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Where better for an alchemical exercise than a building with invisible walls on a day fogged in by history, in a town floating between majestic past and gritty present? |
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We’re going to Toledo for the Glass Art Society Conference. But not alone. We’re going with friends. read more |
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If you haven’t yet decided whether to attend this year’s Glass Art Society conference, here are just a few of many – we think – irresistible reasons to go: read more |
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On the edge of EMERGE 2012 – yes, slackers, your entries are due this week! – I can’t resist a trip back in time to the first iteration of this little competition / exhibition.  The exhibition was held at Bullseye’s original Pearl District Resource Center. It was also juried there once works had been received. It was 2001. |
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It’s the end of a rich Thanksgiving weekend and among so much other good fortune, I’m feeling blessed for all that Dan and I enjoy in being part of Bullseye. Making a material for art-making has rewards on too many levels to cover in a single post, but today I’d like to spotlight just one: “Working Glass”.  Exuberantly emceed last Saturday night by Marketing's loquacious Chris P. whose inveterate good humor and energy always makes the Working Glass awards ceremony a favorite of our year. “Working Glass” is an annual competition and exhibition that each Fall drives Bullseye’s casters, melters, warehousemen, sales reps, and even gallery staff into their home studios and factory kilns in pursuit of the fame (relative) and fortune (modest) that awaits the winners. This year the competition was fierce. |
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Before we dedicated actual studio space within the Bullseye factory for artist projects (over 20 years ago), they had to happen in whatever nook or cranny was free at the time. And “the time” was almost always a weekend or a holiday. Some of us still remember those late nights between Christmas and New Years spent on the hot shop floor with some creative Eccentric re-purposing a piece of production equipment to make Art. |
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I was reminded yesterday that I’d abandoned this blog at the edge of a North Sea cliff almost a month ago. It’s just that what happened next was almost too rich for me to digest.
It’s been now two months since Steve Klein and Richard Parrish led the latest In Place residency at North Lands Creative Glass. |
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We’re waiting. They’re arriving. By trains, planes and automobiles. Fifteen residents from five countries are descending on the sleepy village of Lybster in the northernmost mainland county of Scotland.
By 6:00 this evening we’ll be quaffing the first drams and pints in the bar of the Bayview Hotel, followed by dinner that I suspect will buzz with the Adventures of Getting to North Lands. |
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Looking at glass through other media makes an already ephemeral material more so. A glimpse of a shadow. Hints of Plato. Walk-in cooler. |
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We’ve got plenty of Ponderosa Pine in the Pacific Northwest. It grows in Central Oregon and arrives at Bullseye in truckloads to be made into crating for the sheet glass we make.  Artist Munson Hunt with Ponderosa pine from New Mexico So why look outside Oregon for more? And why then invite a sculptor whose primary medium is not glass into our factory to turn this wood to charcoal and charcoal to glass? read more |