Talking Out Your Glass podcast

Ian Chadwick: The Aesthetic of Order Many teachings describe sacred geometry as the blueprint of creation and the origin of all form. This ancient science explores and explains the energy patterns that create and unify all things, and reveals the precise way that the energy of creation organizes itself. It is said that every natural pattern of growth or movement comes back to one or more geometric...

Daniel S. Coyle: When Functional Becomes Sentimental Menacing monkeys. Peeled bananas. Bad-tempered bears. Uniquely original Munnies. Daniel S. Coyle's whimsical, toy-inspired aesthetic in concert with mind-blowing skills on the torch have earned the artist a hefty 116K following on Instagram. The artist recently celebrated 10 years of being a full-time pipe maker with an exhibition at Ziggy's in...

Tim Carey and Justin Monroe: From Holy Frit to Vitreonics The marriage of Tim Carey's art and glass making skills with Justin Monroe's unique approach to presenting both on film has resulted in rewards, accolades and attention in both the filmmaking and glass worlds. Following the release of Monroe's award-winning documentary,  Holy Frit , the artist and filmmaker have teamed up again to start a n...

Cat Burns: Not Your Grandma's Glass Whether creating her signature  Nesting Bowls , a dazzling murrine sculpture  Windows of Truth,  or an unforgettable glass fashion statement  Forbidden Twizzlers , Cat Burns captured viewers' hearts and minds as a contestant on Blown Away 2 – Netflix's glassblowing competition show produced by marblemedia with the support of The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG). A...

Keke Cribbs: Frozen Moments in the Emotional Adventure of Life Through her art, KeKe Cribbs searches for a peaceful place. Growing up, this self-taught artist moved 24 times in 24 years, and she now prefers to travel in her mind, telling stories of far-away places and exotic characters in a mosaic glass technique she has adapted to her unique style. From her studio on Whidbey Island off the coast...

Katherine Gray: Reconciling Polarities Drawing on the rich traditions of glass blowing, fearless experimentation, and a fascination with glass as both a visual and experiential encounter, Katherine Gray creates work that ranges from blown glass sculptures to assembled installations of found glass. A visitor favorite at The Corning Museum of Glass is her  Forest Glass , a large-scale installation c...

Ruth Shelley: Through the Eye of Color Patience, love of color and an observing mind are the key ingredients of Ruth Shelley's successful kilnformed glass art. For over 25 years, she has been exploring the flow of glass when heated and the reflection and refraction of light as it hits her glass objects. Dropped vessels create an interplay of light, form and color evocative of the natural-world cha...

Daniel Maher: Challenging the Stained Glass Status Quo Daniel Maher's work serves as a testament to both his diverse aesthetic interests and his firm roots in the traditions of the stained glass craft. A former employee of Boston-based Connick Studio, in 1989 the artist established Daniel Maher Stained Glass in Somerville, Massachusetts, to further explore a variety of design styles. With the goal...

Elliot Walker: Winner of Blown Away 2 Sculpting and blowing molten glass, Elliot Walker creates still life sculpture inspired by the paintings of Dutch masters. Though exquisite to look at, it was the combination of refined glassblowing skill with the humor and satire of his work that resulted in Walker winning the Netflix series,  Blown Away 2 . For the moment, prized residencies at both the Corn...

Ross Richmond: Figurative Elements and Symbolic Objects In sculpting realistic figures of humans and horses adorned with color and pattern, Ross Richmond demonstrates how an artist can push his medium beyond its normal boundaries. The artist creates beautiful and expressionistic sculpture using gesture to convey narrative. Communication has always been the main source of Richmond's inspiration, wh...

Eli Mazet: Revealing the Handmade Shot Glass and the Eugene, Oregon, Glass Community  Looking to expand his artistic repertoire, torch artist, author and entrepreneur Eli Mazet discovered that today's flameworkers were not making one of the world's most collected glassobjects. In 2013 with the support and sponsorship of Northstar Glass, over 40 artists produced more than 70 shot glasses effectivel...

