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SESSION1: 26 MAY - 08 JUNE
ARRIVAL: May 25th
DEPARTURE: June 9th
DEADLINES:
Full Payment : May 10th, 2002
Deposit : May 1st, 2002 (US$320)
Application : April 10th, 2002
Glassblowing / Michael Estes Taylor
Experimentation and discovery will be the key to this survey of basic molten
glass forming techniques. Students will have daily hot shop time for individual
practice. They will work in teams and refine their skills throughout the two
weeks. The course will include fundamental history, chemistry, technology
and contemporary issues in glass. Demonstrations will include processes of
color overlay, incombo, bit work, and stemware. A variety of design issues
will conclude with topics of surface decoration and form evolution. Concepts
for creating a series of work based on individual interests and existing aesthetics
are part of the course. Aspects of coldworking, adhesives, color and plate
glass sculptural constructions will be explored.
Artists Resumé:
Michael Estes Taylor, a professor and head of the Glass Department in the
School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology, College of
Imaging Arts and Science, New York, has lectured, worked and exhibited in
the United States and internationally in many public and private venues.
Taylor has been honored with awards and fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts, the Fulbright-Hayes foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation,
the New York State Council for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation,
Luzo-American Foundation, and was winner of the grand prize at the Kanazawa
International Glass Exhibition, Japan. He has served in an advisory capacity
to the Institute of International education, Corning Museum of Glass, Glass
Art Society, Illinoi Council for the Arts, New York Foundation on the Arts,
Vitro Corporativo S.A.De C.V., Mexico and most recently the Assosiacao Portugesa
do Vidro, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lampwork & Beadmaking / Michaela Köppl
In this course, the students will get to know how to work with the bohemian
burner to make glass beads. As it is essential to get the feeling for molten
glass, the class will start by doing practice to learn about basic forms and
by preparation of the tools which they will need. This preparation will form
a basis for students to realize their own ideas and start experimenting with
the material. The students will not only make the beads but will compose jewellery
including a matching fastener or parts in metal or other materials. So it'll
be possible to create an optimum glass-jewellery.
Artists Resumé:
Michaela Köppl owns and works in her own studio. She had her first contacts
with making glass-beads at the Berufsfachschule für Glas und Schmuck in Neugablonz,
the only school in Germany where beadmaking is a traditional part of training.
There, she studied three years to become a goldsmith. Since then, glass has
become a fascinating part of her life, especially to play with colours.
In 1998 she opened her gallery for glass-beads in Landsberg. Several travels
to the Czech Republic and India served her research in beads. To preserve
the knowledge of manufacturing the traditional bohemian glass-bead torch and
to give people the possibility to work with it in future, she decided to take
over the production from an old company.
Solid Glass Sculpture / Paul DeSomma
This advanced class will emphasize sculpting molten glass on the blowpipe.
The class will focus on developing the manual skills necessary to articulate
glass into figurative, abstract and representational forms. Extensive demonstrations
will cover a wide variety of applicable techniques. Intermediate to advanced
hot glass skills necessary.
Artists Resumé:
Paul DeSomma has been a glassmaker for nearly two decades. He trained with
American masters William Morris and Richard Royal, and with Venetian Maestro
Pino Signoretto. He has been deeply involved in the development and execution
of many artists' work, including Dale Chihuly and Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick.
Paul has focused on solid working since 1989 and opened his own glass studio
in 2000.
SESSION2: 16-29 JUNE
ARRIVAL: June 15th
DEPARTURE: June 30th
DEADLINES:
Full Payment : May 31st, 2002
Deposit : May 22nd, 2002 (US$320)
Application : May 1st, 2002
Glassblowing / Korbinian Stöckle
The essential skills of glassblowing provide the beginner with a firm foundation
for further exploration and creation of individual works. Students will learn
the basic skills needed to begin exploring simple forms and sculpting with
hot glass. The pleasure of direct acting with the material should be dominant,
no matter how experienced we are in working with hot glass.
