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DC & UK Glass School Connection

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Michael Janis |

UK’s National Glass Centre at the University of Sunderland

Representatives from one of the world’s leading glass art education centers – the UK’s University of Sunderland and National Glass Centre met this week with the directors of the Washington Glass School to discuss collaborative educational opportunities between the two glass schools.
Residencies both here at the Washington Glass School and at the University of Sunderland, exhibitions and how to enable a free exchange of ideas, students and staff are amongst the topics to be worked through.
It would be very exciting to have many of the UK glass artists we first met at the Artomatic-sponsored “Glass 3” collaborative exhibit between 3 world glass centers held in 2008, and saw more of during the critically acclaimed Artomatic 2009, come and teach their techniques and tricks.

We will post more information on this topic as this collaboration develops.

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Photos from WGS 9th Anniversary Open House

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Michael Janis |

Washington Glass School’s 9th anniversary party was a great event! Hundreds joined the artists and instructors celebrate – the event started with a parade complete with marching bands and the Mayor of Mount Rainier – Melinda Miles – greeting everyone.
The open house was lots of fun – the artists showcased their work, torchwork demos were held, with a collaborative artwork piece was made by the lampworkers during the day.

Mayor Miles opens the parade – complete with marching bands, clowns, and politicians – (which is which?)

A view of one of the studios during open house.

Tim Tate chats up visitors to the school.

Alison Sigethy exhibits her eco-art.

David and JoAnn Pearcy set up glass jewelry. Valerie Hassett and friend viewing Kirk Waldroff’s cast glass prints.

Robert Kincheloe demos on the torch.

Jessica Beels discusses her sculpture.

The party gets into full swing- put yer hands in the air – woop! woop!
The next Washington Glass School Open House is in December – mark your calendars now!

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9th Anniversary Open House

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Chip Montague |

“Untitled” by Robert Kincheloe / photo by Anything Photographic
glass and steel 2010

Join the Washington Glass School as it celebrates its 9th Anniversary this coming Saturday with an Open House and Artwork Sale – art and craft from over 20 studio artists and instructors will be available.

Artists exhibiting include: Michael Janis, Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Syl Mathis, Robert Kincheloe, Jessica Beels, Nancy Donnelly, Sean Hennessey, Rania Hassan, Jennifer Lindstrom, David Pearcy, Anne Plant, Cheryl Derricotte, David Cook, Allegra Marquart, Chris Shea, Nancy Krondstat, Kirk Waldroff, Alison Sigethey, and more! Torchwork demonstrations, discounts on class registrations, music, food & fun!

The surrounding artist studios (Red Dirt Studio with Margaret Boozer, JJ McCracken; Flux Studios with Novie Trump, Laurel Lukaszewski; Sinel, Stewart, Weiss Studio; Bob Devers Studio; Nan Montgomery) will be participating in the huge event, along with the Gateway Arts District’s Mount Rainier Day events along Rhode Island Avenue.

Washington Glass School
9th Anniversary / Open Studio / Sale
3700 Otis Street, Mount Rainier, MD 20712
202.744.8222
Noon til 6 pm, Saturday, May 15, 2010
Free and open to the public

Posted in 9th anniversary, gateway arts district, mount rainier day, open house, washington glass school

The Affordable Art Fair NYC Opens This Week

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Chip Montague |

The Affordable Art Fair (AFF) opens this week with over 75 galleries from five continents exhibiting original painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper at 7W New York (7 West 34th Street) in New York City from May 6 – 9, 2010. Appealing to established collectors and first time art buyers, the ninth annual AAF NYC features contemporary art priced from $100 – $10,000.

Washington Glass School artists Michael Janis, Tim Tate and Erwin Timmers, along with next door studio and superstar ceramic artist Novie Trump will be represented by Mayer Fine Art Gallery .

In 1999, Will Ramsay founded the Affordable Art Fair (AAF) in London. His aim was to make contemporary art accessible to everyone, and to show you don’t need to be an art expert or a millionaire to enjoy and buy art. Ten years later, AAF has become a global event with fairs taking place in Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, New York and Singapore. More than 650,000 people have visited Affordable Art Fairs around the world, purchasing over $160 million worth of art.

AAF NYC 2010
Thursday May 6 – Sunday May 9
7 W New York (7 West 34^th St, near 5^th Ave, NYC)

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Washington Glass School 9th Anniversary Open House

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Chip Montague |

This May marks our 9th year providing some of the highest level glass/metal/sculpture classes in the region. We will join the Gateway Arts District‘s Open Studio Tours as part of the annual Mount Rainier Day festivities. This year is the Mount Rainier, MD centennial – so this will be a big event for the area!

