A chandelier made out of recycled eyeglasses by Stuart Haygarth.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Josiah McElheny at Andrea Rosen Gallery in NY
The same week that scientists at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva were getting ready to fire up the Large Hadron Collider, the artist Josiah McElheny was conducting a test of his own ideas on the Big Bang theory at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City. Inspired by the Lobmeyr chandeliers at the Metropolitan Opera House and informed by logarithmic equations devised by the cosmologist David H. Weinberg, McElheny’s chrome, glass and electric-light sculpture “The End of the Dark Ages” is part of a four-year investigation into the origins of the universe. What began with “The End to Modernity,” a sculpture commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, will culminate next month in a massive installation titled “Island Universe” at White Cube in London. “I had this quixotic idea to do modernized versions of the Lobmeyr chandeliers as sculpture with secret information behind it,” says McElheny, who upon first encountering these “gilded age/space age” objects immediately thought they looked like pop renditions of the Big Bang.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Window making- wow!!!
The Pennvernon Drawing Machine is a production line in one unit. A set of precision rolls support the glass vertically and draws upward and processes the film of glass which has been introduced by a bait. The bait removed, and the rolls keep the glass rolling upward to be cut to size.
This is one way they used to make window glass. Amazing!!!
On March 25, 1902, Irving W Colburn patented the sheet glass drawing machine, making the mass production of glass for windows possible.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tyler Glass Guild blog- Check out what the students post at tyler
The Tyler students have created a site for people to see what is going on with them. How exciting to get the students view.Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
John Miller- visiting artist at Tyler
John Miller came to Tyler as a visiting artist. He lectured and gave a demo. The lecture he gave was talked about his different bodies of work were he concentrates on blown glass with several diverse bodies of work. One series pays homage to Claes Oldenburg, whose larger-than-life pop sculptures of everyday objects inspired John to investigate the translation of everyday goblets and glassware to oversize proportion. His jumbo wine and martini glasses (some holding as much as 5 gallons) have been exhibited nationally in galleries and at the SOFA exhibition in Chicago.
Check out more of his work- click here
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Erica Rosenfeld- Featured Artist
Erica's work is worth checking out. It is so fabulous!!!! Here are some examples of her wonderful jewelry and her tapestries all made out of bullseye glass, hot worked, coldworked, and sewn together.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Allan McCollum, Fulgurite Project 1998, using lightning to create glass
Installation: University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, 1998. Over 10,000 casts of an
actual fulgurite produced by lightning triggered by the artist at the International Center for Lightning Research at
Camp Blanding, Florida.
"It's hard to imagine how memory and meaning could exist without language — both are always only available through some sort of representation. I imagine that objects having meaning — artworks, keepsakes, people, stones — could not exist for us without their "literature." How could a bolt of lightning, lasting only for the tiniest fraction of a second, be understood otherwise? Events this brief will always evade our synapses — and their existence will always only exist after the fact, amongst one's representations. Perhaps a true picture of how an artwork has meaning could be constructed if the literature supporting the artwork was put on display at the same time, along with it. The Petrified Lightning project was created to explore this idea — an exhibition to enact the "event" as always already absent, with the residue and the meaning always already appearing in its place."
-- Allan McCollum
to read more about this project click here
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Hans Godo Frabel Award and the Frabel Novice Award
Hans Godo Frabel Award and the Frabel Novice Award
The Frabel Awards is the only independent glass art competition open (and free) to emerging glass artists as well as established glass artists. What makes the Frabel Awards so unique is that that your peers vote the winner, not some Jury, making these awards the highest compliment a glass artist could receive.
The Frabel Awards 2008 offers, besides the honor of being chosen as the best artist by your fellow artists, an award designed by Hans Godo Frabel and $3,000 in cash prizes. Finalists are also recognized on the MyGlassArt.org website and their online galleries will receive special front page attention.
