Back from The Glass Furnace

Anna Boothe’s Kilncasting class in Turkey- a happy hardworking group from Turkey, the US, and Japan! Everyone in the group was knowledgeable about ceramics and was already an artist, so it was a very strong team.By the end of the two weeks it seemed like most people were rushing around busily with multiple projects at…

With Anna Boothe at The Glass Furnace, Istanbul Turkey

On July 1 I’m joining Anna Boothe at The Glass Furnace to assist her in a class about casting glass components using a variety of methods, and then re-assembling them. It’s a two week class, with plenty of time and room for casting, so everyone should be able to make a lot of things! In…

Corning Museum of Glass purchase

The 8-panel Water Dragon has been acquired by Corning Museum of Glass, and will become part of the collection of the Rakow library. I am so pleased to be part of the collection, and to know that the dragon will reside in Corning!

Spring at the studio

I was at Vrij Glas yesterday. It has finally become spring here in Amsterdam, and I could let my new artwork dry outdoors! That’s also my bike in the background.  If the weather is good enough, I can bike almost all the way to the studio- I have to take a ferry, too. When I…