Hot shop demonstrations and individual coaching will complete one another
to find a solution for everybody's need. In group discussions, we will explore
the best way to realize them. So students will discover their own direction
and the skills that are needed to work with hot glass.
Everything should be possible…we will see!
Artists Resumé:
Korbinian Stöckle works as a freelance glass artist at the furnace of the
Glass Museum Gernheim / Germany. After the education as a glassblower at the
Glass School in Zwiesel he studied glass design, painting and sculpture at
the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He worked at different national and
international glass studios. He was several years (1991-1998) in charge of
the hot shop of the International Summer Academy Bildwerk Frauenau.
Since 1998 he is teaching yearly a glass workshop together with Veronika Beckh
at the Glass Museum Gernheim.
His work reaches from tableware, sculptural work to installations in glass.
Lampwork & Beadmaking / Helga Seimel
Fire and Fantasy
Glass beads are one of the oldest elements of jewelry in our cultural history.
Known as trade-beads, they used to reconcile continents and now, they bring
us together here in this class. Besides teaching the basic knowledge of beadmaking
at the torch, this class will inspire our students and help them realize their
individual ideas with jewelry or with various other objects. Not only the
perfect single bead or copy of an old master's work, but the handling of hot
and soft glass at the torch can be expected to be covered during the course.
In this class, the students are invited to play with forms, with colours,
with ideas and the facility for silversmithing and enamelling in our studio
will enrich their working possibilities.
If every student brings, possible and impossible stuff, tools and findings,
small personal treasures, fantasy and joy for experiments and last not least
curiosity- the class will have the best conditions for creative work.
Artists Resumé:
Helga Seimel is a self-taught glass artist who has been beadmaking since
1974. She started her own studio at Landsberg/Lech, Germany, in 1988. Since
then, her work has been exhibited in various international glass galleries
and shows. Helga Seimel has also been practicing hot-glass and participating
in hot-glass and interdisciplinary classes in Bild-werk Frauenau for the last
ten years.
Some of her most recent exhibitions have been, 'Wearing Glass' in Glass Art
Gallery, London, Handwerksmuseum Deggendorf 'Zeitlos aufgefädelt', Germany,
' The Rockwell Museum Show', Corning, New York. Seimel's artwork can be viewed
in various museums like the Glasmuseum Frauenau, Perlenmuseum Ulzen, Glassmuseum
Wertheim, Germany, and the Bead Museum, Arizona, and The Corning Museum of
Glass, New York, USA.
Kiln Casting / Sallie Portnoy
The casting process will be demystified in this class by teaching students
simple open mould techniques - with a few tricks thrown in! We will be taking
a seemingly limited process and stretching the boundaries to realize our forms.
Sculptures will be made in clay to create the positives for making plaster
moulds. Drawing, discussion, and numerous exercises to help us tap into our
creative resources will be shared. This class is open to students of all levels.
Artists Resumé:
Sallie Portnoy has worked in glass and ceramics for over 20 years. She has
taught ceramics, glass fusing, slumping, casting and mosaic. Highly energetic
and enthusiastic, she inspires students to realize their potential and push
past any self imposed boundaries. Sallie exhibits nationally and internationally
and has won numerous commissions for public art.
SESSION3: 07-20 JULY
ARRIVAL: July 06th
DEPARTURE: July 21st
DEADLINES:
Full Payment : June 21st, 2002
Deposit : June 12th, 2002 (US$320)
Application : May 22nd, 2002
GLASSBLOWING / Jean-Pierre Umbdenstock
" What can I do with hot glass?"
This beginner's course will give be giving answers to that basic question.
Taming hot glass is a long, slow and difficult process. It starts by learning
to deal with viscosity and gravity, then manage to find a compromise to achieve
one's goal.
This course rather seeks to let the students and artists overview and discover
the various possibilities and limits of the material. The students will get
theoretical and practical knowledge to enable them to design and work with
efficiency, in the future. Beyond blowing & casting, the class will focus
on the "glass skin" and experiment enameling and sandblasting.
