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Gehry Revamps Art Gallery of Ontario, Adds Ears, Python Stairs - Bloomberg
Bloomberg - 5 minutes ago
The tower accommodates two levels of warehouse-size spaces that are the norm today for contemporary art. Glass walls infuse the display spaces with daylight ...
Calendar of Events - Lagniappe
Lagniappe, AL - 6 hours ago
CLASS BEGINS: INTRODUCTION TO FUSED GLASS DESIGN Instructor: Ed Edwards. Six Thursdays, 6 PM. Edwards Glass Studio (501 Dauphin St) $225 (includes all tools ...
THE ART CRITIC - Artnet
Artnet, NY - 6 hours ago
The dealer took Arthur to a half-dozen art emporia. The first was a "glass art" gallery in an upscale mall, run by and named after its chief exhibited ...
Christmas Craft Show QCCA Expo - Quad-Cities Online
Quad-Cities Online, IL - 4 hours ago
... wire art, recycled metal art and carved gourds. Two of the more unique items include everlasting oil lights. These are electrified glass containers with ...
Christmas Craft Show QCCA Expo - Quad-Cities Online
Quad-Cities Online, IL - 6 hours ago
... soft sculpture, kids clothes, clocks, chimes, bird feeders, porcelain, lathe art, etchings, primitives, leather, glass fusing, stoneware and more. ...
Be Careful Where You Walk! Delicate Glass Art - Inventorspot
Inventorspot
Inventorspot - 8 hours ago
Bernard Katz is an artist specializing in glass blowing and sculpture. He creates gorgeous sculptures from glass that will brighten up even the dreariest of ...
Holiday gifts for the home and garden - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 10 hours ago
A $39 light from Viva Terra, made of fused glass from recycled bottles and containers, is sure to fill your home with ecological awareness. ...
Sedona's Tlaquepaque Launches Online Shopping Mall - MarketWatch
MarketWatch - 10 hours ago
... Southwestern and contemporary fine art, clothing, pottery, decorative art, home furnishings, music and jewelry to spectacular blown glass creations. ...
Holiday crafts coming to the Expo Center - Quad-Cities Online
Quad-Cities Online, IL - 6 hours ago
... soft sculpture, kids clothes, clocks, chimes, bird feeders, porcelain, lathe art, etchings, primitives, leather, glass fusing, stoneware and more. ...
Tuesday is FREEZING
Coffee in the Alaska skyline mug (the dregs of cup #2), Sam calling "baby bird, baby bird" and chirping away on my Mom's shoulder for music. It's only about 32 degrees outside right now which means it's only about 32 degrees in the studio (I left the heat off as I haven't been in much). I am not looking to heading over there later. My list of things to do today is long and tedious--another reason I am still in the comfy chair with a blanket on my lap making lists and chatting on the phone. A quick post and then to work (forms, forms, forms, forms).
New business direction ideas from the show: Open studio and summer camp for 7th-12th graders. I had several people ask me (parents of the 7th graders and others who knew what I had done with them) if I opened my studio the same way to other people or groups--kind of like pottery places do where you can come in and paint pieces and have them fired for you to pick up later. It might be fun to offer making suncatchers, wind chimes, Christmas ornaments, etc. during very limited open studio time. I can add info and sign up area (including a calendar) on the web site (as I revamp it). Small groups only.
Several of the 7th graders (and their parents) asked me if I might offer summer camp sessions and I thought how fun it would be to do some mask-making sessions. I could do some research and offer a bit of education on the use of masks in various cultures. Then we could make some examples of simple bent rectangular and oval masks. The camp would culminate in the participants casting their own faces and making pate de verre style multi-fired masks that could then be decorated with wire, feathers, crystals, shells, beads, etc.
Now I just need a way of fitting these ambitions in with an increased production schedule from the new shows I'm adding next year--an assistant will help with that. Good thing I have a lot of applicants for that position right now (and for apprentices--and I don't have to pay them!). Oh yes, the high school asked me if I would do a fieldtrip/workshop for their students too... Better get to work!
New business direction ideas from the show: Open studio and summer camp for 7th-12th graders. I had several people ask me (parents of the 7th graders and others who knew what I had done with them) if I opened my studio the same way to other people or groups--kind of like pottery places do where you can come in and paint pieces and have them fired for you to pick up later. It might be fun to offer making suncatchers, wind chimes, Christmas ornaments, etc. during very limited open studio time. I can add info and sign up area (including a calendar) on the web site (as I revamp it). Small groups only.
