'Natural Flow' Exhibition Website

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'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

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Glassblowing Open House @ RDC

Glassblowing Open House - Friday, June 10 from Noon to 5:00p.m @ Red Deer College.  If you've ever wanted to see glassblowing first-hand, stop by and see the artists at work.  Or even give it a try yourself, free of charge. 

Spaces are still available in RDC's summer glassblowing program, with 5-day courses available through June, July and August taught by professional artists from the world's glass community. 

Classes are also available in flameworking (glass beadmaking), casting, fusing and a variety of other mediums including ceramics, welding for artists, painting, drawing, felting, jewelry, photography, polymer clay and more!

For more information on summer art programs at Red Deer College: www.rdc.ab.ca/series | 403.356.4900 | continuingeducation@rdc.ab.ca