Holiday Art Show

As the last show of the year comes up life has gotten pretty busy. Cleaning and improving the studio before this weekend has become as much part of the job as making glass. Since the show is at David's studio it is important that we get everything ready on time. David will have a large selection of his work on display and I will have a small display corner for my own glass. I will also be showing off my cut paper pictures for the first time! Besides us, David's girlfriend, Andrea, will be there selling hand-made soap, a painter, Linnea Doyle, will be selling her paintings of robots, and a jewler, Scott Verson, will be selling his work! All together it will make  a great range of items perfect for holiday presents! Christmas is only in two more weeks!

Show dates are: December 14th - 16th (Fri. 5-9, Sat. 10-8pm, Sun. 12-5pm).
And is located at: 2885 Country Drive #180 Little Canada, MN 55117

Hope to see you there!

Plymouth Art Fair

Hey everybody! Don't forget that this weekend is the Plymouth Art Fair. This is my last show I'm in by myself for the year! Come on by to get some awesome holiday gifts, or just to say hi.

There are one or two more shows before the new year. These shows will only display a handful of my pieces, if you want to see the range of my work, come out this weekend! The next show is David Royce Glass's Holiday Show on December 7th- 9th.

Here at SOFA

I'm now in Chicago enjoying my second day at SOFA. So far it has been an absolutely amazing experience. Being able to see the work of the giants of the glass world up close has been so inspiring that I cant wait to get back into my own work and to see where it takes me. Getting to talk to the artists around SOFA has also been great. Getting to hear their takes on the art world and market, talking about their up coming work, and critiquing whats around them has offered me a new perspective on what I see and what I experience as a glass artist myself.
Most of all I'm just so proud of David for getting in and giving a great display for such a top tier show. That we've had a couple sales feels pretty good too!
Check out our display:

Down time

The season for shows is almost over with SOFA having been the last big one. I have one last show in two weeks. It is out in Plymouth, MN and is a great place to come get gifts for the holidays!

With the down time we now have things that we have put off are getting done. We shut down David's furnace to change the crucible and to repair several large cracks that are appearing in it's superstructure. Unfortunately in talking it apart we realized that the furnace has been leaking for a while which is a huge mess but since we are planning on completely rebuilding the furnace this winter it is not the biggest problem as long as it can remain functional for another two months.  In the mean time we will be working out of FOCI and enjoying their new 800lb furnace. It's a beast!

I am also taking the time to work on some of my more complex cast pieces. This means building the models up out of wax, a process I dislike but that is well worth it. I'm really excited at how a couple of pieces are shaping up. They're going to be a little smaller than my "Firebird" but more intricate.

SOFA

This weekend is the SOFA Expo, that is the Sculptural Objects and Functional Art + Design Expo, in Chicago.  My boss, David Royce, got invited down as part of a gallery. He's been there all week setting up his exhibit for tonight's opening night. We decided to bring down some of his larger more complex works especially the Cranes (like the bird not the machinery).  I'll be leaving myself to join him there tomorrow. It's a great show and one I'm really lookign forward to. Hopefully I'll meet a lot of great artists, listen to some awesome lectures and see David sell some of his work. There are some lectures I'm particulairly looking forward to like  Ivana Šrámková's "What's the Future of Figure," "The Studio Glass Movement: A Driver's Manual" a pannel discussion by the heads of many glass schools around the country, "50 at 50" a review of the most influential glass artists in the past 50 years and their probably influence in the future, and a history lession in both Parts 1 and 2 in "Pioneers Of American Studio Glass," and lastly Junko Narita's Lecture on the Japanese Doll in "Human Forms." It should be a full weekend but hopefulyl quite enjoyable. If you're around Chicago and interested in coming to see the expo for yourself or are interested in looking at more infor about it check out it's web page: http://www.sofaexpo.com/


Also, I just set up a facebook page for Green Infiniti Please come befriend me and share my page with those you feel will enjoy it! You can find me at: http://www.facebook.com/greeninfinitiglass

Lastly, I have one more fair coming up this year. It's the Plymouth Art Fair November 16th and 17th! Last chance to get your hand blown Christmas presents in person. If you don't make it, you can still get things by shooting me an e-mail!

As September comes to a close, my work at the State Fair and Renaissance Festival are coming to an end. While it has been fun, it is also come time for me to start preparing for my last shows of the season. While I only have a few shows left before the end of the year I have started designing new lines of work, including some plain colored cut vases as well as ornaments for the holidays. These will be on display and for sale in October, check out my 'shows' page for details.

With the rush of summer ending I am also starting to focus more of my work on casting. While it is a slower process, the differences in form, detail, color and texture offer a fascinating juxtiposition when seen beside blown glass. I look forward to getting to work more with the process.

In other exciting news, the annual glass studio tour dates have been set. On October 13th and 14th, the public has a fantastic opportunity to travel to different glass studios around The Cities and see both different studio set ups as well as watch free demos and check out each artist's work. Personally I will be splitting my time between Foci Glass and David Royce Glass while taking time to visit many of the other artist's studios. I hope to see many of you there!

Unicorn

A demonstration piece I did at the Renaissance Festival!