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This December, the entire art world turns its focus to Miami. Anchored by Art Basel Miami (the sister event of Switzerland’s Art Basel, one of the most prestigious art shows worldwide for the past 40 years), there is a convergence of art, celebrities, sunshine and over-the-topness, creating a cultural and social highlight for the Americas. The success and prestige of Art Basel Miami has created satellite art shows, including Art Miami and Red Dot Art Fair – all located near or adjacent to each other.The simultaneous art fairs create a combination of an international selection of top galleries with special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. Tourists, art collectors, curators and art lovers come from around the globe to attend this annual art frenzy.
RED DOT ART FAIR HOURS:
Dec 2 -6, 2009
Wednesday, December 2nd,
VIP and Press Preview, 5 – 6 PM
Opening Reception, to benefit GreenMiami, 6 – 9 PM
General Admission:
Thursday, December 3rd, 11 AM – 7 PM
Friday, December 4th, 11 AM – 8 PM
Saturday, December 5th, 11 AM – 8 PM
Sunday, December 6th, 11 AM – 6 PM
LOCATION:
Wynwood Art District
NW 31st Street and NE 1st Avenue (Midtown Blvd), Miami, FL 33137
Booth B105
Artist Salon @ Washington Glass School
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The Prince George’s Arts Council held its latest ‘Artist Salon’ at the Washington Glass School – a spirited meeting of artistic minds held over wine and nibbles. Artists from the theater, dance and visual arts community mixed it up with musicians and government organizations.
Prince George’s Artist Salon @ Washington Glass School
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Prince George’s Arts Council invites you to join in Arts Buzz in Prince George’s County: Join in a gathering about art… your art, others’ art, the world of art,
November 17, 2009, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.,
Washington Glass School
3700 Otis Street, Mount Rainier, MD 20712
Prince George’s Arts Council is supported by:
Inside The Kiln: Lost Wax
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Erwin Timmers checks out the lost wax firing
Debra Ruzinsky’s “Introduction to Lost Wax Casting” class started off with great success – the art works will continue firing and annealing in the kiln until Wednesday. Shown here is Erwin Timmers as he checks on the work to ensure the integrity of the plaster casts and the glass levels in each mold during the process. Although the mathematics to determine of the amount of glass needed to fill the molds were practiced – some were more precise in their calculations than others.
The inside of one very hot kiln.
Lost wax class with Debra Ruzinsky
>Today was the second class with Debra Ruzinsky, where we got down and dirty with plaster and wax.
You take your carved wax model, and cover it in plaster…
… then the wax is boiled or steamed out of the mold…
It’s called lost wax, but I still see it… everywhere!
And then it all goes into the kiln. Next week we see the results.
Food & Friends ‘Friendship Wall’
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The charity organization Food & Friends had commissioned the Washington Glass Studio to create its outdoor donor wall, located in the park adjacent to its Northeast Washington, DC facility. The wall is made of bas-relief cast glass, made in muted autumnal Bullseye glass colors, and set in a steel framework. The donor names are engraved on metal inset panels. The translucent panels allow for light and color to pass thru the memorial.
To order a delicious Thanksgiving Pie from Food & Friends – click HERE
photos by: Anything Photograhic
Washington Glass Rocks SOFA Chicago 2009
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Allegra Marquart discusses her work on opening night.
Originally uploaded by sofaexpo
The international art show SOFA Chicago was held at Navy Pier in Chicago, with the Washington Glass School represented by Tim Tate, Allegra Marquart and Michael Janis. The 4 day gala had 68 galleries from 10 countries and viewers in the tens of thousands.
Washington, DC’s Maurine Littleton Gallery had a great show, showcasing artworks of glass icons Harvey Littleton, Richard Marquis, Judith La Scola, Therman Statom, John Littleton, Kate Vogel and Colin Reid along with WGS artists Tate, Marquart and Janis.
The three DC artists had a great year, with a lot of interest from collectors, curators and other glass artists!
View of Maurine Littleton Gallery @ SOFA
One of the Tim Tate exhibition areas
Michael Janis’ fused glass powder drawings
WGS welcomes a new neighbor with Dutch treat
>Our lovely neighbor, Margaret Boozer from Red Dirt Studio, visited with her new baby, and we treated her to an old Dutch tradition.
Nancy, Tim, Margaret, Kyle, Nicole and Erwin enjoying “beschuit met muisjes“, basically zwieback and sugar covered anise seeds with plenty of butter to hold it all together.
Preview of Tate @ SOFA
>Tim Tate has a big show coming up at SOFA Chicago – (opening next week at Navy Pier – in Maurine Littleton Gallery – Space 720) He will be unveiling his newest works that continue integration of new media – his cast & blown glass features LED technology, sometimes with the LEDs in the blacklight range, illuminating uranium glass . The work is made with cast glass peace symbols, flowers, Ganesh heads, toadstools and more. The top finial is a cast glass hookah smoking caterpiller. The piece is lighted internally with black light LED’s. This gives the cast pieces a truly wonderful inner black light glow.
Tim Tate “Summer of Love” 24″H x 10″ x 10″ blown and cast glass, blacklight LED 
“Summer of Love” Detail
This represents a wonderful departure from his well known video/camera series. There is an early offering of the piece – an online auction of the work as a kind of early advance preview – Click HERE to jump to the special Ebay listing of the art.
Tim’s series of internally lit works are titled “Illuminaria”.
Click here to see other works of Tim @ Maurine Littleton Gallery.
What We Do For Art
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Artist Erwin Timmers is working on a new series – where he plans on casting footprints in glass. To achieve a negative in which he will cast a positive image, he had made a clay ‘original footprint’ . Mixing up clay in a cement mixing trough, Erwin began his foot stomping.
Later, Professor Tate joins in the hijinx . It became very I Love Lucy – in fact….
