Sentences with phrase «glass materials found»

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There is not a great body of material on the subject of collectible hot sauce bottles, but we are indebted to Betty Zumwalt, author of Ketchup, Pickles, Sauces: 19th Century Food in Glass, who dutifully catalogued obscure hot sauce bottles found by collectors.

ALEXANDRIA, VA, January 14, 2014 — A stronger network of recycling depots and curbside collection programs will yield increased rates of recycling and material recovery of beverage containers, according to the major findings of a new study commissioned in part by the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI).

Some moms that prefer all glass bottles may find any other bottle material not to their liking.

The finding could help engineers and materials scientists produce solar cells and other opto - electronics without the help of the high temperatures required to shape glass today — making this ancient arrangement a boon for modern technology.

With my colleague Cemal Pulak taking the lead, we found the shipwreck, excavated it, and discovered it had 20 tons of raw materials, things that had never been seen before: intact tin ingots, almost 200 glass ingots, and ebony logs.

Researchers therefore had to find a way to retain the structure of the initial material while maximizing the capacity and also maintaining its ability to «take» the charges, which is how they devised the idea of using vanadium as a glass rather than in its crystalline form.

This finding dramatically simplifies the theory that describes these fluids, which include technologically important materials such as metallic glasses.

Falk and his colleagues hope their findings can help scientists developing new metallic glass alloys for products that can take advantage of the material's high strength and elasticity, along with its tendency not to shrink when it is molded to a particular shape.

More than 70 percent of the classrooms researchers examined in the new study contained science books, magnifying glasses, toy animals, mirrors, magnets, science - related posters, measuring cups and yarn, all found on a list of 53 science materials for young children originally developed by Tu and slightly modified by Gerde and her team.

• Sound pack and acoustic glass: A more - absorptive sound pack is found throughout the interior, which reduces high - frequency noise more effectively than material that acts merely as a barrier.

The car sits on 19 inch single - part wheels and inside its cabin customers will find exclusive materials such as Nappa leather, brushed aluminium and a glass wind deflector with the laser - printed Carlsson logo.

I found it interesting that The FDA qualifies glass as the only food and beverage packaging material generally regarded as safe for use by humans.

Saar utilizes manipulated materials such as glass and tar and found objects such as sugar sacks, mops, and raw cotton to merge the historical past with contemporary bodies.

• Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru's 2012 «C - Stunner» glasses, made of found materials, offer a compelling metaphor for the shift in perspective explored in this section.

She was interested in finding a way to bring light into her work, and began to incorporate materials such as glass, plastic, gold leaf, and other reflective materials into her paintings.

Light and sound are referenced both literally — through flashing lamps or speakers — and more subtly — the same sound insulation material deployed by Haroon Mirza in his Silver Lion - winning installation at the 2011 Venice Biennale can be found under glass itself, insulated and reduced to a minimal sculpture.

The exhibition, which presents works made in glass and using glass found objects, is an exploration of each artist's use of the material.

His minimalist found - object assemblages are made from cast - off materials like liner foam, sheets of glass, and squares of carpet.

1,188 found objects, including wood, metal, glass, paper, plastic, Styrofoam, rock, rope, rubber, and other materials, and 13 photographic grids, framed, each comprising 99 chromogenic prints.

The exhibition, which will present works made in glass and using glass found objects, is an exploration of each artist's use of the material.

Both the studio building and many of the innovative sounds and effects made there were created with found materials and everyday objects like corrugated metal, chicken wire, and broken glass.

He works with found materials including wood, glass and other items associated with construction.

Michael Lazarus» mixed media panels made of paint, wood, glass, adhesive lettering, and, in some cases, plastic reflectors and other found materials, share a vocabulary of pared down imagery, color, and response to materials culled from the artist's everyday surroundings.

The use of everyday materials has been a foundation of the country's art since the mid-1950s and 1960s, when artists like Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica transformed found objects — from cloth to metal and colored glass — into spaces for colorful expressions that appeal to both the mind and the body.

His pieces are made of found materials such as twigs or eucalyptus leaves, or glass, polaroids, unprepossessing black and white photographs, simple shapes cut from tin in various sizes, little pieces of carved wood or stone, clay, small mirrors and panes of glass, corrugated cardboard, or an assortment of odd linear bits of metal.

This is an artist with a rich technical vocabulary, unique vision and unsurpassed skill, who is just as comfortable working with unconventional materials such as glass tableware, thousands of dice stacked together to form fluid overlapping folds, found objects, and plastics, as he is with the more accepted media, such as perforated steel, wood or bronze.

