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(11/15/08) An upcoming exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art will feature an installation by a major figure of the Studio Glass movement. "Therman Statom: Stories of the New World" will be on display at the museum from January 10 through May 10, 2009. According to the artist, the multi-part installation (which will transform 5,600 square feet of gallery space) draws its inspiration from Ponce de Leon's fabled search for the fountain of youth in 1513. "I want the gallery to have the atmosphere of having arrived at a place or destination that reflects the search, discovery and mysticism inherent in these ideas," says Statom. "In essence this installation will function as a conceptual Fountain of Youth."

(1/02/10) Maurine Littleton Gallery of Washington DC will again take part in the contemporary art fair, Palm Beach 3. The fair will take place January 15 - 18 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, located at 650 Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach. Paintings, photography, video, sculptures, functional objects and design from 80 national and international dealers will be featured. Maurine Littleton Gallery specializes in contemporary glass art by, among others, Harvey K. Littleton, John Littleton, Kate Vogel, Therman Statom, Colin Reid and others. For fair information, including entrance fees, phone: 561-209-1308.

The Corning Museum of Glass has published an overview of its collection of contemporary artworks titled "Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass" (ISBN: 13: 978-0-87290-168-8). Edited by Curator Tina Oldknow, the hardcover book includes 81 full- and double page color plates, artist's biographies and an index of artists. Harvey K. Littleton is represented by three sculptures in the book.

(10/10/08) Harvey Littleton will be represented by one of his iconic glass sculptures in an upcoming exhibition at Corning Museum of Glass. "Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection," will open on May 16, 2009 and continue through January 3, 2010. The exhibition will showcase 240 objects by 87 international artists from the private collection of Ben Heineman Sr. and his wife, Natalie G. Heineman. The Heineman Collection is distinguished by the wide-ranging history of studio glass that it represents, and by its focus on selected artists whose work has been influential to artists working in glass world-wide. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue.

(10/10/08) Vitreographs by Dan Welden are on display now through November 15, 2008 in the "Now in Print Printmaking Invitational at Artspace, a gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina. The exhibition features five contemporary printmakers and one collaborative team. Weldon's vitreographs in the show are abstractions based on random patterning that he has observed in landscape. Printed at Littleton Studios, Welden combined vitreography with his own Solarplate technique to create his richly colored and textured prints. Artspace is located at 201 E. Davie Street in Raleigh. Phone 919/821-2787 for more information about the show.

(9/18/2008) The Knoxville Museum of Art will present several vitreograph prints in its upcoming "Artscapes 2008" auction of craft and fine art. Vitreographs by Erwin Eisch, Kenneth Kerslake, Tom Nakashima, Judith O'Rourke and Dale Chihuly will be offered in a silent auction on the evening of October 2, 2008; a vitreograph by Chihuly will be one of the featured items in the live auction on October 3. All works to be auctioned are currently on exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art, which is located at 1050 World's Fair Park in Knoxville, Tennessee. Phone the museum at 865-934-2048 for tickets to the event.

(9/10/08) The Vero Beach Museum of Art recently added a Harvey K. Littleton sculpture to its permanent collection. Purchased with acquisition funds, the museum's "Blue Sliced Descending Form" was created by Littleton in 1988. The sculpture will make its debut in the museum's upcoming exhibition, "Contemporary Reflections: Glass from the Permanent Collection" where it will be seen alongside works by Labino, Chihuly, Kuhn, Statom and Marioni, among others. The exhibition will be on display October 11 through December 28, 2008. The Museum is located at 3001 Riverside Park in Vero Beach, Florida.

(9/9/08) Warrington Colescott is currently showing recent paintings and prints based on historical sources. Titled "Vision and Revision, the show is on view at Grace Chosy Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin through September 27, 2008.

(8/21/08) The National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia will honor members of the Littleton Family - Harvey K. Littleton, Maurine Littleton, John Littleton and Kate Vogel - at the museum's annual "Glass Award and Dinner" on September 19. The Littletons will be recognized with the National Liberty Museum's 2008 "Artists as Heroes" award.