Glass is not only an ordinary material; it is a full and very promising medium
for visual artists. The class will approach the material in this respect.
Artists Resumé:
Jean-Pierre Umbdenstock started glassblowing at Sars-Poteries glass studio
and at Claude Morin's (1979). He set up his own studio in 1980. He attended
the Sars-Poteries First International Glass Symposium t in 1982. He was awarded
a grant: Bourse de Recherche et de Création by French Ministry of Culture
in 1983 and studied at California College of Arts & Crafts (Oakland) under
Marvin Lipofsky. Umbdenstock, co-founded with Louis Mériaux, the Sars-Poteries
Summer School in 1985 where he taught & coordinated the programmes until 1987.
He leaded the glass workshop at the European World Craft Council conference
in Marinha Grande (Portugal) 1987. He also set up feasibility work of the
Verrerie de Phoenix - glass recycling - financed by Mauritius Breweries Ltd.,
and coordinated the Meisenthal Glass Center programs in 1992 & 1993.
Umbdenstock worked as a freelance designer at Royal Leerdam. (NL) Unica series1995.
Together with Véronique Lutgen & Robert Houri, he set up a new company in
1995 in Saint-Gobain on the historical site of the Manufacture royale des
Glaces, founded by par Colbert in 1665. He worked as a consultant for the
European program ECO-MED-VILLES to design unconventional ways of recycling
glass waste in Mediterranean islands: Cyprus, Creta, Corsica & Lipari (1997-2000).
Umbdenstock has teaching experience in various institutions like: Atelier
du verre de Sars-Poteries (1985 to 1987), Centre du verre de Meisenthal (1990
& 1991), École des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (1986), École des Beaux Arts
de Tourcoing(1987), École des Beaux Arts de Rouen (1987), Hochschule der Bildenden
Künste Saar (1992 to 1995) Germany. Glass Factory Stephens, Portugal and in
various places like: Mauritius, Cyprus, Lipari
SESSION4: 28 JULY-10 AUGUST
ARRIVAL: July 27th
DEPARTURE: August 11th
DEADLINES:
Full Payment : July 12th, 2002
Deposit : July 3rd, 2002 (US$320)
Application : June 12th, 2002
GLASSBLOWING / Hitoshi Hongo
The course will focus on the fundamentals of glass blowing.
Students in this class will have the opportunity to learn the essential techniques
of glass blowing, such as gathering, shaping and blowing. The instructor will
show how to handle hot glass creatively and safely through demonstrations.
Also students will be able to try to execute their ideas into glasswork.
Each material, such as metal, wood, stone, glass has its own language. One
should know this language when expressing oneself through these materials.
Hot glass is eloquent; it speaks logically, explanatorily, poetically and
emotionally. The emphasis in this class will be to bring the students to a
level where they will start articulating themselves with hot glass.
Artists Resumé:
Hitoshi Hongo has been teaching at Toyama City Institute of Glass Art for
11 years to students from beginners to advanced level. He has working and
teaching experience both as instructor, and teaching assistant in various
institutions including Glass Studio/Tatosha and Pilchuck Glass School.
Hitoshi Hongo was born in Japan. He studied glass art at Tokyo Glass Art Institute
after majoring in metal engineering at Tohoku University. He has been honored
with awards for his artwork, both in Japan and internationally for several
times. His work has been exhibited in various galleries and museums. Some
of Hongo's works belong to public collections as, Kitaibaragi City, Glass
Studio Silica, Toyama City Art Hall, Toyama, Satsuma Glass Museum, Kagoshima,
Sanda Glass Museum, Hyogo, and Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama.
SESSION5: 18-31 AUGUST
ARRIVAL: August 17th
DEPARTURE: September 1st
DEADLINES:
Full Payment : August 2nd, 2002
Deposit : July 24th, 2002 (US$320)
Application : July 3rd, 2002
GLASSBLOWING / B. Jane Cowie
Bubble Basics: Glass Blowing Skills with B. Jane Cowie
The class will be ideal for beginners and those with some glass blowing experience.
