Podcasts about lampworking

(Bex - Flamework)   In this episode, I had the honour to have Bex as my guest. She shared with me her interest in flamework as her hobby.   Definition: Lampworking is a type of glasswork in which a torch or lamp is used to melt the glass. Once in a molten state, the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand movements. It is also known as flameworking or torchworking, as the modern practice no longer uses oil-fueled lamps. Although lack of a precise definition for lampworking makes it difficult to determine when this technique was first developed, the earliest verifiable lampworked glass is probably a collection of beads thought to date to the fifth century BC. Wikipedia contributors. (2022, February 16). Lampworking. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 04:21, February 27, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lampworking&oldid=1072130861    Bex's Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/BexGoos  Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bexgoos/ Glass Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theglassgoos/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotAgainPod  Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@everythingiswrongforever Book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hellbound-rebecca-goos/1139757724  Barnes & Noble/Nook: bit.ly/Hellbound1  Amazon/Kindle: bit.ly/Hellbound2 Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/potatoladyglass Etsy: Etsy.com/TheEverydayEccentric       Time For Your Hobby links: Website: Time For Your Hobby website (click to find Apple, Spotify, Google and more) Merch: TFYHpodcast (on Redbubble) Instagram: @timeforyourhobby Twitter: @tfyhpodcast Podchaser: Time For Your Hobby  Patreon: Timeforyourhobby  Email: timeforyourhobby@gmail.com     If you like this episode and think it can be helpful to someone you are more than welcome to share it and leave a review. If you want to be on my podcast or have any questions at all, by all means, contact me through any of the platforms above. So until the next episode... make some time for your hobby.   Shout out to my Patrons: Chess Talk (https://chesstalk.podbean.com/) Mélissa Sabrina Hughes Berry    Take care,

Kevin and Josh toss back Moscow Mules and contemplate the early demise of their favorite Instagram tabloid - Boro News. We also ask the question "Is there discrimination in the community?"

Josh and Kevin sit down and talk glass with artist Aaron Uretsky. Boro News, thoughts on evaluating a price for your glass piece and yet another giveaway featuring a piece by Aaron himself. Impeachment.

Josh and Kevin slosh down some Irish car bombs with Junkie back home and talk about the year so far during their down time. Filmed on St. Patrick's Day 2019.

Josh and Kevin sit down for drinks at the hotel room with Dave Martin, glass artist and owner of glass supply distributor - ABR Imagery after the 2019 IFC.

Like quilts fashioned from various colors and textures of coral reef, Shayna Leib’s Wind and Watersculptures reflect the two major passions in her life - music and the ocean. Trained as a classical pianist, the artist relies upon the same part-to-whole nature of music that brings together individual notes and melodic lines in the creation of a greater composition. Growing up on the Central Coast of California, Leib became a diver and underwater photographer, further informing the direction of her art. In a recent American Craftarticle, Fear & Fascination, Judy Arginteanu wrote:“A large wall sculpture (about 4.5 by 2 feet) might contain some 40,000 individual pieces of hand-pulled, custom-colored cane, which she then slumps, cuts, and meticulously arranges in intricate patterns, like those nature seems to create so effortlessly. It takes many weeks to produce one sculpture…With the help of one assistant, Leib does all the work in her 640-square-foot studio, a converted warehouse in the charmingly boho East Side of Madison, Wisconsin…She can spend hours on the coloring process alone, and each piece of cane has at least two colors to add shimmering depth. She can use up to six different versions of a color in a monotone landscape; for a multicolored piece, the number may be 25 or 30.” Leib studied Russian literature, glassblowing, and classical piano while completing her Bachelors of Art degree in Philosophy at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Accepted into a PhD Philosophy program in New York, she chose instead to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts in glass and metal at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated with her MFA in 2003. Working as a metal fabricator and forger at Pearson Design Studios in Maine, Leib reproduced the famous designs by the late Ronald Hayes Pearson for his wife, Carolyn Pearson. Upon her return to California in 2004, she taught sculpture and drawing at Cal Poly State University until her move in 2005 to teach glass at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. Currently Leib works in a variety of mediums including ceramic, stone, metal, photography and fabric, though glass remains her focus. She prefers to use glass not for its mimetic qualities to capture the look of other materials, but for its ability to express flow, freeze a moment in time, and manipulate optics. She states: “The things I find beautiful have always been fractal in nature. I am intrigued by multitudes of tiny little parts - blades of grass all bending in the wind to the same rhythm. As you pan out you have waves of form.  Zoom in and you see each individual blade of grass moving to the flow of the wind.” Leib’s work, found in numerous private and public collections nationally, has been exhibited at SOFA Chicago and New York for the last decade. She is represented by Habatat Galleries Florida in West Palm Beach, showcased in museums, worldwide blogs, and magazines, and featured on the pages of Contemporary Lampworking, The Best of American Glass Artists Volume L-Z, and A História Do Vidro(A History of Glass).Leibwas recognized as a 2010 Wisconsin Arts Board Grant Recipient, nominated in 2011 for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and in2015 listed as one of the 30 Most Amazing Glass Artists Alive. For the last year Leib has been creating work for her new series, Pâtisserie, atherapeutic exercise in re-training her mind to look at dessert as form rather than food. To glass, the artist combined porcelain and nearly every possible technique in both mediums to include glassblowing, hot-sculpting, lampwork, fusing, casting, and grinding in glass and well as the ceramic techniques of hand-building, throwing, and using a good old fashioned pastry tube.              

What's involved in finding your own true voice as an artist? Explore this concept with Micah Evans, a notoriously talented flameworker, as he shares his own path, and inspires you to develop yours! This incredible discussion delves into the inner workings of the artistic spirit, as well as the cultural influences that evoke certain expressive styles. What is it like to be working hot glass in America today? What does it mean to establish an "American Style" of flamework? Listen, and find out....