 Surface finish samples Below are some samles of an exercise I completed along with the class. Base.Body.Lip began with a premade glass sphere. I comleted 100 drawings of possible ways to finish the sphere and then after that. Coldworkng. Lots of coldworking.
 Me, Mel and two talented artists who also happended to be in the class - Erika Tada and Louise Murphy
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 Printed image on Pate de Verre
 My printing on Pate de Verre samples We also had a SIUC alumini reunion, complete with pizza. The turn out was great and it was SO COOL to see so many Salukis.  Oh hello SIUC I also had some work in a juried show on Market Street in Corning. The show, Seeing Light, was a fantastic opportunity for me and I was very pleased with the way it was put together. The Arts Council of the Souther Finger Lakes has a great gallery space and I'm excited that they have invited me to have a solo show in 2017 ... More on that to come  My work on Market Street, Corning New York
  A whole week in Pittsburgh helping the super talented Weston Lambert? Yes Please! Cast to Fit at The Pittsburgh Glass Center covered casting techniques to match glass to other materials, coldworking to seamlessly blend materials together and adhesives to make em stick. The class made some super awesome things and I learned a ton and had so much fuuuuuuuuunnnnnn.
How lucky am I? Two whole weeks at Penland School of Craft helping Jiyong Lee and Kirstie Rea as a Studio Assistant. These two are both amazing artist and incredibly skilled educators. I learned so much! Penland, as always, didn't disappoint.  Jiyong Lee and Kirstie Rea dropping knowledge.
We had the opportunity to visit some artist's studios while in North Carolina. These shots are from Mark Peiser's shop. What an incredible color in that tear drop piece.
I even had some time to practice new skills. Here's a finished shot of some of my lamination samples. All obsessively hand coldworked. I think you can see how some of my shape choice was influenced by our visit to Mark Peiser's studio.   Oh good lord they let me teach a one week intensive class! With the title of Not my Circus, Not my Monkeys, my focus was to cover the technique of pate de verre and to use language as a starting point for creation. The class covered several mold making techniques as well as exercises in idioms, phrases and figures of speech.
 Keys to the City?  WHoooo you lookin' at?  Early this summer I had a chance to do something out of the norm. As part of René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass, our show about René Lalique here at the Museum, I had the chance (and challenge) to make samples for the hands-on activities located at Explainer carts in the galleries. Museum Explainers, the Museum’s high school and college student program, work throughout the galleries during the summer providing hands-on experiences and answering questions about glass and glassmaking at carts stationed throughout the glass galleries. They are extensively trained in the spring to learn all about glass. The purpose of Explainer carts is to help visitors to the Museum better understand glass history and glass processes. For the cart in the Lalique exhibition, we needed an example of glass casting created through a process called “lost wax” or “cire perdue.” Here is a bare bones description about how I got from this . . .  To this . . . I started with an oil based clay and created a sculpture of a bird. I based it off of this piece in our collection which was on display in the Lalique exhibition here at the Museum (Lalique’s is much nicer).  Mmmmmm, alginate I then poured wax into the alginate mold. The resulting wax was a close copy of the clay and I could now make multiple waxes from the same alginate mold.  Liquid wax just poured into alginate
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 Faux - JW May |  Arid Core - Weston Lambert |
Spirals in Tension - Leana Quade
Swarming Thoughts - Dorie Guthrie
Many random things come my way at The Studio. One recent fun project was with a group of high school art students that came for a two day series of classes at CMOG. They took an intensive glassblowing class, toured our library and museum and they spent some time with me learning about glass fusing. Here are some of their projects, All eighteen of them made a three layer fusing that played with depth and distortion.
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I was chosen as one of four 2012 MFA graduates to participate in the Urban Glass MFA Exhibition. It is a national competition open to all glass artists who earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree in glass in the last academic year. Here are some images of new stuff that will be included in this show. I still have a lot of work ahead but it is nice to have the motivator of an impending show.
The Urban Glass MFA Exhibition open at 111 Front Street Galleries in Brooklyn New York on Februrary 7th from 5pm to 9pm. Come by and say hello if you are in the area.
In November I picked up and drove BACK across the county to take a job at the Corning Museum of Glass. My official job title is 'Special Projects Team Leader' at The Studio. The work involves many different activities. One of my favorite programs so far has been for 3rd graders our local County. The program is titled 'You Design It We Make It". All 3rd grade classes in Stuben participate. Prior to their visit to The Studio each student draws a picture of something they would like to have made into glass. As the gaffers for this extravaganza we pick one lucky drawing to make in front of the whole class, with design feed back from the original illustrator. Below is the "Mutant Lizard" drawing, the plan of attack and the finished project made in glass.
 Mutant Lizard Illustration |  Attack Plan |
The Final Product!!!
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