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divine"; is the glorification of a subject to divine level. In theology,
the term apotheosis refers to the idea that an individual has been raised to
godlike stature.</span></i></span>Michael Janishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124911308229843558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-78354820580841722452014-02-12T10:11:00.000-05:002014-02-12T10:11:08.045-05:00Old Town Crier Reviews Audrey Wilson Solo Exhibit<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://oldtowncrier.com/2014/02/01/gallery-beat-february-2014/" target="_blank"><b><i>Gallery Beat</i></b></a> <span style="font-size: small;">section of the Old Town Crier newspaper has a great review of glass artist Audrey Wilson's solo exhibit - </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“<a href="http://washingtonglassschool.com/audrey-wilson-solo-opens-at-wgs-gallery-jan-11" target="_blank">The Aberrant Collection of the Spurious Calamus</a>” - held at the Washington Glass School in January.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The article describes how the exhibit <span style="color: blue;"><i>" allowed Wilson to show why she’s on her way to become another giant signpost in the evolving art history of glass." </i></span></span><i>. </i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pretty strong praise - albeit well deserved! To jump to the entire article site- click <a href="http://oldtowncrier.com/2014/02/01/gallery-beat-february-2014/" target="_blank"><i><b>HERE</b></i></a></span></span><br />
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Michael Janishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124911308229843558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-27754423996022854632014-02-11T10:23:00.000-05:002014-02-11T10:23:12.481-05:00William Warmus on Glass Scessionism<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/warmus" target="_blank">William Warmus</a> - writer/critic/art curator/and Fellow of Corning Museum of Glass writes a response to some comments on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/176509315717214/" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/176509315717214/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a> group page <a data-mce-href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/07/glass-secessionism.html" href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/07/glass-secessionism.html" style="color: #1b8be0; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;">Glass Secessionism</a>. William Warmus wrote extensively about the development and evolution of Studio Glass. In the interest of giving the comments a broader audience - we post below Mr Warmus' text:</div>
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Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on other<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="color: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625;">[Facebook]</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>forums about Glass Secessionism and its relationship to studio glass. We are not opposed to the conceptual or material thinking that is associated with studio glass, and we hold skill in high esteem.</div>
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Our concerns are different. We look for innovation and seek to engender a thoughtful ongoing dialog about glass. The artworld is full of cynicism and infighting. It can be brutal. We want to create a sheltered circle within that context.</div>
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I suspect that it is Glass Secessionism's willingness to move forward while others fight the old battles that creates some uneasiness. The idea that it is OK to forget is still quite unorthodox. But to move ahead, we need to sometimes secede and forget. Try it, it is pretty liberating.</div>
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I apologize for making this a very long post, but here goes.</div>
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In 1992 I wrote an essay about the End of Studio Glass, and in 2012 I updated that essay. I am attaching a long excerpt below. My attraction to Glass Secessionism seems natural to me: after postulating the end of studio glass, why wouldn't I find the dialog that Tim Tate proposed an appealing next step?</div>
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As I wrote in the 2012 essay: "Coexistence applies to history as well as the present: We need to find a way to allow the weight of history to coexist with the present, not as a burden...but as inspiration. And yes, by the way, it is also sometimes O.K. to forget!"</div>
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Long Excerpt from the essay:</div>
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Is it Over?</div>
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Published in Glass Quarterly, Summer 2012</div>
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The author of an article charting the “completion” of the Studio Glass Movement reappraises the state of glass art.</div>
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By William Warmus</div>
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“The End” appeared in the Fall 1995 issue of Glass, although essays targeting the same theme appeared in American, Australian and Japanese publications between 1992 and 1993. My argument was that by the early 1990s, the techniques and aesthetics of Studio Glass were essentially complete. Read those essays for the details.</div>
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I did not use the term then, but tabletop sculpture seems an apt description of the glass from that period, and I use it in praise: Studio artists (and not just in glass) reinvented small-scale sculpture suitable for display in urban apartments and suburban homes. The work was aesthetically innovative and lovely to look at, or at least engaging. And alongside the artists grew an enthusiastic community of collectors, dealers, museums and scholars. I also observed that Studio Glass is largely about technique and broadening the definition of the factory.</div>
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The essay attracted attention. For example, the artists who call themselves Yukanjali (Anjali Srinivasan and Yuka Otani) cited “The End?” as influencing their curatorial and artistic work, quoting: “Studio glass itself is not stagnant, it is complete.” They used the term “post-glass” to distinguish between the new glass and Studio Glass, and concluded that: “Glass is not an art” but rather “Glass is a material. An amazing and wondrous thing that inspires the human spirit to create. It cannot, by itself become passé, although perhaps human intent can be, and maybe that lack of breakthrough is what we are facing now.”</div>
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Advance to 2012, the 50th anniversary of Studio Glass. What happened, and where are we now? Certain masters of the field of tabletop sculpture have been clearly established, including Harvey Littleton, Dale Chihuly, Tom Patti, Richard Marquis, Dan Dailey, Toots Zynsky and others.</div>
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Although I stand behind my 1992–1995 essays that argued that Studio Glass was complete, my definition of Studio Glass has evolved slightly. It is: a focus on glass as a medium for art that respects past traditions while at times forgetting those traditions in order to innovate.</div>
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This definition references Harvey Littleton’s proposition in his 1971 book, Glassblowing: A Search for Form: “The method used by the contemporary artist is a constant probing and questioning of the standards of the past and the definitions of the present to find an opening for new form statements in the material and process. It is even said that this search is an end in itself. Although knowledge of chemistry or physics as they apply to glass will broaden the artist’s possibilities, it cannot create them. Tools can be made, furnaces and annealing ovens can be built cheaply. But it is through the insatiable, adventurous urge of the artist to discover the essence of glass that his own means of expression will emerge.”</div>
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The founding of Studio Glass in 1962 was a confrontation of one culture with another: art encountering industry. It matured during a time when no one style in art was dominant (the post-Pop Art era), and yet the prevailing styles of criticism were, and to a certain extent remain, highly skeptical of glass as an art medium. Ash, trash, and fecal matter are widely admired as art media. But glass? It’s kitsch. Or so some say.</div>
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This attitude makes me argue that the central problem confronting the art world since the end of the era of dominant styles has been one of coexistence. Can we overcome art world skepticism and isolationism? We have come to see skepticism as implicitly aligned with a search for truthfulness, but why? If anything, it is easy to be a skeptic, and far more difficult to find ways to coexist. And yet perhaps coexistence, in all realms of life and aesthetics, is the most profound (and interesting) challenge of this century. Coexistence applies to history as well as the present: We need to find a way to allow the weight of history to coexist with the present, not as a burden or a negative challenge, in the sense of that which must not be repeated (when in fact it is impossible to repeat history—just try!), but as inspiration. And yes, by the way, it is also sometimes O.K. to forget!</div>
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My beloved medium of glass seems unusually open to coexistence. Glassmakers are willing to appropriate other art media; to range from an extremely small scale to a large one; to show their work at galleries, craft shows, flea markets, on eBay; to bond with collectors; to go anywhere, anytime; to have outlandish parties dressed in glass fashions; to engage in “athletic” contests centered on the medium. Perhaps that is what irritates the rest of the art world, this kitschy embrace of all things—even a willing self-flagellation, seemingly forever and ever, over the art-or-craft question. And in the middle of this carnival are the curators, historians, editors and other “gatekeepers” who are trying to discern themes and detect quality....[excerpt ends]</div>
