high5: glass

Today’s post marks the beginning of High5, a new occasional feature on Daily Art Muse. The Cambridge Dictionary’s definition of high-five is “a greeting or an expression of admiration in which two people each raise a hand above their shoulder and bring the fronts of their hands together with force.” With the High5 series I will indulge in a week-long exploration of one medium, celebrating five artists in that medium who are high on my list.

High5: Glass

Before I introduce new work in glass, the first medium in the High5 series, let’s take another look at previously featured glass art on DAMuse. There are more than 70 posts in the archives showcasing the talents of today’s glass artists. Over the last two and a half years we have looked at artists who fuse, blow, slump, lampwork, paint, etch, carve and sculpt the molten material. Posts about Madelyn Ricks’ beaded kimonos and Shayna Leib’s wall tiles both generated the most comments and offer a good starting point for this week’s series.

7/12/2007 DAM featured Leopold & Rudolf Blaschka’s plant and flower models

I encourage you to browse through the resources listed in the sidebar – books and periodicals that are of interest to artists, collectors, students and lover’s of the glass art movement along with a very incomplete list of schools to begin or further your studies in glass.  Watch the sidebar – I will likely add more resources and websites of interest as the week unfolds.

Contemporary International Glass

See you Monday!