NEWS 2012
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Cycle of Change: Tom
Nakashima's Treepile Paintings
(2/22/12) The Vero Beach Museum of Art
is currently showing Tom Nakashima's Treepile paintings in its Schumann
Gallery. The Treepile series began when Nakashima encountered a
huge mound of trunks and tree limbs near Berryville, Virigina. The pile became
the subject of a monumental painting, Stewart's Sticks (1999) which is in
the current show. Other Treepile images followed, including Westwood Road
Nocturne (2006) which is also in the show. Tom Nakashima based the series of
vitreographs that he created at Littleton Studios in 2006 on those iconic
images. The vitreograph Treepile Nocturne-Westwood Road (seen at left) is
also in the museum exhibition, which continues through June 3, 2012.
Fairytales, Fantasy and Fear
(2/1/12) The Mint
Museum of Craft + Design announces the opening of a new thematic exhibition on
March 3, 2012. According to the museum the exhibition will explore the magical
and mysterious worlds of fairytales, fantasies and fears. The works of
contemporary artists Mattia Biagi, Mark Newport and Kako Ueda will be
supplemented by permanent collection objects from the Mint Museum of Craft +
Design and loans from local collectors. Work by Sergei Isupov, who created some
of his own fearfully fantastic prints at Littleton Studios, will be
included. The exhibition runs through July 7, 2012.
For more info, contact The Mint Museum
Uptown at the Levine Arts Center (500 S. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC) at
704/337-2000.
Alliance for Contemporary Glass
celebrates 50 years of American Studio Glass
(12/23/11) The 50th
anniversary of studio glass art in America is being
observed in 2012. To celebrate this milestone and
recognize talented artists, the Art Alliance for
Contemporary Glass (AACG), a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to further the
development and appreciation of art made from glass,
has initiated more than 120 glass demonstrations,
lectures and exhibitions that will take place in
museums, galleries and art centers across the
country throughout 2012.
Video
"Pioneers of Studio Glass" now available
(12/23/11)
The video "Pioneers of Studio Glass" was produced
by WGTE Public Media for the Art Alliance for
Contemporary Glass. It is a fascinating look at the
1962 Toledo Workshops where Harvey Littleton and
Dominick Labino first experimented with making glass
outside of the factory setting. You can purchase the
DVD of this video for $10 (includes shipping). Mail
your check, payable to Alliance for Contemporary
Glass (AACG) to AACG, 11700 Preston Rd., Ste. 660,
PMB 327, Dallas, TX 75230. Please include the name
and address to which the DVD should be sent. Call
AACG at 214-890-0029 with any questions.
Huntington (WV) Museum of Art
celebrates Harvey Littleton
(12/23/11) The Huntington Museum of Art will
participate in this celebration with a small exhibit
in the Museum’s Glass Gallery of six early glass
sculptures by Harvey Littleton from the Museum’s
permanent collection beginning on January 14, 2012
and continuing through November 18, 2012.The Museum
is located at 2033 McCoy Road in Huntington. Please
phone (304) 529-2701 for more information.
New Book Features Harvey Littleton's
Life and Art
(11/2/11)
Written by Joan Byrd and Published by Skira Rizzoli, Harvey K.
Littleton: A Life in Glass (ISBN: 978-08478-381B-9) is the definitive
book about the Founder of America's Studio Glass Movement. The
son of a Corning Glass Works scientist, Harvey Littleton (born 1922)
first studied physics and industrial design, before becoming a teaching
ceramicist. In the late 1950s, he turned to glassblowing, which was then
restricted to the factory floor: devising a small furnace, he introduced
hot glass into the artist’s studio. In 2012, exhibitions at the Corning
Museum of Glass, the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, and elsewhere will
mark the fiftieth anniversary of the two historic Toledo Museum
glassblowing workshops that Littleton led in spring 1962. At those
workshops Littleton put the ancient medium of glass into the hands of
today’s artists. Benefiting from close access to the artist and his
personal archives, the engaging text is illuminated by many unpublished
archival photographs and a detailed chronology.
Corning Museum of Glass announces
Harvey Littleton Retrospective
(1/28/11)
Harvey Littleton's work and legacy is examined in an exhibition at the
Corning Museum of Glass. "Fathers of American Studio Glass" continues through
2012 to January 6,
2013. The show feature vessels,
sculptures and vitreographs by the founder of the American Studio Glass
Movement. Objects span the arc of Littleton's career in glass from
the 1960s to the 1990s. In 1962 Littleton
introduced glass to studio artists at two experimental workshops at the
Toledo Museum of Art. The workshops signaled the migration of
glassblowing from the factory to the studio. On the 50th anniversary of
those workshops, the exhibition honors Littleton (who was born and
raised in Corning, New York) for his achievements in developing glass as
a medium for contemporary artistic expression.
Warrington Colescott:
Cabaret, Comedy & Satire
(8-29-11) The Grand Rapids Art Museum
is celebrating
sixty years of Warrington Colescott's print production
in the exhibition, "Warrington Colescott:
Cabaret, Comedy & Satire." A Professor Emeritus of
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Colescott is a
satirical printmaker who is
internationally respected for his command of innovative
printmaking techniques and the satiric bite of his
subject matter. The exhibition will continue through
January 15, 2012. The Grand
Rapids Museum of Art s located at 101 Monroe Center in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Phone 616/831-1000 for
more information.