Michael Janishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124911308229843558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-27764699982350021822014-01-24T17:53:00.000-05:002014-01-24T17:53:00.180-05:00Happy Australia Day!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glass Kangaroos; blown glass figurines created by
Kevin Prochaska, a Disneyland glass blower for 10 of his 35 years
experience. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wishing all me mates in Oz a Happy 'Stralia Day! Looking for appropriate imagery caused me to reflect. For 10 years, essentially, the 1990's, my wife and I lived in Australia. Working in design in Brisbane, Queensland is where I first was introduced to cast glass. Love the place and the people. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've become nostalgic for the carefree time I was in Australia, happily riding me favourite 'Roo - "Bazza" - around the Sydney Opera House. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All was fun and games until some unspoken line is crossed and it got ugly.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Oz, McDonald's are called Macca's... and they serve hamburgers with slices of violently purple beetroot.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And that is normal.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And these friendly critters are considered "little".</span></td></tr>
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Michael Janishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124911308229843558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-25745955442067951522014-01-19T17:55:00.004-05:002014-01-19T20:58:30.483-05:00Hallo! Glass is More!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The new international glass news website "<a href="http://www.glassismore.com/core/content.php?option=viewitem&id=42&rd=505&le=120">Glass is more</a>!" posts about the Washington Glass School.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new e-magazine all about glass is online - "<a href="http://www.glassismore.com/core/content.php?option=viewitem&id=8">Glass is more</a>!" </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Based in Holland, Glass is more! promises to bring a new worldwide review of the glass scene with info on conferences, symposiums, exhibits, new techniques, opinions and essays and the latest in awards, competitions and entries. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Editor Angela van der Burght worked as the general editor of Glasbulletin, Glashelder and This Side Up! and leads an international team of authors including Erica Adams in the US.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Their new website Glass is more! will cover art, craft, design, history, science and architecture for the collector, layman and the professional.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Click <a href="http://www.glassismore.com/core/content.php?option=viewitem&id=8"><b><span style="font-size: large;">here</span></b></a> to jump to Glass is more! home page.</span></span>Chip Montaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18388553616149472654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-22689337823478992612014-01-13T10:33:00.000-05:002014-01-13T10:38:03.243-05:00Opening of Audrey Wilson Solo Exhibit<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Audrey Wilson’s solo show “The
Aberrant Collection of the Spurious Calamus” opened this week to great
success!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The glass/mixed media
sculptures presented are a collection of ingenuity, with a focus on the
delicacy of the calamus - the hollow shaft of a feather; the quill. The feather
often symbolizes bravery and wisdom. The motif of the feather is used by the
artist in this show as a symbol of ingenuity and invention, and she combines
the motif with technological components as a way to capture</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> our
complicated relationship with technology and mirror it back with poetic glances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audrey Wilson "Wan Hu's Chair" <span class="st">pâte de verre glass, mixed media; <i>photo by Pete Duvall</i>. This work shows Ms. Wilson's wit, as it references 16th-Century official who attempted to become the first "astronaut" by being lifted by rockets into outer space. Wan supposedly had a chair built with 47 rockets attached. He climbed into his rocket chair and had servants light the fuses. There was a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared Wan and the chair were gone - never to be seen again.</span></span><span class="st"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was also the inaugural opening of the Washington Glass School Gallery, and the opening night crowd gives the promise of more successful shows!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audrey Wilson's solo show opens the WGS Gallery.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Part of the entertainment was Tim Tate trying to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew - using a shoe. Erwin Timmers - anticipating a wine fountain helps out - ready to capture the wine.</span></span></td></tr>
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Betty Pyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563187840695932214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-12304172533549795852014-01-03T08:30:00.000-05:002014-01-03T10:40:31.887-05:00"Primary Colors" Opens @ Alexandria's Del Ray Artisans<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Opening with an artist reception on Friday, January 3, 2014 from 7-10pm is <i>Primary Colors</i>
at <a href="http://calendar.thedelrayartisans.org/view_entry.php?id=1615" target="_blank">Del Ray Artisan</a>s' gallery in Alexandria, VA. This all area artist show kicks off the
New Year with an artistic challenge to create artwork using only the
three primary colors.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Curator and glass artist <a href="http://www.transformglass.com/about.htm" target="_blank">Betsy Mead</a> challenged Del Ray Artisans and all local-area
artists to think outside the box in using basic red, yellow, and blue to
create their compositions. The only restrictions were that artists must
not tint or mix primary colors; they could use white and black to
highlight, outline or lowlight objects in their compositions.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In conjunction with the <i>Primary Colors</i> exhibit, the non-profit artist group will feature the movie <i>Primary Colors</i>, a 1998 drama based on the novel <i>Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics</i>. </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Opening Reception on Friday, January 3 from 7-10pm:</b> Chat with the artists in the show and other art appreciators during the reception!</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>View the Show: January 3 - February 2, 2014</b> during
gallery hours at Del Ray Artisans gallery at the Nicholas A. Colasanto
Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301. </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a side note - read about how artist Betsy Mead created the work featured as the show's image in an earlier WGS post about what happens when fused glass is introduced to a hot shop! Click <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/08/roll-up-your-glass-how-warm-and-hot.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a> to jump to "Roll-up your glass!"</span></span></span></i>Michael Janishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124911308229843558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-12500380639249427542014-01-02T14:12:00.004-05:002014-01-02T14:12:56.808-05:00Audrey Wilson SOLO Opens at WGS Gallery Jan 11<div class="MsoNormal">
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Aberrant Collection of the Spurious Calamus</b>”, by glass artist <a href="http://www.audreywilsonglass.com/">Audrey Wilson</a> opens at the Washington Glass
School on January 11th thru 31st, 2014
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Generator" by Audrey Wilson, 2014, 16" x 10" x 9" mixed media, blown and pate de verre glass. <i>photo: Pete Duvall</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.audreywilsonglass.com/" target="_blank">AudreyWilson</a>'s sculptures are a blend of created and altered elements that reflect
evolving science and machinery and explore the relationship between man and
technology. Technology is merely an extension and reflection of mankind. In
fact, no objects contain more human essence than do tools. </span></div>
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sculptural projects and multi-media works are metaphors evoking our endless
manipulation of environment, our need for control, and our longing for a
meaningful union with nature and the other, in a supreme balance of power and
delicacy. People are becoming increasingly alienated from the objects which
surround and sustain them, as they have lost the emotional link to technology. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Ibn Firnas' First Glider", Audrey Wilson, 2013, 26"x 9" x 6", </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">mixed media, pate de verre glass. <i>photo: Pete Duvall</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/fNz1c" target="_blank">Washington Glass School</a> Gallery</span></div>
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Betty Pyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563187840695932214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-32715836211518589462014-01-01T07:00:00.000-05:002014-01-01T07:00:04.983-05:00Glass Sheds Light On the New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In honor of the regulations that phase out <a href="http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/12/30/new-year-means-new-light-bulb-regulations/" target="_blank">incandescent light bulbs</a> starting in 2014, photographer <a href="http://anythingphoto.photoshelter.com/" target="_blank">Pete & Alison Duvall</a> had a cast glass light fixture for their home in Silver Spring, MD. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span>In 2007, President George W. Bush signed into
law an energy bill that placed stringent efficiency requirements on ordinary
incandescent bulbs in an attempt to have them completely eliminated by 2014.
