I’m looking at having glass blowing going in my studio by the end of this week. I didn’t care too much about glass blowing until recently. Blame my friend Zoe for getting me caught up in the romance and excitement … Read More ...
Luke Jacomb’s Blown Glass Paddles – Daily Art Muse
Luke Jacomb is the son of one of the founders of Gaffer Glass, an establishment most glass folk know all about. Over at Daily Art Muse Luke’s blown glass paddles are being showcased today. You need to wander over to … Read More ...
Glass and Yarn from Contemporist
Over at the web site Contemporist they were showing some vessels designed by Alexandra Denton and Sofia Lazzeri in a collaborative project. By combining the two materials they contrast between the hardness of the glass and the softness of the … Read More ...
Cool New Classes at Pacific Art Glass Including Loren Stump
Pacific Art Glass has a very exciting line up of classes coming up including an Advanced Lampworking class with Loren Stump. This is the first time that Loren has come into Southern California to teach so sign up soon. It’s … Read More ...
An Emerging Artist Panel Discussion at SOFA
Lani McGregor, partner at Bullseye Glass in Portland, as well as Gallery Director moderated a panel discussion on the Emerging Artist in the glass world. On her panel were Tina Oldknow, Curator at Corning Museum of Glass, Richard Whiteley, … Read More ...
New Dichroic Glass Classes Coming up at Coatings by Sandberg
Most glass folk I know love dichroic glass. I know I do. It can be over the top or very subtle depending on what you do with it…when it’s done right it sizzles. Well, the largest producer of dichroic glass, … Read More ...
The Passing of Harvey Littleton – Founder of The Studio Glass Movement
I wouldn’t be sitting here writing for all of you out there about glass if it wasn’t for Harvey Littleton, the founder of the Studio Glass Movement. He has passed away at the age of 91. He started the “movement” … Read More ...
Cooking and Glass Blowing…It’s All Part of the Show at Urban Glass
I sure do wish I could have been at Urban Glass to witness the group, Burnt Asphalt Family’s cooking and glass blowing party. For an audience of over 100 people the group demonstrated their glass blowing skills while preparing a … Read More ...
Potato in Glass? Help Remove Bubbles…
A very exciting thing is happenng at my studio…we’re getting glass blowing equipment built so that we can offer classes as well as blow glass pretty much whenever we want. Yee ha!! So it’s got me wandering around the interwebs … Read More ...
1959 Documentary on Glass Making
I found this documentary on glass making through one of my friends on Facebook. It’s an Academy Award winning short film made in 1959. It’s over at the web site i09.com. All I can say is you must watch … Read More ...
Engraving a Klein Bottle – Make…Eggbot vs Klein Bottle
First you need to know what a Klein Bottle is, if you don’t. Over at Wikipedia you can learn more about what a Klein Bottle is. Once you know that you can understand the difficulties in trying to engrave one. … Read More ...
Ross Richmond – Glass Artist
Over at Daily Art Muse they’ve profiled another glass artist. Ross Richmond, who combines blown and cast glass to create these figurative pieces that have a flowing feeling about them. People draped in cloth so the figure has a very … Read More ...
Karen Buhler’s Glass Figures
I want to thank Daily Art Muse for presenting Karen Buhler’s glass figures. They’re the perfect combination of sophistication and whimsy. She uses borosilicate glass to shape the hollow figures depicting swimmers and divers with a feeling that comes from … Read More ...
Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest
The show Link: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest is opening at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA May 17th, 2013 and will run through January 2014. Twenty six artists are included in this show for approximately 92 pieces. … Read More ...
A Search for Glass over at This is Colossal
After the last post I did that came from This is Colossal I decided to do a search for other glass articles. I found some good stuff. There’s one artist that I’ve written about already, but the rest are new … Read More ...