Sentences with phrase «murano glassmaking»

Many participating artists have never used glass before, but all come to the workshop to work with master craftspeople like Berengo and other Murano glassmaking colleagues.

Not exact matches

Murano is world - renowned for its glassmaking heritage, which dates back over 700 years, and the island itself is lined with pretty bridges and attractive glassware shops.

Featuring newly commissioned works drawn from the third Glasstress collateral exhibition at the Venice Biennale, this selection explores the responses of contemporary artists working with the Berengo glassmaking studio in Murano.

Murano, which is famous for its glassmaking, is now reinvisioning the rest of the island as a high - end vacation spot for tourists who find the island of Venice too packed.

Though known to scholars, the paintings» remote location in a church in Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice known today for its glassmaking studios and shops, made them difficult to access and study.

This exhibition is Judi Harvest's response to three crises, the environmental threat to the world's honeybee population, our food chain, and the sharp decline of handcrafted glassmaking in Murano.