Glass art
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Glass art includes the creation of stained glass, working glass in a torch flame (lampworking), glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing, and the making of glass shapes through glass blowing. It dates back to prehistoric times, was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria, brought to the fore by the Romans, and had its greatest triumphs in European cathedral building in stained glass rose-windows. Great ateliers like Tiffany, Lalique, Daum, Galle, the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Stubbe glassworks took glass art to the highest levels. Murano glass has not kept pace with production, but is still home to more glass masters than any other single place on Earth.
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Contemporary North American glass artists
Canada
Artwork in Canada is extensive, with a glass art gallery in Toronto that has international recognition. Canadian glassmakers have been very strong in glass paperweights.
Toronto's Harbourfront Centre has a glass studio with an artist-in-residence programme that has fostered the development of glass art in Canada.
Among the better known glass artists in Canada are Robert Held, Brad Copping, Jeff Goodman, and Susan Rankin
United States
Among the most respected modern masters in the United States are: Dale Chihuly, Joel Philip Myers, Harvey Littleton, Dan Dailey, Lino Tagliapietra, John Burchetta]], Stephen Rolfe Powell, Richard Marquis, Janush Valentinovic, Martin Blank, Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Therman Statom, Richard Jolley, John Lewis, William Morris, Robert Mickelsen, Milon Townsend, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Shane Fero, Michael Ian Plane, Charles Lowrie, Dante Marioni, Janusz Pozniak, Walter Lieberman, Cappy Thompson, James Mongrain, Dick Weiss, Bob Carlson, Robbie Miller, Bob Snodgrass, Ian Lewis, Marc Petrovic, and Kari Russell-Pool.
Contemporary European Glass Artists
Estonia
Italy
Pino Signoretto, Lucio Bubaco, Cesare Toffolo, Davide Salvadore, and many more...
Germany
Karl Ittig and Thomas Mūler-Litz
Sweden
Bertil Vallien and Kjell Engman
United Kingdom
Perthshire in Scotland was best known internationally for its glass paperweights fighting hard for sales in a declining market. It has always hosted the best glass artists working on small scales, but closed its factory in Crieff, Scotland in January 2002.
Contemporary Asian Glass Artists
Japan
Japanese glass art has a short but very rich history. The small Pacific island, Niijima, administered by Tokyo has a world-renowned glass art center, built and run by Osamu and Yumiko Noda, graduates of Illinois State University where they studied glass with world renowned glass artist and teacher Joel Philip Myers. Every autumn, the Niijima International Glass Art Festival takes place inviting top glass artists, such as Richard Marquis, Joel Philip Myers and Dale Chihuly, for demonstrations and seminars. Niijima glass art uses a rock indigenous to the island, rhyolite, a silica-based sandstone, known locally as koga.
Korea
Korean glass art is developing, and while it has a 1400 year old tradition, it has not kept pace with achievements in ceramics. This may change as Korean nationalism forces more competition with the leading Japanese and Chinese glass artists.
Contemporary Australian Glass Artists
Situated in the market town of Eumundi, in South East Queensland, Australia the Liquid Glass Gallery exhibits the spectacular work of local glass blower - Lucas Salton. For more information on Glass Art Australia, visit the Liquid Glass Gallery.