The law phased out 100-watt and 75-watt incandescent bulbs in 2013.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> As artists that depend on light and its transmission, the photographers worked with artist <a href="http://www.ecoglassart.com/" target="_blank">Erwin Timmers</a> to get every kind of light bulb they could referenced in their ceiling mounted glass artwork. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inspired by a</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> commissioned ceiling mounted artwork that Michael Janis did in 2007 for a <a href="http://washingtonglassstudio.com/lighting.html" target="_blank">Washington, DC collector</a>. The couple that commissioned the work had limited space in their apartment, and felt that the creating an artwork piece mounted on the that diffused light would be a crossover of art and function. In the earlier suspended artwork panel, faces look down from a textured surface. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pete Duvall noted that the light source for the new artwork piece is from energy efficient LED bulbs.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Original cast glass panel by Michael Janis - Photo by Pete Duvall. </span></span></td></tr>
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Betty Pyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563187840695932214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-16122167687732721762013-12-31T07:30:00.000-05:002013-12-31T08:20:52.307-05:00Bottoms Up! That's the Right Spirit!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Raise a toast and welcome the New Year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Washington Glass School wishes you joy and surprises in the new year!</span><br />
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Michael Janishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124911308229843558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-25767802269263614952013-12-30T06:30:00.000-05:002013-12-30T08:40:20.762-05:00John Henderson at DC's "Community of Hope" Collection<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Washington Glass School Resident Artist <a href="http://glassartbyjah.com/index.html" target="_blank">John Henderson</a>
recently had a glass artwork panel acquired by <a href="http://www.communityofhopedc.org/" target="_blank">Community of Hope</a>, a non-profit
organization located in Washington
D.C. For 33 years, Community of
Hope has provided hope and stability to low-income and homeless adults and
children in DC. This acquisition was
facilitated by <a href="http://ffinearts.com/" target="_blank">Fitzgerald Fine Arts</a>, an art consulting firm headed by Lillian
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">John Henderson began his
artistic studies at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, at Harvard University.
John’s artistic journey has taken him through printmaking, water colors,
stained glass, metal sculpture, and finally kilnformed glass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Said John about his glass artwork:<span style="color: blue;">
“I use glass as my medium because of its translucency and reflective qualities…In
working with glass, my focus is on shape, form, texture and color…I use many
different materials mixed with glass, yet glass is the dominated focus in all
its various applications and techniques.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“In creating this visual
transparency; abstracting images, symbols and text, my work invokes a spiritual
awareness and connection to the past. My aesthetic philosophy is an exploration
and extension of my cultural identity. I am reclaiming and reconciling the
past, with the present, in order to move forward.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The title of the triptych piece is “Kadima”.
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</span>The medium is fused glass and each panel measures 8"x10".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><b>Congratulations John!</b></i></span></div>
Michael Janishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124911308229843558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-41536790177452472952013-12-26T13:00:00.000-05:002013-12-27T12:28:56.460-05:00The Year That Was - 2013 Review<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">From beginning to end (and
we’re not done yet), everyone at the Washington
Glass School
has been extremely busy throughout this year. We are excited to share a
snapshot of what's been going on and hope it will inspire you as much as it
has inspired us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">2013 Started off right - the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (AACG) featured WGS' Michael Janis as the "<a href="http://contempglass.org/artists/entry/michael-janis">Artist of the Month</a>". </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to further the development and appreciation of art made from glass.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Erwin Timmer's sculpture made from recycled glass was selected as part of the Arlington Arts Center </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'s <span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">national exhibit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.arlingtonartscenter.org/aac-exhibition-interwoven" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">INTERWOVEN: Art. Craft. Design</a>.</span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.796875px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Erwin Timmers provides thrills for visiting UK artists.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Washington Glass Studio project of designing and creating cast glass doors for the <a href="http://www.aoc.gov/projects/john-adams-building-monumental-door-replacement" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a> continued, with an inspection and review of the glass by the Architect of the Capitol. Arrangements for the <a href="http://glassandclay.org/" target="_blank">International Glass & Clay</a> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">exhibit - </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">third collaborative exhibition organized by Artomatic and the DCCAH between Washington, DC artists and artists from DC's Sister City of Sunderland, England took place in February, with the visiting artists arriving late in the month. Erwin Timmers made sure the Brits staying with him had a taste of American adventure, being caught up in a too-fast police car chase that included the escaping fugitive ramming Erwin's van. The UK artists were told that car chases and gun shootings are as common as they appear in any Bruce Willis movie.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was the third collaborative exhibition organized by Artomatic, the DCCAH, Sunderland City, the University of Sunderland and the UK National Glass Centre. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The show garnered a lot of interest from international sources. The British Council USA enlisted Michael Janis as a its US Cultural Ambassador, providing stories to the UK's blog about <a href="http://usa.britishcouncil.org/blog-glass-art" target="_blank">artist Phil Vickery</a> and how the relationship between the two glass centers enabled Tim Tate and Michael Janis to fulfill their <a href="http://usa.britishcouncil.org/blog-glass-art-exchange" target="_blank">Fulbright Scholar</a> assignments. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">UK glass artists demo at DC GlassWorks.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Workshops by visiting artists Robyn Townsend and Criss Chaney at the glass school and hot glass demos by Roger </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The, Phil Vickery and Colin Rennie gave the DC glass scene lots to see and think about. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many of the visiting artists enjoyed brunch at Artomatic's George Koch's place.</td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The James Renwick Alliance (JRA) also participated in the international show, holding a <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/03/high-tea-at-international-glass-clay.html" target="_blank">High Tea</a> event at the Edison Place Gallery. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/03/high-tea-at-international-glass-clay.html">Tea with the Brits</a> and the JRA formed the closing events. Photo by Miriam Rosenthal.</td></tr>
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The UK organizations that showed in the USA arranged to show works by the DC artists in the UK, and featured the artwork at the Sunderland Museum and the Edinburgh Art Fair later in the year. Nancy Donnelly had created </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>April</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">The James Renwick Alliance's <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/01/save-date-april-5-7-jra-spring-craft.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spring Craft Weekend</a> theme was <i>T</i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><i>he Stars of Today and Tomorrow.</i> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery had </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">master artists Bruce Metcalf and Adrian Saxe, along with Hunt Clark and Sean Hennessey, and moderator Cindi Strauss, curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Houston's</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> Museum of Fine </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Arts in a panel discussion about the direction of </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">contemporary craft. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JRA Spring Craft Weekend panel discusion at the Smithsonian. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 20px;">Photo by Miriam Rosenthal.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Audrey Wilson</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">The JRA Weekend also </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">had the <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/04/james-renwick-alliance-glass-fashion.html" target="_blank">Glass Fashion Show</a>, MC'd by glass superstar Laura Donefer.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Glass artists from around the country participated and modeled the sartorial splendor, including our Audrey Wilson and Susan Taylor Glasgow. </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Susan Taylor Glasgow lashes out at Michael Janis.</span></span></td></tr>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy Donnelly completed a <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-process-nancy-donnelly-creates.html" target="_blank">commissioned artwork</a> piece for the Lewinsville Presbyterian Church in McLean, VA. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy Donnelly's Baptismal Font.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tim Tate and Sean Hennessey were included in Michigan's Habatat Gallery's <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/04/habatat-galleries-international.html" target="_blank">International Invitational</a>. </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The exhibition had over 300 works of glass art and 2 separate exhibitions.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Radar" Tim Tate and Sean Hennessey </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>May</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.796875px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Erwin Timmers’ colorful eco-friendly glass sculpture was on display in the Brentwood Arts Exchange gallery’s <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/05/erwin-timmers-at-brentwood-arts.html" target="_blank">Front Window Gallery</a> in May. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Thoughtful and ingenious, Erwin's sculpture calls attention to contemporary issues through a creative re-engineering of often-overlooked forms and concepts, often focusing on industrial salvage and recycling.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Erwin Timmers sculptures in the Front Window Gallery. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo by Krista Schlyer.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In May, Duncan McClellan Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida opened an <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-dc5-in-st-pete.html" target="_blank">exhibit</a> centered on works by artists of the Washington Glass School. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duncan McClellan Gallery </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Called <b style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">DC-5' -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Works by Artists of the Washington Glass School</i></b><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, the show had works by Sean Hennessey, Michael Janis, Allegra Marquart, Tim Tate and Erwin Timmers. </span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">St Petersburg Museum of Fine Art</span></span> hosted a talk by Sean and Tim about their works and process. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVN217t69L8UGmi9QPITBGgKMgHY19MpEq_Y1bwariCsQ_PdsIPdPR1QFkLFM-O78v5kxJ0vZKBkEbd1vXGjN1f9LhG4vMUmxkcsvEtWGG3sLKUgab-_tbn-XOMsOUUt8mi6ArO6FYLg/s1600/museum_fine_art.sean_hennessey_lecture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVN217t69L8UGmi9QPITBGgKMgHY19MpEq_Y1bwariCsQ_PdsIPdPR1QFkLFM-O78v5kxJ0vZKBkEbd1vXGjN1f9LhG4vMUmxkcsvEtWGG3sLKUgab-_tbn-XOMsOUUt8mi6ArO6FYLg/s200/museum_fine_art.sean_hennessey_lecture.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sean Hennessey at St. Petersburg's MFA.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The American Craft Council's magazine - <a href="http://craftcouncil.org/magazine/article/becoming-michael-janis" target="_blank">American Craft</a> featured Michael Janis with a profile on his glass artwork. The huge 8 page story gave insights to his imagery and process. This issue also included work by Tim Tate, and we have learned that the April/May issue won a <a href="http://craftcouncil.org/post/american-craft-wins-national-award-excellence" target="_blank">national publishing award</a> - no doubt due to the WGS stories.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">American Craft April/May magazine can't fit Michael's head on one page. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo by Robert Severi.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jumping from Sunny Florida to Glamorous Venice, Italy is a daunting task - but Tim Tate's artwork can handle the leap easily. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/05/tim-tate-chris-baer-venice-biennale.html" target="_blank">Tangents</a>, a show featuring works</span> <span style="font-size: small;">by artists Christopher Baer and Tim Tate opened on the 4th floor of the<a href="http://www.palazzobembo.org/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;"> Palazzo Bembo</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>during the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.labiennale.org/en/Home.html?back=true" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Venice Biennale</a>. </span></span></span><b>June</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.796875px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The biennial International Symposium and Exhibition of Contemporary Glass –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://glassweekend.com/home/aboutglassweekend.html" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">GlassWeekend</a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– was hosted in June by the Creative Glass Center of America at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WheatonArts" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">WheatonArts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the <a href="http://contempglass.org/" target="_blank">Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass</a>. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.morganglassgallery.com/about.htm" target="_blank">Amy Morgan</a> - talks about the glass sculpture in Morgan Contemporary Glass booth during GlassWeekend.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Keke Cribbs @ GlassWeekend.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">during the long weekend; a
compelling <a href="http://judithschaechterglass.blogspot.com/2013/06/kill-skill.html" target="_blank">keynote talk</a> by Judith Schaechter; introduction of the 2014
"Rising Stars of Glass"; fantastic demos; looking at the <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/06/pix-from-glassweekend-at-wheatonarts.html" target="_blank">candy storeof glass art</a>, up close and personal; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151708458190530.1073741834.77812095529&type=3" target="_blank">seeing friends</a>, collectors and artists -
