great video but beg to differ about who started the studio glass movement. Libensky was making glass art in 1958 and showed in the World Exposition EXPO, Belgium. Sorry but us euros were actually doing it first!
@Dierwolf2000 I don't differentiate between blowing and casting both take a vast amount of skill studio glass I believe doesn't differentiate either and wouldn't be anywhere as spectacular if there was no cast glass. In Europe there is the Bild-Werk Frauenau Summer Academy which hopefully will have its furnace running again in the summer of 2012. That place was set up by Erwin Eisch and Tom Buechner who were leading lights in the modern studio glass movement way back in the 70s.
@brixtonpunk uhm, you should differentiate given the fact that the studio glass movement was started in the US, and you should also consider that blowing is hollow and casting is not, and you should also consider the name of the place Libensky worked at the time. And im a studio glass artist that blows, casts, fuses, slumps, torchworks, brazes stained, and paints on glass.
@brixtonpunk not to mention the fact that libensky and brichtova are casting experts, not blowers. lovem, but thats the truth. man i miss living in skagit county.
@brixtonpunk i have done hotcasting, kiln casting, and multifire fuses. i know the skill it takes. i'd never say libensky was a jobber because he's quite obviously not. but that doesn't mean what im saying is untrue.
great video but beg to differ about who started the studio glass movement. Libensky was making glass art in 1958 and showed in the World Exposition EXPO, Belgium. Sorry but us euros were actually doing it first!
@Dierwolf2000
I don't differentiate between blowing and casting both take a vast amount of skill
studio glass I believe doesn't differentiate either and wouldn't be anywhere as spectacular if there was no cast glass.
In Europe there is the Bild-Werk Frauenau Summer Academy which hopefully will have its furnace running again in the summer of 2012.
That place was set up by Erwin Eisch and Tom Buechner who were leading lights in the modern studio glass movement way back in the 70s.
@brixtonpunk
uhm, you should differentiate given the fact that the studio glass movement was started in the US, and you should also consider that blowing is hollow and casting is not, and you should also consider the name of the place Libensky worked at the time. And im a studio glass artist that blows, casts, fuses, slumps, torchworks, brazes stained, and paints on glass.
@brixtonpunk
not to mention the fact that libensky and brichtova are casting experts, not blowers. lovem, but thats the truth. man i miss living in skagit county.
@brixtonpunk
i have done hotcasting, kiln casting, and multifire fuses. i know the skill it takes. i'd never say libensky was a jobber because he's quite obviously not. but that doesn't mean what im saying is untrue.