The National Liberty Museum, located at 321 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, is a non-profit institution that is dedicated to exhibitions and educational programs that focus on American freedoms and promotes tolerance in a diverse society. The museum's motto, "Teaching America's Youth that Freedom is Fragile 'like Glass'", is supported by a collection of contemporary glass art and programs that include the museum's "Glass Now Weekend and Auction" and its "Glass Award and Dinner." Visit the museum's website at

(8/19/08) North Carolina painter and printmaker Herb Jackson will show eight new paintings at the Annual Faculty Exhibition in the Belk Visual Art Center at Davidson College. The paintings were produced during the year-long sabbatical that Jackson was awarded last year as the recipient of the Boswell Family Faculty Fellowship. The exhibition will open on Thursday, August 28 at 7 p.m. The Belk Visual Art Center is located on the corner of Griffith & Main in Davidson, North Carolina.

(7/31/08) Prints by Warrington Colescott, David Bumbeck and Ed Koren are on exhibit in Vermont this August. Titled "A Fine Line," the show is at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. It opens with a evening reception on August 2 and will continue through September 3. For information, phone the gallery at 802/767-9670.

(5/13/08) California artist Bob Freimark reports that he has been invited by New York Art Magazine to participate in an exhibition at the Beijing Olympics. He will be represented by a large acrylic painting titled, "Isn't it about time for another war?" In California, Freimark's prints will be included in a group show at Two Lines Gallery. Titled "Boston High Tea - Master Prints, the show will exhibit two of Freimark's works, a lithograph and a vitreograph titled "Catawba." According to the artist, "Catawba" was the first vitreograph he made at Littleton Studios. "I was in the heart of Indian Country," he writes, "and had been wanting to create a series of prints dedicated to the various tribes." Born is 1922, Freimark has an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has worked in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, tapestry and film and in 1980 was invited to create the tapestry "Olympic Flame" for the Olympic Games in Moscow.

(5/1/08) Abstract painter Herb Jackson will exhibit part of his "Veronica's Veils" series May 2 through June 28, 2008 at Artspace in Raleigh, North Carolina. The large scale works on canvas are composed of multiple layers of acrylic paint, some mixed with pumice, that the artist scrapes with nails and knives to crate highly textured surfaces. Artspace is a fine art center featuring exhibition galleries and studio classrooms. For more information phone Artspace at 919/821-2787.

(4/16/08) Master printer Judith O'Rourke will teach "Vitreography: The Art of Printing from Glass" this summer at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Students will learn intaglio and waterless lithography methods of processing glass plates for printing. The workshop will be held in five sessions July 14 - 18, 2008. The cost is $355 plus a $40 lab fee. Located in Truro, Massachusetts near the tip of Cape Cod, the Truro Center for the Arts is a non-profit, educational institution. Phone 508/349-7511 for more information.

(4/15/08) The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art will exhibit its recently acquired "Kristallnacht:: Night of Crystal Death" portfolio of prints in the museum's mezzanine gallery May 4 through August 10, 2008. Created by Erwin Eisch to memorialize the destruction of Jewish lives and property in a 1938 pogrom organized by the Nazi-run German government, the portfolio contains ten vitreograph prints of unsettling graphic power. The Sherwin Miller Museum is located at 2021 East 71st Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Phone 918/492-1818 for details about this and other featured exhibitions.

(3/19/08) A series of 10 vitreographic prints by artist Erwin Eisch on the theme of Kristallnacht will be exhibited at the Fine Art Museum on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The exhibition is part of the Fine Art Museum’s ongoing “Worldview” series of selections from its permanent collection. The exhibition will be on view from March 27, through May 1, 2008.

On the evening of November 9, 1938, in an event that portended the Holocaust, the Nazi-led German government orchestrated an attack against German Jews that included the destruction of Jewish synagogues, cemeteries and businesses. That infamous night is known as Kristallnacht, or "Crystal Night" --so named for the broken glass that littered the streets in the wake of the attack. Ninety-one people were murdered that night and many more -- estimates place the number as high as 2,000 to 2,500 people -- died as a result of the Kristallnacht arrests that led to incarceration in concentration camps.

Eisch, a glass sculptor from the village of Frauenau in the German state of Bavaria, was 12 years old at the time. He created his “Kristallnacht” portfolio in 1992 in response to the event. "I want to try to come to terms with the burden, the shame, the anger and the fear which shaped my childhood,” Eisch wrote in the “Kristallnacht” preface.