Margaret Heenan: Circling the Square Having grown up in the 1960s and '70s, Australian kilnforming artist Margaret Heenan was influenced by the highly stylized graphic designs and patterns of early childhood found on wallpapers, homewares and textiles. From her Perth studio, the artist consistently produces impeccably designed fused glass plates, bowls, wall pieces and sculpture using vibrantly no...

Irene Frolic: Personal History, Memory, and the Interdependence of Beauty and Decay   In 1948 at the age of 7, Irene Frolic arrived in Canada after almost three years in a United Nations refugee camp in Salzburg, Austria. A Jewish child, who had miraculously survived the grimmest of Grimm Fairy tales in the dark heart of Europe, arrived not knowing a word of English into a new world. Trying to mak...

CZ Lawrence: A Thin Line Between Humor and Pathos Charles Ziegler Lawrence was a man who could have easily held his own in a conversation with the likes of Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, or Hunter S. Thompson. Whether reflecting on his life as a young artist in 1960s Greenwich Village or reliving the making of five windows for the National Cathedral, all of his stories were replete with an equal amou...

Mike Luna: Enter the Dragon The ancient Chinese regarded the dragon as the most potent of all symbols of energy and good fortune. They believed it to be the harbinger of incredible luck, prosperity, abundance, consistent success and high achievement. These are the very gifts Mike Luna's dragons have bestowed upon their creator. A pipe artist, grower and smoker, his love for the cannabis plant is a...

Blown Away Season 2 Arguably the hottest show on Netflix, the glassblowing competition series  Blown Away –once again featuring expert glassmakers from The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) –returned for a second season on January 22, 2021. The Museum also hosts an exhibit of work made during Season 2, featuring one object from each of the 10 contestants. The exhibit  Blown Away: Season 2  opened on...

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Micah Evans' Paradigm Shift Micah Evans blew people's minds with his fuctional flameworked glass sewing machines that balanced clean traditional craft form and personal sculptural work. Referring to his glass obsession as "a disorder," Evans was the first flameworker to receive the glass residency at Penland School of Craft, which he served from 2012 to 2015.  He says: "Lately I seem to be describ...

The Secular Reliquaries of Therman Statom Therman Statom – sculptor, glass artist, and painter – is most notably known as a pioneer of the contemporary glass movement for his life-size glass ladders, chairs, tables, constructed box-like paintings, and small-scale houses; all created through the technique of gluing glass plate together. Sandblasted surfaces become a canvas for spontaneous vibrant c...

The De La Torre Brothers: Irreverence as a Tool for Reinvention Through their Ultra-Baroque polycultural work, Einar and Jamex De La Torre tackle topics of identity and contemporary consumerism.   Influences range from religious iconography to German expressionism while also paying homage to Mexican vernacular arts and pre-Columbian art.   They don't consider themselves glass artists per se, but t...

Karsten Oaks: Dynamic Symmetry Using optical crystal, Karsten Oaks cold works sculpture that bends light and color via its unique forms. Often a discernible object appears from a momentary perspective creating a vision that allows the viewer to connect on a more personal level with the piece. This mystery inspires a deeply personal relationship between viewer and object and sets Oaks' work apart f...

Lucy Lyon: Every Gesture Tells a Story   In these pandemic days of limiting contact with others and contemplating the dangers of simply being with another person in a shared space, Lucy Lyon's ambiguous figurative works take on new meaning. Using a stunning combination of technical prowess and a sculptor's eye, the artist transforms cast glass into atmospheric settings whose characters' stories, s...

Jon Kuhn: A Matrix for Eternity   Inspired by metaphysical studies and a couple of out of body experiences, Jon Kuhn developed an aesthetic language for expressing the architecture and light of the non-physical world. Though his life as an artist began in ceramics, interest in spiritual studies influenced the artist's move to glass. Because similar to mediation where we go inside ourselves, glass...

Simon Howard: Traditional Craftsmanship Meets Striking Design Born into a working-class family in the industrial town of Lancashire, England, Simon Howard designs and fabricates traditional stained glass through meticulous craftsmanship and sensitivity to architectural surrounds. In demand as a skilled glass painter and restorer for other studios, the artist endeavors to create new contemporary co...