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The Clio Area Art Society presents a stained glass exhibit featuring local glass artists. It runs from June 7-28, with a reception at 6 p.m.
Imagine a woven wooden basket that's 120 feet high, broad at the base and curving gently inward as it rises. Now imagine that basket wrapped in opaque glass.
Iridescent glass was made by many glass factories in the United States in the late-19th and 20th centuries.
Fenton Art Glass, the largest manufacturer of handmade colored glass in the United States, will mark its centennial anniversary May 4, 2005, 100 years to the day since the company opened for business.
Work is expected to start this month on the multi-million- dollar Motors Holden dealership upgrade in Launceston.Motors Pty Ltd managing director Marcus Birrell said yesterday that the upgrading would cost more than $4 million and take about a year…
The massive renovation of Churchill Downs includes $1 million of commissioned art. The artists were hitting the homestretch this week, painting, uncrating and installing their work.
Since the first time someone thought to heat and combine sand, sodium carbonate and lime, the drive to create original pieces of glasswork has skyrocketed in popularity.
They were Irish immigrants who chipped in spare change earned from digging coal and building railroads to buy hundreds of stained glass windows for Catholic churches.From about 1870 until the Great Depression, divisions of the Ancient Order of…
Well-known American abstract artist Alan Held's designs for laminated art glass windows for the Orlando federal courthouse annex and expansion are on loan to the Orlando Museum of Art through April 3.
Although everyday a number of tourists pass by the Christ Church on the Ridge in Shimla, hardly a few care to peep inside.
The renowned company, Schiatti Angelo Srl, has been for over the past thirty years, well established in the glass machinery sector for the reliability of it's machinery, the wide range of available products and it's keen adaptation of…
All-glass construction to present Croatia’s architecture.
Vintage Italian glass, bursting with color and fantastical forms, is back in the limelight after a late-1990s bust that shattered many buyers' dreams of ever-rising prices.
Glass artist Michelle Walker wanted to use her craft to honor fellow artists who'd served in the military -- and to celebrate art as a form of peace.``With all the stuff going on in Iraq,'' she said, ``it seemed appropriate.'…
Two museums, the Orlando Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, have collaborated in displaying an artist known for his glass bowls, vases, floats and chandeliers.
Stained-glass windows in the Basilica of the Assumption, I would like to paraphrase Groucho Marx and say: "Be gone, and never darken my church again." I'm voting for transparency.
An auctioneer who sold his house to buy a pier has uncovered a 1930s masterpiece in stained glass - only to discover workmen broke half the panes in the 1960s.
FEARS of more glass shattering have turned the reopening of the National Gallery of Victoria into a nightmare.Temporary passageways are to be built to protect art lovers after an engineer's report found more breakages were possible.
VITRUM 2003 will be held in Milan fairgrounds from 25th to 28th June.As in 2001, VITRUM will take place in halls 14, 15 and 16 of the Portello pavilions, now the organizers tried and tested, which proved the ideal venue for such a demanding…
Laura Alleman was rooting around in her mother's basement five years ago when she stumbled onto three saucers made of pale pink Depression glass.
The largest conference in the global glass industry, Glass Processing Days (GPD), is just around the corner. GPD 2003 will take place on 15–18, June 2003 in Tampere, Finland.
The art form, which involves fusing layers of glass using a kiln, is especially popular in the Northwest, but there are only a handful of serious glass fusers in Maine and even fewer resources for beginning artists.
The artist took a glass-blowing class as an elective in college and found her passion in life.Lisa Pelo-McNiece, an artist from Indianapolis, majored in creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and never did a thing with her major.
New DuPont™ SentryGlas® Secure™ is the tool architects need to design the next generation of laminated glass applications to meet today's stringent security standards.
The high cost of building a glass structure that can withstand the unforgiving Canadian climate has forced the Royal Ontario Museum to rethink the controversial "crystal" design for its extension.