Excerpt from a new fused glass series “Gray Gate Poems”. This poem in its entirety is 10” by 38” and can hang directly on the wall – which then casts subtle shadows – or can be fused onto a colored piece of glass to match your decor.
Author: Allison Aguilera
Glass tree
Trying to decide what to do with this glass tree I made. Please click on photo to see the whole piece. It’s 10” by 22” and weighs nothing. I like it just as it is, but there are other directions it could go: become part of a fused glass scene that is then framed and… Continue reading Glass tree
Glyphs 5 (Gray Gates Poem 5)
Glyphs 5 (Gray Gates Poem 5) Fused glass, stained glass 11” x 14” x ½” March 2020
Emerald Form
Emerald Form Cast glass 9” x 5” x 1.75” March 2020
Fusing Metal in Float Glass
Fused Metal in Float Glass Instructor Elizabeth Mobley Saturday, April 25 10 am to 3:30 pm Learn to fuse glass with metal inclusions – an exciting dimension to warm glass. In this workshop, you will work with low-cost materials – copper and float glass – to create fused glass art. You’ll learn reactions of copper… Continue reading Fusing Metal in Float Glass
February 2020
Connections I’ve always admired spiders. A web is a complex piece of architecture, and they are born knowing how to make, maintain, and dine from one. They sense every movement on every strand, and can distinguish the fluttering of a frantic fly from the trembling of a steady breeze. To build and maintain a web… Continue reading February 2020
Happy Glass Artists
This studio is extraordinary… and it allows us to make extraordinary glass. As further proof – Two happy glass artists from our January workshop on kilncarving: Thank you for making it possible. –Lisa and all the other glass artists who use Charlie’s studio
Up to Code
I made a big push this month to complete many other long-delayed repairs and improvements: electrical wiring replaced, old light fixtures and ugly drop-in ceiling removed, back walls painted, belt sander mounted on a new palette, smoke detector installed, fire extinguishers inspected, outside drainage fixed, steps at the loading dock, and minor repairs to the… Continue reading Up to Code
January 2020
Underneath all the beauty of glass sculptures is a lot of industrial equipment. And underneath that equipment is…. Well, me. While casting glass boxes in November, some molten glass escaped onto the floor of the kiln and coated an inch of the electric elements. That broke the circuit, and two of the four floor elements… Continue reading January 2020
Rising Tide
“Rising Tide,” a small ceramic landscape with moveable figures