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Westward, Ho

This October I'll be heading west to visit the University of Oregon in Eugene and then up to Portland to give a talk at the ISC--Internat...

Ron Nagel on Steroids

For those of you interested in new talent (or who gets media attention), you might want to check out the NYTimes magazine on 15 New Creat...

Glass Quarterly Feature

Please check out my feature-length article on the early twentiety-century French glass artist Maurice Marinot. This will be published in...

Liza Lou's "Painting"

We the People is the name of a show my summer students and I saw at the Albright-Knox in Buffalo. It was comprised of recent additions t...

Glass Snake Spotted in Venice

California-based artist Pae White constructed a glass brick wall on the grounds of Le Stanze del Vetro (The Glass Room) in Venice during ...

GREAT Summer Class

A big shout out to all my students who took the summer courses. And, special thanks for two students, Bradley Howes and David Kwak, who ...

Contemporary Projects in Art

This summer join me in Contemporary Projects in Art. This class will happen between June 10-28; and you receive 4 college credits. This ...

Self-Portrait: Gustavo Pérez

I saw Mexican ceramic artist Gustavo Pérez' exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design in February. His Self-Portrait in ...

Liquid Sunshine

Last week, I listened to Japanese artist and educator Rui Sasaki as she unveiled her Rakow Commission at the Corning Museum of Glass at a...

On the Verge

Matt Wedel's new exhibition, On the Verge, is being shown at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art this month through the summer. ...

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