I had the opportunity this weekend to take a workshop with Dan Mirer, who works out of the Corning Glass workshop in Corning, NY. While Dan has been blowing glass for a long time, he is now fairly widely know for his work with the Swedish overlay technique to capture very well-defined patterns of bubbles […]
I have continued to work with carving since the Fritz Driesbach workshop. While the method is more time consuming than just applying color in the hot shop, you can get much more detailed and controlled patterning. The piece in the photo above is one of the first I made after the workshop. I have several […]
I just finished a four-day workshop with Fritz Dreisbach, one of the people who helped start the studio glass movement in the US. Besides being incredibly knowledgeable about glass (he’s been blowing glass for over 50 years, after all), Fritz is just a great human being. People like Fritz, who are willing to share their […]
Back in August I took a four-day workshop with Scott Benefield at the Toledo Museum of Art. While Scott’s use of cane and murrini is fairly contemporary, he has an extensive knowledge of historical glass and traditional venetian cane technique. There are plenty of YouTube videos of people pulling cane and doing cane roll-ups, but […]