WGS 10 Year Anniversary Collaborative Artwork Installed

Erwin Timmers and Evan Ross Morgan hoist the glass and steel panels onto the building facade.

The WGS Collaborative Artwork project has been installed on the exterior of the school's Mount Rainier facility. The steel framework was made by metalworker George Anderton, the insets were created by artists and instructors of the Washington Glass School from the past 10 years.

Artist Laurie Brown creating one of the fused glass insets.

Evan Morgan drills the anchor mounts into the masonry.

Chris Shea joins the building installation race, as the storm clouds gather.

Original Concept Sketch

Architectural Glass Panels installed


The overall artwork, made by the 10 years of artists from the Washington Glass School.

Come by the Glass School and see the artwork in its architectural splendor!

ReadysetDC on Washington Glass School

The hip and trendy culture blog - ReadysetDC just covered the Washington Glass School 10th anniversary exhibition at Long View Gallery with an in-depth review of the show with insights about the Washington Glass School directors and DC GlassWorks' Dave D'Orio.

Writer Natalie Stemp has some thoughtful takes on the changing status of glass as a sculptural medium:
"Let’s play a game. If I say “canvas”, what do you picture? You probably imagine art – Vermeer, Seurat, Picasso, Mondrian, maybe even DC’s Chris Martin. What if I say “glass”? Do the words “sink, wine, stained” instantly light up like neon signs? If so, you are not alone, but the Washington Glass School (WGS) wishes you were.

The Studio Glass Movement was founded just 50 years ago, so it is not surprising that most of us still perceive glass art strictly as decorative. In fact, the WGS – the face of the Movement in DC along with DC GlassWorks – celebrated its 10 year anniversary last weekend with a reception at Longview Gallery that concluded a month-long retrospective exhibition. After touring the exhibition with Michael Janis, co-director of WGS, I find it difficult to understand why the art establishment struggles to include consistent representation of expressive glass art at preeminent shows and museums. Think about the museums you visited in the past year: did any of them include contemporary glass art in its curation?..."

Natalie's article contains many photos taken from the exhibition and comments about the featured artist's work.

ReadysetDC is an online zine dedicated to the creative revolution and movement that is happening in Washington, DC.

Click HERE to jump to ReadysetDC's article.

The Party Was A Blast!

This weekend, the Washington Glass School celebrated its 10th Anniversary with a big birthday bash held at Long View Gallery, where the exhibit Artists of the Washington Glass School: The First Ten Years was held. The critically acclaimed show had sold very well - much to the delight of both the gallery and the artists! Altho the Long View Gallery show is over - there still is time to catch work by the students of the Washington Glass School - over at Gallery 555dc - on exhibit until the end of June.

A big thanks to our artists, students, instructors, family, friends, supporters, aficionados - we all appreciate the love and support that allowed us to reach this milestone! Washington Glass School


Anne Plant describes her work.


Absorbed in the works.

Awesome Washington Glass School cake by theatrical designer Marie Schneggenburger.

Tim Tate lights the 10 birthday candles.

Directors Erwin Timmers, Tim Tate and Michael Janis lead the cheering and singing.

Blowing out the candles.

Altho this show is over :(
There will be more events and fun coming up, as the Washington Glass School moves on to the Next Ten Years.

It was a fun party..sigh...

Happy Birthday to US!

oh boy oh boy oh boy!

Join the artists of the Washington Glass School as they celebrate their 10th Anniversary with a birthday bash at Long View Gallery. The exhibit "Artists of the Washington Glass School: The First 10 Years" will close that night, and a party to celebrate is in order!

If you haven't seen the show that is a Washington Post Newspaper "Editor's Pick" - here is your chance! (If you have, come see it again!)

Washington Glass School
10th Anniversary Party
Long View Gallery
1234 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
2-5 pm

Click here to jump to the Post's art critic Michael O'Sullivan's review of the exhibit.

