Events
Saturday | April 28 | 4 to 6pm
Every last Saturday of the month Glass Axis presents free demonstrations. Watch as a professional artist makes their personal best. This in-depth demonstration shows the step-by-step process and finesse of creating glass art. In April we feature Nate Ricciuto.
Recently, his artwork has primarily involved a series of experiments with glass, which have explored both the physical nature of the material as well as the historical context of glass objects. For this demonstration he will attempt to recreate a glass alembic, which is a two-part apparatus first used by ancient Greek alchemists in the earliest studies of distillation. While this object may turn out to be functional in some way, he is most interested in the mixture of mythology and science that is implied in the process of transforming one thing into another.
About Nate Ricciuto
Nate Ricciuto has his BFA in Glass from The Ohio State University where he received an Undergraduate Research Grant to investigate traditional glassmaking processes.
He has been awarded scholarships to participate in workshops at other prominent schools around the country, such as Penland School of Crafts and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Nate has also been selected to be a teaching assistant for workshops at Pilchuck Glass School, Eugene Glass School, and Oxbow Summer School of Art. He has worked as a staff member at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington and serves on the Board of Trustees for Glass Axis.
Nate exhibits his artwork in juried and invitational shows nationwide, and has received awards from the Glass Art Society and the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State. Currently, Nate is the Studio Coordinator and Technician for Sherman Studio Art Center at The Ohio State University, where he is also a Lecturer in the Department of Art.
May 4, 5, & 6 | 2012
Friday: noon to 7pm | Saturday & Sunday: 9am to 4pm
Join us for a fun-filled family weekend of shopping and glass making! Our 5th Annual Spring Sale is just in time for Mother’s day, so stop by to find the perfect gift or bring in the whole family for an art-making workshop.
Give the gift of handmade glass art, (or keep it for yourself!), created by Ohio’s premier artists. Hundreds of glass art pieces are on sale, ranging from blown glass vessels to exquisite jewelry, from colorful glass flowers to unique sculptures, from stained glass mantel pieces to funky kitchen accents.
During the event, make your own pulled glass flower or stained glass spring-themed panel. Workshops run Friday from 1 to 6pm and on the weekend from 11am to 3pm and are suited for ages 12 and up. First come, first served; no registration required. $25 per workshop.
Glass Axis is located in Grandview at 1341 B Norton Ave. 43212
Between 5th and 3rd, just west of Olentangy
(614) 291-4250 | www.glassaxis.org | hello@glassaxis.org
Kami Westhoff’s latest exhibition christens the newly renovated Kennedy Galleries at Glass Axis
Artist Reception:
Thursday, May 24 | 5 to 7pm | Light refreshments will be served.
View the first exhibition in our newly renovated galleries, where our focus has expanded to include both a culturally-rich curatorial gallery and a beautifully-eclectic gift shop.
Experience the wonder and whimsy of Kami’s work: her youthful curiosity and spot-on intuition collide to create the playful yet perfect balance of form and color, light and mass, transparency and reflection. Join us for The First. Read More >>
Saturday | May 26 | 4 to 6pm
Every last Saturday of the month Glass Axis presents free demonstrations. Watch as a professional artist makes their personal best. This in-depth demonstration shows the step-by-step process and finesse of creating glass art. In May we feature Joshua DeWall.
Joshua DeWall has been working with glass for ten years. After graduating with a B.F.A. from Southern Illinois in 2007, he then lived as a free-lance artist for a year and a half in Bloomington, Illinois. In 2009 he was accepted to the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is now currently pursuing an M.F.A. in glass and is continually developing his work. It has been his goal to constantly broaden his skills and ideas as an artist as well as to keep pushing the limits of the medium.
“Innovative ideas and technical perfection are very important to me, but glass interests me in other ways as well. A lot of the time what can become the focus is not so much the object that I am making, but the process itself. I love moving glass and me with it. It’s like dancing.”
Saturday | March 31 | 4 to 6pm
Every last Saturday of the month Glass Axis presents free demonstrations. Watch as a professional artist makes their personal best. This in-depth demonstration shows the step-by-step process and finesse of creating glass art. In March we feature Amy Ritter.
Amy Ritter will be blowing glass with various found objects exploring the possibilities of glass expansion and restriction.
Amy Ritter is currently a candidate for the Master of Fine Arts glass program at The Ohio State University. Her work has been exploring the notion of space and volume working closely to the human body. She uses everyday objects in her glass blowing process, which allows for an interactive performance in the studio. This experimental approach to glass making allows for her to achieve new surfaces, marks and abstract shapes in glass.
Ritter’s work will be featured in the upcoming issue of New Glass Review published by the Corning Museum of Glass.
Saturday | March 31 | 10am to 12pm
Reception at Hawk Galleries | 5:30 to 7:30pm
In partnership with Hawk Galleries we are pleased to present "Duality: A Free Demonstration with Nancy Callan and Ethan Stern."
Watch as professional artists make their personal best. This in-depth demonstration shows the step-by-step process and finesse of creating glass art.
Nancy Callan has been working as a glass artist in Seattle, Washington since receiving her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1996.
Her work embodies the skill and finesse of the Venetian tradition, but combines this pedigree with the wit and aesthetic sensibility of a contemporary artist. Callan is highly influenced by pop culture and references sources such as comic books (“Superhero Stingers”), children’s toys (“Tops”) and high fashion (“Plaid Winkles”) in her ongoing series.
For the past twelve years, Callan has been a member of Lino Tagliapietra’s glassblowing team and has traveled throughout the world as his assistant. She has exhibited her work nationally at major galleries including Traver Gallery in Seattle, and Hawk Gallery in Columbus.
