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Pyrex glass sculptures by Jane D'Arensbourg

Thursday July 17, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

OPENING: Jane D’Arensbourg’s borosilicate creations debuting in Manhattan retail space tonight

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Curiosities, Exhibition, News

Glass and jewelry artist Jane D’Arensbourg, known for her unique styles of wearable glass and multimedia art and sculpture, will be showcasing her work tonight at retail store and gallery “Project No. 8” at 38 Orchard Street, New York. D’Arensbourg possesses many items in her repertoire, including smaller sculptures, rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and other etceteras. The exhibition will commence at 6 PM, with refreshments provided by Fung Tu restaurant.

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

Claire Lieberman, Camo Frosted Sparkle Shooter, 2010. H 7 1/2, W 4 1/2, D 2 1/4 in. photo: ken kashian

Tuesday July 15, 2014 | by Elena Tafone

OPENING: Claire Lieberman brings her glass guns to Brooklyn art center

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, News, Opening

Located on Brooklyn’s Red Hook waterfront, the Hot Woods Art Center will host the opening reception for a duo exhibition on July 25, featuring the glass firearms of multimedia artist Claire Lieberman. Since 1999, Lieberman has explored and subverted the functionality of form with her “Ice Gun” series. The guns, like something from an 80s sci-fi flick, are meant to be cartoonish in their design. Over the years, they have only become less and less realistic, most lacking vital components, such as bullets and triggers, that would make the firearms functional. This “purely aesthetic” effect is enhanced by the glass from which these pieces are sculpted. While some are colored, creating an almost candy like appearance, the majority are clear, as if crafted from ice.

A fire on June 8 resulted in damages to GlassRoots, a non-profit organization that specializes in glasswork education.

Thursday July 10, 2014 | by Elena Tafone

GlassRoots recovers from fire, raises funds to rebuild

FILED UNDER: Announcements, News

GlassRoots, a Newark, New Jersey-based organization that prides itself on engaging at-risk youth through the art of glassmaking, has recently faced troubles of its own. In the midst of the appointment of new executive director Barbara Heisler and the introduction a several new programs, misfortune struck on June 8 in the form of an electrical fire. The fire, which sparked under the street in front of the studio, resulted in smoke damage, as well as power losses and surges that damaged essential glassblowing equipment.

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.

Tuesday July 8, 2014 | by Elena Tafone

Exhibition to celebrate the life and work of Jaroslava Brychtová

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, News

“Celebrate!” an exhibition at the Heller Gallery, endeavors to do just that, celebrating the life and career of Czech artist and sculptor Jaroslava Brychtová, who will turn ninety on July 18.

L to R: Judges Louis Thomson, Clare Maddison, winner Harry Morgan, and judges David Reekie and Karen Murphy

Monday July 7, 2014 | by Elena Tafone

U.K. Glass Artist organization announces winners of design awards

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Award, Design, News

UPDATED 7/15/2014

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.

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.