THE LITTLETON COLLECTION

(11/2/11) CHICAGO —The Art Fair Company, based in Chicago, again presents two art fairs under one roof at Chicago’s historic Navy Pier (600 E. Grand Avenue) Friday, Nov. 4 – Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. For the second straight year, SOFA CHICAGO 2011, the critically acclaimed International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, will share the Pier’s Festival Hall with The Intuit Show of Folk & Outsider Art. SOFA CHICAGO, now in its 18th year, is the largest and longest continually running art fair in Chicago. Maurine Littleton Gallery, specializing in contemporary sculptural work in glass and ceramics, can be found in Booth 720. For more information about the art fair and to purchase tickets, visit sofaexpo.com.

(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 Benefiting from close access to the artist and his personal archives, the engaging text is illuminated by many unpublished archival photographs and a detailed chronology.

James Tanner, Janice Tanner exhibit at Minnesota State University-Mankato

(8-29-11) James Tanner and Janice Tanner will show their work with Robert Finkler in the Faculty Emeritus Exhibit at at the Conkling Gallery of Minnesota State University-Mankato. The exhibition will be on view September 26 trough October 16, 2011.

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(8-29-11) Karen Kunc's work is included in "Fine and Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art" a group exhibition at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The exhibition continues through October 16, 2011

Connor Everts: Collage Paintings

(8-29-11) The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at San Jose State University is currently showing works from the past decade by Connor Everts. His paintings—primarily mixed media collage on paper—are complex juxtapositions of the disparate detritus encountered in daily life. Found objects are layered with profound pigments; the surfaces are painterly and measured, providing a multi-layered panorama that viewers can contemplate on formalist, cultural, and socio-political levels. The Thompson Gallery' is located on the first floor of the Art Building at San Jose State University. The exhibition continues through November 4, 2011.

Chihuly at CityCenter

(8-29-11) An exhibition of works at The Gallery at City Center in Las Vegas currently features an exhibition devoted to the work of Dale Chihuly. The 4,350 square-foot exhibition space presents a diverse representation of Chihuly’s dynamic glass sculptures, drawings, and prints through December 2011. The Gallery at CityCenter is located in Crystals Place, 3780 Las Vegas Boulevard in South Las Vegas, Nevada

Warrington Colescott: Cabaret, Comedy & Satire

(8-29-11) The Grand Rapids Art Museum will celebrates sixty years of Warrington Colescott's print production in an upcoming exhibition, "Warrington Colescott: Cabaret, Comedy & Satire." A Professor Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Colescott is a satirical printmaker who iis internationally respected for his command of innovative printmaking techniques and the satiric bite of his subject matter. The exhibition will open on October 28, 2011 and 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. (To see vitreographs by Warrington Colescott, please click on "Bourbon Street: Red Alert!" at left)

In Memorium: Danish glass giant Finn Lynggaard (1930–2011)

(8-29-11) Finn Lynggaard, the father of Danish Studio Glass, died on August 25. He was 81 years old. Taking a cue from Harvey Littleton in the United States, Lynggaard moved from ceramics to glass as his medium, and became the chief proselytizer for the material in his native Denmark. The glass studio he established in Ebeltoft later became the site of an important glass museum and a testament to his ambition. Glasmuseet Ebeltoft was founded in 1985 and has grown into a site of important exhibitions of art made from glass.

5/23/11 Known collectively as The Digital Atelier, Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka, and Karin Schminke are exhibiting works in lenticular printmaking, phantograms, and other dimensional imagery techniques at the Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The exhibition continues through May 22, 2011.

(3/16/11) St. Louis, Missouri based printmaker Hugh Merrill announces two solo shows. A selected exhibition of his Birds of America series, which reinterprets eight John James Audubon prints, can been seen through April 30, 2011 at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Later this year Merrill will show his Power and Consequence pieces at the LVAC. Inspired by the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the exhibition will open on June 3 and continue through July 31.

