Happy New Year! The 128th weekly edition of Bill’s glass interest newsletter

January 5, 2017

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Happy New Year and welcome to the 128th weekly edition of Bill’s glass interest newsletter

Headlines

  • Habatat Galleries Hosting Third Annual Glass Weekend in Sarasota
  • Call for Applications: Emerging-Artists-In-Residence at Pilchuck – Due Tomorrow!
  • Congratulations to Jackie, Rebecca and Charky — New!
  • Loraine Ruetz Work in Korean Exhibition – New Information!
  • Richard Jolley Podcast Available Online – New!
  • News from Tansey Contemporary – New!
  • CMoG Online Demonstration Schedule for January Available – New!
  • Uroboros Finds New Home In New Year – New!
  • Call to Artists: 4th Clay and Glass Biennial – New!
  • Call to Artists: Seattle Office of Arts & Culture – New!
  • Art Hours Changing to Glass Art Workshops at TMA
  • Summer Sculpting Class in Cleveland
  • GlassWeekend ’17 at WheatonArts, June 9-11
  • GAS to Receive $20,000 Grant from NEA
  • Exhibition: The Craft School Experience
  • Jutta Page to Discuss Glass Objects from Hearst Collection
  • Fragile Fashion Exhibition at Glass Axis
  • Job Opportunities – New!
  • Upcoming at the Glass Pavilion

Habatat Galleries Hosting Third Annual Glass Weekend in Sarasota

  • Habatat Galleries of Royal Oak, Mich., and Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a division of Ringling College in Sarasota, Fla., are collaborating again to host the 3rd Annual Contemporary Glass Weekend in Sarasota
  • Beginning Jan. 26, leading artists from around the world will represent their countries in a spectacular four-day exhibitions of studio glass
  • The event includes exhibitions, auctions, studio tours, talks by artists, glass blowing demonstrations and private tours of museums featuring glass
  • An online brochure is available at https://issuu.com/habatat_galleries/docs/lbkacglassbook_2017

Call for Applications: Emerging-Artists-In-Residence at Pilchuck – Due Tomorrow!

  • The Emerging-Artists-In-Residence Program at the Pilchuck Glass School supports artists who are making a transition in their professional lives
  • Whether moving from academia to a professional studio practice, taking up a new medium or beginning a new body of work, artists find this independent residency ideal for contemplation, research and experimentation
  • The program provides artists with a place and the time to develop an idea or project in glass, with the potential for realizing a new body of work
  • The residency period is Sept. 18 through Nov. 10, 2017
  • Applications are due Jan. 6 by midnight PDT

Congratulations to Jackie, Rebecca and Charky — New!

  • Three students with local connections – Jackie Polofka, Rebecca Szparagowski and Charlyn Reynolds  – are participating in the 2016 International Student Online Exhibition organized by the Glass Art Society
  • Polofka, who was graduated from Bowling Green State University last month, received third place in the undergraduate category for her cast glass piece, The Perfect Slice
  • Szparagowski, a BGSU alum who is now a graduate student at Southern Illinois State University in Carbondale, received second place in the graduate category for her installation, Psyche
  • Reynolds, who worked at the TMA Glass Pavilion in recent years and is now a graduate student at the University of Texas Arlington, is represented in the exhibition by her work, Macaw-Crab
  • Also included in the exhibition is work by students at the Cleveland Institute of Art and The Ohio State University
  • This annual online exhibition provides students the opportunity to showcase their work to art professionals, enthusiasts and fellow students from around the globe
  • In fall 2016, GAS invited current full and part-time student members to submit images of their recent work for inclusion in the 2016 exhibition; all submissions are original, professionally crafted, contain glass as a main element and were designed or created between 2015-2016
  • Jurors for the online exhibition were Douglas Heller, Erica Rosenfeld and Ethan Stern
  • The juried catalog of the online exhibition is available to view at http://tinyurl.com/jhxm7hl
  • The complete 2016 International Student Online Exhibition, featuring the work of 77 students, is displayed on the Glass Art Society website http://tinyurl.com/zf7fkvt

Loraine Ruetz Work in Korean Exhibition – New Information!

  • As reported last week, Loraine Ruetz, adjunct instructor in glass and first year program Instructor at Bowling Green State University, ended the year on a high note by having work accepted in an exhibition in South Korea
  • Time and Space is at the CICA Museum, Feb. 17 through March 5
  • The exhibition features photographs, digital art and installation pieces by artists worldwide
  • Ruetz’ contribution is the photographs from her MFA exhibition at BGSU (not glass this time)
  • http://loranitude.com/

Richard Jolley Podcast Available Online – New!

News from Tansey Contemporary – New!

