UNDER: Fellowship, News

The Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts, a Millville, New Jersey, center for glass art, has announced the fellows for its 2014 program. Visiting CGCA fellows are given up to 3 months to develop and refine their work, with access to the glass shop, housing, and a stipend. There are three sessions, April 23rd to July 16th; August 27th to October 8th; and October 22nd to December 3rd.

Thursday March 6, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Norwood Viviano mines the past in second solo exhibition at Heller Gallery

FILED UNDER: New Work, Opening

Opening this evening at Heller Gallery in New York City will be a solo exhibtion of recent glass works of Norwood Viviano entitled "Mining Industries." The second solo exhibition by the Alfred graduate (BFA) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA, Sculpture), the exhibition features 11 rapid-prototyped cast-glass works based on the topography of three U.S. cities over time -- Detroit, Houston, and Seattle. By layering the present over previous topographies, these works seek to capture the growth or decay of each cities primary industries in hopes of sparking consideration of the ways of looking at change over time and its meaning, which is somewhat obscured by the process of layering.

Tuesday March 4, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Lino Tagliapietra’s tiny birds coming to roost at the Toledo Museum of Art

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work

A smaller exhibition of 21 of Lino Tagliapietra's hand-blown birds will be installed in a gallery of the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, timed to coincide with the maestro's residency as part of the museum's Guest Artist Pavilion Project from March 26th through the 28th. The exhibition will run through May 25, 2014. The birds' elaborate plumage is created using filigrana canework, and there will be three separate groupings of the magical creatures: in flight, roosting, and as a firebird rising phoenix-like.

Wednesday February 26, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Chicago stars of food and drink to showcase talents at GAS conference kick-off reception

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Events

The Glass Art Society is mixing the culinary and glass art worlds with a special pre-conference fundraising event taking place on Wednesday, March 19, at Ignite Glass Studios, a prime venue for the 2014 Glass Art Society Conference in Chicago. Two representatives of Embeya restaurant, one of Esquire magazine's best new restuarants of 2013, will be on hand to kick the evening off with drinks and appetizers. Creative cocktails will be crafted by the restaurant's beverage director Danielle Pizzutillo, while the trays of hors d'oevres will be the work of Embeya's chef Thai Dang. Look for asian-fusion flavors prepared with French culinary techniques, with both the food and drinks said to be "glass-inspired" according to a GAS announcement about the event that will run from 6 PM to 10 PM. (Tickets are $200 for GAS members and $225 for non-members.)

Thursday February 20, 2014 | by Andrew Page

The Glass Virus Think Tank convenes in Amsterdam

FILED UNDER: Education, Events

A gathering of 27 artists, professors, and students gathered at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam for a two-day meeting described by co-organizers artist Marc Barreda and Gerrit Rietveld professor Jens Pfeifer as a "think tank" to consider the future of glass education. The assembed group, supplemented by online input solicited through a Tumblr page, are tackling a broad range of topics, including the economics of running a glass department, changes to curriculum, whether there is a bias against glass art, and a range of questions about the future.

A cluster of origami cranes hang as a proof of concept for installation at Ruckus Gallery in Philadelphia. by Jeremy Grant-Levine. AKA Germ

Wednesday February 19, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Retrospective exhibition for the late Kanik Chung in Brooklyn

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Opening

An exhibition chronicling the career of the multimedia artist Kanik Chung (1968 - 2013) has been curated by Victoria Calabro and John West, in association with the late artist's sister, Ling-Fong Chung. Featuring drawings on paper, sculpture, video, paintings, and glass, the exhibition entitled "Does Everything End in a Lamp!" will open on March 6th in DUMBO, Brooklyn, with an evening reception, and continue through March 27, 2014.

Thursday February 13, 2014 | by Andrew Page

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Semester-long artist residency at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

FILED UNDER: Call for Submissions, Education

An almost four-month artist residency (August 18th through December 12th) invites a professional artist working primarily with hot glass to work on campus and use the studio for the entire Fall 2014 semester. The Artist in Residence program is designed to "promote a vibrant creative environment in the SIU Glass program." During the Residency the artist will focus on his or her own projects and are invited to all aspects of academic activities in the program including reviews, critiques, demonstrations, collaborations, and working side by side with students in the glass studio. The Artist in Residence will have an exhibition on the SIU campus with the outcome of the residency toward the end of the term.

Wednesday February 12, 2014 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions for ... Charlotte Potter

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews

As program director and manager of the Glass Studio at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virgnia, Charlotte Potter somehow manages to balance all the responsibilities of running a thriving glass center with visiting artists, residencies, and a monthly program of curated performances using glass, and she also finds time to pursue her individual artist's practice. The Hot Sheet recently had the opportunity to interview Potter about her latest projects.

Friday January 17, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Two Brooklyn exhibits open this weekend featuring dangerously sharp glass

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, Opening

Two exhibitions opening this weekend in the New York City borough of Brooklyn employ the sharp edges of glass in service of very different artistic visions. In her installation and performance work entitled Always on Our Plate (2014) at Bushwick's Slag Gallery, artist Alexandra Ben-Abba investigates her complex feelings about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Using the table set for a dinner party, Ben-Abba embeds images into the tableware, which is set with dishes as well as glass shards, chunks of stone, and cement. On Friday, January 17th, there will be a 7 PM performance in which a group of artists, curators and art critics consume a meal using these dangerous table settings as the forum for a conversation about identity and place. The exhibition continues through January 22, 2014. Not far away in the DUMBO neighborhood, Smack Mellon gallery will unveil a 48-foot-long menacing glass wall work made up of 7,200 painstakingly cut triangles of mirrored glass arranged into dangerously sharp points. The work of Robert Hickman will debut on Saturday, January 18th, and remain on view through March 2, 2014. "Although the work is fragile, it will cut you if you get too close," writes Hickman in his artist's statement about the work, which he calls "a cautionary tale of human interaction.”

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