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Washington Glass School: January 2014

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Glass Kangaroos; blown glass figurines created by Kevin Prochaska, a Disneyland glass blower for 10 of his 35 years experience. Wishing all me mates in Oz a Happy 'Stralia Day! Looking for appropriate imagery caused me to reflect. For 10 years, essentially, the 1990's, my wife and I lived in Australia. Working in design in Brisbane, Queensland is where I first was introduced to cast glass. Love the place and the people. All was fun and games until some unspoken line is crossed and it got ugly. Will cover...

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Washington Glass School: Old Town Crier Reviews Audrey Wilson Solo Exhibit

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Old Town Crier Reviews Audrey Wilson Solo Exhibit. Opening night of Audrey Wilson solo show at Washington Glass School Gallery. Section of the Old Town Crier newspaper has a great review of glass artist Audrey Wilson's solo exhibit -. 8220; The Aberrant Collection of the Spurious Calamus. 8221; - held at the Washington Glass School in January. Pretty strong praise - albeit well deserved! To jump to the entire article site- click HERE. The Old Town Crier is sending love to Audrey Wilson! Washington Glass ...

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Washington Glass School: Glass Secessionism

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Tim Tate writes about the tenets of "Glass Secessionism". The evidence supporting my claims comes mostly from my own experiences and observations as a practicing sculptural glass artist, including 10 years showing only in sculptural fine art settings and then crossing over to the glass gallery world. At this point, I straddle the line between these worlds. Half the galleries that represent my work are glass galleries, half are fine. My premise is that to succeed in glass in the 21. Though they may seem i...

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Washington Glass School: June 2013

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Installing Glass Artwork Commission at Kaiser Permanente. Erwin Timmers mounts the colorful glass high above the building lobby. Erwin Timmers, Audrey Wilson and Reggie Williamson install the Washington Glass Studio glass artwork commissioned for Kaiser Permanente's newly-expanded Largo Medical facility. Art consultant Maxine Manges of MKM Fine Art had approached Washington Glass Studio last year, looking to commision a colorful addition to the two-story medical center lobby. The resulting. Hollow forged...

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Washington Glass School: "Primary Colors" Opens @ Alexandria's Del Ray Artisans

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Primary Colors" Opens @ Alexandria's Del Ray Artisans. Betsy Mead's "roll-up" vase. Opening with an artist reception on Friday, January 3, 2014 from 7-10pm is Primary Colors. At Del Ray Artisan. S' gallery in Alexandria, VA. This all area artist show kicks off the New Year with an artistic challenge to create artwork using only the three primary colors. Curator and glass artist Betsy Mead. In conjunction with the Primary Colors. Exhibit, the non-profit artist group will feature the movie Primary Colors.

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Washington Glass School: William Warmus on Glass Scessionism

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William Warmus on Glass Scessionism. Writer/critic/art curator/and Fellow of Corning Museum of Glass writes a response to some comments on the. Group page Glass Secessionism. William Warmus wrote extensively about the development and evolution of Studio Glass. In the interest of giving the comments a broader audience - we post below Mr Warmus' text:. Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on other. I apologize for making this a very long post, but here goes. In 1992 I wrote an essay about the End o...

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Washington Glass School: Happy President's Day!

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8220; Washington and Lincoln. Apotheosis)” Stephen James Ferris, 1865. Apotheosis "to deify"; "making divine"; is the glorification of a subject to divine level. In theology, the term apotheosis refers to the idea that an individual has been raised to godlike stature. Posted by Michael Janis. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Get All the Class Specials and Updates - Join Our Mailing List. Sign up for our Newsletter. Pete Duvall / Anything Photographic. Follow me on Twitter. Make your own badge here.

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Washington Glass School: Roll-up your glass! How warm and hot glass can live in harmony.

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How warm and hot glass can live in harmony. Some pix of the great work made by the roll-up class - where the students made a fused glass panel here at the Washington Glass School, and the following week, the class was held at DC Glass Works, where the fused panel gets. well. rolled-up and blown into vessel shapes. The rollup class gets a history of the process from Audrey Wilson. The flat fused panels get rolled up and blown. Audrey and Dave working in the DC Glassworks hotshop. Became this sweet vessel.

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Washington Glass School: Hallo! Glass is More!

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The new international glass news website " Glass is more. Posts about the Washington Glass School. A new e-magazine all about glass is online - " Glass is more. Based in Holland, Glass is more! Promises to bring a new worldwide review of the glass scene with info on conferences, symposiums, exhibits, new techniques, opinions and essays and the latest in awards, competitions and entries. Editor Angela van der Burght worked as the general editor of Glasbulletin, Glashelder and This Side Up! Audrey Wilson S...