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Labino and Harvey Littleton, with whom Labino would stage a ground-breaking glassblowing workshop at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1962, met during the time that Littleton was a ceramics instructor at the Toledo Museum of Art School of Design (1949 to 1951) and Labino was taking evening craft classes there.
Both Boysen and glass artist Dale Chihuly studied under Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin. Littleton and Dominick Labino are widely credited with co-founding the studio glass movement [2] in 1962 when they demonstrated glassblowing using "a small-scale glass furnace at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio." [3]
When no grants for a hot glass studio had materialized by the fall of 1961, Otto Wittmann, director of the Toledo Museum of Art, suggested that Littleton consider giving a glassblowing seminar at the museum, and offered the use of a storage shed on the museum grounds. The first of two workshops was held in this makeshift facility from March 23 ...
American craft is craft work produced by independent studio artists working with traditional craft materials and processes. Examples include wood ( woodworking and furniture making ), glass ( glassblowing and lampworking ), clay ( ceramics ), textiles , and metal ( metalworking ).
A stage in the manufacture of a Bristol blue glass ship's decanter.The blowpipe is being held in the glassblower's left hand. The glass is glowing yellow. As a novel glass forming technique created in the middle of the 1st century BC, glassblowing exploited a working property of glass that was previously unknown to glassworkers; inflation, which is the expansion of a molten blob of glass by ...
Floren, Rem, and Preserves Sculptures. Seattle-based glass artist John Hogan has done it again in his latest collection, dubbed Menagerie, for the Future Perfect.The collection is made up of 105 ...
Hobnail Finger Bowl made by Hobbs Glass Company after 1886. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hobnail glass is pressed glass with a pattern of raised bumps. It was created in 1886 at Hobbs, Brockunier and Company by William Leighton Jr. and William F. Russell. [85]
Bob Snodgrass, Oregon DFO 2019 (Photo by Connor McHugh/Pyroscopic) Bob Snodgrass blowing glass in his VW Bus at DFO in Oregon 2019. (Photo by Connor McHugh/PYROSCOPIC) Bob Snodgrass is an American lampworker known for his contributions to the art of glass pipe-making and glass art. He began lampworking in 1971 while learning from and working ...