Sentences with word «glassblower»

Owing to the glass - like properties of propolis, Huissoud teamed up with glassblowers to experiment with various techniques to create these one - of - a-kind works that function and feel very much like glass.
Watch as glassblowers coax molten glass into beautiful works of art, a year round attraction at Icefire Glassworks, where art glass has been created in Cannon Beach for nearly 40 years.
He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and apprenticed with master glassblowers Ronald Wilkins, Jan - Erik Ritzman, Sven - Ake Caarlson, and Lino Tagliapietra.
GLASSBLOWING Watch glassblowers transform glowing molten glass into beautiful works of art at Icefire Glassworks, a working glassblowing studio in Midtown Cannon Beach.
His use of material (glass and bone of course) gives a nod to the mastery of Venetian glassblowers while also acknowledging the frailty of humanity.
They make the unique vessels that allow chemists to perform new reactions — but professional glassblowers are an increasingly endangered species
Glassblowing: Watch glassblowers transform glowing molten glass into beautiful works of art at Icefire Glassworks, a working glassblowing studio in Midtown Cannon Beach.
Trained as a traditional glassblower, she has been a pioneer in developing glass as a performance and conceptual medium.
For glassblower and jeweller Catriona MacKenzie, craft means skill.
Kamerlingh Onnes was one of the first people to really understand that advances in low - temperature physics critically depended on having first - rate technicians, expert glassblowers and skilled craftspeople to build and maintain the delicate equipment.
But with lab budgets under pressure worldwide, there are few scientific glassblowers like him left.
Solitary figures pass in the aisles: sleepless fishermen, glassblowers between shifts, veiled widows impatient for Christ's return.
He belongs to one of the most ancient families of Venetian Murano glassblowers, regarded as one of the leading experts on the craft.
Carrie Paterson, who has been researching outer space for more than a decade as a basis for her art, is working with organic chemist and glassblower Bob Maiden to produce multilayered glass spheres designed to carry scents that will soothe the homesick space traveler.
A whole host of designers, artists and institutions including London - based gallery Ting - Ying, world - renowned glassblower Peter Layton and recent Winner of the Woman's Hour Craft Prize, Phoebe Cummings, will offer insights spanning the leading disciplines of jewellery, textiles, ceramics, furniture, metalsmithing and glass.
In the 1980s, New York glassblowers befriended the mafia.
Precious Objets d'Arts with a contemporary twist were the order of the day; Matthias Merkel Hess» glazed porcelain oil cans («Bucketry», 2011 - 12) were selling like hot cakes at ACME; the French artist Jean Luc Moulène's vase - sized gorgeous ornamentally entwined glass sculpture that requires three highly - skilled glassblowers in a costly high - risk process, was barely visible for the mob at the Thomas Dane Gallery.
From an understanding of glassblowing as a movement - based practice, we will use mark - making, sound, video, motion - analysis apps, and augmented hand tools to improve as glassblowers.
Following his graduation from the Rhode Island School of Design, McElheny apprenticed with a series of master glassblowers, an experience that became fundamental to his artistic practice.
Working alongside professional glassblowers, guests can design either a glass ornament or sea float or opt to create a glass bowl or seasonal item.
Trained as a traditional glassblower, Potter has been a pioneer in developing glass as a performance and conceptual medium.
With this body of work, the artist refers to both the Flemish masters who used pulverized bone in paint pigment and the craftsmanship of the Venetian glassblowers.
In Pedro, Politi introduces us to a lovely story about a section of Los Angeles where» at least in 1946, when the book was written» they still have blacksmiths, candlemakers, and glassblowers.
Even on shipboard, their faces were turned toward the immense tasks of building cities, churches, civic buildings, markets, and even facilities for carpenters, metalworkers, brickmakers, ironworkers, glassblowers, and for all the other crafts and trades indispensable for the fairly high levels of common life to which they had been accustomed.
musical and artistic — I play percussion in a band — been a glassblower on and off for 17 years — I love gardening and the grateful dead — I am writing a book about my experience touring with the band in the late 80s and playing drums in drum circles across the country as a teenager — I live...
art, music, dancing, breakdancing (inner ninja), spin fire, glassblower, «hip hop», beatbox, freestyle, cats and dogs:), from NY... austin is good
The eBooks available for October are; The Cradle by Louise Voss and Mark Edwards, The Glassblower by Petra Durst - Benning, The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter by Craig Lancaster and My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni.
Drawn by the stunning beauty, serenity, relative isolation, and its mild ocean climate, artists of all disciplines — from crafters to fine arts, both writers and actors, from woodworkers to glassblowers, to musicians, singers, and songwriters — many have found their way to Cambria and settled into this creative community.
From violin makers to glassblowers and adventurous clothes designers» shops to creative artists» studios — you will find it all here.
The audiovisual artist and composer talks about mixing up sound and art, working with a glassblower,...
Following his return to London after the war, he left school while a teenager to work as a glassblower.
HELEN LEE is an artist, designer, educator, and glassblower.
In March of 2013, Harvest worked with master glassblower, Giorgio Giuman, and his family to assist in the creation of 100 unique, abstract Honey Vessel sculptures.
With the landscape of Brooklyn slowly changing for working artists, Gowanus remains one of the largest communities of visual artists, musicians, glassblowers, textile artists, graphic designers and craftspeople.
A recent case in point was this show of works by Robert Levin, a glassblower who turns his technical expertise toward the creation of a new breed of emotive and energetic small sculptures.
Coming from a long line of glassblowers and flameworkers, Leopold was traveling by ship when he was introduced to the magic of jellyfish and other aquatic life.
Edison gathered a talented team of machinists, glassblowers, carpenters, mathematicians to his laboratory, where he has already invented the phonograph.
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