Artist Talk at Long View Gallery

Washington Glass School 10th Anniversary Exhibit Artist Talk

This weekend, Long View Gallery held an artist talk, where the aficionados of glass sculpture joined the artists from the Washington Glass School's 10 year exhibition in a lively discussion of the thoughts, processes and inspirations behind the works on exhibit.

Tim Tate describes Elizabeth Mears & Tex Forrest's collaborative steel & glass sculpture "The Three"

Sean Hennessey describes his cast concrete & glass process.

Debra Ruzinsky talks about what inspired her in the concept for Sugar Bomb #3. This work is one of the Washington Post art critic Michael O'Sullivan's favorites in the show.


Tim Tate discusses how printmaker Kirk Waldroff translates his print techniques into glass.

Allegra Marquart describes her sand carving technique, and how she integrates tack-fused elements in her narrative panels.

Erwin Timmers describes the lost-wax techniques he uses with recycled glass.

Michael Janis describes how Jeff Zimmer builds depth to his glass imagery.

Artist Cheryl Derricotte enjoyed talking of how her cast glass piece is part of the Arts in Hand project.

Artist Jackie Greeves describes how she avoids coldworking on her fused glass artwork panels.

Michael Janis speaks for kayaker Syl Mathis's integration of cast recycled glass and steel into his boat series.

Tim Tate talks about the use of new media in glass.

The most delightful part of the talk was when the environmental themed work of Alison Sigethy was discussed. Alison was not able to be part of at the talk, and one of the audience jumped in wanting to talk on her behalf, as Alison's work is one of her favorites.

The audience provided new insights to Alison Sigethy's work.

Coming up - there is a Washington Glass School 10 Year Anniversary celebration that will be held at the Long View Gallery, Sunday, June 19, from 2-5 pm.

Washington Glass School: The First 10 Years
LongView Gallery
1234 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC

Artists Talk @ Long View Gallery

Opening Night of Washington Glass School Exhibit

"Artists of the Washington Glass School: The First 10 Years" opened to huge crowds last week and a review of the artworks in the Washington Post has created tremendous interest.

This Sunday, June 5th, from 3-4, Long View Gallery presents an Artist's Talk.

Want to know more about the work? Want to see the exhibit up-close with someone who knows what was that artist thinking? Want to gossip with the artists that made made the Washington Post art critic Michael O'Sullivan "feel like a monkey in front of a ball of shiny, shiny tin foil"?
Here's your chance - come join us!

Long View Gallery's Siobhan Gavan snuggling with Washington Glass School Director & Monkey Keeper Tim Tate.

"Artists Talk" @ Washington Glass School exhibition / Long View Gallery Washington, DC

The exhibition runs through June 19, 2011.
Long View Gallery is located at 1234 9th Street, N.W., Washington, DC
202-232-4788. For more information: www.longviewgallery.com.

Washington Glass School 10th Anniversary Exhibit @ Gallery 555

This Saturday, from Noon til 5 PM, join Gallery 555 as it celebrates the Washington Glass School's 10th Anniversary with a special juried exhibition of WGS student sculpture works. Artists will be there from 3-5 PM.

Washington Glass School artists in the exhibit include: Patrick Truby, Graham Fox, Nancy Donnelly, Robert Kincheloe, Teddie Hathaway, Brenda Dean and Erin Antognoli.

The Washington Glass School 10th Anniversary
Student Exhibit
Gallery 555dc
555 12th Street NW Lobby, Washington DC 20004
202-393-1409 or 240-447-6071
Gallery555dc.com

Exhibition Dates: June 1 - June 30, 2011.
The reception is Saturday, June 4th, 2011 - noon to 5pm; Artists present 3 – 5pm

Gallery 555dc to Feature WGS Student Exhibition

Jodi Walsh - owner of DC's Gallery 555dc, visited the Washington Glass School to jury works by students for a new glass sculpture show that opens this Saturday, June 4, 2011.
The judging took place over the Memorial Day weekend.

Erin Antognoli's glass and steel sculpture is reviewed.

All manner of glass sculpture are discussed by the jury.

