Events

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.

Saturday, August 27 |  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 July we feature Rebecca Smith.

Rebecca Smith is a graduate of Kent State University with a Bachelor of Arts in their jewelry, metal smithing, and enameling program. She continued her glass education at a number of small studios before accepting a position at the Pittsburgh Glass Center as a studio technician and head kiln forming instructor. Becky's art takes her into all the glass studios as she likes to combine techniques to make more unique work. This month she will be demonstrating chain making in the torch-working studio, using borosilicate rods of glass to make continuous links that she forms into wearable necklaces, bracelets, as well as using them in works of art.

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