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2013 Visiting Artist Ben Wright leading an open class.

Thursday May 29, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Toyama City Institute of Glass Art Seeks 2014 Artist-in-Residence

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

The Toyama City Institute of Glass Art in Japan is now accepting applications for its Artist-in-Residence Program, which will take place later this year from October 20 through November 30, 2014. Located on the northwest coast of Japan, Toyama prides itself on being a "Glass Art City", with the school positioned in a creative environment ideal for studying the craft.

Thursday May 29, 2014 | by Andrew Page

GLASS subscribers receive special bonus of latest edition of Corning’s New Glass Review

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Special Offer

At no extra charge, current subscribers to GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly will receive the latest version of The Corning Museum of Glass's annual exhibition in print of notable new work, juried this year by GLASS contributing editor James Yood, Van Teetterode Glass Studio director Caroline Prisse (Amsterdam), architect Paul Haigh, and Corning curator of modern glass Tina Oldknow. The four have chosen the 100 most important works in glass from the submissions of over 900 artists around the world. Subscriber copies will arrive in mailboxes shortly, shrink-wrapped with the extra bonus of the beautifully printed New Glass Review 35.

Photo Credit Michael Schwalbe Portrait Rockriver

Sally Resnik Rockriver at work in the studio. photo: michael schwalbe

Wednesday May 28, 2014 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions For ... Sally Resnik Rockriver

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, New Work

GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Sally Resnik Rockriver: In the past, I made geochemical reefs growing on underwater architecture. This theme has come back to me, except the lost city is not Atlantis, but one from our future. My new pieces have buildings that are overtaken by creatures from another place in time. I am making structures out of refractory materials and clay. I then kiln-fuse these walls with ceramic glazes and blown glass. The body of work is a group of scenes which tell the story of tension between the past and future. In these pieces, otherworldly specimens encounter the confines of an aging society. As a resolution, the bricks expand to allow enough space for new formations.

Face Lift, 2013

Tuesday May 27, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

OPENING: Judy Chicago at David Richard Gallery

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, Opening

Judy Chicago, known most famously for her feminist artworks like The Dinner Party (1979) and Birth Project (1980 - 85), will be showing recent works in glass, bronze, and ceramics at the David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. On view from June 14 through July 26, 2014, the exhibition entitled "Heads Up," will be up during the artist's 75th birthday on July 20th.

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.

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