(2/29/08) The Littleton Collection gallery sells studio glass as well as vitreograph prints. Currently featured are studio glass objects from the private collection of Harvey K. Littleton. A reception for the exhibition will be held on Saturday, March 8, 2008 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Artists whose work is available for purchase include Rick Beck, Ken Carder, Dale Chihuly, Kyohei Fujita, Pavel Hlava, Robert Levin, Joel Philip Myers, Stephen Powell, Mary Shaffer, Therman Statom and Yan Zoritchak. Works by Harvey Littleton and by the artistic team of John Littleton and Kate Vogel are also available.

(2/26/08) Master printer Judith O'Rourke of Littleton Studios has completed a two-month artist's residency (January and February 2008) at Penland School of Art. As an artist resident, O'Rourke worked on her own printmaking and assisted other artist residents, some of whom had no prior printmaking experience, to create in vitreography. Those who collaborated with O'Rourke include printmaker Scott Ludwig, ceramist Fred Spaulding, textile artist Jean Swearington, book artist Lisa Beth Robinson, and poet and artist, Ladianne Mandel.

(2/01/08) A Connor Everts exhibition held last summer has been reviewed in the February 2008 issue of Art in America. Mounted by Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art in Culver City, California, the solo show focused on Everts's suite of nine lithographs titled "Studies in Desperation." Published in 1963, the prints symbolically depict the dissolution of a romantic relationship. The suite landed the artist in court when the Los Angeles County district attorney's office charged Everts with obscenity (he was eventually acquitted). Reviewer Michael Duncan favorably compares Everts's starkly brutal imagery with that of Goya.

(2/01/08) Vitreographs are included in an international exhibition at the Folk Art Center in Asheville. Titled Pressing Matters in Printmaking, the exhibition was curated by the Center's Nikki Josheff, who has showcased nearly 100 works in six printmaking media by artists from Canada and throughout the US. Vitreography is represented by prints from 14 artists who worked in collaboration with Littleton Studios, including Harvey Littleton and Dale Chihuly. Pressing Matters will be on view through May 18, 2008. The Folk Art Center is located on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 385. Contact the Center at 828/298-7928.

(1/16/08) An exhibition featuring the paintings and prints of the late Keith Rasmussen is on exhibit now through February 26, 2008 at the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center in Madison, Georgia. The curator of the exhibition, Jack Cheatham, writes that Rasmussen was " an artist who tirelessly exercised his talent to the end. He was a teacher, colleague, and a very close friend for thirty-five years." For more information about the exhibition, phone the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center at 706/342-4743. On two occasions Keith Rasmussen created prints at Littleton Studios.

(1/16/08) Maurine Littleton Gallery reported success at the international art fair Palm Beach 3 (January 11-14). Among the artworks sold by the gallery were glass sculptures and vitreographs by Harvey Littleton, glass sculptures by John Littleton and Kate Vogel, and fused glass drawings by Michael Janis. The fair was held at the Palm Beach County Convention Center.

(1/04/08) Glass sculptures by Harvey K. Littleton will be included in an exhibition of works by North Carolina artists who have been designated "Living Treasures" by the William Madison Randall Library and Museum of World Cultures (located on the campus of The University of North Carolina, Wilmington). Harvey Littleton was honored with the award in 1993. In celebration of the 2008 award, an exhibition of past recipients' work will be on exhibit at the Randall Library and Museum from January 14 through March 15. For more information about the exhibition, phone Beth Roberts at the library, at 910/962-2205.

(1/02/08) Maurine Littleton Gallery of Washington, DC will be one of the exhibitors at the upcoming Palm Beach 3 contemporary art fair. The gallery will feature Studio glass from Gary Beecham, Harvey K. Littleton, Jay Musler, Colin Reid, Therman Statom and John Littleton and Kate Vogel, among others. A selection of vitreograph prints will also be available. The fair will be held January 11-14 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach. For information about Maurine Littleton Gallery, phone 202/333-9307.

(1/02/08) Vitreograph prints by Herb Jackson, David Dodge Lewis, Matt Liddle, Harvey K. Littleton, Clarence Morgan and Judith O'Rourke will be seen in an exhibition at Green Hill Center for the Arts in Greensboro, North Carolina. PRINTED: Contemporary Prints and Books by North Carolina Artists was curated by printmaker Bill Fick. The exhibition will open with a reception on January 18, 2008 and be on view through February 29, 2008. For more information, phone Green Hill Center for the Arts at 336/333-7460.