Dan Welden presents
Solarplate Workshop
(11/2/11)
A three day 3 workshop in Introductory & Advanced Solarplate
Processing & Printing methods will be presented by Dan Welden at
Fallbrook School of the Arts in San Diego on February 18, 19 &
20, 2011. Developed by master printmaker Dan
Welden, Solarplate etching utilizes UV light and water instead of
traditional grounds and acids. The Solarplate is the original
light-sensitized polymer printing plate that yields all kinds of
relief and intaglio images, including drawings and paintings on
acetate, and digital prints and photographs on transparent film.
Artists can also paint directly on the Solarplate and create a
matrix capable of yielding many impressions. Participants will be
able to produce several 8x10 inch images during this enthusiastic
workshop. Larger plates may be made available
with prior request. Printmaking experience is preferred but not
essential. The cost of the workshop is $495.00 and includes
one 8”x10” Solar plate. For more information phone Fallbrook School of
the Arts at 760/728-6383.
Karen
Kunc to exhibit at the University of Tulsa
(11/2/11) printmaker Karen Kunc will
have an exhibition of prints in the Alexandre Hogue
Gallery at the University of Tulsa (OK) January 12
through February 15, 2012. She will present a
lecture about her work on January 19 at 4 pm in the
Jerri Jones Lecture Hall. A reception for the
artist will follow in the Hogue Gallery. Kunc offers
environmental and politically charged awareness and
poetically poignant ideas through her visual vocabulary,
based on the visualization of symbiotic relationships
and order. For more information phone 918-631-2739
Tucson Museum of Art Lecture:
Reflections on the early days of the
Studio Glass Movement
(12/23/11) Artist and studio glass
pioneer Henry Halem will present
"Reflections on the early days of the
Studio Glass Movement" at the Tucson
Museum of Art on March 3, 2012. The
museum is located at 140 N. Main Avenue
in Tucson. Please contact the museum at
520/388-4721 for more information.
Boca Raton Museum of Art and Norton Museum of Art to celebrate 50 years of studio glass
(12/23/11) Harvey Littleton founded the American Studio Glass Movement, which is marking its 50th anniversary at the Boca Raton Museum of Art with an exhibit of works by Dale Chihuly, Dan Dailey, Michael Glancy, Harvey Littleton, Concetta Mason, William Morris and Toots Zynsky. The exhibition will begin on March 27 and continue through October 14, 2012. The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach will showcase its studio glass collection from January 18 to May 27, 2012, in conjunction with an installation by glass sculptor Beth Lipman.
Exhibition
at
Chazen
Museum
of
Art
highlights
Harvey
Littleton
and
50
Years
of
Glass
Art
(12/23/11) The year 2012 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the studio glass program, founded at the UW–Madison by Harvey Littleton. An exhibition in the museum's Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries scheduled for April 21–August 5, 2012 will celebrate the historic event. "Spark and Flame: Fifty Years of Art Glass and the University of Wisconsin-Madison" will consist of two parts: the first will focus exclusively on works by Harvey Littleton; the second will offer a survey of work by more than 100 glass artists, showing the national and international breadth of contemporary glass. Nearly 160 works will be lent from four premier private glass collections: those of Harvey Littleton himself as well as UW–Madison alumni Bruce Bachmann, David Kaplan, and Simona and Jerome Chazen, who all became passionate about the studio glass program while students in Madison.
Seattle Center to host Dale Chihuly exhibition
(12/23/11) The exhibition hall and an adjacent art garden at Seattle Center will open a Dale Chihuly exhibition in April 2012 to celebrate both the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1962 World's Fair. The year 2012 also marks the 50th anniversary of contemporary studio glass in the U.S.
The Space Needle Corp., which is creating a subsidiary called Center Art to build and operate the glass exhibition hall, will pay the city of Seattle a base rent of $350,000 per year under a five-year agreement. Rent will increase to $500,000 per year if the lease is extended for an additional five years. The $350,000 figure is comparable to the Center's lease with Experience Music Project, city officials said.
Glass Art Society to hold conference in Toledo
(12/23/11) In recognition of the Toledo Museum of Art's role as the cradle of the American Studio Glass Movement, GAS will be holding its 2012 conference in Toledo, Ohio from June 13 - 16.
In 1962, two experimental glass workshops held at the Museum proved that glass was a medium suitable for the expression of artistic ideas in a studio environment. They launched a movement that was propelled by an unprecedented collective enthusiasm and since has turned into an international phenomenon that continues to inspire experimentation.Toledo, America's Glass City, is welcoming again artists from around the world to celebrate the achievements of the past and to explore the seemingly endless possibilities of glass.
Harvey K. Littleton exhibition at Visual Arts Center, Richmond, Virginia
(12/23/11) The Visual Art Center of
Richmond will present the exhibition "50th Anniversary of the Studio
Glass Movement" from November 2 to December 21, 2012.
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