New work finished June 27th

Fresh baked and hot from the oven, these pieces will be at Farmer's Market on July 11th. (unless someone snatches them up first). The pieces that come home from Farmer's Market will go online.

The long, modern orange and brown one is very cool. It's tucked in at the far end next to a small oval with dots (and it's upside down). Come check it out.

What's in the Oven

These pretty pieces finished fusing this morning. Tune in tomorrow to see the finished pieces. My favorite so far is the orange and brown asymmetrical piece on the lower right (second photo). All of these pieces were made with glass from the Utah Museum of Natural History. The glass is from defunct display cases and is about 35 years old. (estimated, of course)

Girl Scouts - Not just for cookies!

I had the pleasure of visiting with a very bright group of girls in my studio on June 10. Their troop was visiting with various types of entrepreneurs, one of which was me.

Despite the pouring rain, which severely limited our ability to break stuff, I think they had a good time.

And the cookies were GREAT!!

North Rose Wolcott High School, Student Work

Last January I had the pleasure of talking with Howard Skinner, the art teacher at North Rose Wolcott High School about the possibility of his students working with recycled glass. What a fabulous surprise to get photo's of the projects. These students are doing some seriously cool glasswork.

From an artist's point of view, this is really about the best thing that can happen. If my work and knowledge can inspire kids to branch out and explore, then I'm doing my job right! (of course, having an expert like Howard as your teacher helps too...)

Here's a bit of info about the school:

North Rose Wolcott High School is located in between Rochester and Syracuse New York. We are a smaller school of about 650 students; we have a very competitive art program, with classes
in the drawing arts, 4 levels of ceramics, a new sculpture class and or fused glass class. The ceramics room has 13 wheels, a 24 x 36h front loader kiln ,a raku kiln, and new hot box kiln and a new scutt glass kiln. The principal has been fantastic this year getting two new glass kilns in one year. We love to do competitions with the other schools. Some schools being much larger. This year the kids sent work to 8 different shows, some national and winning some top awards. I guess that is why we get the support we get. These days you have to push and put in the news papers any thing positive to keep your budget for the art dept. But after 25 years of teaching its still fun and developing new exciting glass class is why. Giving the kids the love and appreciation for art, is the secret of keeping the arts alive.

And here are the photo's: