Lalique takes the form of a bottle stopper and lets it unfurl into branches heavy with fruit. I imagine the rounded topography of the berries, the bead-like drupelets. I wondered if there was an ombre berry like the ones in Lalique’s imagination, and found salmonberries. Sometimes when I eat raw berries my lips swell like …
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Wordless Wednesday: Squirrel in Glass by Lalique at the Corning Museum
Corning Museum of Glass More Squirrels! Ironwork Squirrel Gate at University of Oregon Squirrel Joy for my 6th Birthday
Wordless Wednesday: Aurora by Dorothy Hafner from the Corning Museum of Glass
Pilgrimage to Corning: Jay Musler’s Cityscape
Stratoz and I made our Summer 2014 Pilgrimage to Corning Museum of Glass, and one of my favorite pieces was on display: Jay Musler’s Cityscape. The first time we went to Corning in the early 1990s, I was smitten with this big orange bowl with the jagged edges. The postcard has been with me …
Wordless Wednesday: Rainbow Noir by Kait Rhoads at the Corning Museum of Glass
Wordless Wednesday: Colin Reid’s Figure-Eight Form R182 from the Corning Museum of Glass
Leopold Forstner(1878-1936): Mosaic with Fish from the Corning Museum of Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass always reveals some new delight with every visit Stratoz and I make. This time it was Mosaic with Fish by Leopold Forstner(1878-1936), with gorgeous enameled fish surrounded by glass chunks is subtle gradations of green, blue, copper and gold. There was iridescence and orange, and I stood there awhile just …
Wordless Wednesday: Tiffany Cypriote Plaque, Corning Museum of Glass, NY
5 Women Artists Friday: Halstead, Marks, Reynal, Tuwaletstiwa, and Meière
Part 3 of 5 Women Artists to Discover: Suzanne Halstead, Interview Part 1 and Part 2. One of the first people to encourage me in making art. She introduced me to drawing mandalas, and playing with materials, and colors. I love her Sun Trees oil pastel above, and have it in my studio. 2. A Margaret …
Learn to See: Ruah by Judy Tuwaletstiwa
On the latest 2015 pilgrimage to the Corning Museum of Glass, this piece by Judy Tuwaletstiwa was new. I read the tag with interest: Judy Tuwaletstiwa began her career as a weaver and a painter and first worked with glass in 1998. In her painting ruah. to spit, small fused-glass elements were used like brushstrokes. To create …