1962- 50th Anniversary of American Studio Glass -2012
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.
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.
(Click on the image at left to see more Isupov works on this site)
Artist Ann Wolff wins prestigious award
(1/4/12)
Just six months after
receiving the Glass Art
Society‘s Lifetime
Achievement Award,
artist Ann Wolff was
honored with another
prestigious accolade,
the PRO EUROPA
Foundation’s European
Culture Prize on
December 12th. She is
the first Swede to
collect this honor in
recognition of her
contributions to the art
world in kiln-cast
glass sculpture and her
prominent role in the
beginning of the Studio
Glass movement in
Europe.
Ann Wolff has been heralded as an artist with a propensity for exposing the subtleties of the human condition. Much of her work — drawings and glass sculpture included — are abstract representations of human faces, busts, and bodies, often intertwined and overlapping and set against simple lines and monochromatic tones.
Clarence Morgan to exhibit in Oregon
(1/27/12)
Clarence Morgan will
show recent work in an
exhibition titled
"Material Traces" at
Oregon State University.
The exhibition will in
the university's
Fairbanks Gallery in
Corvalis, Oregon from
February 13, 2012- March
6, 2012. A reception and
lecture will take place
in the gallery on the
evening of February 15.
Toledo Museum of Art, Minkoff Foundation co-sponsor unique commemoration
(1/27/12) In March 2012 the Toledo Museum of Art will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Harvey Littleton's seminal 1962 Toledo Workshop by offering three artists the opportunity to realize a contemporary project using a furnace modeled after the one that Littleton and Dominic Labino developed 50 years ago. It was this small scale furnace design that made the Studio Glass Movement possible. To honor the past and celebrate the future of glass, selected members of a new generation of artists who directly experiment with the material in their own way will be invited as resident artists for this project. The residency will run from march 23 through March 30, 2012, exactly 50 years after the original event. The residents will make a public presentation about their projects on March 30 from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. The project is co-sponsored by the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation, Ltd. For more info, visit the project website at www.toledoworkshop.org
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.
(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.
(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. 
(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.