I’m headed out to the airport soon.  This has been both an educational and inspiring week.  And it has been huge fun.
For my blog readers in Texas, just a early heads-up that I’ll have lots of slides and more this coming Fusing Friday.  I’ll include what I learned at Richard Whiteley’s “multi-point annealing”.  I can [...]

Helen Stokes has developed am ingenious technique for creating plaster silica mold with less weight, more strength and easier annealing vs solid molds.

I have always admired Silvia Levenson’s work - but today’s lecture and slide show really hit home for me how important and talented she is as an artist.  I’ve tried to think of another artist working in glass whose work has the potential to change the viewer - not only at the moment when they stand in [...]

Kirstie provided a nice history of her work, discussing the things that have distracted her from making much new work in recent years. 
That is changing and the change is welcome - I have long been a fan of her simple forms, her use of gradient color (visible in much of her “tine” themed work and [...]

Here you go Lani

Many of you have heard me rave about the cameo engraving work by April Surgent.  If you haven’t seen April’s work before here is a small, stunning example (this is the birthday “card” she gave her dad):

Her lecture took us through how she ended up working with this form or glass, her ongoing mentorship by [...]

Wow. Just finished the first session of the day with Jessica Loughlin.
Jessica spent the first part of her lecture talking about Australia, the landscape there and what inspires her. Hearing her talk about the stillness and space that she tries to capture makes me enjoy her work more. Is it just me, or do these [...]

It is about 6 AM - on the plane and just checking that I’ve got the whole blog-by-iPhone thing working. If you are reading this then the answer is yes