In 1960, he began creating elaborate and provocative assemblages of found materials including glass eyes, bones, shards of mirror, sea shells, plastics, and pieces of wood.

Van Tran's more recent works in mixed media, such as «Chinese Medicine» from 2013 and «Stencil's Apprentice» from 2012, demonstrate an ongoing commitment to experimentation with materials not ordinarily found in paintings, such as rolled copper and palm leaves («Chinese Medicine») and glass and glazed ceramics («Stencil's Apprentice»).

She has a curiosity for the evolution of materials, and uses labor intensive methods of torching glass enamel, collecting found objects, and hand - hammering copper sheets, revealing her love of the process.

For more than forty years Ackling has made all of his work by the same method: focusing sunlight through a magnifying glass to burn lines of tiny dots onto found and rescued materials: bits of driftwood, scraps of card, or most recently the contents of his garden shed: discarded wooden boxes and the handles of old tools.

The works were created using a mixture of industrial materials and those found in everyday life, including aluminium, cellophane, ceramics, eco-resin, glass, gypsum, pigments, polyamide, polymers, polyesters, PVC, steel and stone.

But if you find yourself creating marketing materials, building websites, packing boxes, and accounting for your sales when you'd rather be painting, sculpting, or blowing glass, then it's time to consider selling to the trade.

Early on in his career, he stood out as one of the first artists to make installations with found materials, while his relief and free - standing sculptures, for instance CHILD (1959) and LOOKING GLASS (1964), received critical acclaim at the time for their masterful compositions and markedly sombre nature.

He works with found materials, cast rubbers, and acrylic glass to make sculpture and two - dimensional works.

Morris uses found objects such as wire, glass, plastic, and metal in the construction of his sculptures and combines these man - made materials with more «mutant» organic forms to suggest «something living and animated being consumed from within by its own technological needs.»

Cragg works with a range of materials, including stone, wood, glass, aluminum, cast bronze, and found objects.

Cohen is widely known for her experimental works with hand - made paper and large - scale sculptural installations, many which include glass elements and manipulated found materials.

Steel, metal, plastic, glass and other found materials..

Often working with every day and found materials such as fabric, glass, wood, metal and ceramics, the artist typically makes small to medium scale organic constructions that combine an almost «Beuysian» shamanistic or ritualistic use of materials with the formalism of early modernist sculptural objects.

Formally, Oursler has developed a wide - ranging use of materials such as resin, glass, fabric, steel and various found objects, which are kaleidoscopically overlaid with projection, light and sound, forming a unique embodiment of his themes.

K.E.'s riffs on sidewalk signage comprise an eclectic array of sculptural materials (laser - cut glass, MDF, plaster, metal, wood), found objects, and the artist's drawings.

Formally, Oursler has developed a wide - ranging use of materials from resin, glass, fabric, steel, and found objects, which are kaleidoscopically overlaid with projection, light and sound, forming a unique embodiment of these themes.

Acupuncture needles, butterflies, martini glasses, and charred books are among the other unconventional materials to be found in the show.

Renowned since the mid - 1960s for his works founded in stripes, since the mid-70s Buren has been working with many different materials including paper, Plexiglas, aluminium, vinyl and glass; and experimenting with the possibilities of light, colour and reflections.

Boise State University (ID), National Call for Submissions: Crafting Resistance Deadline: January 4th, 2017 The Visual Arts Center gallery at Boise State University is seeking artists nationwide working in ceramics, glass, metal, wood, found materials, printmaking, textiles, fibers, and paper... Continue reading →

Constantly pushing to find new relations between people and the material world, he works with stone, wood, glass, stainless steel, aluminium, cast bronze and cast iron, as well as found objects, from plastic consumer goods to rubbish from the streets.

Society for Contemporary Craft (PA), International Call for Entries: 2018 Lydon Emerging Artist Program (LEAP) Deadline: September 30th, 2017 Artists must work in craft media: Ceramics, wood, metal / jewelry, glass, found materials, mixed media, fiber or a combination of these materials.

His team spent three years engaged in a painstaking process that involved recreating the original bricks, matching concrete blocks, figuring out how to solve the glass wall's perennial condensation problems and finding sources for long - gone industrial materials.

Typical «found objects» include natural materials like sand (see Sand Art), earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood, a human skull; or man - made items such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap metal, pieces of textile fabric, an unmade bed, a bicycle handlebars, and so on.

Creating sculptures out of materials such as sheets of glass, foam, metal, cement, and various found objects, Dave Hardy composes his sculptures» seemingly precarious poise as an intentionally engineered defiance of gravity.