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WPA Alice Denney Award for Support of Contemporary Art
Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) serves as a catalyst for the creation, critique, and collection of contemporary art. With more than 800 artist members, the WPA is the only DC-area organization to support visual artists at all stages of their careers.
2016 Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Alice Denney Award for Support of Contemporary Art
Initiated in 2006, the Washington Project for the Arts Alice Denney Award for Support of Contemporary Art is named for Alice Denney, the founder of the Washington Project for the Arts, and is presented annually to honor an individual who has supported the organization for a period of many years and has made a sustained commitment to the greater DC art’s community.
WPA has announced that Fred Ognibene will be the 2016 recipient of the Alice Denney Award for Support of Contemporary Art, and the award has been made by the Washington Glass School.
The award will presented by Andres Tremols at the opening reception of the WPA Auction Exhibition, March 31, 2016 at 8pm.
WPA AUCTION WEEK will kick off with an opening reception on Thursday, March 31, from 7 – 9 pm.
Click HERE to jump to WPA Gala online page.
No Dim Bulbs in Lighting Class!
Erwin Timmers instructs one of the lighting class students.
Erwin Timmer’s artistic lighting class these past few weeks brought some serious color to the studio – really brightening up the studio!
Over the three week class, students completed a number of lighting designs, ranging from pendant to wall sconces and table lamps. Great to see how each created functional art that reflected the tastes and aesthetics of each of the artists. This was certainly a class that put forth the effort in the design!
Vibha’s glass design was dazzling!
Students designed and made the glass as well as assembled the mounting hardware.
Louis Comfort Tiffany would have been jealous of the glass created for the light fixture.
Jerrelee loves her light fixture that relates to her artwork.
Tim Tate @ Florida’s Art Boca Raton and Benzaiten Center
Friday, Mar 18, 2016 to Monday, Mar 21, 2016 – Booth #110
Michigan’s Habatat Galleries will be exhibiting the work of Laura Donefer, Tim Tate, Udo Zembok, Alex Bernstein, Dan Dailey, Michael Glancy, Bretislav Novak Jr., Clifford Rainey, Ethan Stern, Peter Bremers, Michael Behrens, Christina Bothwell, Marlene Rose and Vivian Wang at Florida’s Art Boca Raton contemporary art fair.
Tim Tate; “Vitruvian Visions”; 36 x 36 x 4″; Glass, Aluminum, Poly-Vitro, Electronics. photo credit: Pete Duvall/Anything Photographic
International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches
at the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University
3450 NW 8th Avenue, Boca Raton, FL 33431
Tim Tate will also be featured at the Benzaiten Center for the Creative Arts in nearby Lake Worth, FL.
The Benzaiten Center’s mission is to support the creation of significant new works of art, collaboration between peers across multiple media and instruction from master to emerging artists.
On Friday, March 18th, 6- 8pm Tim will be at the Gallery Opening featuring his work and a discussion about 21st Century Narrative glass artwork.
On Saturday, March 19th, Tim Tate – as the featured artist along with Benzaiten’s Creative Director Rick Eggert and the Center’s glass crew – will be performing a glass blowing demo as he creates new work for SOFA Chicago at the Glasstronomique fundraiser.
Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts
1105 2nd Avenue South
Lake Worth, Florida 33460
NCAGG “See The Light” @ VisArts Gibbs St Gallery
The National Capitol Art Glass Guild (NCAGG) has a juried member show opening in Rockville, MD.
The show, titled “See The Light” will be at the Gibbs Street Gallery at VisArts in Rockville, MD from April 1 to May 1, 2016.
Congratulations to WGS artists whose work was selected: Veta Carney & Patricia Kent
Trish Kent, Dress Series, kilnformed glass
Veta Carney, “Ursa Major”. cast, blown, sandblasted and lampworked glass, ultraviolet light. photo: Pete Duvall
The NCAGG Exhibit Jurors:
Pati Young (Board member of the American Craft Council, art collector),
Jack Devine (Principal Partner of Artists Circle Fine Art, Member of the VisArts Artist Advisory Council, VisArts Board of Directors, and Chair of the Gallery Committee),and
Kari Minnick (Internationally recognized glass artist and teacher)
See the Light
155 Gibbs Street, Rockville, MD 20850
Opening Reception: Friday, April 8, 7 – 9 PM
Artists Talk and Demonstration: Sunday, April 24, 2 PM
Dean Allison’s Glass Sculpture Finalist in Smithsonian Portrait Competition
Dean Allison; “What would the earth look like if shadows disappeared?”; 15 x 20 x 16 inches; cast glass
Introduced to glass in 1998 at Illinois State University, Dean Allison currently is a 3-year resident artist at the Penland School of Crafts. Dean’s work is an exploration of portrait sculpture in glass. He celebrates intrinsic beauty through physical form and through the afflictions and joys of life’s many stages. He begins with a life cast of his subject, usually a friend or family member. The final portrait, made in cast glass and resin, expresses the fragility and transparency of human experience through a medium that inherently captures those qualities. The artist notes, “I’m thinking about the inside/invisible aspect of a person and the outside/visible aspect that one creates and adorns for external display. Glass is the middle ground, the window to look through.”