it was a great time.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.american.edu/cas/museum/gallery/Tim_Tate_Sleepwalker.cfm" target="_blank">American University Museum</a>'s <span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Katzen Arts Center opened Tim Tate's show "Sleepwalker"</span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">. Tim's latest work has moved toward video
installations. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement, and mystery, videos, enable us to participate in another reality. The record-breaking show featured collaborations with artists <a href="http://anythingphoto.photoshelter.com/" target="_blank">Pete Duvall</a> and Richard Schellenberg. </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Sleepwalker" installation at American University Museum.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Washington Glass Studio was kept busy in June - creating and installing a new commissioned artwork for </span><a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/06/installing-glass-artwork-commission-at.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Kaiser Permanente</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s refurbished and expanded Largo, MD. medical facility.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erwin and Audrey install Kaiser Permanente</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">The Washington Glass Studio was also awarded the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities' Public Art commission for an outdoor sculpture to be located at DC's new <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-dc-public-art-project-announced.html">Unity Parkside Health Care</a> center.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> The new health center is located just down the road from the Kenilworth Park and Aquatic </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Gardens, a National Park Service site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/06/american-craft-magazine-features.html">American Craft Magazine</a> featured the collaborative team approach for the Library of Congress cast glass doors. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">American Craft Magazine June/July 2013 issue re: Library of Congress cast glass.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>July</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Big congrats went out to our expat alum Jeff Zimmer. London's <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-victoria-albert-museum-acquires.html">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>, one of the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, acquired one of Jeff's artworks for its permanent </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">collection. Speaking of Brits - <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/08/uk-artist-susan-ratliff-residency-at.html">Susan Ratliff</a> - a glass artist from the University of Sunderland - came to the Washington Glass School for a summer residency. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan Ratliff helps Audrey Wilson create the 2013 DC Shorts film awards.</td></tr>
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</span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">August</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Sean Hennessey and Tim Tate led a tour for the <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/08/veni-vidi-vici-recap-of-penland-auction.html">Penland Auction</a> at North Carolina's Penland School of Crafts. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">The guys took the James Renwick Alliance (JRA) group to many of the the artist studios that surround Penland, some of the galleries of Asheville, and then to the beautiful setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains that surrounds Penland for the auction. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Accompanying the group was Jennifer Scanlan, independent curator and craft scholar. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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In</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> August, the </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Washington Glass Studio installed art glass made for the the chapel in <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-process-shady-grove-hospital-glass.html">Shady Grove Hospital</a>'s new <a href="http://www.adventisthealthcare.com/locations/aquilino-cancer-center/services/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Aqualino Cancer Care</a> center</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">.</span></span><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">September</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">UK ceramic artist Philippa Whiteside came to next door Flux Studios to do an artist residency. UK Sunderland City Council reps came to DC to discuss future <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/09/usuk-sister-cities-keeping-calm.html">collaborative proposals</a> and brought Philippa to the meetings with DC </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">and UK agencies</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">.</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Public Art talk with DCCAH</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Mt Rainier's Joes' Movement Emporium hosted an exhibit and talk about how public art comes into being. "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/09/public-art-panel-discussion-with.html">Public Art Concepts</a>” gave the public a behind-the-scenes look at what it ta<span style="font-size: small;">kes to create artwork for a public space. The exhibit featured scale m</span>odels and proposals for public art works and opening night featured a lively panel of participating artists and reps from funding agencies that have diverse experience in the public art arena.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sean Hennessey</span></td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">October</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sean Hennessy had a solo show at The Dunes Gallery in Washington, DC. His show, t</span>itled "<a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/10/sean-hennessey-solo-exhibit-dcs-dunes.html">The Luxury of Dreams</a>" <span style="font-size: small;">was</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;">a series of artworks based on interpretations of dreams submitted to Sean by friends, colleagues, strangers, and social media connections. Using bas-relief cast glass, painting, drawing, and photography, Sean created a strong </span>and surreal body of works that takes his work to a new level. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">School was back in session with Professor Debra Ruzinsky's lecture on the history of the studio glass movement. Students, including a class from Salisbury University, enjoyed </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Deb's talk that included pre-'60s and '70s works, works by women, European glass artists, kiln casters, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">and narrative works - all the alternate viewpoints.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Audrey Wilson's artwork was <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/09/audrey-wilsons-work-selected-for.html">selected</a> as </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">the best from the Midwest, 28 glass artworks from 21 glass artists have been selected for this year’s </span><a href="http://www.indianaglassartsalliance.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Indiana Glass Arts Alliance</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> (IGAA) annual exhibition. Titled “</span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">GATHERING: Contemporary Glass from the Heartland</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">,” the exhibition at the Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearly 150 applications, from 48 glass artists in six states, were reviewed by a two-member jury panel. Tom Riley, who for 30 years has owned Riley Galleries, in Cleveland, Ohio along with glass artist and director of the glass program at Kent State University, Sean Mercer, collaborated on selecting artwork for the exhibition.