The class would be an intensive learning period that is challenging and exciting.
Glass blowing is a fun and fluid dance with material. Getting hot in the hot
glass studio will be the aim of the workshop with as much hands' on experience
as possible. The course will start with basic exercises where the students
learn the basic movement and flow of the material while becoming familiar
with the equipment and each other.
Predominately the focus will be on the bubble. Bubbles will be blown; lots
of them, big, small, thin and thick. Students will also pull glass rods, sculpt
the glass, melt in colour and begin to creatively explore their ideas in glass.
During the intensive course, glass vessels and objects will be made, created,
collected and assembled. They will be precious, extraordinary, weird and even
crazy using the clear furnace glass and available coloured powders, glass
rod colour and glass coloured chips.
Gravity, heat and centrifugal force are the main tools that you will be teaching.
Learning will occur through repartition and the fundamentals of team working
will be explored. Emphasis will be on posture and a philosophical understanding
of the material and how it moves.
Artists Resumé:
B. Jane Cowie has been working with glass for over 20 years. She studied
at Sydney College of the Arts, Australia, and was awarded a Degree in the
Visual Arts in 1983. Currently she is undertaking a Masters Degree in Visual
Arts at the University of South Australia.
Her strong commitment to her work, desire to learn and interest in glass making
has inspired her to travel extensively. Cowie has worked in numerous glass
studios and factories in England, Europe, USA and Japan to develop technical
skill and an understanding of the glass. B. Jane Cowie exhibits her work widely
in Australia, Asia and the USA, and is included in numerous pubic and private
collections.
Jane is a founding member of the blue pony studio in Adelaide, has recently
taught at the Bild-Werk Academy in Germany and currently is President of Ausglass:
the Australia Association of Glass Artists organizing the Isolation: Collaboration
Conference, to be held in Perth 2003.
Jane continues to develop her practice as an artist while supporting, developing
and participating actively in the glass community of Australia, in particular,
South Australia and abroad.
MIXED-MEDIA / Therman Statom
This class is open to artists, designers, and anyone interested in working
with different materials. There is no experience necessary and there are no
guidelines per age, old and young can participate in the class. Anyone taking
this class should expect to have fun and learn a lot about themselves, glass,
and the art process. Students will be encouraged to experiment and develop
their personal visions of creativity. This is a broad- based class and any
material and methodology of working can be investigated. There need not be
any technical or material boundaries. Work will be in the classroom and outside
the classroom. There will be group activities and collaboration will be encouraged.
The school offers the use of cold and hot glass. There will be a strong emphasis
on cold glass fabrication and construction techniques.
Artists Resumé:
Therman Statom received his bachelor of fine arts degree at the Rhode Island
School of Design in 1974, and his MFA from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute in 1978.
Statom has two decades of extensive teaching experience at several institutions,
some of which can be listed as, Bild-Werk Frauenau, Germany, California College
of Arts and Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, USA,
Nijima Glass Art Festival, Japan, and National University of Australia, Canberra,
Australia. He received several awards for his artwork.
Therman Statom's works belong to several collections. Some of these collections
are, Carnegie Museum of Art, Corning Inc. Museum, Mint Museum of Craft and
Design, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France, Musee
de Design et D'Arts Appliques /Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland Phillip
Morris Company, New York, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian's American Art
Museum, US Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Moscow Collection.
Artists Internet Address: www.thermanstatom.com
FUSING&SLUMPING / Lucartha Kohler
This class will be an introduction to kiln fired glass. Students will have
the opportunity to make small sculptural or functional works with a variety
of techniques using a kiln to form the glass. Fusing and slumping glass will
be covered as well as properties and types of glass. Skills will be developed
in glass cutting, color and pattern design, mold making, surface decorating
and finishing. Technical aspects of glass will be covered such as annealing
and compatibility. The emphasis will be on design, execution and finishing.