Several of the 7th graders (and their parents) asked me if I might offer summer camp sessions and I thought how fun it would be to do some mask-making sessions. I could do some research and offer a bit of education on the use of masks in various cultures. Then we could make some examples of simple bent rectangular and oval masks. The camp would culminate in the participants casting their own faces and making pate de verre style multi-fired masks that could then be decorated with wire, feathers, crystals, shells, beads, etc.
Now I just need a way of fitting these ambitions in with an increased production schedule from the new shows I'm adding next year--an assistant will help with that. Good thing I have a lot of applicants for that position right now (and for apprentices--and I don't have to pay them!). Oh yes, the high school asked me if I would do a fieldtrip/workshop for their students too... Better get to work!
Meyda Lighting Introduces Kingston Gothic Two-Tier Chandelier - lightboard
lightboard, TX - 14 hours ago
... Comfort Lighting Fashion Collection, and The Metro and Metro Fusion Lines of contemporary art glass, fused glass and ADA compliant designs. ...
Art fuses glass with welding - The Newark Advocate
The Newark Advocate, OH - 17 hours ago
Juniors in the C-TEC welding program created custom brackets for half a dozen large-scale, organic-looking sculptures created by glass artist Aaron Buchholz ...
Tell & Sell
Shopping is a political act. (OK, what did you expect from a town whose mayor took 800 of its citizens to New York to visit Bergdorf Goodman after 9/11?)
Shopping is also a very personal act. And increasingly, as we are less and less able to make those political statements by buying heartily at places whose values we support or whose pain we’d like to ease, it is still a means of human connection.
This is the ride. And the story of how we’ll all make it. Together. And aware.
I’ve been shopping less lately. But I’ve been trying to be more conscious about each purchase. A while ago I discovered ETSY. It was probably inevitable. I love craft fairs, but don’t have the time anymore to visit them. Nowadays I mostly shop online.
The best part about ETSY is the enormous range of work there. The worst part is – like actual fairs – slogging through aisles and aisles before finding the piece that truly speaks to you. Of course the Etsy search function is awesome and since I’m always looking for “things Bullseye” it brought up a ton of stuff, some great, some not so.
But in the end what I find myself buying is not just a piece that’s made of our glass, but a piece with a story. Just as I was always mesmerized in talking to a weaver or a potter or a jeweler about the sheep, the mud, or the passion behind the work when I stopped at a craft fair booth, I love to find a good story behind anything I buy.
So, when a Bullseye search brought me to the Venerable Bead’s site, I fell in love with a necklace that wasn’t made of Bullseye at all (it’s boro), but had a story that reminded me of a long ago pet and our family car trips. That little story hit my heart. And my credit card. I’ve since turned the necklace into a keychain. I use it every day.
But the story still lives in the artist’s sold folder. READ IT HERE…it’s so sweet.
The next purchase I’m contemplating seems almost psychic considering my last post on this blog. “Play nice”?! Moi??
And no, I don’t know the jeweler personally. But I admire her work – and I’m a sucker for her stories!
Goodbye, west lawn: Kimbell reveals placement of Piano building - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 5 hours ago
By GAILE ROBINSON FORT WORTH — Kimbell Art Museum officials will unveil their new building plans today. As anticipated, or dreaded, the Renzo Piano-designed ...
Art Museum Unveils Expansion - New York Times
Architectural Record
New York Times, United States - 23 hours ago
A cantilevered roof, designed to protect Mr. Piano’s glass front and interior from the Texas sun, will also serve to shade part of the green space and ...
Goodbye, west lawn: Kimbell reveals placement of Piano building Fort Worth Star Telegram
Kimbell museum doubling exhibit space with project Houston Chronicle
Kimbell Art Museum Unveils Expansion Plans ARTINFO
Architectural Record - Fort Worth Business Press
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Festival of trees to benefit Ann's Place - Danbury News Times
Danbury News Times, CT - 8 hours ago
Handmade quilts, pottery, fused glass, and home decorating items will be offered, too. (And a second Coach set will be for sale.) Saturday and next Sunday ...