Dean’s cast glass sculpture was one of the 43 finalists selected from the competition’s more than 2,500 entries received.
Every three years, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery hosts the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery focuses on the important role that contemporary portraiture could play in the life of the gallery, as well as in heralding the museum’s engagement with figurative art and portraiture in today’s world. The exhibit “The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today” will run March 12, 2016 – January 8, 2017.
Vote for the “People’s Choice” selection of the finalists – here – (be like Chicago-born Dean and vote early & often!)
Dean Allison’s sculpture at the Smithsonian. L-R Nancy Kerr, Tim Tate, Dean Allison
JRA SPRING CRAFT WEEKEND 2016!
Join the James Renwick Alliance (JRA) for Spring Craft Weekend 2016 on April 1-3 for a joyful celebration of American Craft.
Spring Craft Weekend is a fabulous three day celebration of works made in ceramics, fiber, glass, metal and wood…where Craft as Art is explored in many forms. The JRA honors individuals or organizations in the craft world who have made significant and pioneering contributions in craft education.
This year’s Spring Craft Weekend includes a free symposium on Saturday, April 2 at the recently renovated Smithsonian Renwick Gallery – 10:30 am – 12:00pm.
Saturday Symposium panel: Stuart Kestenbaum, Chair, Board of Trustees of the American Craft Council and former Director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, will chair a panel discussion with four renowned artists: Theresa Secord, founder of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance; Sonya Clark, fiber artist and Chair of the Craft and Material Studies Program at VCU; David Keefe, creator of Combat Paper NJ in New Jersey; and Alleghany Meadows, studio potter and founder of Artstream Nomadic Gallery.
For more info on Spring Craft Weekend & to register for the events – click HERE.
The James Renwick Alliance is an independent national
nonprofit organization, created to recognize the achievements of
America’s craft artists and to foster scholarship, education and public
appreciation of craft art. Founded in 1982, the Alliance contributes to
the nation’s showcase of contemporary American craft, the Smithsonian
American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.
with acquisitions for the permanent collection, exhibitions support
and education and scholarship programs.
Bullseye Glass: List of Suspended Glass Colors
Bullseye Glass has been at the center of controversy about Portland, OR air pollution ever since early February, when Oregon regulators asked the company to stop using the carcinogenic metals cadmium and arsenic. The request was prompted by tests showing high concentrations of the pollutant in nearby air.
Bullseye Glass and Uroboros glass have agreed to stop using cadmium and arsenic in their manufacturing, along with a third and more toxic metal, chromium. A list of Bullseye Glass colors affected by the manufacturing change was obtained by Washington Glass School – as follows:
Bullseye Glass colors and code
Glass Beads Found In Danish Grave Linked To King Tut’s Death Mask
Scientists working in Denmark have unearthed glass blue beads crafted in an ancient Egyptian workshop for King Tutankhamun that made its way north to Europe 3,400 years ago. The find helps prove there was contact between the two regions long ago and suggests possible ancient trade routes.
An elaborate glass bead with amber embedding found in a 3400-year old Danish grave turns out to have come from ancient Egypt. credit: Roberto Fortuna and Kira Ursem
After taking a new look at a pair of ancient cobalt beads, archaeologists now believe these Bronze Age artifacts may have been manufactured in the same workshop as the blue glass on King Tut’s death mask. The researchers say the new discovery is the first Egyptian cobalt glass that has been found outside the Mediterranean area.
The mask of Tutankhamun.The solid gold death mask contains blue glass in the stripes of the headdress, as well as in the inlay of the plaited false beard. credit: DE AGOSTINI / A. JEMOLO VIA GETTY IMAGES
For the research, an international team of Danish and French archaeologists used a technique called plasma-mass spectrometry to analyze the chemical composition of 23 glass beads dating back to between 1400 and 1100 B.C. The set of beads was unearthed from Danish graves in the late 19th century.
If that’s the case, an extensive trade network likely ran from ancient Denmark to Egypt and Mesopotamia around 3,400 years ago, the researchers say.
For more info – read the online article.
The Process: Site-Specific Art Project by Washington Glass Studio
Design sketches of the two lobby areas were created.
Sample showing glass colorways.
Washington Glass Studio recently completed commissions for artwork in a refurbished downtown Bethesda building lobby. Working with art consultants, Directions in Art, Washington Glass Studio began creating artwork options for two levels of an office building that was undergoing a major renovation.
The proposed floor-to-ceiling glass artwork was designed to be fully backlit with LED panels, giving the artwork a strong visual punch. The artwork proposals were presented to the client, and the direction on colors was approved.
Crushed glass (frit) was used to make the large circles of glass color.
Working with the building architects, the design was modified to allow for a stainless steel surrounding frame. The framework would conceal the electrical transformers required for the LED wall. Timing and coordination issues for installation on two separate floors were addressed, as were wall structure concerns.
Artists Audrey Wilson and Erwin Timmers discuss the fabrication of the glass panels.
Layers of fused glass created the desired textures and colors.
Installation of the main lobby artwork.
The finished artwork. WGS Project team: Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Michael Janis, Audrey Wilson