Summer 2012
This summer has been a summer to beat all summers! Just returned from Colorado (no mountain lion sightings or mine explorations, sadly) a lot of rocks climbed, rivers rafted, and friends enjoyed. And the cute Fiat rental. Not so fab on those mountain passes, but cute as a button and speedy in the city. One small and unexpected highlight from our last day in Denver- the Clyfford Still Museum was wonderful- both the art, archive excerpts and the building itself. Very thoughtfully done. Below is a picture of my partner in front of the highly textured facade of the Clyfford Still Museum with the Cutest-Fiat-in-the-World.
Before that.....There was The Studio at CORNING GLASS
A few days before we left for The West, I returned from The Studio at Corning Glass and my class with the Higuchis. My classmates and the Higuchis were wonderful and the program at Corning was really smart and artist-centered. I loved that there was so much of an eye towards personal research- The Rakow Library and Corning Museum of Glass seemed very welcoming to the studio artists, and the museum/studio gave lectures on their collections, lectures on photographing your work, critiques and a photography session to shoot your glass. Workshop Instructors and TA's presented their work, but students were also encouraged to present- it was really impressive to see the talent in the room, as well as to recognize some of the work from my intense reconnaissance mission on Glass this year! As I had suspected, most of the work of the younger academia types was more content driven than technique driven- more "Post-Studio Glass" or "Glass Secessionist" as I have heard these terms recently (well, I've only been in this for 11 months) bandied about. I don't yet know if these are terms that people agree on or cringe at- guess we'll find out! Working with the Higuchi's was an amazing experience, can't wait to start putting some of it into practice! Below, a picture of me at work in the studio at Corning Glass sculpting Arachne's head, and to the right, beautiful Corning, NY.
 
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Pate de Verre Bowls from the Higuchi's Workshop
Above, my two "Higuchi-style" Pate de Verre bowls- my "Arachne atop Doilie" bowl and "Dead Blue Bird and Buttons" bowl. Look for more of these projects in months to come!
My mother and her friend (both savvy, artsy ladies) came up to visit at the end of my Corning Glass course and had prepared themselves by attending a day long seminar on glass at the Smithsonian, presented by an education curator from Corning!
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Apparently (my mom just shared this with me from her "archive") my mother had written her senior h.s. paper (all twenty five pages of typewritten greatness) on the "Evolution of Modern Glassware" which extensively covered all that I learned in my perusing of the museum's factory collection. (Showing off her mad librarian skills early!)
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