  • Tansey Contemporary in Santa Fe, N.M. has announced their expansion to Colorado with a new gallery space in Denver at 1743 Wazee St.
  • The gallery also added several new artists including glass artists Holly Grace, Harue Shimomoto and KeKe Cribbs
  • http://www.tanseycontemporary.com/

CMoG Online Demonstration Schedule for January Available – New!

  • No matter where you are in the world, you can watch as accomplished artists and instructors demonstrate for their classes at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass
  • In January, watch Jordana Korsen, Jeff Mack and Eric Meek, George Kennard, and Giles Bettison as they teach skills such as basic shapes like glasses and goblets, to techniques like mezza-filigranna and reticello, to how to handle large gathers of glass, and to using sheet glass to make murrine canes
  • For more about the instructors who will be demonstrating and the classes they’re teaching, visit CMoG’s  live streaming page at https://www.cmog.org/programs/live-streaming

Uroboros Finds New Home In New Year – New!

  • Just prior to the close of a year of discontent in the art glass industry, Eric Lovell, founder and president of Uroboros Glass, announced the sale of Uroboros Glass’ name, equipment, technology and formulas has been completed, and that the future of its many iconic products is now secured
  • All current Uroboros colors and product lines, from System 96 sheet and frit, and FX90 fusible products, to the traditional Art Glass multi-colored mottles, textures and contracted custom produced glass products are expected to be available again in the months ahead
  • The new owner is the experienced colored glass tile manufacturer Oceanside Glasstile (OGT), headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif. http://tinyurl.com/h985su6
  • With 25 years of experience in decorative glass tile design and manufacturing, the OGT owners and crew have a proven track record of developing and dependably supplying aesthetically superior, responsibly made colored glass products
  • In the next few months production at Uroboros in Portland will shut down one department at a time to prepare equipment for the move; as each department is moved to the OGT facility it will start up again as soon as practical; initial production will focus on items out of stock the longest and most in demand

Call to Artists: 4th Clay and Glass Biennial – New!

  • The City of Brea Art Gallery and the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California have announced a call to artists for the 4th Clay and Glass Biennial
  • The national juried exhibition will be held at the Brea Art Gallery, Orange County, Calif., and will run July 22 through Sept. 15, 2017
  • The juror is Suzanne Isken, executive director of the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
  • This opportunity is open to artists 18 years and older who reside in the U.S.
  • $1,400 in prize money will be awarded
  • Artworks must be composed of at least 75 percent handcrafted glass, ceramics or a combination of the two; functional, sculptural and installation pieces are welcome
  • No artwork is to weigh more than 100 pounds, nor exceed more than 96 inches in any direction
  • Up to three artworks may be entered for $30, with an entry deadline of April 9
  • Visit www.acga.net for entry; for questions email [email protected]

Call to Artists: Seattle Office of Arts & Culture – New!

  • The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS), in partnership with Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), seeks to commission an artist or artist team to create a site integrated or site specific artwork that is reflective of Coast Salish historic and cultural connections to the Salmon Bay and Shilshole areas for SPU’s Ship Canal Water Quality Project (SCWQP) Pump Station
  • One artist or artist team will be selected to work with SPU staff, design team, the SPU Artist in Residence, stakeholders and ARTS to create original artwork within the Ship Canal Water Quality Project Pump Station project site
  • Artwork can be created as a free-standing element (or multiple elements) along the perimeter fence or landscaped areas, or can be integrated with the Pump Station building as a two- or three-dimensional artwork
  • The deadline for submissions is 11 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 (Pacific Standard Time)
  • To apply: https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=3945
  • For assistance with the CaFÉ online application process, contact CaFÉ tech support at (888) 562-7232 or email [email protected], Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. PST
  • Information available at www.seattle.gov/arts, Jason Huff, [email protected], and (206) 684-7278

Art Hours Changing to Glass Art Workshops at TMA

  • Beginning Jan. 18, the hands-on sessions in the TMA Glass Pavilion now known as Art Hours will be revised and marketed as Glass Art Workshops http://tinyurl.com/gsxhvcv
  • Open to Museum members and nonmembers alike, tickets are $30 for members and $40 for nonmembers (no refunds)
  • Projects in January and February are snowflake paperweights and hearts
  • A fun addition to the Glass Art Workshops line-up is the “Pick Your Project” option that lets you decide which glass object you’ll make during this hour-and-a-half- long session
  • A variety of options are eligible for Pick Your Project, including:
    • Apple
    • Bird
    • Confetti Paperweight
    • Flower
    • Fish
    • Fortune Cookie
    • Mushroom
    • Pumpkin
  • Pick Your Project workshops take place Thursday evenings and begin at 6:30 p.m.
  • Museum members can purchase tickets in person or by phone during Museum hours starting the Tuesday before each session; nonmembers can purchase their tickets the Wednesday before each session
  • Adults and children 14+ accompanied by an adult are welcome
  • Call 419-255-8000 ext. 7448 to purchase tickets

