Sentences with word «glassmaking»

We have a robust education program, offering workshops in a variety of glassmaking techniques designed for young artists from 7 to 18 years of age.

Researchers raised the possibility of local production in Ife, although direct evidence for glassmaking and its chronology was lacking.

For Flair Sander exhibits small glass sculptures from a new body of work that jettisons the most basic methodology associated with glassmaking.

That can make virgin glass look like a better deal — but only because we often fail to include the environmental costs of mining sand and the carbon emissions from glassmaking furnaces.

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.

In this region of tremendous glassmaking tradition, Lalique's dedicated craftsmen combine an exceptional mastery of modern techniques and traditional skills throughout the complex crystal making process.

This spring he brings to Venice's Museo del Vetro an exhibition entitled Five Glassmaking Techniques.

Classes and workshops at the state - of - the - art facility accommodate both aspiring and master artists working in a variety of glassmaking processes.

The Studio offers free public glassmaking demonstrations and classes and workshops for all levels of expertise.

Adriano Berengo of Fondazione Berengo founded Glasstress as an international platform and studio in an attempt to combine traditional Venetian glassmaking with contemporary art.

The Glass Studio offers free glassmaking demonstrations, classes, and workshops for students and adults.

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.

It was the Mesopotamians who were responsible for our first cities, built the ziggurats (temples), invented writing and philosophy, developed astronomy, metal - working and glassmaking as well as irrigation and flood control.

«First evidence of sub-Saharan Africa glassmaking.»

Lead author Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, a recent graduate of Rice with a Ph.D. in anthropology and a visiting fellow at Harvard University, came across evidence of early glassmaking during archaeological excavations at Igbo Olokun, located on the northern periphery of Ile - Ife in southwestern Nigeria.

The documentary really fleshes all of them out, showing footage from them growing up, the brothers competing (including David, who has Down's syndrome, in handicapped competitions), and the dad's glassmaking business.

Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth - century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton's scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newton's alchemy.

Moving into the state of New York, Corning Museum of Glass, probably the finest of its kind and always worth a visit, has devised an imaginative way to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the canal journey that brought glassmaking from Brooklyn to Corning in 1868.

In conjunction with Chihuly: In the Forest, enjoy a one - month special appearance by the Mobile Hot Shop, presenting the artistry of glassmaking demonstrated by artists from the renowned Corning Museum of Glass.

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of glassmaking coming to Corning from Brooklyn, New York, the Museum reinstalled the Crystal City Gallery...

In recognition of the centuries - old glassmaking tradition, students gain a deeper understanding of historical glass techniques and how they inform current practices.

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.

The state - of - the - art facility accommodates both aspiring and master glass artists with fully equipped facilities for a range of glassmaking processes.

Centuries - old glass techniques meet cutting - edge video technology in an exhibition that celebrates the beauty of Venetian glassmaking.

It also has a comprehensive kids» program, with everything from glassmaking and tie - dyeing to guided nature hikes, fly - fishing lessons, and archery.

The craft of glassmaking has been part of America's manufacturing heritage since the 1600s.

To celebrate the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal and the 150th anniversary of glassmaking in the city of Corning, the Corning Museum of Glass in May will launch GlassBarge, a canal barge outfitted with glassmaking equipment.

The craft of glassmaking has been a part of America's manufacturing heritage since Colonial Jamestown was established in 1608.

A short history of Swedish glass and glassmaking.

2018-04-08 15:16 A short history of Swedish glass and glassmaking.

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.

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.

Part of McElheny's fascination with storytelling is that glassmaking is part of an oral tradition, handed down generation to generation, artisan to artisan.

Inventions born from alchemical laboratories include metal alloys for sculpture and ornament, oil paints, effects in glassmaking, and even the chemical baths of photography.

Artists & Makers Studios is the «Best Place to Experience Art» according to the editors of the 2018 issue of BEST OF BETHESDA MAGAZINE, JAN / FEB 2018 Featuring the studio of Kristina Penhoet Featuring the Compass Atelier with Glen Kessler and students Featuring Christine Cardellino (Torpedo Factory Artist) and her solo exhibit at A&M «Want to try your hand at painting, glassmaking or even belly dancing?

She works in the liminal region between sculpture and glassmaking to explore the possibility of creating multi-layered messages and metaphors through the use of material, drawing on her doctoral research on the legacy of Joseph Beuys and his ideas on social sculpture.

Tobias Rehberger's installation, a masterful appropriation of the Venetian art of glassmaking, introduced the exhibition with a recognition of place, history and craftsmanship coupled with a charmingly hokey, Internet - based, multi-city conceit about light and global harmony.

Crystal connects with the long history of glassmaking (as well as issues of class) in Europe, while the mixed materials and the look of these sculptures connect with different kinds of African sculptures.

His father worked as a truck driver, and his mother in a glassmaking factory.