Check out their FAQ page for all the information you could possibly use about their company and products. And just look around at all the glass eye candy. Makes me want to head on over to Indiana.

check out the guys blowing glass in the background...

We’re back to Corning briefly. I know we were just there yesterday but you have to see the table set with all that gorgeous glass food created by Erik Meek. The event has already taken place…if you went let me know what you thought. I saw the table pictures posted on Facebook and had to share them. So cool. So yummy!!!

And don’t forget dessert…

Erick Meek and his turkey

I personally make little beads that resemble food. Cupcakes and cakes and pies, but they’re tiny compared to the food they’re making at Corning for the holiday season. For their monthly event 2300 degrees Homecookin’ Erik Meek of Corning Studio has created all kinds of glass food. A turkey and cranberry sauce, the jellied kind that looks like the can it was in, green beans and even the treats for Santa. Amazing…this post is going to be mostly pictures since I’m absolutely in awe of this work. So tasty and so talented!!! The event is December 17th so if you’re in the Corning area tomorrow go by and check it out. There’s music, food, drinks and glass of course. Fun for all!!

all glass

even the milk is glass

more glass

As I looked around for something interesting to write about and share with all of you, I came across the blog for Glass Quarterly. they were mentioning an Australian group of musicians that use glass bowls and glasses and rods as their instruments. They are called The Glass Percussion Project and you should check out what they do. There’s a video on the blog.

It’s not the first time glass has been used to make music. You all remember and sometimes still see people playing crystal wine glasses by rubbing the edges to make them sing. Water is placed in each glass to varying degrees to achieve different notes. That’s been a method for making music for centuries. Then there’s the glass harmonica also known as a crystallophone invented by Ben Franklin. Check wikipedia if you think I’m kidding. He got his idea from watching the wine glass being played. Check out the glass harmonica made by Thomas Bloch. Pretty cool.

Thomas Bloch Glass Harmonica

Back to the Australians…check out their web site to see the glass that was blown from them and learn more about what they do.

Evan Chambers

I love meeting new glass artists. Here’s a fantastic one too. His name is Evan Chambers and his studio is Pavonine Glass. Please check out his gorgeous work. He’s a glass blower as well as a metal fabricator. I saw his worrk at an opening the other night and had too share it with all of you. The glass is raked creating a feathering around the pieces as well as being iridescent.

Another Evan Chambers

Evan learned his craft in the San Luis Obispo area in Central California first from George Jerich and then later with Ken Peterson at the Glass Art Studio. After a year he bought the studio with his business partner, Elaine Hyde. Evan have since moved his studio, Pavonine Glass to Pasadena (yay!).

If you like horses and horse racing there are a couple of events perfect for you. There’s the Backstretch Breakfast and Louisville Stoneware Tour or the Horses and Bourbon Tour. The first allows you to witness training of the horses at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, while enjoying breakfast in the Trackside Kitchen. After that you check out two floors of race related exhibits at the Kentucky Derby Museum and see Churchill Downs Frontside and the Winner’s Circle. Once you’e done with the horse stuff you go over to Louisville Stoneware, to see how this stone ware is created. But maybe you prefer Bourbon…then go on the Horses and Bourbon Tour. First you go to the Kentucky Horse Park to visit with more than 30 different breeds of horse. YOu see the blacksmith, International Museum of the Horse and enjoy lunch at Holly Hill Inn.  Finally the bourbon, at one of Kentucky’s oldest distilleries, Woodford Reserve. But where’s the glass you say. Oh you’ll get to that…check the GAS web site for more information if you haven’t received your conference information brochure.

Regular events bring in the public to educate them on the glass good time. Third Friday Open House parties is one of the events that sounds like a blast. There are demonstrations, music, drinks and you can even sign up for hands on glass experiences such as tile making, glass bead making or maybe make a paperweight. Next event is November 20, 2009. I know I wish I could swing by.

Each piece by Tim Tate, co-founder of the Washington Glass School, is a tiny video display surrounded and decorated with glass work.  Be sure to visit the Daily Art Muse blog to see more of Tim’s mixed media works.

These bright blown glass forms are from Canadian glass artist Kate Civiero.  Artsy Beat presents a spotlight on her.

You can find Kate’s work on Etsy.

The Sierra Mountain Times highlights the art of Eric Edner.  Read about this  artist and learn about the art of flameworking.

Did you know that this type of glass art has only been around the US for the last 40-50 years, known as the “studio glass movement”?

Did you know that Seattle has the largest concentration of glassworkers?

Read this interesting article to follow Eric’s journey in glass and why flowers are so special to him.

I love gardening.  I love growing things.  I love to be outside working in the dirt. But, alas, for the last 11  years of my life I have lived in the middle of the desert.  Not only does that mean that anything that you plant to survive probably has some type of sticky substance or needles on it but also that the soil is hard, dry and just not very workable.  Did I mention that it’s so hot that flowers don’t survive?

Today I was waking up with my cup of coffee and Google reader and came up on this post by Atlantic Art Glass.  They spoke of their garden/yard a little differently, as being overgrown but seeing their beautiful glass flowers I thought, well, I might just have to settle for glass beauty around me instead of the real blooming, flowering garden variety.

It could be worse.  I could have a huge lawn to mow.

Simon Pearce supports the Vermont Institute of Natural Science’s 31st Annual Birdathon happening from April 20 – May 22 with 100% of proceeds from the sales of his glass bird paperweights going to the Birdathon.  This event is the world’s largest bird watching competition.  If you love nature or are a bird watcher yourself, why not support them and grab one of these for yourself?

Dante Marioni, glass blower in Seattle, WA talks about glass blowing, his past, how he got into glass and a lot more.  Great footage of glass blowing!

Spring is definitely in the air and Atlantic Art Glass knows how to do it right.