News
Monday, April 1, 2013
by Sara Awad
(614) Magazine
On a Saturday afternoon at Glass Axis’ aptly named “hotshop,” I find myself staring at several hundred pounds of molten glass bubbling inside the gaping maw of an enormous furnace. The temperature is cranked up to 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit. Standing beside me is co-founder and master glass blower Rodney Sounik. He and a group of fellow graduates of the OSU glass blowing program have converted what began twenty years ago as little more than a traveling hotshop into a 10,000 square foot, non-profit glass art studio with over 100 members, a gallery and a dedication to sharing their craft with the local community.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Columbus Arts
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The exhibition will open with a reception with the artists at Dublin Arts Council on Tuesday, June 18 from 6 to 8 p.m., and will remain on view through Aug. 2. The opening reception and the exhibition are free of charge. Exhibition hours: Tuesday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The exhibition will travel to Glass Axis, 1341 Norton Ave., Columbus, Ohio and will be on view Aug. 15 through Nov. 7, 2013. Glass Axis will host an artists' reception on Thursday, Sept. 5 from 6 to 8 p.m.
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January 2013 issue
Ohio Magazine
Instead of breaking glass, why not make some? Glass Axis is just the place to learn the secrets of creating fragile works of art. This nonprofit Grandview Heights studio promises its beginner classes will teach you the “language of glass” as you produce your very own ornament, paperweight, tumbler, mosaic or other masterpiece. [Read More]
Thursday, December 20, 2012
by Steve Wartenberg
The Columbus Dispatch
At Glass Axis, a glass art studio on the Northwest Side near Grandview Heights, the glassmakers reason that if the apocalypse does begin on Friday, survivors will need weapons to fight off the hordes of flesh-eating zombies roaming the wastelands. So people attending the studio’s tongue-in-cheek End of the World Party will be offered the opportunity to make decorative glass daggers. [Read More]
Thursday, December 20, 2012
by Jackie Mantey
Columbus Alive
Art forms community. Community forms family. And when one of them is lost, they feel it.
Take Kevin Hillmann, a 24-year-old Glass Axis artist and intern. An avid biker who also helped teach kids how to bike safely, Hillmann loved the annual riding event Festivus. [Read More]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
by Sarah Thompson
The Other Paper
The party, which features live music, a cash bar, glass-blowing demonstrations and glass-dagger workshops, is being held in conjunction with the gallery’s doomsday-themed “Start: Stop: Start” exhibit. Starting time: 8 p.m. Cost: $3 members, $5 nonmembers.
Dressed to impress: Kami Westhoff will don this dress (which she designed along with James Lehr Kennedy) when she kicks off Glass Axis’s End of the World Party Friday night. She’ll be making a figurative sacrifice to the Mayan gods, perhaps in hopes of gaining a reprieve.
Monday, December 17, 2012
by Jill Span
The Social Firm
As the clock quickly counts down to the end of the world hysteria speculated for this Friday, Dec. 21, doomsayers around the world have just four days left to make the final preparations to their emergency survival kits, non-perishable food stock and tricked-out bunkers. [Read More]
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
by Alan Froman
ThisWeek Community News
Glass Axis Studio's annual holiday sale will give shoppers a chance not only to purchase gifts for the season, but also to make their own decorative items. [Read More]
November 2012
by John Ross
Columbus Monthly
Glass is the one medium in which an artist literally breathes life into his work.
Your breath is actually part of the making process,” says Trevor Fruchey, a pro blower who teaches at Glass Axis, the Grandview nonprofit with roughly 150 artist members. [Read More]
Thursday, November 15, 2012
by Dana Turtle Live
FOX 28 News Columbus
Make an ornament during our Holiday Sale!
For complete class listings, see our calendar.
