Opening Night Reception for "Ephemeral" at Lorton's Workhouse Arts Center
The National Cherry Blossom Festival started off with a show - at Lorton, VA's McGuire Woods Gallery in the Workhouse Arts Center.
Robert Kincheloe at his installation of glass cherry blossoms. The imagery (made from hot glass) suggests frozen branches with cherry blossoms encased in ice, ready to emerge for the spring.
Curated by Laurel Lukaszewski and Komelia Honja Okim, the show was to express aspects of "fleeting moments and delicate sensibilities". Follows are some photos from the opening night.
Robert Kincheloe's torchworked cherry blossom branches forground, Michael Janis' fused glass panels beyond.
Akemi Maegawa's mixed media sculpture.
Akemi Maegawa and Laurel Lukaszewski share a laugh at the reception.
Dalya Luttwak's sculpture looks incredible.
Some of the artists showing in "Ephemeral" L-R: Robert Kincheloe, Michael Janis, Laurel Lukaszewski, Akemi Maegawa, David Douglas.
Laurel Lukaszewski's delicate cherry blossoms wrap around the center columns of the gallery.
Curated by Laurel Lukaszewki and Komelia Hongja Okim, the
exhibition explores fleeting moments captured in art and celebrate the
cherry blossom and Asian and American relations. Artwork by WGS' Michael Janis and Robert Kincheloe as well as ceramic sculptures by Laurel Lukaszewski and Akemi Maegawa make this a must-see show!
Incredible works by photographer David Douglas, painters Sumita Kim and Jun Chul Kim, and sculptorsKomelia Hongja Okim, Dalya Luttwak and David Loren Gerlach are also on view. The exhibition will
also feature a Cherry Blossom Festival at the Workhouse on April 6.
The Workhouse
Arts Center in Lorton, VA,
has posted a call to find a new Glass Program Manager.
The Workhouse Glass Program Manager is responsible for the
design, coordination, and implementation of the Glass Program at the Workhouse Arts Center,
including glass blowing in an expanding Hot Shop, fusing, torch working,
stained glass, and casting.This unique
position calls for a “people person” with administrative/managerial skills who
is knowledgeable of the contemporary glass art world and technically savvy with
respect to glass-related equipment, and who operates well in an environment of
constrained resources.A Master’s degree
within the glass/art related field is required, or equivalent professional
experience.
The Workhouse Arts Center
is located in Lorton Virginia, just south of Washington DC,
in the repurposed historic DC Workhouse Prison.The new Glass Program Manager will oversee a Gallery, three classrooms,
a hot shop, and eight studios with resident artists.
Workhouse Arts Center 9601 Ox Rd, Lorton, VA 22079
The call is open until filled.More information may be found here
The Washington Glass School welcomes its new studio coordinator: Robert Kincheloe. Robert has been working with glass since 1997, with a strong background in borosilicate glass.He has studied furnace glassblowing, flameworking, scientific glassblowing, sculpture, murrini, encasements, casting and coldworking.Over the years he has helped to set up several glass studios and has spent the last two years as a studio artist at the WorkhouseArtsCenter in Lorton, VA.
Robert's work centers on the use of combining hot, warm and cold glass processes, and he takes a mathematical approach to design. This encourages him to repeat a technique over and over in search of perfecting the logic of the design and controlling its process.
Robert hopes to expand the glass community through his works, classes, demos and lectures, and as such, he will be creating a new series of flameworking borosilicate classes here at the glass school.
Floral Cube by Robert Kincheloe
photo: AnythingPhotographic
Robert was part of the Washington Post's article on the opening of the Workhouse Arts Center in 2008 - click HERE to read the article.
Robert at his torch @ Lorton. He has since escaped the former prison. Photo: Dayna Smith for the Washington Post.