Ethan Stern spends the majority of his time creating patterns and textures from the simple shifts in hue, density and opacity, which are a result of the process of engraving. These engraved marks, like the stroke of a paintbrush on canvas, leave evidence of his hand and are intended to create an expressive sense of motion, rhythm, weight, and depth.
In 2010, Stern won the Best Emerging Artist Award from the Tacoma Museum of Glass. His work has been exhibited at multiple galleries including Traver Gallery in Seattle and the Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe.
Saturday | February 25 | 4 to 6pm
Every last Saturday of the month Glass Axis presents free demonstrations. Watch as a professional artist makes their personal best. This in-depth demonstration shows the step-by-step process and finesse of creating glass art. In January we feature Rodney Sounik.
Sounik’s demonstration, Thinking Inside Out, will showcase his signature colorful wall-mounted stars. Working much like a painter, Sounik applies the color and form from the inside out, one layer upon another. Don’t miss your chance to see this living tradition and master of color application.
Rodney Sounik is one of the founding members of Glass Axis and continues to make work at and support Axis. His work has been exhibited regionally and nationally since 1986. He won the Ohio Craft Museum Best of show five times and his work is part of the permanent collections at the Boston Children’s Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, and the Columbus Courthouse, to name a few.
Glass Axis invites couples, singles, and families to participate in a weeklong array of Valentine-themed artmaking workshops in celebration of love.
Create gifts for a loved one, for yourself, or with each other at our weeklong Valentine-themed stained glass, bead-making, kilnforming, and hot glass workshops from Friday, February 11 through Saturday, February 18.We offer adult-only evening classes and family-friendly daytime workshops. Roses will wilt, and chocolates can't compare to an original glass themed gift. All classes are $50 each and require pre-registration by calling 614/291-4250. Registered couples get a 10% discount on two glass pieces. Gift Certificates are available for workshops or gifts in the gallery.
Friday, February 10
Heart Charms Beadmaking | 6-830pm (Adults Only)
Use a torch to form colored glass into Hearts or other shaped charm beads
Saturday, February 11 
Stained Glass Heart Panel | 1 to 4pm (ages 12 and up)
Work from a pattern to a create beautiful copper-foiled stained glass panel
Sculpted Glass Heart | 6-9pm (Adults Only)
Pick up colored powders on molten glass and sculpt it into the shape of a heart
Sunday, February 12
“Pulled” Glass Flower | 10am-1pm (12 and up)
Apply color to molten glass; use tweezers to shape a bud, an opening flower, or a full bloom; then twist the stem, and voila!
Tuesday, February 14, VALENTINE’S DAY
Kilnformed “Love-Themed” pendants/buttons/magnets | 6-9pm (Adults Only)
Learn basic kiln-fusing techniques to make small colorful glass pieces
Sculpted Glass Heart | 6-9pm (Adults Only)
Pick up colored powders on molten glass and sculpt it into the shape of a heart
Friday, February 17
Pulled Glass Flower | 6-9pm (Adults Only)
Apply color to molten glass; use tweezers to shape a bud, an opening flower, or a full bloom; then twist the stem, and voila!
Saturday, February 18 Sculpted Glass Heart | 10am to 1pm (ages 12 and up)
Pick up colored powders on molten glass and sculpt it into the shape of a heart
Heart Charms Beadmaking | 10am to 1230pm (ages12 and up)
Use a torch to form colored glass into Hearts or other shaped charm beads
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Saturday | January 28, 2012
Lecture: 3pm (at Glass Axis)
Demo: 4 to 6pm (at Glass Axis)
Reception: 6 to 8pm (at OSU Urban Arts Space)
Every last Saturday of the month Glass Axis presents free demonstrations. Watch as a professional artist makes their personal best. This in-depth demonstration shows the step-by-step process and finesse of creating glass art. In January we feature John Drury.
This demo will be super fun for everyone involved! Drury will warm up with a spirited game of tic-tac-toe, drawing with hot stringers on a freeblown form echoing work he made in Ohio in the 1980s. He will then blow forms into molds made of popsicle sticks which will burn and fall away.
Originally from Ohio, John Drury currently lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn, NY. A founding Trustee of Glass Axis, John earned his BFA at CCAD and MFA at OSU. Among his many accolades, he was awarded the Pernod Liquid Art Award in 1994 and Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for the Visual Arts in 1997. Drury has taught and lectured around the US and internationally including locations such as Pilchuck Glass School; The Glass Furnace, Istanbul; UrbanGlass, New York; The Museum of Glass, Tacoma; and the Rhode Island School of Design.
In 1988 Drury and Robbie Miller of Vancouver began an extensive body of conceptually based work that they signed and exhibited under the joint moniker Cud. A group of works from their Bridges series created at the Pittsburgh Glass Center is included in he Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review 26. A small untitled work from the Bridges series appears in the Tracing Lines Exhibition at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space through March 24, 2012. The reception for the exhibition follows John’s lecture and demonstration and we invite you to join us at The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space from 6-8pm, January 28th.
December 9, 10 & 11
Friday: noon to 7pm | Saturday & Sunday 9am to 4pm
Join us for a fun filled family weekend of holiday shopping and glass making!
Find the perfect gift made locally by Central Ohio's best artists and take a workshop to make your very own glass ornament, perfect for the holidays and to be enjoyed all year long.
Thousands of glass art pieces will be available for purchase, many at discounted prices including jewelry, household items, and decorative works. Workshops run Friday from 1 to 6pm and on the weekend from 11am to 3pm and are suited for ages 12 and up. First come, first served; no registration required, but long wait times are expected. $25 per ornament.
For Members: Please consider participating in this wonderful event!
