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
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