Accepted works, which may be any form of glass art, with the exception of beads and pipes, are considered for nomination based on:
Originality of design and creativity
Degree of difficulty
Innovative use of materials
Mastery of the techniques utilized
Aesthetics
Overall technical quality of the piece
To find the best glass artists the Frabel Art Foundation will have two categories for this competition:
Hans Godo Frabel Award
The Hans Godo Frabel Award, designed by Hans Godo Frabel, and a $2,000 cash prize will be presented to the Glass Artist that obtains the most votes from his or her peers on the MyGlassArt.org website. This competition is open to all Glass Artists worldwide (excluding beads and pipes artists)
Frabel Novice Award
The Frabel Novice Award, designed by Hans Godo Frabel, and a $1,000 cash prize will be presented to the emerging Glass Artist that obtains the most votes from his or her peers on the MyGlassArt.org website. This competition is open to all Novice Glass Artists worldwide, excluding beads and pipes artists. Novice Glass Artists are defined as students, early-career artists, and others who are rising through the ranks of glass art but who are not yet represented at the top-flight international galleries.
The Frabel Awards is the only independent glass art competition open (and free) to emerging glass artists as well as established glass artists. What makes the Frabel Awards so unique is that that your peers vote the winner, not some Jury, making these awards the highest compliment a glass artist could receive.
The Frabel Awards 2008 offers, besides the honor of being chosen as the best artist by your fellow artists, an award designed by Hans Godo Frabel and $3,000 in cash prizes. Finalists are also recognized on the MyGlassArt.org website and their online galleries will receive special front page attention.
Accepted works, which may be any form of glass art, with the exception of beads and pipes, are considered for nomination based on:
Originality of design and creativity
Degree of difficulty
Innovative use of materials
Mastery of the techniques utilized
Aesthetics
Overall technical quality of the piece
To find the best glass artists the Frabel Art Foundation will have two categories for this competition:
Hans Godo Frabel Award
The Hans Godo Frabel Award, designed by Hans Godo Frabel, and a $2,000 cash prize will be presented to the Glass Artist that obtains the most votes from his or her peers on the MyGlassArt.org website. This competition is open to all Glass Artists worldwide (excluding beads and pipes artists)
Frabel Novice Award
The Frabel Novice Award, designed by Hans Godo Frabel, and a $1,000 cash prize will be presented to the emerging Glass Artist that obtains the most votes from his or her peers on the MyGlassArt.org website. This competition is open to all Novice Glass Artists worldwide, excluding beads and pipes artists. Novice Glass Artists are defined as students, early-career artists, and others who are rising through the ranks of glass art but who are not yet represented at the top-flight international galleries.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Dafna Kaffeman- Featured Artist
Over the past six years, Dafna Kaffeman has been living and working in the Netherlands. In 1997 Kaffeman left her birthplace of Jerusalem to study under the guides of Mieke Groot and Richard Mietner, in the glass department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. She then went on to receive her MFA from the Sandberg Institute also in Amsterdam. She was nominated for the Bernadin de Neeve prize given every 4 years to a young glass artist in the Netherlands and has received grants and scholarships during her art education. Kaffeman has exhibited extensively in the Netherlands, as well as Jerusalem, Germany, the United States and Portugal. You can view her work in an article published in the Summer 2002 New Glass Review 23.
Urban Glass- Visiting Artist Fellowship-2009-10- DEADLINE 12/5/08
2009 - 2010 Visiting Artist Fellowships
UrbanGlass offers three Visiting Artist Fellowships to national and international artists wishing to work in glass. Two fellowships are offered to Emerging Artists and one fellowship to an Established Artist. Fellowships are for an eight week period and include access to all areas of the Studio on a scheduled basis, technical support and materials as stipulated in the Fellowship Agreement. The Fellowship does not include room and board; however, each Visiting Artist receives an honorarium of $1,500 for his/her discretionary use.
