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OK – so it has nothing to do with glass or the Washington Glass School – this is a video that will leave you gobsmacked. Demolition of a concrete flour mill in Turkey that went wrong.
Timmers at the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts
>Erwin Timmers’ recycled glass sculptures to show at the Hoyt.
Juried by the senior curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Virginia Mecklenburg, two of Erwin Timmers’ cast glass sculptures were selected from the over 400 artworks submitted, and will be featured in the 2009 review of artwork by artists of the Mid Atlantic at the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts.
The exhibit opens September 15 and runs through October 23, 2009. Opening Reception is Sept 20, from 2-4 pm
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition 124 E Leasure Ave, New Castle, PA 16101
Xtreme Lava Lovers
Another joint class between
Richard Aronowitz measures up his glass.
Cheryl Derricotte and David Cook work in the class.
Tina Lassiter develops her idea. Cheryl Derricotte, Dave Cook and instructor Nicole Puzan are seen working beyond.
Tim Tate featured on National Public Radio Monday
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All Things Considered
Mon. August 3, 2009, 4:20 p.m. WAMU 88.5
Tim Tate talks about art & technology and his glass artwork in the ‘All Things Considered’ show this coming Monday, Aug 3rd – scheduled for airing around 4.20 pm (DC area broadcast time, check your local listings for air time).
UPDATE:
Click HERE for link to NPR article
Click HERE for link to NPR blog
SALVAGE: Reclaiming Recycling
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What We Leave Behind cast recycled glass, steel
Erwin Timmers
The Phillips Museum of Art selected our eco-artist Erwin Timmers’ recycled cast glass artwork for an innovative exhibit “SALVAGE: Reclaiming Recycling.” Works in the exhibit were chosen from a national call to artists.
With current emphasis on green initiatives, the exhibit, “comprising 100% used and found objects, will challenge people to rethink their relationships with ‘disposable’ objects,” said Christine Batta, one of the curators. “We want to challenge artists to reduce their carbon footprint, while making the public more aware of the different ways one can be more sustainable” added co-curator Nicole DeAugustine.
The exhibition opens on September 10 and will run through October 30, 2009 in the Rothman Gallery and the Sally Mather Gibson Curriculum Gallery at the Museum.
An artists’ reception and awards presentation will take place Saturday, Sept. 19 at 1 PM.
Changes to Bullseye Glass Anneal Temperature
>Goodbye 960
Unless you’re living under a rock you already know that fused glass manufacturer, Bullseye, quietly announced that it is changing its standard annealing tables. The recommended anneal soak temperature drops to 900F from 960F.
According to Ted Sawyer, who runs BE’s research and education department, the closer you get to the strain point of soda-lime glass, the less time you need to spend in anneal soak. Stress in the glass relaxes more quickly at 900 than it does at 960.
Shorter anneals are advantageous for folk who make a living with glass art, since it means they spend less time in production with every piece. It could shave 200 hours off the schedule for an 8-inch thick kilncast piece. And if the glass is cooling over a shorter temperature range, the risk of breaking may be less.
Bullseye also emphasized (strongly) that there’s nothing wrong with the old schedules. They can still be used.
BE does not have all their new tables online, but here is their thick annealing schedule: Bullseye_annealing_thick_slabs
Glass and Steel Sculptural Development class show tonight!
artDC call for entries: ZIP Code Show
>artdc.org and Art Outlet are partnering with Halstead Arlington, a luxury apartment community in South Arlington, and the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization, to present The ZIP Code Show, an event featuring artists and their relationships with their surroundings. The show will be held at Halstead Arlington, 1028 South Walter Reed Drive, Arlington, VA, 5:30 pm – 12:00 am, August 29 and September 5, 2009.
For the show, artists were asked to use ZIP codes and other postal code schema as a jumping off point for personal dialogues with the physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth. A team from Art Outlet and artdc.org is curating their ideas and strategies into an polyvalent exploration of artists’ personal geographies, which range from the private sanctuaries of home to public memories and actions.Artists will be on hand to talk about their pieces at the show’s two evenings, which will include indoor and sidewalk live art and performances, and yours-for-a-donation summer libations.
They are still accepting artist registrations for more info:
http://www.artoutlet.org/news/events/zip-code-show
Inflatable Float Glass
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One of the ‘Rising Star’s honored at Wheaton Arts this year at Glass Weekend is Matthew Szosz .
Matt has received a BFA, a BID (Industrial Design), and a MFA (Glass) from Rhode Island School of Design. Recently he has received the Pilchuck Scholarship, a Stein Fund Grant and the Award of Excellence in Graduate Studies from RISD. He was an Artist in Residence at Pilchuck in 2007, and a Wheaton Fellow in 2008.
Matthew describing his technique @ Wheaton.
Washington Glass School at Wheaton Arts Biennial 2009
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General view of Maurine Littleton Gallery space
Millville, NJ’s glass-centric biennial at historic Wheaton Arts was just held. Maurine Littleton Gallery featured the work of Washington Glass School artists Tim Tate, Allegra Marquart and Michael Janis. The events over the weekend included a collector virtual shopping spree – where 4 noted collectors and curators were asked to photograph and present works on exhibit that they would purchase if they each had $250,000. Artwork by Allegra Marquart was selected by Jon Liebman, and a number of Michael Janis’ glass panels were selected by Chis Rifkin.
Michael Janis’ glass panels
Allegra Marquart’s sandcarved panels; Tim Tate’s reliquaries on left.
Tim Tate was honored as a ‘Rising Star for the 21st Century’ and his work was on display at the Museum of American Glass. Tim, along with Marc Petrovic, John Miller, and Laura Donefer participated in a Glass Relay Competition demo.
Glass Relay demo in the hotshop at Wheaton
Tim Tate, Marc Petrovic, John Miller
Cast glass elements by Tim Tate being integrated with blown glass.