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Audrey - who will be having a solo exhibition at the Washington Glass School Gallery - opening Jan. 11, 2014 - had two works selected for the Indiana show. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8kxkyIe6YtI_V7Juy3stc83TdI8L7sCz_pUkyVkeNNGfRzqahKbi4ngEql7sqKAZMrNDrOP4Z0PKQqGgYJk92s_i1EyZXtKGUlhe5uzv5EkM1_cfeD4LfIunEayxHrmLNKzJdGRjtdqM/s1600/faygo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8kxkyIe6YtI_V7Juy3stc83TdI8L7sCz_pUkyVkeNNGfRzqahKbi4ngEql7sqKAZMrNDrOP4Z0PKQqGgYJk92s_i1EyZXtKGUlhe5uzv5EkM1_cfeD4LfIunEayxHrmLNKzJdGRjtdqM/s200/faygo.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baltimore's gallery and showroom Case[werks] opened its <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/10/erwin-timmers-in-baltimores-casewerks.html">October Group Exhibit</a>, <i><b>Product Lines: Art & Function Delineated</b></i>, featuring works of our eco-artist, Erwin Timmers. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ceramics, furniture, glass, prints, textiles, and design samples were displayed in tableaus.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pitter-patter of little feet could be heard in the studio - a part-time studio dog, Faygo, arrived. A gentle soul, the pup has been marking his territory in earnest, much to Erwin's dismay. </span><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">November</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tim Tate at SOFA.</span></span></td></tr>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">The 20th year anniversary of the big <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/10/off-to-sofa-chicago.html" target="_blank">S.O.F.A. Chicago</a> Art show proved to be a good one for the Washington Glass School artists. The show always promises to be an overload of art, ideas, artists and extravagance, and it delivered. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan Taylor Glasgow's mobile chandeliers were stunning.</td></tr>
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Also this year, a number of talks about the future of the glass movement were held<span style="font-size: small;">; </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/07/glass-secessionism.html">Glass Secessionism</a> had a round-table talk hosted by William Warmus and
Tim Tate centered on Post-Studio Glass and Glass Secessionism. This talk
generated a tremendous amount of buzz during the art fair, and is the ideas
generated sure to continue to reverberate thru the glass world. Clearly, this is
a topic that has the ability to stir passions - expect more to come. Articles
about the evolving nature of studio glass and Glass Secessionism have since
been published in Urban Glass' <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.urbanglass.org/glass/issue/issue-133-fall" target="_blank">Art Quarterly winter</a> magazine. </span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glass Secessionism panel talk at SOFA Chicago 2013. L-R <span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span class="fbPhotoTagListTag tagItem"><a class="taggee" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1035402332&type=mediatag&media_info=6.10202421793694939" data-tag="1035402332" href="https://www.facebook.com/timtateglass">Tim Tate</a></span>, <span class="fbPhotoTagListTag tagItem"><a class="taggee" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=628544356&type=mediatag&media_info=6.10202421793694939" data-tag="628544356" href="https://www.facebook.com/perry.price.1232">Perry Price</a></span>, <span class="fbPhotoTagListTag tagItem"><a class="taggee" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=100000523723451&type=mediatag&media_info=6.10202421793694939" data-tag="100000523723451" href="https://www.facebook.com/warmus">William Warmus</a></span> and <span class="fbPhotoTagListTag tagItem"><a class="taggee" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=514710789&type=mediatag&media_info=6.10202421793694939" data-tag="514710789" href="https://www.facebook.com/jenscanlan1">Jennifer Scanlan</a></span>.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Audrey Wilson at CONTEXT/ Art Miami.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">December</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">The winter got hot quickly</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"> - with many of the <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/11/we-give-thanks.html" target="_blank">WGS artists</a> showing at the Art Basel/Art Miami fairs. Audrey Wilson worked the fair at <a href="http://alidaanderson.com/" target="_blank">Alida Anderson Art Project</a> gallery, and her artwork was among the standout pieces.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg">In December, we congratulated alum <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/12/jeff-zimmer-awarded-2014-stephen.html" target="_blank">Jeff Zimmer</a> on being awarded the 2014 <a href="http://soa.anu.edu.au/glass/stephen-procter-fellowship" target="_blank">Stephen Procter Fellowship</a>. The international award will be taking Jeff to Australia for a </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg">residency at The Australian National University. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Harvey Littleton,
c. 1978, working at his studio in Spruce Pine, NC</span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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credited with defining the start of the American Studio Glass Movement, <a href="http://washingtonglass.blogspot.com/2013/12/in-memoriam-harvey-k-littleton.html" target="_blank">Harvey K. Littleton</a>. His work, his legacy of taking glass to the university, and his
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result to which our paths lead. As we look to the future, here's to keeping our 'bug eyed' sense of wonder to </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> the medium in which we work and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">people in our lives.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Chip Montaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18388553616149472654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-42134780333445168982013-12-24T08:00:00.000-05:002013-12-24T08:00:06.791-05:00Happy Holidays To All From Washington Glass School!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fused glass Christmas tree by Kasian and Panache Glass</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Merry Christmas and Warm (Glass) Wishes </span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">for a wonderful Holiday Season </span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and a very Happy New Year!</span></span></span></div>
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Michael Janishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124911308229843558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-56639589055986419072013-12-20T12:40:00.000-05:002013-12-20T12:49:07.084-05:00Chihuly's "Red Reeds" Acquired by VMFA<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Red Reeds" by Chihuly. The work is the first site-specific outdoor installation by the artist to be acquired by an art museum. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) board of trustees has voted to acquire
the work Red Reeds, by Dale Chihuly which was created for the museum's Anne Cobb
Gottwald reflecting pool. The artist created more than 100 red glass reeds as part of the <i>Chihuly at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts </i>exhibition, October 20, 2012- February 10, 2013. Since that time, <i>Red Reeds </i>has been on loan to VMFA. <br />This
dynamic, site-specific work by Dale Chihuly was an instant success at
the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,” said Alex Nyerges, director.”It is
beautiful in every season, and is a wonderful addition to the Lora
Robins Sculpture Garden. I am especially pleased that this is the first
site-specific outdoor installation by Chihuly to be acquired by an art
museum.” <br /><i>Red Reeds</i> was purchased with private funds
from the Arthur and Margaret Glasgow fund. Private funds are always used
for art acquisition, but upon purchase the work becomes the property of
the Commonwealth of Virginia for its ongoing care. <br />The reeds
were blown by team Chihuly at the Nuutäjarvi Glass Factory in
Nuutäjarvi, Finland because of the excellent clarity of glass there and
to take advantage of their annealing ovens, the largest in the world.