Patrick Truby's cast glass and forged steel work in the foreground.

Director Erwin Timmers points out some of the finer details.

Congratulations to all the artists selected for the show - it should be a great event!
Washington Glass School artists in the exhibit include: Patrick Truby, Graham Fox, Nancy Donnelly, Robert Kincheloe, Teddie Hathaway, Brenda Dean and Erin Antognoli.

The Washington Glass School 10th Anniversary
Student Exhibit
Gallery 555dc
555 12th Street NW Lobby, Washington DC 20004
202-393-1409 or 240-447-6071
Gallery555dc.com

Exhibition Dates: June 1 - June 30, 2011.
The reception is Saturday, June 4th, 2011 - noon to 5pm; Artists present 3 – 5pm

The gallery will also feature paintings by Michele Cormier.

Washington Post asks "Is Glass Only Pretty?"

Washington Post reviews Washington Glass School 10th Anniversary Show at Long View Gallery

The Washington Post newspaper arts critic Michael O’Sullivan has a lengthy review of the Long View Gallery 10th Anniversary exhibition : Artists of the Washington Glass School - The First 10 Years. Michael finds artworks that move him and question if contemporary art must be ugly - if only to be less superficial.

In his review of the retrospective show, Michael O'Sullivan writes: "On the one hand, glass is pretty. It's hard not to like the way it looks: the luminous color, the way it plays with light. On the other hand, maybe glass is only pretty. How do we know that the beauty is also capable of brains? The rest of the show is proof that it is"..."For the artists of the Washington Glass School, the embrace of glass's very materiality -- in essence, its glassiness -- is a tentative one. There are stories to be told, and glass is just one way to tell them."...

Debra Ruzinsky Sugar Bomb #3

Jeff Zimmer "Fog Of Communication III" photo by anythingphoto.net

And of artist Jeff Zimmer's work, Michael writes:

"One of the quietest, least assuming works in the show is "Fog of Communication III" by Jeff Zimmer. A moody, fog-bound landscape, it's also mounted on a light box, and features multiple, sandwiched layers of sandblasted and enamelled glass to create something halfway between a vintage black-and-white photo and a 3D shoebox diorama. It isn't especially pretty, or even eye-catching.
But it catches -- and fires up -- something else. And that's the imagination. "

Click HERE to jump to the full Washington Post article.

The Washington Post also goes into the background story of one of the largest works in the show - "The Three" by Elizabeth Ryland Mears and William "Tex" Forrest.

Elizabeth Ryland Mears with William Forrest "The Three" photo by anythingphoto.net

Michael writes "But the vaguely anthropomorphic thing could just as easily be read as an allusion to another example of cinematic horticulture (not to mention a tribute to the strangely powerful influence of Janis, Tate and Timmers on the art-glass scene). To my eye, it looks like one of the pod plants from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

Click HERE to jump to the full Washington Post description of the Liz Mears / Tex Forrest work

Jennifer Lindstrom What is Home?

Click HERE to jump to the Washington Post's photo gallery of some of the works in the show.

The WGS 10th anniversary show at Long View Gallery will be on exhibit until June 19, 2011.

Featured artists include: Tim Tate, Michael Janis, Erwin Timmers, Elizabeth Mears, Syl Mathis, Lea Topping, Robert Kincheloe, Alison Sigethy, Dave D'Orio, Anne Plant, Jeffery Zimmer, Teddie Hathaway, Jackie Greeves, Kirk Waldroff, Debra Ruzinsky, Tex Forrest, Diane Cabe, Robert Wiener, Nancy Donnelly, Sean Hennessey, Cheryl Derricotte, Jennifer Lindstrom, Michael Mangiafico, Allegra Marquart and m.l.duffy.

There is an artist talk on Sunday, June 05, from 3-4 pm. There is a 10 Year Anniversary celebration that will be held at the Long View Gallery, Sunday, June 19, from 2-5 pm.

Washington Glass School: The First 10 Years
LongView Gallery
1234 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC