GlassFest
Join the Georgia Museum of Art from your home on April 11, 2020, for a special celebration of the exhibition “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection.” GlassFest is funded in part by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
Family Day: GlassFest
Join us for Family Day from your home! Explore the Tiffany exhibition online through a virtual tour, and complete the Family Day activity page and art project. Family Day is sponsored by Heyward Allen Motor Co., Inc., Heyward Allen Toyota and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.
Demonstrations
Online Artists’ Market
Christie Moody
I graduated with a bachelor of fine art degree in art education from the University of Georgia and have experimented with glass as a medium through the years. Inspired by my connection with the elements of earth, sea and sky, through my home in the North Georgia woods and my husband’s and son’s river and coastal outposts, I “paint” with glass on a light table, using hot worked, engraved and hand- and diamond sawed elements. I overlay colored glass pieces, frits, powders and canes in a spontaneous manner to imbue a sense of arrested movement and living light to my work. The work is then fired, often multiple times to fuse and bend it into vessels, sculptures and hangings. I have succeeded if the viewer experiences a sense of my awe and wonder in the natural world.
blueheronglass@gmail.com
https://www.blueheronglass.com/
Jennifer Benson
Jennifer became interested in fused glass art when she wrote a feature news story on glass artist Patti Quinn, owner of Aurora Radiant Glass Art. Patti invited Jennifer to create a fused glass plate with her… and later offered her a job. Jennifer worked with Patti in her studio for over a year before she moved full-time into education. She says “I love how the glass medium is such an excellent metaphor for the human condition. Just as we can only reach our potential when faced with the fire of life’s trials and tribulations, fused glass must be fired in the kiln to become what it never could be without it.” Today, Jennifer lives in Mt. Airy, Georgia, where she is the owner of Jennifer Benson Glass Art.
Jennifer Benson Glass Art
706.255.5775
jenniferbensonglassart@gmail.com
www.jenniferbensonglassart.com
Sam Davidson
Athens-based artist Sam Davidson has been melting glass in garages, garden sheds and makeshift studios since 2013. Using borosilicate glass and a technique known as lampworking, he creates ornaments, pendants and other joyful objects meant to capture and recast the light in unexpected ways. Lampworking, so-called because it was traditionally done on oil lamps, is the process of working glass in an open flame. Sam is fascinated with the process of using this flame to transmute cold, lifeless glass into detailed works full of warmth and vibrancy.
To commission works, contact Sam via Instagram @longleaf.lampworks or email at long.leaf.lampworks@gmail.com.
Bendzunas Glass
Bendzunas Glass is a working studio and gallery located in scenic Comer, Georgia. Located a short drive east of Athens, our studio offers a gallery of our work, demonstrations in our hot shop and a wide selection of pieces you can purchase. Our artists are led by master glassblower Paul Bendzunas, with over 40 years of experience. Paul has led his family in the art; all three of his children (Elizabeth, Paul R. and George) are accomplished artists and work in our studio, continuing the tradition. We also have several apprentices to whom we are teaching the ropes.
http://www.bendzunasglass.net/
Nick Daglis
Ground up Glassworks, LLC (GUG) was co-founded in 2016 by husband-and-wife team Nicholas and Caitlin Daglis. Nicholas received a bachelor of fine arts degree in glassblowing from Georgia Southwestern State University in 2016, and Caitlin is currently a master of fine arts candidate at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, at the University of Georgia. GUG is dedicated to bringing glass art and fine craft to as many communities as possible, with a focus on youth in under-served communities. With a fully mobile glassblowing furnace and studio, we have the unique ability to bring the studio glass movement directly to communities all over the region. We provide public or private classes, workshops and demonstrations either on-site or at our home studio and facilitate summer youth camp art-experiences (once this is possible again, anyway!).