Nancy Donnelly @ Suffolk Museum

>Personal Armor is an upcoming glass artwork show at the Suffolk Museum (near Norfolk) that will feature our own Nancy Donnelly. Nancy is well know for her cast glass dresses – they were one of the hits of last year’s Artomatic show. Nancy won first place this past October for her ‘Tall Blue Dress’ at the Capitol Hill Art Workshop juried exhibition.

Nancy is making some new sculptures for this exhibit. Below are some previews of her mixed media works that explores issues of femininity and domestic roles. Click here to see her website.

Personal Armor: Artists’ Look at Aprons
Suffolk Museum
– 118 Bosley Avenue, Suffolk, VA 23434 May 2nd – June 12th, 2009 – 10-5 Tuesday – Saturday, Sunday 1-5

Studio Artists at Work

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Syl Mathis is one of the Washington Glass School ‘studio artists’.

His finely crafted boats are highly sought after for their poetic compositions.

Syl creates plaster silica molds and loads with glass. He fires the glass for at least two days, and then cold-works the cast glass.

Tough guy – but cries at the slightest glass cut.