Thu 4/6 @ 6-8PM
Making art from glass has been around for centuries. While a difficult medium to control, the way it interacts with light has fascinated artists since stained glass windows proliferated in cathedrals. Modern techniques have opened up new ways to work in this rigid medium, and the work of studios such as Tiffany, Lalique and Corning Glass in Toledo has become familiar to millions of people.
While artists at Cleveland Institute of Art had been dabbling in glass for a long time, it wasn’t until Brent Kee Young formed the glass department there in 1973 that it got serious. He chaired it for 41 years and continues to make and show his work.
He’ll be just one of the three dozen artists whose work will be on view in Risk + Discovery: Glass Innovation opening at CIA’s Reinberger Gallery this week and on view through June 16. They include some of his earliest students as well as recent ones, along with current and former faculty members, showing the full range of exploration and discovery the department seeded and Young’s ongoing influence.
The show opens with a free, public reception Thursday April 6 @ 6-8pm. It includes an outdoor glassblowing demonstration by Hot Spot Glassworks, led by CIA Glass Studio technician Zac Gorell at 7pm. The CIA Glass Guild will also be holding a student market throughout the run of the show.
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