2009 - 2010 Visiting Artist Fellowships
UrbanGlass offers three Visiting Artist Fellowships to national and international artists wishing to work in glass. Two fellowships are offered to Emerging Artists and one fellowship to an Established Artist. Fellowships are for an eight week period and include access to all areas of the Studio on a scheduled basis, technical support and materials as stipulated in the Fellowship Agreement. The Fellowship does not include room and board; however, each Visiting Artist receives an honorarium of $1,500 for his/her discretionary use.
The Emerging Artist Fellowship is designed to provide recent graduates with a bridge between the academic and professional world. The Established Artist Fellowship is offered to working artists with established careers. Both fellowships afford artists the opportunity to develop a new body of work and explore new techniques. Artists will be chosen on the basis of past work and plans for utilizing UrbanGlass facilities. A selection committee of artists, staff and critics will review applications and notification of selection will be made no later than January 31, 2009.
Artists who are interested in this program should complete the Visiting Artist application form and submit it with required materials in the format described to:
Visiting Artists Program
UrbanGlass
647 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217-1112
Inquiries: 718.625.3685 or info@urbanglass.org
Submissions must be hand-delivered to UrbanGlass or postmarked no later than December 5, 2008, 5:00 PM.
click here to download an application
UrbanGlass offers three Visiting Artist Fellowships to national and international artists wishing to work in glass. Two fellowships are offered to Emerging Artists and one fellowship to an Established Artist. Fellowships are for an eight week period and include access to all areas of the Studio on a scheduled basis, technical support and materials as stipulated in the Fellowship Agreement. The Fellowship does not include room and board; however, each Visiting Artist receives an honorarium of $1,500 for his/her discretionary use.
2009 - 2010 Visiting Artist Fellowships
UrbanGlass offers three Visiting Artist Fellowships to national and international artists wishing to work in glass. Two fellowships are offered to Emerging Artists and one fellowship to an Established Artist. Fellowships are for an eight week period and include access to all areas of the Studio on a scheduled basis, technical support and materials as stipulated in the Fellowship Agreement. The Fellowship does not include room and board; however, each Visiting Artist receives an honorarium of $1,500 for his/her discretionary use.
The Emerging Artist Fellowship is designed to provide recent graduates with a bridge between the academic and professional world. The Established Artist Fellowship is offered to working artists with established careers. Both fellowships afford artists the opportunity to develop a new body of work and explore new techniques. Artists will be chosen on the basis of past work and plans for utilizing UrbanGlass facilities. A selection committee of artists, staff and critics will review applications and notification of selection will be made no later than January 31, 2009.
Artists who are interested in this program should complete the Visiting Artist application form and submit it with required materials in the format described to:
Visiting Artists Program
UrbanGlass
647 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217-1112
Inquiries: 718.625.3685 or info@urbanglass.org
Submissions must be hand-delivered to UrbanGlass or postmarked no later than December 5, 2008, 5:00 PM.
click here to download an application
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Scholarships/Call for student artist
October 31, 2008
SCHOLARSHIPS/CALL FOR STUDENT ARTISTS -- Artwork now being accepted online for scholarship competition sponsored by myartspace.com. Artists must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate art program and be a member of myartspace.com, an online community for the contemporary art world. Membership to myartspace.com is free as is the registration for the competition. First place in competition is $5000 cash scholarship awarded; Second place is $2000 and third place is $1000. Separate competition for graduate students with identical scholarship pool. Deadline for application is November 21, 2008. For more details see: http://www.myartspace.com/scholarships
SCHOLARSHIPS/CALL FOR STUDENT ARTISTS -- Artwork now being accepted online for scholarship competition sponsored by myartspace.com. Artists must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate art program and be a member of myartspace.com, an online community for the contemporary art world. Membership to myartspace.com is free as is the registration for the competition. First place in competition is $5000 cash scholarship awarded; Second place is $2000 and third place is $1000. Separate competition for graduate students with identical scholarship pool. Deadline for application is November 21, 2008. For more details see: http://www.myartspace.com/scholarships
Susan Glasgow Taylor- Pittsburgh Glass Center Resident Artist Project- "Absence Of Body"
Susan Glasgow Taylor is currently completing a 2 month residency at Pittsburgh glass Center. Her project is for a solo show called "Absence of Body" opening October 3, 2008- January 3, 2009. The installation she is planning is called "The Communal Nest" made up of several hundred glass twigs that have been created from artists from all over the world. Each artist is also invited to send a quote to be transferred onto vellum strips and woven into the nest. The center of the nest will be lined with glass feathers and a large, sewn glass pillow with a indentation in the top as though someone has just recently left. Surrounding the nest will be 5-6 additional sewn glass pieces supporting the concept of "Absence Of Body"
*The exhibition will benefit both the PGC and local women's shelter, Bethlehem Haven, and will coincide with the International Women's FOrum also being held in Pittsburgh that month.
