"Art glass is the glam aspect of the professional craft scene. It's the extreme sport of craft"

The Alberta Craft Council and Keith Walker appear on Alberta Prime Time showcasing glass art in the province and the 'Natural Flow' exhibition.  Which is currently on exhibit in the Alberta Craft Council's Feature Gallery until December 24th.

Check it out! -->  'Fragile Art' video on Alberta Prime Time 

Month Abroad

I have spend the last 35 days traveling about Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and England!  Took in the sites; museums, street markets, historical tours, shopping districts, etc...Visited some lovely old friends, made some great new friends, and had all around amazing experiences!

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art - Ishøj, Denmark

Berlin Wall, East Side Gallery - Germany

Canada's 'United Buddy Bear' - Berlin, Germany

I AMsterdam, Across from The Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Instant Picnic! @ Sunday Market (Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek) - Amsterdam, Netherlands

'Inverse Reverse Perverse' by Cerith Wyn Evans @ Tate Britain - London, England

Lovely Aimee and I @ 'The Glassblower' Bar!! - London, England

“Better an interesting failure than a boring success”

North Lands Studio in Lybster, Scotland

I have been immersed in glass for the past 10 days; attending a masterclass at North Lands Creative Glass in Scotland.   The glassblowing/kiln casting workshop, entitled "Out of Thin Air", was lead by Michael Rogers and his TA Ben Dombey.

Revealing my “inspirational suitcase”, which in preparation for my journey to real and imaginary places, consists of books, poems, quotes, images, small objects to cast in glass, and non-essential and impractical metaphorical tools.

14 hour days - working in the studio

Loaded Kiln

Caroline Ouellette and I assisting in the Hotshop

Some of my cast woodland animals. cute!

LOVELY classmates! :D

North Lands Creative Glass

 

2nd summer at RDC

Blowing glass at Red Deer College

Finished up another FABULOUS summer of tech-ing for Series Summer School of the Arts at Red Deer College.  

Remaining glass has been ladled out of the furnace :(

We welcomed many talented glassblowing instructors included Edward T. Schmid, Katie Brown, Ilona Lindsay, Joanne Andrighetti, Jeff Holmwood, Lisa Samphire & Lisa Cerny, and Robert Lewis.

Robert Lewis' class! :)

In addition, the flameworking program saw instructors Leah Duperreault, Amy Waldman-Smith, Sherry Bellamy and Loren Stump!  Jamie Gray was also on campus for two weeks of fusing and kiln casting fun.

Red Deer, you will be missed...

Red Deer College - Visual Arts

'Natural Flow' Exhibition Website

CHECK IT OUT! -->  'Natural Flow' website

'Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass'

Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass
Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB
July 1 – August 21, 2011
Reception with the Artists Friday July 8, 7pm
Free Admission, all welcome

In conjunction with the Downtown Artwalk

This unique group exhibition features a wide range of contemporary handmade hot glass art, from large scale sculpture to small vessels, by sixteen Alberta glass artists. The theme of Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass highlights the singular ability of hot glass to embody organic and biomorphic ideas, forms and forces. While the very nature of glass as an ‘amorphous solid’ – neither liquid nor solid - can lend it these qualities physically, the works in hot glass presented here take it a step beyond, evoking natural forces of change visually and also metaphorically, through a variety of strategies from imagery to humour and spiritual contemplation.

Artists in the Exhibition: Phillip Bandura, Bee Kingdom, Tim Belliveau, Cailey Buye, Ryan Marsh Fairweather, Robert Geyer, Brian Hall, Jeff Holmwood, Marty Kaufman, Deanna MacAulay, Darren Peterson, Julia Reimer, Tyler Rock, Natali Rodrigues, Kai Georg Scholefield, and Keith Walker

Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass joins the “glass filled summer” at the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre along with Valid Objects of Beauty by Susan Rankin in the Art Gallery and Handmade by Altaglass in the Heritage Gallery.

Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre
401 First Street SE
Medicine Hat, AB, Canada
www.esplanade.ca

Clip from Open house @ RDC

CHECK IT OUT! -->   RDC Series Glassblowing 2011