Artists Resumé:
Lucartha Kohler attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Moore
College of Art in Philadelphia majoring in fine art and design. By chance
she relocated to Southern New Jersey in an area known for glassmaking since
the 18th century. Over a 20-year residency in New Jersey she took advantage
of her proximity to glass factories and Wheaton Village to train herself in
the traditions and applications of many glass making techniques. A quest for
more information and technical skill led her to Penland School for Crafts
for a Glass Concentration. Over time she developed her own methods of forming
and decorating glass based on ancient processes. The subject matter of her
art is also based on ancient cultures and is unique in its fusion of symbolism
and figuration.
In 1985 she moved to Philadelphia where she currently lives and works. In
addition to her studio production and sculpture, Lucartha teaches, demonstrates
and conducts workshops at venues including The University of the Arts and
Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia PA, The Studio of The Corning Museum
of Glass in Corning, NY and Wheaton Village, a glass center in Millville NJ.
Her work has been shown in many one woman and group exhibitions in the US
and abroad including the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, University City Science
Center, Philadelphia, PA, The Design Arts Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia
PA, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ,
and Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
Lucartha is a recipient of both New Jersey and Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts Visual Artist Fellowships and 2 Masterworks Fellowships from The Creative
Glass Center of America. A Wales/Philadelphia Artist Residency, a British-American
Arts Council travel grant, a Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant
and an Independence Foundation Fellowship. Her work is in a number of museums
as well as many public and private collections, and is included in a variety
of publications including her own book "Glass: An Artists Medium".
SESSION6: 08-21 SEPTEMBER
ARRIVAL: September 7th
DEPARTURE: September 22nd
DEADLINES:
Full Payment : August 23rd, 2002
Deposit : August 14th, 2002 (US$320)
Application : July 24th, 2002
MIXEDMEDIA / John Drury
Conceptual Glass Practices
Investigation into the increasing use of glass as a mixed media sculptural
component, by artists, in contemporary art practices. This class will include
the presentation of work by artists who use glass in a non-traditional manner;
hands on technical experimentation with glass including sand casting, fundamental
glass blowing, mosaic and surface treatment (including fired enamels, adhesives,
etc.). Students will look to personal experience and their environment for
conceptual basis to their work, with an eye to recycled and/or "found" glass.
While no prior experience with glass is necessary, students with a background
in sculpture and painting will find this class most beneficial and challenging.
Artists Resumé:
John Drury earned a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1983
(where he began work with glass in 1982) and a Master of Fine Arts degree
in sculpture including a minor in painting, from the Ohio State University
in 1985.
Mr. Drury was awarded the Pernod Liquid Art Award and was included in the
first New York Biennial of Glass at UrbanGlass: The New York Center for Contemporary
Glass, in 1994. Mr. Drury then had a solo exhibition; Studies in Salvation;
Purgatory at UrbanGlass, in 1995. The critic John Perreault writes in reference
to that exhibition, at UrbanGlass, for Glass magazine (#60), "Drury has a
storyteller's gift for combining unlikely objects as though they were a string
of events in a daydream". Mr. Perreault continues, "he is a mixed-media sculptor
/ provocateur" and "Drury, to my mind, is a true poet of the material world.
He is a trickster rather than a prankster; an urban shaman." In 1997, John
Drury was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for the Visual Arts and was
included in the Corning Museum of Glass New Glass Review 18.
A rainbow of often recycled and common materials serves Mr. Drury's non-hierarchical
need for mixed media. Characteristics of technique and chance are capitalized
upon. Process is a source of material and evident in final work.
Mr. Drury has taught, and, will teach at Pilchuck Glass, UrbanGlass, Pittsburgh
Glass Center and the University of Hawaii. To date, students from Australia,
Guatemala, Israel, Puerto Rico, Canada and throughout the United States have
participated in the creation of artwork for and received instruction from
Mr. Drury. He named and is a founding trustee of Glass Axis (1987), a not-for-profit,
artist access glass facility in the USA.
