Sentences with phrase «with glassmaking»

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.

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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.

ELOs are student - initiated in that they do not replace traditional schooling, but simply allow for it to be sculpted around each student's interests; for example, students in the past have chosen to study everything from genetically modified organisms in farms in their communities to glassmaking and jewelry design in conjunction with their regular coursework.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

McElheny combines the methodologies and mathematics of science with the craftsmanship of artisan glassmaking, and translates the imaginings of Jorge Luis Borges, the utopian endeavors of Bruno Taut and Paul Scheerbart, the futuristic thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller and the sculptural sensuality of Isamu Noguchi into a range of kaleidoscopic scale models for the infinite — most notably in his recent collaboration with a cosmologist on Island Universe, an accurate scale model of the Big Bang.