Summer Sculpting Class in Cleveland

  • For those looking to take a class this summer, consider something close to home at the Cleveland Institute of Art
  • Raven Skyriver and Marc Petrovic will be teaching together for the first time in a one-week hot-sculpting class
  • Details to follow soon, but reserve the week of May 22 for this not-to-be missed class
  • Like Glass-CIA on Facebook to be among the first to receive the details

GlassWeekend ’17 at WheatonArts, June 9-11

  • Save the dates June 9 through 11 for GlassWeekend ’17 at WheatonArts in New Jersey
  • GlassWeekend is an international symposium and exhibition of contemporary glass that is held every other year
  • Demonstrating artists in 2017 will be Matthew Szosz, Rik Allen and Shelley Muzylowski Allen
  • Galleries will be there exhibiting fine contemporary glass art
  • www.wheatonarts.org

GAS to Receive $20,000 Grant from NEA

  • National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $30 million in grants as part of the NEA’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017
  • Included in the announcement is an Art Works grant of $20,000 to the Glass Art Society for the public programs of the 2017 Glass Art Society Conference in Norfolk, Va. and the Glass Art Society Journal
  • To read the full news release, go to http://tinyurl.com/jlfzq8s

Exhibition: The Craft School Experience

  • Five of the most historically important American craft schools have joined to celebrate the craft school experience and to broadcast this transformative experience to a nation of creators
  • The schools are Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, Peters Valley School of Craft, and Pilchuck Glass School
  • The Craft in America Center will present an exhibition of objects demonstrating the creative vitality of individual artists impacted by these stimulating environments
  • Artists include Nancy Callan, Arline Fisch, Michael Good, Dante Marioni, Marc Maiorana, Christy Matson, Rowland Ricketts, Chris Staley, Lino Tagliapietra, and others
  • The Craft in America Center is in Los Angeles at 8415 West Third Street, two blocks east of La Cienega Blvd. http://www.craftinamerica.org/center/
  • The Craft School Experience: Outcomes and Revelations opens Jan. 21 and continues through March 11; for more information on exhibition: www.craftschools.us

Jutta Page to Discuss Glass Objects from Hearst Collection

  • In January in the GlasSalon, Jutta Page, senior curator of glass and decorative arts at the Toledo Museum of Art, will discuss nine objects formerly owned by William Randolph Hearst that are now part of TMA’s collection
  • The objects include an elaborate gilded-silver chalice, gilded-silver and rock crystal candlesticks, and a nautilus shell cup from 1596
  • The event – from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 13, will include the Toledo Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Grammy–nominated composer Michael Daugherty’s organ concerto “Once Upon a Castle”
  • A cash bar will serve several of the cocktails that Hearst once served at his famous castle parties in the 1920s and 30s, and small plates will be available for purchase
  • Composer Daugherty will discuss the research for his concerto
  • https://www.facebook.com/events/558488404356826/

Fragile Fashion Exhibition at Glass Axis

  • A new gallery exhibition, Fragile Fashion, opens from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, at Glass Axis in Columbus, Ohio www.glassaxis.org
  • The exhibition will feature wearable glass art inspired by fashion throughout history
  • The majority of the pieces in this exhibition have been worn at previous glass fashion shows at Glass Axis and the Glass Art Society
  • Also included will be some of the designs artists will be creating for the next Glass Fashion Show at Glass Axis March 4
  • The exhibition will continue through March 25

Job Opportunities

  • S12 Gallery & Open Access Studio is looking for a Workshop Manager, to join its team for a minimum of one year, starting March 2017 http://www.s12.no/the-studio/work-in-s12/
  • The Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI) is seeking a glass artist to be a full-time studio coordinator/hotshop instructor for its San Jose, Calif. studio http://tinyurl.com/jf5d595

Upcoming at the Glass Pavilion

  • Jutta Page, senior curator of glass and decorative arts, will discuss nine objects formerly owned by William Randolph Hearst that are now part of TMA’s collection in a special program in the GlasSalon beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 13 http://tinyurl.com/gvyufes
  • Joanna Manousis, currently residing in Toledo, will have a GAPP residency in the Glass Studio from Jan. 22 through 31; she will give a talk about her work at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, followed by a demonstration in the Hot Shop beginning at 8 p.m. http://www.joannamanousis.com/
  • Shari Mendelson, an artist from Brooklyn, N.Y., will have a GAPP residency Feb. 18-24, 2017; she will give a talk about her work at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, in the GlasSalon http://www.sharimendelson.com/index.htm

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