Glass Ring Class - Toledo, OH right before the GAS conference
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Glass Workshops: June 2012
The Toledo Museum of Art is pleased to offer a
special lineup of intensive workshops for glass
artists, scheduled just before and after the 2012
Glass Art Society conference held in Toledo, Ohio.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Toledo Workshops of 1962, the seminal studio
glass workshops organized by Harvey Littleton, we
have—once again—invited a number of artists to
share their knowledge of a wide variety of techniques.
Join us at the award-winning Glass Pavilion
featuring all new furnaces and newly-installed
galleries containing one of the world’s premier
collections of glass art.
All classes meet 9 a.m.–5 p.m. followed by open
studio until 9 p.m.
From Bead to Sculpture
Learn from two of Murano’s flameworking masters.
Together, these artists will form bas-relief figurative
sculptures inspired by mythological themes,
formed hot upon a decorated glass bead or ring
created to serve as the architecture, or backdrop,
for the figurative rendering. Learn about traditional
techniques for bead and jewelry forming as well as
figurative sculpture at the torch.
June 6–11 (9GF887) $675
About the Artists
Born in 1957, Lucio Bubacco began playing
with glass as a boy, making small animals and
beads. At 15 he received his artisan’s license
and began flameworking. His fascination with
anatomy lured him beyond the perceived technical
limits of the craft. In 1980, Bubacco began to
study anatomical drawing with the Venetian artist
Alessandro Rossi, after which his style took on
a new dimension in which the movement of the
figure became the central theme of his work.
Diego Bottacin was born in 1971 and graduated
from the Liceo Artistico in Venice. In 2002 he
began working at the glass torch and soon
opened his own shop on Murano where he
specializes in custom glass beads, rings and
jewelry designs. In 2004, Bottacin began assisting
Lucio Bubacco and the two artists have become
friends and collaborators. Botticin has worked and
taught extensively in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.
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