The annealing process facilitates the curing of these large-scaled
elements, which are as much as 10 feet in height. Also, the red glass in
Finland has a particularly brilliant quality, due to the ruby red
pigment and the added chemical element neodymium. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>About the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts </b>VMFA’s
permanent collection encompasses more than 33,000 works of art spanning
5,000 years of world history. Its collections of Art Nouveau and Art
Deco, English silver, Fabergé, and the art of South Asia are among the
finest in the nation. VMFA’s
Statewide Partnership program includes traveling exhibitions, artist and
teacher workshops, and lectures across the Commonwealth. VMFA is open
365 days a year and general admission is always free. For additional
information, visit www.vmfa.museum. </span></span>Betty Pyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563187840695932214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-90491904319681743392013-12-19T15:33:00.000-05:002013-12-19T15:33:02.118-05:00Jeff Zimmer Awarded 2014 Stephen Procter Fellowship<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We
are as proud as all get out to announce that WGS alum <a href="http://www.jeffxzimmer.com/" target="_blank">Jeff Zimmer</a> has
just been selected for the 2014 Stephen Procter Fellowship.<br />The <a href="http://soa.anu.edu.au/glass/stephen-procter-fellowship">Stephen Procter Fellowship</a>
is awarded to an International Artist. It includes a residency at The
Australian National University School of Art Glass Workshop and travel
funds.<br />Jeff has advised that he will spend 8 weeks Down Under,
primarily in Canberra, but also plans on traveling around a bit,
researching, making work and absorbing and sharing as much as he can. As
part of the project he will connect with The Projected Image Heritage
of Australia and New Zealand project at the University</span></span>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Surprise!</i> Jeff popped into the glass school for a visit this past January.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Previous recipients include: Mark Zirpel, Matt Szosz, Mel George, and Amber Cowan. Congratulations Jeff!</span></span>Michael Janishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124911308229843558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-37874639721946426092013-12-18T10:02:00.001-05:002013-12-18T10:02:08.527-05:00New Online Lit/Art Journal "Posit" <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://positjournal.com/">Posit</a> magazine issue 1</span>. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Posit was founded by Editor
and author <a href="http://www.susanlewis.net/">Susan Lewis</a> and the Arts Editor is NYC based artist <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melissa Stern.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Susan has been the managing
editor of MadHat Press, MadHat Lit, and MadHat Annual, fiction and poetry
editor of Global City Review, and guest editor of Right Hand Pointing and
Altered Scale. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence
College and taught
creative writing at SUNY, Purchase. <a href="http://www.melissa-stern.com/">Melissa Stern</a> is a studio artist, book
designer, arts journalist, and critic living in New York City
and Shokan, NY. Her work is exhibited in galleries
throughout the U.S. and Canada. She
covers the New York
art scene for CityArts and the New York Press.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Arts Editor Melissa Stern said of the
inaugural issue artwork: <span style="color: blue;">"For Posit 1, it is my pleasure to present the work
of three artists whose work shares a sense of elegance and grace. In these
galleries, Michael Janis creates sublime narratives of extraordinary depth and
dimensionality through the laborious fusing of layer upon layer of glass,
bringing precision and construct to a parallel universe where science and
reason adhere to their own logic; while Leah Oates’ gentle layers of image and
tone build mysterious photographic journeys through countryside and city; a
theme taken up by Kyle Gallup’s celebration of the past and possibility of New
York, from Coney Island to old theater marquees, alternately documenting a
world long-gone and fashioning a fantasy of what it might have been."</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">We wish the best of luck to the new online
magazine! For the journal's submission guidlines - both artwork and literature
- click</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span><a href="http://positjournal.com/guidelines/"><b> HERE</b></a>.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span> </span></span>Chip Montaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18388553616149472654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-33919086755006712322013-12-14T22:22:00.000-05:002013-12-16T10:03:25.950-05:00In Memoriam: Harvey K Littleton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">We mourn the passing of the "Father" of the American Studio Glass Movement, without whom none of us glass artists would be where we are now.</span><br />
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Harvey K. Littleton (1922-2013) was the seminal glass artist whose work ranged from functional vessels to sculptural forms. His father was a physicist at Corning Glass Works providing him early exposure to glass in the factories. Trained as a ceramicist, he began experimenting with hot glass in his studio in the 1950's. Through two landmark workshops and by establishing the first Studio Glass curriculum at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he helped to bring glass out of the factory and into the artists’ studio. Harvey<span style="font-family: Arial;"> died on December 13, 2013,
at his home in Spruce Pine, North
Carolina, at the age of 91. A letter circulated by
his family states that his death came "after a long decline." A
private celebration of his life, and that of his wife, Bess, who died in
October 2009, will be held by the family on January 11th.</span></div>
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He attended Brighton School of Art in England, received his Bachelors of Design at the University of Michigan, and received his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art.</div>
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In his role as an educator, Harvey was an "...outspoken and eloquent advocate of university education in the arts." He organized the first hot glass program at an American university (the University of Wisconsin–Madison) and promoted the idea of glass as a course of study in university art departments in the Midwest and northeastern United States. Several of Harvey Littleton's students went on to disseminate the study of glass art throughout the U.S., including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Lipofsky"><span style="color: #042eee;">Marvin Lipofsky</span></a>, who started a glass program at the University of California at Berkeley and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Chihuly"><span style="color: #042eee;">Dale Chihuly</span></a>, who developed the glass program at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island_School_of_Design"><span style="color: #042eee;">Rhode Island School of Design</span></a> and later was a founder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilchuck_Glass_School"><span style="color: #042eee;">Pilchuck Glass School</span></a> in Stanwood, Washington.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Harvey retired from teaching in 1976 to focus on his own art. Exploring the inherent qualities of the medium, he worked in series with simple forms to draw attention to the complex interplay of transparent glass with multiple overlays of thin color.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0gL67FXgG5TT2eq2UAiX0FLreM33Aoub3208vt_sP_zMMiRqjB3XNn1IvI_oX3uuPY35XMNW9N9TRLPWceZ7DHr344fDNhzn4VUYaFlau1dQPVI_gGvQELQkDAfQhnoARTkDyhvGjgU/s1600/maurine_littleton_glass_harvey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0gL67FXgG5TT2eq2UAiX0FLreM33Aoub3208vt_sP_zMMiRqjB3XNn1IvI_oX3uuPY35XMNW9N9TRLPWceZ7DHr344fDNhzn4VUYaFlau1dQPVI_gGvQELQkDAfQhnoARTkDyhvGjgU/s1600/maurine_littleton_glass_harvey.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Harvey was married to Bess Tamura Littleton in 1947. She died on October 8, 2009.The couple had four children: Carol L. Shay, Thomas Littleton, Maurine Littleton and John Littleton. All work in the field of glass art. Carol L. Shay is the curator at Littleton Studios; Tom Littleton owns and manages Spruce Pine Batch Company, which supplies batch (the dry ingredients of which glass is made) to artists and art departments around the U.S.; Maurine Littleton is the owner and director of <a href="http://www.littletongallery.com/">Maurine Littleton Gallery</a> which specializes in glass art, in Washington, DC. With</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;"> his wife and collaborative partner, </span><span style="color: #042eee; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;">Kate Vogel, John Littleton</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;"> is a glass artist in Bakersville, NC.</span><br />
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Harvey's work can be found in the collection of the High Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Victoria & Albert Museum in England, amongst others.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From our friends at the Corning Museum of Glass: Donations in Harvey Littleton’s name can be made to The Hospice and Palliative Care Center of Mitchell County that provided invaluable support to his family in the care for Harvey, and/or to the <a href="http://penland.org/classes/summer/full_scholarship.html">Penland School of Crafts </a>"Harvey and Bess Littleton Scholarship Fund" that provides one full scholarship for a two-week summer session in hot glass.</span></div>
