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John Ditchfield, Organic Mushroom Lamp (from the "Unique Collection" series).

Friday July 25, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

EXHIBITION: Contemporary Glass Society showcases Northern UK glass artists in “Glass in the Bank”

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, New Work, News

The work of ten glass artists from the Northern United Kingdom is currently on display in “Glass in the Bank”, an exhibition housed in the Lytham Heritage Centre in Lytham St Anne’s, Lancashire in England. The exhibition was organized by Northern Hub of The Contemporary Glass Society, an organization that aims to support both emerging and established artists working in glass and to promote contemporary glass within the scope of the greater art world. To this end, the CGS organizes exhibitions, publishes Glass Network magazine, and holds conferences and workshops.

Caroline Ouellette, "The stories we do tell", 2013. Kiln cast objects suspended in glass jars of glycerine.

Friday July 18, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

OPENING: Caroline Ouellette explores memories through the senses in Australian exhibit “In Vitro”

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

UPDATED 7/29/14

The Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California will be hosting its third Clay & Glass Biennial in 2015.

Wednesday July 16, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Association of Clay and Glass Artists accepting submissions for juried exhibition

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Call for Submissions, Exhibition, News

UPDATED 7/29/14

William Carlson, glass artist and inductee into American Craft Council College of Fellows.

Thursday July 10, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

American Craft Council Awards honor two glass artists and Corning Museum curator Tina Oldknow

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Award, News

The American Craft Council, a nonprofit public educational organization that promotes the understanding and appreciation of American craft, has announced the recipients of its 2014 Awards, which includes the induction of two glass artists, William Carlson, currently an Endowed Professor at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami whose works include cast glass sculpture and architectural commissions, and Philadelphia-based stained glass artist Judith Schaechter into its College of Fellows.

Thursday July 10, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

Glass Art Society presents new Technology Advancing Glass grant

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Call for Submissions, News

The Glass Art Society has announced a call for submissions for the recently created Technology Advancing Glass grant program. Generously funded by glass collectors Ted and Melissa Lagreid, the research grant of up to $5,000 will be awarded to an artist or group of artists to fund research into innovations that may benefit the glass art field. Ideas suggested on the GAS website include “new materials, production techniques, safe shipping techniques, new tools, adhesives, ways to create glass sculpture animated with electronics...”, but submissions are ultimately “limited by the imagination of [the] artists”. The winner of the grant will be required to share his/her research and developments at a subsequent GAS conference within the next three years.

Tricorni (detail), courtesy of Traver Gallery

Thursday July 3, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

OPENING: Vibrant new work by Davide Salvadore debuts at Traver tonight

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

New, vividly colored work by Muranese glassblower Davide Salvadore is the focus of a new exhibition at Seattle's Traver Gallery. Titled simply "Davide Salvadore: New Work," the show that blazes new chromatic ground for this artist best known for his sculptural stringed-instrument objects, opens tonight, July 3 and will be on view through Sunday, August 3, 2014. Salvadore, born into a family of glass workers, has devoted his career to reinterpreting and modernizing the traditional techniques and aesthetics he uses in his work. He often instructs students on non-traditional murrini-making techniques and how to employ the tiny detailed pieces in compelling ways. In his own work, he draws inspiration from ancient musical instruments, African symbols and textiles, and the colors of the African landscape. While many of the shapes in this exhibition are not new, Salvadore has added a number of intense new colors to his palette, using less of his characteristic earth tones in favor of bright turquoise, yellows, and oranges. Sometimes these colors fill the entire piece, and sometimes the colors jump out from a background of neutral colored, yet equally intricate patterns.

Emily Nachison working with glass and fiber in the studio

Wednesday July 2, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

OPENING: Emily Nachison links measurements to meaning in Bullseye Gallery exhibition

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, New Work, Opening

An essential philosophy of Portland-based artist Emily Nachison is that “our world is one of transformation and not destruction.” Much of her previous work examines the transformation that takes place during lifecycles of growth and decay. She has also dissected mythologies of scientific (and even pseudoscientific) history, as well as contemporary spirituality. In addition to her work in fiber, in which she holds an advanced degree, Nachison also makes cast-glass sculptures, which will be the focus of her solo exhibition at the Bullseye Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Entitled “The Realm of Quantifiable Truths”, the exhibition opening is this evening, Wednesday, July 2nd, and it will run through August 30th, 2014.

Artifact. Cast glass.

Thursday June 26, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

EXHIBITION: Katerina Ganchak elicits emotion in “Just Feel” exhibit in Brooklyn

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work

Artists and designers often expend a lot of energy developing a strong concept to depict through their work, but Katerina Ganchak’s work in her current solo exhibition, “Just Feel: Glass Sculptures and Paintings”, shies away from establishing a concept and focuses instead on eliciting an emotional response from the viewer. Her work intends to appeal to people with strong imagery that all human beings can intuitively relate to, and in “Just Feel”, on display at Java Studios Art Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, visitors are free to have their own individualized experience.

The Alastair Pilkington Studio at North Lands Glass in Scotland was expanded this year with a new workshop space.

Wednesday June 25, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

Expanded North Lands Creative Glass campus will host international conference in September

FILED UNDER: Announcements, News

North Lands Creative Glass, located on the coast of Northeastern Scotland in the former fishing town of Lybster, has offered Master Class glass workshops to a growing number of international students since 2002. It also hosts an annual International Conference revolving around relevant themes in the contemporary art world. This year’s conference, titled “The Place and the Work”, will take place on the weekend of September 6th and 7th, 2014, and aims to explore the role of the artists’ surroundings in the work they create.

Detail of Richard Jolley's "Sky" and "Desire," sections of a larger permanent installation at the Knoxville Museum of Art entitled Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and the Wonder of Infinity, 2009 - 2014.

Thursday June 19, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

Schantz Galleries’ Collectors Weekend to Feature Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Events

The 2014 edition of the Schantz Galleries Annual Collectors Weekend will be held on Friday, June 27th and Saturday, June 28th, 2014, and will feature artists Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush. The artists, husband and wife, recently opened the large-scale glass and steel installation entitled the Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and the Wonder of Infinity at the Knoxville Museum of Art in their home state of Tennessee, and both have many of their individual works on view at Schantz Galleries. Attendees of the Collectors Weekend will have the opportunity to watch a glassblowing demonstration by Richard Jolley on Saturday.

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