Some of Susan's other work below
"RASPBERRY SWIRL" #145, 2007
Susan Glasgow Taylor
glass/mixed media
4 X 7 1/2 X 7 1/2 inches
350-0121
SIZE 8 SEWN GLASS CORSET
2004
glass
12 X 12 X 10 inches
350-0095
2004
glass
12 X 12 X 10 inches
350-0095
Monday, September 15, 2008
Tapio Wirkkala-design
Tapio Wirkkala
(1915-1985) Born in Hanko, Finland. Tapio Wirkkala is known as the versatile genius of design. His contribution to design includes everything from glass products to the design of banknotes and graphic art. During his career, Wirkkala has participated in many interntional exhibitions, as well as being the artistic director of the University of Arts and Design in Helsinki for many years. He has won a large number of awards, including three gold medals at the Triennale in Milan in 1951, followed by another three in 1954.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Deborah Czersko- HO HO BLOW 2007- Wheaton Arts
Deborah Czeresko has been a glassblower/artist for 19 years, starting in 1987, most of those years living and working in New York City. She began working with glass following completion of her Bachelor of Arts in psychology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She started by focusing on Venetian techniques, studying with several masters of the material, including William Gudenrath, Lino Tagliapietra, Pino Signoretto, Dino Rosin, and Elio Quarissa. Now, her artistic philosophy combines two basic points: everything has an essential, inescapable nature; and, balance equals harmony. Using this inspiration, she makes work that is directly influenced by the material. Deborah has exhibited extensively in New York and Louisiana. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, in Ebeltoft, Denmark and the Frauenau Glasmuseum, in Frauenau, West Germany. She has received several full scholarships from Pilchuck Glass School and from Tulane University, where she received her Master of Fine Arts. Deborah has received a fellowship from Metropolitan Contemporary Glass, and residencies from Appalachian Center for Craft and Bild-werk Frauenau. In addition, she has been teaching and lecturing for 16 years and her work has been featured in several well-known magazines, including Interior Design, Dwell Magazine, House and Garden, and Glass Magazine.
Wheaton Fellow Demo
At Wheaton arts on friday september 26th the fellows give their lectures and demos at 7pm.
Current fellows are Vanessa Cutler, United Kingdom, Joshua Dewall, Illinois, Ethan Stern, Seattle.
The night consists of each artist giving a lecture about their work and them doing a group demo for the audience. It is free to the public and always so much fun!!!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Swivel Liqueur Glass
Scandinavian designers created these fun stem-less glasses. Simple, pleasurable and sure to be an experience.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Light Bulbs by Pieke Bergmans
Light bulbs- a series of crystal lamps by Pieke Bergmans, with Royal Leerdam Crystal and Solid Lighting- handblown glass.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Glass Harmonica- (Armonica)- video included
Benjamin Franklin invented a radically new arrangement of glasses in 1761 after seeing water-filled wine glasses played by William Deleval. He called in the "armonica" after the Italian word harmony, worked with London glassblower Charles james to build one, and the first performance was in 1762 played by Marianne Davies.