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Chip Montaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18388553616149472654noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-49375159663298691592013-12-13T12:34:00.000-05:002014-01-17T11:26:28.432-05:00New Washington Glass School Winter/Spring 2014 Schedule<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK13" style="background-color: #999966; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="color: purple;"> New Winter/Spring 2014 Class Schedule </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #330033;">THE WASHINGTON GLASS SCHOOL </span><br />
<span style="color: #330033;">3700 Otis Street, </span><span style="color: #330033;">Mount Rainier, MD 20712</span><br />
<span style="color: #330033;">Phone: 202-744-8222 </span><br />
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<b>Are you looking to bring some new light into your home? Tired of the same old "builder special" lights? Well, come and make your own in this class! You will truly display your glass skills in their best light. You'll learn to cut, fuse and shape glass into the right form. Ceiling or wall fixture, you will have the chance to design your own. You will also learn how to safely wire and install your new lamp. No glass or electrical experience is necessary. </b></div>
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<b>Instructor: Erwin Timmers</b></div>
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<b>Dates : Wednesday eves, Feb. 5, 12, and 19<br />Time: 7pm to 9:30pm</b></div>
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<span style="color: #003200;"><b><span style="color: #5e0069;">Class 1604 - More MIG </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Now that you've tried your hand at MIG welding, the hot-glue gun of the metal shop, why not expand your horizons? We will offer a truck load of new techniques. You can compare welding stainless steel vs. aluminum, and pit the plasma cutter vs. oxyacetylene. You will also improve your MIG skills, and spend more time on grinding, polishing, finishing and patinas. Remember, this is a real, live, active, working shop! You will get dirty. Wear closed-toed shoes and long pants.</b></span></div>
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<b>Dates : Wednesday eves, Mar. 5, 12, and 19<br />Time: 7pm to 9:30pm</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #003200; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">You like bowls? So do we! So every Saturday come join Audrey Wilson at a super Bowl Making party! This is ongoing all summer (unless Audrey needs a break!). Email for availability.....and let the bowl making begin!</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #003200; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><i>(email the instructor Audrey directly on this one - studio@washglass.com) </i></span></b></div>
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Chip Montaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18388553616149472654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-89839350712758988092013-12-09T15:01:00.002-05:002013-12-09T15:01:49.428-05:00Washington Glass School Winter Holiday Open House Dec 14th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's that time of year! The artists, elves and instructors of the Washington Glass School all gather around the warmth of the kilns and invite everyone to celebrate the season. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday
December 14th, from Noon til 5, come on in to the studio and check out works by some of the hottest and most thoughtful artwork coming from the DC area.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy Donnelly</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Syl Mathis</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sean Hennessey</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's a great time to socialize with the arts community and hang with some of these supastar artists. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also visit the adjacent studios - <a href="http://www.alonzodavis.com/" target="_blank">Alonzo Davis</a> and Alec Simpson's Blue Door studio, Ellyn Weiss' studio - lots to see!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next door <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flux-Studios/205513062818606" target="_blank">Flux Studios</a> will have their
open studio and 1st Annual "Cups Invitational" - make a day of it!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Washington Glass School </span></b><br />
<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Holiday Open House</span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday, December 14th</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Noon til 5:00 pm</span><br />
<a href="http://goo.gl/maps/rvrc8" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3700 Otis Street</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mount Rainier, MD 20712 </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cup International at Flux Studios.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also - Save the Date! Our studio coordinator - Audrey Wilson - has been taking the art world by storm, with </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">great response to her work from shows like Art Miami, the Glass Art Alliance's "Contemporary Glass from the Heartland" show and the <a href="http://glassandclay.org/" target="_blank">International Glass & Clay</a> show here in DC. Audrey has a solo show here at the Gallery at the Glass School this coming January.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audrey Wilson</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Audrey
Wilson Solo<span>: </span>"The Aberrant
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Betty Pyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563187840695932214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-54654923931509119462013-11-28T15:00:00.000-05:002013-11-29T08:38:12.872-05:00We Give Thanks....<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So many things we find ourselves thankful for - our families, friends, students and instructors at the Glass School.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many of the artists here will also be spending the holiday season working the art shows </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">December 2 - 8, 2013.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you are going to the art fairs at <a href="http://art-collecting.com/miami_art_fairs.htm" target="_blank">Art Basel / Art Miami</a> - be sure to have a look at the new works by WGS artists!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audrey Wilson will be showing via <a href="http://alidaanderson.com/" target="_blank">Alida Anderson Art Projects</a> at <a href="http://www.contextartmiami.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=10&tabindex=9&dealerid=27228&curidx=3&back=name" target="_blank">Context Art Miami</a> in Wynwood (booth E-82). <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tim Tate will be featured at </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.contextartmiami.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=10&tabindex=9&dealerid=27447&curidx=59&back=name" target="_blank">Seager Gray Gallery</a> at Context Art Miami. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy Donnelly returns from a trip to Istanbul; her works on exhibit at <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/foundry-gallery-washington" target="_blank">Foundry Gallery</a> are up til Dec 1st!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Erwin Timmers' artwork is on exhibit in Baltimore's Case[werx] Gallery in the show "<a href="http://www.casewerks.com/news/" target="_blank">Art & Function Delineate</a>d" thru Dec 21st. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Michael Janis will be out to Chicago for set-up and the reception of the UIMA's <a href="http://uima-chicago.org/next-exhibit-ceramicsglass/" target="_blank">Ceramics/Glass</a> exhibit. The show runs December 6 thru Feb 2, 2014.</span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><b>And </b></u></span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> let us all celebrate together!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Washington Glass School's Annual Holiday Open House and Sale will be soon - Saturday December 14th, from Noon til 5. Next door Flux Studios will have their open studio and 1st Annual "Cups Invitational" - make a day of it!</span><br />
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Betty Pyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563187840695932214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5263499742698268174.post-49876173387533658962013-11-27T12:00:00.000-05:002013-11-27T12:00:10.364-05:00Happy Thanksgiving!<div style="text-align: center;">
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and the first day of Hanukkah coincide for the first time ever – and for the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Artist <a href="http://www.sylmathis.com/#anchor_78" target="_blank">Syl Mathis</a> divests his glass forms from the plaster after kilncasting the glass.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The artists & instructors of the Washington Glass School are busy beavering away creating new works for the upcoming Holiday Open House and sale, scheduled for Dec 14th, 2013, from Noon til 5:00 PM.</span></span><br />
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winning glass artist and sculptor. He is best known for his boat series of cast
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Syl Mathis "Artifact #14" <span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">32" x 3.5"w x 2"d</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The December 14th open house has more in store!</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adjacent <a href="http://fluxstudiosdc.com/home.html" target="_blank">Flux Studios</a> also has their Open Studio, as well as their First Annual Cup Invitational!</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Must see works - by superstar artists - in some of most fun studios you will ever see</span></span>! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark your calendars at once!</span><br />
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