Editor's Letter
by Andrew Page
Hourglass
Remembering Mark Ferguson (1959 - 2008), hot glass sets sail as a major attraction on a cruise line; a conversation with the new curator of the Museum of Northwest Art; solar power from stained glass, the most important new books.
Reviews
Liza Lou at L & M Arts, New York; Dennis Oppenheim at Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, California; Penelope Stewart at Edward Day Gallery, Toronto; Michele Lapointe at Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario; Ivana Sramkova at Heller Gallery, New York; Jeff Wallin at Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
UrbanGlass News
The 2009 UrbanGlass Gala: Auction - Awards - Glassblowers Ball honors Clifford Rainey, Tevita Havea, and the Venini family.
Reflection
A top price paid at auction for a fabricated work challenges a basic premise of Studio Glass.
by John Drury
Flame On
Building on the groundbreaking work of the B Team in the 1990s, a new generation of artists takes the innate theatricality of glass into the realm of performance art.
by Rebecca Park
Burning Down the House
The seminal performance art group the B Team set out to challenge the status quo at glass programs at universities. They evolved into a dynamic performance art group that celebrated glass in its molten state, bringing a new audience into the hot shop.
by Andrew Page
The Art of Inquiry
Contemporary artists are pulling apart the intertwined history of glass in science and art, with provocative results.
by Annie Buckley
Afterburn
Wielding hot glass like a paintbrush, Etsuko Ichikawa sears images on paper to create work that recalls Japanese calligraphy but with a unique intensity of process.
by Victoria Josslin