Confluence: The Art of
the Digital Atelier at the Pearson Lake Art Center
(7/7/10) The works of Karin
Schinke, Bonni Lhaotka and Dorothy Simpson Krause will be on exhibit
July 22through November 6, 2010 in the Monty Pearson Gallery of the
Pearson Lake Art Center in Lake Okoboji, Iowa. There will be an opening
on Thursday, July 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. and a reception on Friday, July 23
from 5 to 7 p.m. Karin Schminke will be in attendance at both events.
Thomas S. Buechner, 1926-2010
(6/25/10)
Artist and former museum director Thomas Buechner died at his home in
Corning, New York on June 13. He was 83 years old. Born in New
York City in 1926, Buechner's education was taken at Princeton
University, The Art Students League in New York and the Ecole des Beaux
Arts in Paris. He also studied Old Master painting techniques in
Amsterdam. In his later life he was known for his beautifully rendered
portrait, still life and landscape paintings. Buechner was also a
respected museum professional. He served as the first director of the
Corning Museum of Glass (1951-1960), and went on to direct the Brooklyn
Museum of Art (1961-1971). He then returned to Corning, New York, where
he was president of the Steuben Glass division of Corning Glass
(1973-1982). He finished his museum career by again
serving as director of the Corning Museum of Glass (1973-1980). Buechner
became a full-time artist after retiring from Corning in 1987.
He was an artist-in-residence at Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine,
North Carolina in 1982. There he created vitreograph portraits of four
contemporary glass artists: Dale Chihuly, Dan Dailey, Erwin Eisch and
Harvey Littleton. Buechner returned to Littleton Studios in 1987 to
create a portfolio of eleven prints based on RichardWagner's opera,
"Das Rheingold." Please click on the image at left to see Buechner's
work in vitreography.
Printmaker Matt
Liddle in summer exhibition
(6/25/10) Matt Liddle, 2007
visiting artist at Littleton Studios, is currently artist-in-residence
at The Bascom, a fine arts center in Highlands, North Carolina. Liddle
and the work of fellow artists Holly Hanessian (ceramics),
Lewis Knauss (fiber), Mira Lehr (mixed media), Tom Turner (ceramist) and
Phillip Garrett (painter) will be featured in "View:
Artists In Residence and Toe River Potters" in The Bascom's Atrium and
Education Gallery from July 24 through August 22, 2010.
For more information, please telephone The Bascom at 828/526-4949.
Vitreography course offered at Penland School
of Craft
(4/30/10) This summer
(2010) Penland
School of Crafts is offering a course in vitreography, the
printmaking technique that uses sheet glass as a matrix. Daily
demonstrations in the print studio and the glass studio's
cold-working shop will introduce students to a myriad of options for
applying vitreography to their own work. Instructors Morgan Calderini and Nicole Chesney will demonstrate not only how to create
imagery on the glass plate through carving, engraving and
sandblasting; but also how to print and edition vitreographs.
Multiple-plate registration, working reductively and adding chine
collé elements will be covered. All learning levels are
invited to sign up for this fascinating printmaking experience.
Please phone 828/765-2359 for information about registering for this
and other summer classes at Penland.