Upside down Glassblowing- Chris Taylor
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
WOW!!! Check out this amazing Klein bottle
This is one of a series of glass Klein bottles made by Alan Bennett in 1995 for the Science Museum, London. It consists of three Klein bottles, one inside another. A Klein bottle is a surface which has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot properly be constructed in three dimensions. In the series Alan Bennett made Klein bottles analogous to Mobius strips with odd numbers of twists greater than one.Glass Factory Marks on Bottles
Ever wonder why there are so many marks on bottles or wonder where an old bottle came from?
check out this site which lists clues to help you figure it out
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Liza Lou- featured artist- breaking boundaries- she beads the world!!!
Liza Lou beads the world. She states "I began as a painter and I walked into a bead store and it was just like a flash in my mind. I just thought, 'My God, that's the most amazing paint I've ever seen."
In school she was ostracized for her choice of materials, she explains that most thought she was making jewelry. "I had become a sort of craft person, and that's not a good thing apparently," says Lou. "If you're doing something with beads then your're a craft person. If you're making paintings, you're an artist. You're a fine artist and there were very distinct categories."
Her response was to leave school and pursue her passion- what would you do???
To read more articles and see more images of her work click below
New Glass Review 30- DEADLINE 10/1/08
Deadline coming up!!!! Have great images and new innovative work using glass, you must apply. Lets make every years issue better and more exciting!!!
Entry deadline: October 1, 2008. CD-ROM photograph review of innovative works in glass designed and made between Oct. 1 2007- Oct.1 2008. All glassmakers, artists, designers and companies are invited to participate. 100 selections will be published in "New Glass Review 30." Entry fee: $20.00. Application: Curatorial Department, The Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning, NY 14830, or apply online.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Tyler School of Art moving to main campus
With the Tyler move to main campus many alumni, students, and Professors are torn, they love the current campus but the idea of all the facilities expanding leads to excitement. For glass students this means all new equipment, actual studio space, and more kilns, furnaces, glass, torches etc... It is hard to not be happy for that.
Tyler has existed in Elkins Park for about 70 years donated to Temple by Stella Elkins Tyler in the 1930's for an art school. This campus' fate is still unknown.
Prices at Temples New Art School
Entire building- $7.5 million
Atrium- $2 million
Professional gallery- $1.5 million
Student gallery- $1 million
Studio areas- $750,000 each
Studios/suites- $500,000 each
Studios/classrooms- $100,000 each
Computer labs $50,000 each
Graduate studios $25,000 each
This move is happening this december 08. The spring semester will start at the main campus. Please comment and share your feelings about the move.
related articles
Glass made in space, wow!!!- Delbert E. Day
Picture of glass microspheres next to a human hair.
Glass in Space
Day's initial experiments where glass was melted in a microgravity chamber and was held in place by sound waves therefore not needing a container to melt glass in, "we could melt and cool and melt and cool a molten droplet without letting it touch anything." This produced better glass even higher quality then he had hoped.
Glass Microspheres treating liver cancer
Delbert day is also know as one of the co-inventors for radioactive glass microspheres that help to treat liver cancer. To read more click here.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Check it Out!!! Tacoma Museum live video feed to Hot Shop
What a great way to see what is happening in Tacoma. This new feature with the Tacoma Museum of Glass web-site allows people from all of the world to experience glass in real time. Wonderful!!!!
hours open are wed-sat 10am-5pm, 3rd thur. 10am-8pm, sun 12pm-5pm (Pacific Standard Time)
The Tacoma crew consists of a group of talented, spirited, creative crew.
Ben Cobb, Gaffer
Alex Stisser, Gaffer
Gabe Feenan, Gaffer
Conor Mcclellan, Cold Shop Technician
Sara Gilbert, Head Technician
Jeanne Ferraro, Hot Shop Interpreter
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