Glass art
Glass art includes the creation of stained glass, working glass in a torch flame (lampworking), glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing, and the making of glass shapes through glass blowing. It dates back to prehistoric times, was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria, brought to the fore by the Romans, and had its greatest triumphs in European cathedral building in stained glass rose-windows. Great ateliers like Tiffany, Lalique, Daum, Galle, the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Stubbe glassworks took glass art to the highest levels. Murano glass has not kept pace with production, but is still home to more glass masters than any other single place on Earth.
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Contemporary North American glass artists
Canada
Artwork in Canada is extensive, with a glass art gallery in Toronto that has international recognition. Canadian glassmakers have been very strong in glass paperweights.
Toronto's Harbourfront Centre and the Distillery District have glass studios with an artist-in-residence programmes that have fostered the development of glass art in Canada.
Among the better known glass artists in Canada are Robert Held, David Paterson, Kevin Robert Gray, Brad Copping, Jeff Goodman, Susan Edgerley, Donald Robertson, and Irene Frolic.
United States
Among the most famous modern masters in the United States are: Harvey Littleton (the founder of the American Studio Glass Movement), Dale Chihuly, Mark Peiser, and Hans Godo Frabel.
Other noted American glass artists are Cappy Thompson, Josiah McElheny, Christopher Ries, Jean-Pierre Canlis, Marvin Lipofsky, Joel Philip Myers, Dan Dailey, Richard Marquis, Martin Blank, Richard Jolley, William "Billy" Morris, Robert Mickelsen, Milon Townsend, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Shane Fero, Dante Marioni, Paul Marioni, Benjamin Moore, Dick Weiss, Walter Lieberman, Bob Carlson, Robbie Miller, Bob Snodgrass, Marc Petrovic, Stephen Rolfe Powell, Curtiss Brock , Kari Russell-Pool, Lance Friedman, Kristine Cheeseman and David Patchen
Contemporary European Glass Artists
Estonia
Italy
Lino Tagliapietra, Pino Signoretto, Silvano Signoretto, Lucio Bubaco, Cesare Toffolo, Davide Salvadore, and many more...
Germany
Karl Ittig and Thomas Mūler-Litz
Sweden
Bertil Vallien, Tina Lindström and Kjell Engman
United Kingdom
Perthshire in Scotland was best known internationally for its glass paperweights fighting hard for sales in a declining market. It has always hosted the best glass artists working on small scales, but closed its factory in Crieff, Scotland in January 2002.Peter Newsome
There is a growing number of Art Glass studios in the UK. Many specialise in production glassware while others concentrate on one off or limited edition pieces. E+M glass have successfully combined both disciplines since the mid 1980's. Ed and Margaret Burke of E+M glass, have their work in many respected shops and galleries around the world.
Contemporary Asian Glass Artists
Japan
Japanese glass art has a short but very rich history. The small Pacific island, Niijima, administered by Tokyo has a world-renowned glass art center, built and run by Osamu and Yumiko Noda, graduates of Illinois State University where they studied glass with world renowned glass artist and teacher Joel Philip Myers. Every autumn, the Niijima International Glass Art Festival takes place inviting top glass artists, such as Richard Marquis, Joel Philip Myers and Dale Chihuly, for demonstrations and seminars. Niijima glass art uses a rock indigenous to the island, rhyolite, a silica-based sandstone, known locally as koga.
Korea
Korean glass art is developing, and while it has a 1400 year old tradition, it has not kept pace with achievements in ceramics.
Contemporary Oceania Glass Artists
Australia
Contemporary Australian Glass Artists include...Nick Mount, Ben Edols, Kathy Elliot, Klaus Moje, Tony Hanning, Gerry King, Clare Belfrage, Brian Hirst, Warren Langley, David Hay, Nick Wirdnham, Maureen Williams, Deborah Cocks. See also the Ausglass Online Gallery.The early Glass movement in Australia was spurred on by a visit to Australia by Richard Marquis (American) who toured the country in the early seventies with a mobile studio assisted by Nick Mount (Australia) Since that time Australian Glass has gained worldwide recognition with Adelaide in South Australia, hosting the International Glass Art Society Conference in 2005 on only its third occasion outside of the U.S.A.
See also
Bibliography
External links
- Glass Art Society Jumpoff
- Grand list of hyperlinks on glass
- Niijima Glass Art Center, in English
- A project to record Scotland's glass past and present.
Museums
- Museum of American Glass Millville, NJ
- The Corning Museum of Glass Corning, New York
- Museum of Glass Tacoma, Washington
Glass Artists
- Dale Chihuly
- Dante Marioni
- James Nowak
- David Patchen
- Lino Tagliapietra, Italian master
- William Morris
- Jeremy Langford
Categories
Glass art | Art media | Visual arts