Fired Up!
Caterina Urrata Weintraub, flameworking playful glass art
Caterina "Trina" Urrata Weintraub talks about her career and the current focus of her work. Trina works in various disciplines within glass, balancing creating her artwork with her position as an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Trina creates playful objects and curious scenes inspired by childhood memories and dreams. Her use of glass to recreate iconic toys or re-imagine personal memories evokes a sense of sentiment, wonder, and discomfort. From intricate torch work to large-scale kiln castings and hot blown pieces, she chooses the process best suited to realize her vision.
Karen LaMonte, Cast Glass, Bronze, and Ceramic
Karen LaMonte gives an artist talk about her pioneering new works discussing concepts, challenges, experimentation, invention, of course failure, and occasionally success! She creates cast works, in glass, bronze, and ceramic, including large scale, outdoor sculptures suitable for public art settings.
Angela Babby, painting on glass mosaic
Montana-based artist Angela Babby talks about her process and the influence of her Native American culture on her artwork.
Dan Friday
Pacific Northwest artist Dan Friday talks about his work, the influence of his background on his subject matter, and his time on the Netflix show Blown Away!
Glass Today at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Learn about this exciting contemporary glass exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Glass with Brandy S. Culp, the museum's Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts.
Kate Baker, photography and printmaking on glass
Australian artist Kate Baker discusses her career as an artist integrating photography, printmaking, and sculpture.
Saxe Collection, glass sculpture tour
Dorothy Saxe takes us on a very special tour of her San Francisco apartment, filled with treasured works of contemporary glass art from the collection she and her late husband, George, built.
Alexander Rosenberg
Alexander Rosenberg, Blown Away star, glass and mixed-media sculptor, discusses his career in glass.
William Warmus in Venice, Glasstress & BiennaleTour
William Warmus reviews works in glass at the 2022 Venice Biennale and talks about Glasstress.
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