Studio Glass Movement

Studio Glass Movement Opposing Alabaster Arches 1981 Harvey Littleton Upward Undulation 1974 How did glass become a material used by artists in universities, schools, public access and private studios? Harvey Littleton Book-A Search for Form Some say it all began with the son of Jesse Littleton, a top glass scientist at Corning Glass Works, New York. http://www.cmog.org/ Amber Crested Form 1976 “Glass should be a medium for the individual artist” - Harvey Littleton (Lake George in 1959, during the American Craftsmen’s Council conference) 1961-At the fourth national conference of the American Craftsmen’s Council at the University of Washington, Seattle in, a panel including Kenneth Wilson, curator at the Corning Museum of Glass, Paul Perrot, former Director of The Corning Museum of Glass, and Harvey Littleton considered the future possibilities of glass for individual artists. 1962-Littleton organized the first two American workshops for art glass (in March and June), sponsored by the Toledo Museum of Art. Littleton and the eight students attending these classes came from a background in ceramics. Lemon Blue Lyrical Movement 1988 Two important outcomes of these experimental studies •Invention of a lower melting temperature glass that could be more easily used in a studio environment •Development of a smaller version of the large glass furnaces commonly found in the industrial glassblowing factories. One of the First Glassblowing Studios Harvey Littleton taught at the University of Wisconsin since 1951. 1963-Littleton began to teach glassblowing at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. This was the first glassblowing course offered at a university in the United States. 1964-Littleton held a four-week workshop at the University of Wisconsin with his good friend Erwin Eisch. Erwin Eisch Eight Heads of Harvey Littleton 1976 Marvin Lipofsky, who was one of Littleton’s first graduate students, helped with demos. Marvin Lipofsky went on to introduce glass as an art form into the Design Department of the University of California at Berkeley, and to found and head the California College of Arts and Crafts. Marvin Lapovsky California Loop Series 1968-1973 Marvin Lipofsky Split Piece Robert Fritz and Russell Day were both students in this seminar that moved on to create glassblowing programs at other American universities. Thanks to the Studio Glass Movement… There are currently over 100 American institutions which offer glassblowing as a discipline. www.glassart.org/ One distinguishing characteristic of glass art is that most glass artists were working in other media prior to their glass experience. Most of them were potters, a few were metal workers, and some were painters or designers. Glass art is unique in that it is relatively unexplored territory for artists. Toledo Workshop June, 1962 Littleton was inspired by… the small, historic glasshouses of Italy California potter Peter Voulkos Littleton joined forces with Dominick Labino, a glass research scientist who successfully created a small, inexpensive furnace in which glass could be melted. First Labino-style furnace at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 1965 For the first time, artists could afford to blow glass in independent studios. 1964-Dominick Labino, vice president and director of research at the Johns-Manville Fiber Glass Corporation in Ohio, designed and built a furnace for conducting glassblowing demonstrations at Columbia University during the World Congress of Craftsmen in New York. Emergence Four Stage 1975 Dominick Labino 1968-Littleton invited Sybren Valkema to teach European techniques at the University of Wisconsin. Labensky- Brychtova Abstract expressionism 1968-Dale Chihuly,yet another student of Littleton, was the first American to travel to the world famous Venini glass studio in Murano on a Fulbright Scholarship. 1969-Chihuly traveled back to Europe where he met with the glass masters Erwin Eisch in Germany and Jaroslava Brychtová and Stanislav Libensky in Czechoslovakia. Upon return from his trip, Chihuly established the glass program at Rhode Island School of Design, where he continued to teach full time for the next eleven years. Erwin Eisch Introverted Hand 1968 Self Portrait from the Outside 1997 Stanislav Libensky Sculptural panel Jaroslava Brychtová Glass, metal 1965 Chihuly has taught many popular contemporary glass artists, including… Bust with Locator 1995 Hank Adams Howard Ben Tré James Carpenter Dan Dailey 1995 Michael Glancy Roni Horn Flora Mace (Joey Kirkpatrick) Benjamin Moore Michael Scheiner 1998 Paul Seide 2000 Therman Statom 2002 Steve Weinberg …and Toots Zynsky In 1971, Dale Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School, an internationally recognized glass education facility in Stanwood, Washington. www.pilchuck.com/ Dale Chihuly & William Morris Lino Taiglapietra Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center www.wheatonvillage.org/ Examples of Organic Abstraction Joel Phillip Meyers Hand Forms 1972 William Morris Amulet Kait Rhoads Rose Horn Ann Wolff Head P8 David Huchthausen Asteroid Jeff Zimmerman Tree Conrad Williams Origins #3 Stephen Vest Fat Bird #2 David L. Robertson: Gladding, McBean Photography Michaele Le Compte, Untitled (Lavender) Vladimir Bulatov Dodecahedron XI Ethan M. Stern Flesh Tartan Jean Salatino and Steven Gandolfo Sea Urchin Andrea Strong 2006 Andrea Strong 2006 .

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