The Glass School anniversary and open studio is one of our favorite events, from the Mt Rainier Day parade in the morning to the huge selection of art and craft from our instructors, associates and studio artists. Please join us – and visit the surrounding incredible ceramic studios and other art studios that are also open as part of the celebration!
Music, Art, Food, Demos, FUN!

May 15th, 2010
3700 Otis Street
Mount Rainier, MD 20712
Noon -6 pm

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Matt Szosz Demonstration on how to inflate fused glass

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Chip Montague |

>Glass artist Matt Szosz gave a series of lectures and demonstrations here at the Washington Glass School as part of Craft Week DC. Novie Trump filmed one of his explosive demos, where he would take sheets of fused float glass and inject compressed air inside, causing it to erupt in fanstastic shapes and patterns. We will post more of the vids and photos as we get them!

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Washington Glass School History Project

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Michael Janis |

1338 Half Street ca 2005

The area is now under the Washington Nationals Baseball Park

Glass artist Diane Cabe is creating a history of the studio glass movement in the Washington, DC area, and had contacted members of the Washington Glass School to get comments on how times have changed, what direction does glass art and craft seem to be going towards and sought other forms of historical documentation.
The Washington Glass School celebrates its 9th birthday this coming May, and I want to start planning now for the 10th anniversary next year by going thru old photos, show announcements, class schedules, etc. and have the WGS history recorded.

Float Glass Class, 2004

Glass 3 exhibition 2007, Georgetown
Three glass centers (Washington, DC, Toledo, OH, Sunderland, UK) combined for an international show.

Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Michael Janis 2005

Glass Gallery at Art-O-Matic, 2004
Where the Washington Post’s Blake Gopnick’s scathing review of the all-media show titled ‘Hanging’s Too Good For It’ included the commentary: “… the glasswork looked all right. Glass is such a gorgeous medium it’s hard to screw it up, and you need some basic training even to begin to work in it.” High praise indeed!

3700 Otis Street, Mount Rainier, MD, 2007

As such – if any of you out there have old photos or other ephemera of the glass school – please send them in!

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Say, Isn’t that OUR Jennie?

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Michael Janis |

>The new summer catalog of classes held at the beautiful and historic Penland School of Craft in the mountains of North Carolina were delivered a couple of weeks past. Inside, amongst the fantastic listings and descriptions of courses in different media (Books, Clay, Glass, Wood, Drawing & Painting, Iron, Metals, Photography, Textiles, Prints and Specials) is a photo of our Jennifer Lindstrom, shown working on her artwork last year.

Jennie hard at work in the print edition of Penland’s summer course catalog.

It is always nice to see Jennie working on her artwork!

For more about Penland and information on their immersion courses, Click HERE.
Scholarship deadline is fast approaching Click HERE for the link.

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Washington Glass Seeks Studio Coordinator

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Michael Janis |

Studio Coordinator Position Open

The Washington Glass School has an immediate opening for a Studio Coordinator in its Mount Rainier, MD location. Founded 8 years ago, this is one of the busiest studios on the east coast. We are not only an educational venue, but we are the home of many successful independent artists as well. We also work heavily with large scale public art projects.

The successful candidate will have many of the following traits:

Extremely organized and punctual
Ability to move from one project to the next very quickly
Be a self starter and able to work independently
Skills in sculpting clay would be helpful…..as well as skills in computer work, administrative paper work, warm glass, shipping and delivery
Comfortable with people and able to possibly teach classes in future.

Duties will include:

Daily studio clean-ups
Working with plaster, lost wax, warm glass
Installing sculptural work
Assisting/coordination or taking over some classes
Coordinating kiln use and kiln schedules
Review studio material use
100 things that might come up….and do.

What we offer:

To learn numerous methods of relating to glass and sculpture (all classes are free to you)
Free studio space to work on your warm glass
$10 an hour to start
The ability to see how a very successful sculpture studio operates.
Many gallery and show opportunities.
The ability to become part of a much larger community
Mentoring for your career as an artist.

This is a great opportunity for someone who would like to further their sculpture or glass career……and to join one of the most successful teams in the region. Please email Tim Tate at TimTateGlass@aol.com .

Washington Glass School

3700 Otis St.

Mt. Rainier, Md. 20712

202-744-8222

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Petrovic / Russell-Pool Artwork Available

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Michael Janis |

Marc Petrovic and Kari Russell-Pool honored at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC.

The James Renwick Alliance “Distinguished Artists” series featured Marc Petrovic and Kari Russell -Pool, with a presentation of the two artists at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery this past week. As part of the event, artwork by Marc and Kari were on exhibit. Mark and Kari will be offering one of their works to be included in the upcoming James Renwick Alliance auction that will be part of DC Craft Week this April 20-25.