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William Morris, Trophy Panel, 2006. This work carries the highest estimate for a glass work, with an expected range of $200,000 to 250,000. courtesy: bonhams

Thursday May 22, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

Upcoming Bonhams auction will include many notable glass works from the Koteen’s collection

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Auction, News

As part of Bonhams upcoming 20th Century Decorative Arts auction on June 10th, 2014, there will be a number of significant works in glass from the collection of the late Sherley and Bernard Koteen, prominent Washington D.C.-area art patrons, collectors and board members of the James Renwick Alliance who died within a week of one another in February 2013. Starting at 1 P.M. at Bonhams' New York location on Madison Avenue, works by Judy Kensley McKie, Michael Lucero, Therman Statom, Ruth Duckworth, Rudy Autio, Betty Woodman, Albert Paley, and Dante Marioni will be coming up for bid. Mark Peiser’s paperweight glass vase, titled, Oak and Spanish Moss, will be up for sale at an estimated value of $12,000-18,000. Also present amongst those artists will be several pieces by Dale Chihuly from his Macchia series of glass vessels.

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.

Daniel Clayman, Dispersion (computer rendering), 2014. Glass and steel cable. H 16, L 32, D 15 ft. rendering: mala merav holtzman

Thursday May 15, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

OPENING: Dan Clayman’s latest large-scale installation debuts at Brown University

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, New Work, Opening

When light passes through a transparent tangible material, it is assigned a mathematical number, called an Abbe Value. This number expresses how much light is distributed as it bends, changes color or pattern and re-characterizes the space around the material. Daniel Clayman, who is best known for creating large-scale works in a variety of materials but especially in glass, knows a great deal about the qualities of light, and has frequently worked with glass in pursuit of works that trap the light within the glass. His newest project, to be unveiled Friday, May 16, 2014 at the Cohen Gallery in Brown University's Granoff Center in Providence, Rhode Island, is entitled Dispersion, and will interact with exterior and interior lighting, natural and manmade, in a unique work of cast and assembled amber glass panels.

Thursday May 15, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

Crowdfunded art book on the work of Elias Hansen has until May 31 to hit goal and be published

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Book Report, New Work, News

Multimedia artist Elias Hansen, who frequently employs glass in his projects is set to publish an art book, Even Crooks Have To Pay The Rent, which documents his solo and collaborative works from the past decade. Part of a new publishing model, the publication of the book depends on hitting 500 advance purchases of the book. Published through the Minor Matters platform, Hansen’s book has attained 50-percent of its pre-sale goal of 500, with a deadline of May 31, 2014 for publication to proceed.

Thomas and George Woodall, The Intruders, ca. 1893, and The Attack, 1896 Blown, cased, acid-etched, and cameo-carved glass.

Saturday May 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

The Chrysler Museum of Art showcases new glass acquisitions as doors reopen to the public today

FILED UNDER: Museums, News, Opening

After an 18-month major expansion and renovation of its main building, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia opens to the public today with a 30-percent increase in the number of items in its glass collection on display, as well as greater connections to the activities of its glass studio. Proceeds from museum’s $45 million capital campaign—which included funding for the glass studio that opened in November 2011—financed this $24-million-project. An additional 10,000 square feet of exhibition space allows greater flexibiltiy for exhibiiton design as well as new paths for visitors to navigate the museum. Two new wings now flank the historic front entrance.

courtesy: the artist

Saturday May 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Mary Shaffer exhibition opens in Taos, New Mexico

FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, Opening

A solo exhibition of pioneering Studio Glass artist Mary Shaffer opens today at the E.L. Blumenschein Museum, a historic landmark in Taos, New Mexico. Up through June 22, 2014, the exhibtion entitled "A Different View" features the artist's signature "mid-air slumping" technique. Antique farm tools such as buggy wrenches and sheep sheers are adorned by a flourish of drippinghot glass, strategically cooled to preserve the fluidity and grace of the material subject to gravity.

This will be the second iteration of the Collective Design fair in New York City.

Tuesday May 6, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

DESIGN: Glass figures prominently in design fairs opening in New York City and London

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Art Market, Design, Events, Exhibition, News, Opening

Coming off a successful inaugural year, the second Collective Design Fair opens today and runs through May 11th, 2014, in Skylight at Moynihan, highlighting limited editions of design pieces and one-of-a-kind artworks in various media. Glass figures in many of the exhibitors displays, primarily in various approaches to lighting from the French Art Deco-style designs at Maison Gerard, to the sculptural glass lighting by Thaddeus Wolfe and Jeff Zimmerman at R and Company, to a mix of lighting and fine art glass works at Wexler Gallery, which blurs the boundaries between art and design.

Richard Jolley at work in the studio.

Tuesday May 6, 2014 | by managingeditor@glassquarterly.com

Richard Jolley unveiling at Knoxville Museum of Art a festive occasion

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Museums, New Work, Opening

This past weekend, the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, Tenessee, marked the unveiling of Richard Jolley’s permanent installation, Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and Wonder of Infinity, with a series of events that included a luncheon, a symposium, a street party, a gala evening and a family fun day. Commissioned in 2009, the monumental steel and glass sculpture, billed as one of the world's largest, makes a dramatic statement as you enter this regional museum dedicated to the work of East Tennessee artists. The unveiling of the massive installation on the wall and ceiling of the museum’s main hall coincided with the KMA’s 25th anniversary, and also included a related glass exhibit placing Jolley’s installation within the context of contemporary glass art.

Thursday May 1, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Taos Institute for Glass Arts seeks applicants for 2014 Invitational

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Call for Submissions, Exhibition

The Taos Institute for Glass Arts in Taos, New Mexico, invites artists to submit proposals for its upcoming 2014 Taos Art Glass Invitational, a biennial juried exhibition to take place from October 11, 2014 through November 9, 2014. The organization is dedicated to the expansion and appreciation of the contemporary glass art movement worldwide, and was formed in 2007, to keep equipment brought to the region by Dale Chihuly for an at-risk glassblowing program from being removed from the area. Formed by five artists, TIGA has brought forth its educational mission to the public through classes, workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions, and events. The jurors for the 2014 event are Herb Babcock, who just retired as chairman of the galss department at the College of Creative Studies in Detroit; Tina Olknow, curator of modern glass at The Corning Museum of Glass; and Stephanie Grilli, an independent art historian, writer, and curator.

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