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Members of Local Clay Potters’ Guild present the 25th Annual Holiday Show & Sale in the Monroe Convention Center in Bloomington in the Great Room on the second floor from 4-9 p.m. Friday and 9 a ...
The simplest cane, called vetro a fili [3] (glass with threads) is clear glass with one or more threads of colored (often white) glass running its length. It is commonly made by heating and shaping a chunk of clear, white, or colored glass on the end of a punty, and then gathering molten clear glass over the color by dipping the punty in a ...
The majority of the classes take place during the summer months (June–August), and are one to two weeks in length. The Leroy Neiman Fellowship Program [6] offers 12 students from around the country to have the opportunity to spend the entire summer at Ox-Bow. They are provided with studio space, access to facilities, visiting artists and classes.
Scientific glassblowing is a specialty field of lampworking used in industry, science, art and design used in research and production. Scientific glassblowing has been used in chemical, pharmaceutical, electronic and physics research including Galileo's thermometer, Thomas Edison's light bulb, and vacuum tubes used in early radio, TV and computers.
He turned the technique of "working at the lamp" to an art form back in 1968, when he opened the Frabel Studio in Atlanta, Georgia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At that time crystal glass was not considered a serious art medium and few artists were utilizing the beauty and diversity of glass to create unique art pieces.
In 1968, Labino's book Visual Art in Glass [15] became the first book to be written about the studio glass movement. It was followed in 1971 by Glassblowing: A Search for Form, by Harvey K. Littleton. [16] Through the university's glass program, Littleton taught many who became prominent glass artists, and who, in turn, spread the word about ...
Pilchuck Glass School is an international center for glass art education. The school was founded in 1971 by Dale Chihuly, Ruth Tamura, Anne Gould Hauberg (1917-2016), and John H. Hauberg (1916-2002). [1]
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