Eventually, this page will have the other art that I create when I’m not doing web sites!
In the meantime, click on the cigar box to see one of the dioramas I’ve made.
You can play the video {below} created when I was at Pilchuck Glass School.
Chalk Farm Gallery in Santa Fe, NM carries my magic wands!
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I created a video slide show of my time at Pilchuck Glass School a couple of years ago. Pictures were taken in the casting shop (yes, that’s me in the leathers!) and other images of life on campus. There is music accompanying it so turn up your speakers!
You’ll need Flash to play it, click here if the video is not showing up.
Incredibly fascinating back story to the video:
From 1990 to 1995 I worked on staff at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington. Pilchuck is only open during the summer, from May – September. My job there was Librarian. But, since I really wasn’t an actual Librarian (I’m an artistá), I was more the Library Personality.
It was a great job, my official duties included video taping the instructors during class demos, setting up the slide shows for the evenings entertainment, taking care of the library space and buying cool books. During the sessions, staff had access to the hot shops on the weekends. I loved that job and I loved Pilchuck. Eventually, I got too busy with my own glass work to take off summers to be at Pilchuck, and then I morphed into a web designer, but I still keep a glass studio at my house to mess around in.
A couple of summers ago I got a chance to go back to Pilchuck and be the Library Personality again. WOW, what a gift! It was 5 weeks of heavenly indulgence, worked like crazy and cast glass every weekend. It was glorious. These images were taken during that time.
Pilchuck is one of the most amazing places on earth, it’s not just the glass studios, or the location – all stellar – it’s the people who are part of this community that make it magic. They are kind, generous, hysterically funny, amazingly talented and some of the most delightful humans I have had the pleasure of knowing.
A lot of work I did at Pilchuck is based on a song that I love, Flowering Spade by Sean Hayes. I made glass drawings (I pull glass stringers and then use a little torch to make the drawings) and cast them into glass tiles using glass powders and frits for the background colors.
I also did some sand castings. Not everything I did was based on the song, like the “Venus” stuff, but most of it was.
Enjoy!
To find the song you’re hearing, Flowering Spade by Sean Hayes, please visit Sean’s websites, buy his albums and see him in concert!
Sean Hayes web site
Sean Hayes myspace