(3/16/11) Artist Hugh Merrill announces the release of Divergent Consistencies, a book charting the studio and community artwork of his work from 1968-2011. Edited by Adelia Ganson with design by Amanda Rehagen, the book covers Merrill's 40 year career. His art-making was formed by a range of experiences, from his early years as a printmaker through his recent community work with disadvantaged children in Kansas City. Copies will be available at Amazon.com in the coming weeks.

(3/7/11) An exhibition at the Mobile Museum of Art will examine the work of husband and wife artists Richard Jolley and Tommie Rush April 22 to July 10, 2011. Jolley is known for his figurative sculpture; Rush is known for vessels of organic form. Both artists use intense color in their work.

(3/7/11) An exhibition of works on paper by Carol Wax is on view in Athens, Greece at the Herakleidon Museum. Titled "Dance of Shadows," the show features 100 works on paper. Most are in the artist's primary technique of mezzotint but a number of pencil and mixed media drawings are also on display. The exhibition opened on March 5, 2011 and continues through June 19, 2011. The Herakleidon has published a a catalog raisonné of Wax's prints created between 1975 and 2005. Tom Nakashima "Coming Home" to West Virginia

(3/7/11) Joseph Hughes, Tom Nakashima and Kit White now live and work in different parts of the country, yet each has ties to West Virginia. Hughes and White were born and raised in West Virginia, and Nakashima taught at West Virginia University between 1973 and 1981. All three will be united in "Coming Home," an exhibition of landscape-oriented art works that opens on May 21, 2001 at The Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia and continues through July 31, 2011. A public reception for the exhibition will be held on May 20 from 6-8 p.m. For information about the exhibition, please phone The Clay Center at 304/561-3570.

(2/14/11) A solo show of work from Dorothy Simpson Krause series "Visions" will be at 571 Projects in NYC, March 1 - April 16, with an opening Thursday March 3, 6 - 9 pm. 571 Projects is located at 551 West 21st Street at 11th Avenue, 204A in New York, New York. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 12 - 6pm and by appointment.

(1/28/11) Harvey Littleton's work and legacy will be examined in an upcoming exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass. "Fathers of American Studio Glass, scheduled to open in November, 2011, will feature vessels, sculptures and vitreographs by the founder of the American Studio Glass Movement. Objects will span the arc of Littleton's career in glass from the 1960s to the 1990s. In 1962 Littleton and Dominick Labino 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.

(1/28/11) Paintings by Richard Olsen will be featured in a show titled "Large Format Wall Paintings" at the Madison Artists Guild in Madison, Georgia. The February 3 reception (6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) will be followed by an evening of jazz music and poetry reading starting at at 9:00 p.m. The gallery is located in Town Park Cottage, 220 West Washington Street in Madison, Georgia. The exhibition continues through April 31, 2011.

(1/28/11) Works by Dale Chihuly will be on exhibition at the Litvak Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel through April 30, 2011.

(1/28/11) An exhibition of print made at Littleton Studios will be on exhibit at the Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) Art Gallery continues through February 3, 2011. A reception will open the exhibition on Thursday January 13 from 5:00 to 5:00 p.m.; a gallery talk by printmaker Andy Owen will be presented immediately before the reception at 4:00 p.m. A silent auction item will be available for bidding during the reception. The exhibition includes works by Harvey Littleton, Dale Chihuly, Erwin Eisch, Herb Jackson, Italo Scanga and others. The FGCU Art Gallery is located inside the Arts Complex on FGCU's main campus in Fort Myers, Florida. Phone the gallery at 239/590-7199 for more information.

(1/29/11) On Thursday, February 17, 2011 Claire Oliver Gallery in New York City will open a show of Herb Jackson's new work. ”Firestorm in the Teahouse” will open with a reception on Thursday, February 17, from 6 to 8 pm. The gallery is located at 513 West 26th Street, just off 10th Avenue. Select the heading “upcoming” and then click on Herb Jackson's exhibition.

(11/24/2010) Sunday April 10, 2011 will mark the opening of a Dale Chihuly exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition will continue through August 7, 2011.