>More event updates for CraftWeek DC 2010 –
The James Renwick Alliance invites you to join them for an Après Dinner Reception and silent auction featuring unique, one-of –a kind craft items from regional and national artists. The reception consists of a delectable dessert buffet catered by Top Chef Season 5 finalist Carla Hall and will include the opportunity to mingle with art lovers and artists from the Washington area and beyond.
Carla Hall
Tickets are $50 and can be purchased online at http://www.jra.org/ or by calling 301-907-3888.
Proceeds from this event will help support the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Please RSVP by April 19, 2010.
When: Friday, April 23, 2010 from 9:00 PM – 11:30 PM.
Where: Long View Gallery
1234 9th St, NW
Washington, DC
Long View Gallery
Click HERE to jump to the Spring Craft Weekend JRA list of events.
Happy Valentines Day!
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Holiday Wishes
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The Artists and Staff of the Washington Glass School & Studio wish everyone
Happy Holidays!
unknown artist ca 2002
fused float glass with copper inclusion
Escaping the Lure of Black Friday
>The Glass School provided a much needed respite for a number of artists after Thanksgiving.
Instead of hitting the malls, glass artist Teddie Hathaway hit the diamond lap wheel.
Teddie Hathaway cleans her bas-relief glass panels.
Nancy Donnelly unloads her glass castings.
Escape to the Washington Glass School.
Talking Turkey
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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.
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.
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….
Artist Opportunity
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The BlackRock Center for the Arts gallery is a fantastic showplace consisting of 1500 square feet of exquisite gallery space. With its high white walls and beautiful windows strategically placed, this gorgeous gallery allows in just the right amount of natural light. Black Rock is located at 12901 Town Commons Drive Germantown, MD in upper Montgomery County, about 20 minutes from the Capital Beltway (495).
They currently have a Call to Artists and the call is open to all artists residing in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC over the age of 18. Artwork shown is original artwork only. All work must be ready for sale and to be presented in a professional manner to the public at the time of delivery.
This call will cover exhibits in the gallery from September 2010 through August 2011. An exhibit may include one applicant or a combination of applicants, based on the judgment of jurors (i.e., 1 or 2 wall artists may be combined with a pedestal artist). A jury will select the artists and create eight exhibits to be included in the exhibit year. The jury panel is comprised of and gallerist Elyse Harrison, Jodi Walsh, and Lenny Campello.
Jurying: First Week of December
Notification: Early January
Exhibit Year: Sept. 2010 – Aug. 2011
How to apply: All correspondence will be done by e-mail, so contact Kimberly Onley, the Gallery Coordinator at konley@blackrockcenter.org and ask her to email you a prospectus.
Click HERE to read the prospectus
Glass Microbiology
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E. coli
Multidisciplinary UK artist Luke Jerram worked in collaboration with glassblowers Kim George, Brian Jones and Norman Veitch to create a stunning series of glass virus sculptures. Created over a period of 5 years in consultation with virologists from the University of Bristol, the transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena.
Beautiful, deadly works.
For more information on Luke Jerram and his work & slide show of other microbes and virus sculptures, click HERE.