Oh, The Humanity!

>Eco-Artist Erwin Timmers is working on a commissioned artwork glass panel. The cast glass panel is made from recycled glass and will incorporate many, many faces cast into the sheet of glass. As such, Erwin has been hitting the junk shops, looking for discarded toys to utilized their heads to create the form molds.
Erwin has been spending the better part of the day chopping little heads off little plastic bodies.

Ok, does anyone else find these little decapitated plastic bodies disturbing?


No? How about when the little heads had a liquid core, and the green blood started spurting out?

Who is not moved at the sight of these sad eyes staring at you?

Washington Glass School artist Mayor’s Art Award Finalist!

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Michael Janis was selected as a finalist for the 2009 Washington, DC Mayor’s Arts Awards.

The Mayor’s Arts Award is the most prestigious honor given by the District of Columbia to individual artists, arts organizations and patrons of the arts. Come join us as Mayor Fenty awards recipients that were selected from among the finalists and announced live from the stage at the Mayor’s Arts Awards Ceremony on Monday, March 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the Concert Hall.

Admission is free and having been to many of them, it is a boatload of fun, with great live music and entertainment and loads of good food and drinks.

For more information, please contact Lisa Richards Toney at (202) 724-5613.
The Mayor’s Arts Awards are free and open to the public. Email questions to artsawards@dc.gov or call (202) 724-5613.