LECMO @ The Sonoran Glass School

On Friday September 10th, 2021 I was honored to give my first LECMO at The Sonoran Glass School. LECMO is a combo ‘Lecture’ (or Artist Talk) and a ‘Demo’ in the Hotshop. I gave a brief talk before I made two mold-blown glass pieces in front of an audience.

The first piece was from my series “Weaning Vessels” and the second piece was made with a new process to really showcase experimentation and collaboration. The mold was made from my hand clasping my daughter’s. Jason Marstall and I made two separate, different colored bubbles to blow at the same time in the mold. We were assisted by Lauren Steinert, Tom Hodgson and Paul Anders-Stout (who also was the MC for the event). You can see in the photos we used ‘puffers’ (they look like the end of a blood pressure cuff) because of Covid. I actually learned to blow glass this way and not in a traditional way of using your mouth to inflate the glass.

Thank you to the Sonoran Glass School and Director Lynne Davis for your invitation and your support! Thank you to all friends, family, and glass/art lovers who attended!

Artist Profile in Southwest Contemporary

I’m excited to share I was selected for an Artist Profile in the Fall 2021 issue of Southwest Contemporary. My work was chosen for the issue themed Inhale. Exhale. by guest juror Julio Cesar Morales, artist and senior curator at Arizona State University Art Museum. A pdf of the profile is available here.

I am honored that Publisher and Editor-in-chief, Lauren Tresp, wrote the profile. Here’s a taste:

“From assemblages of these raw materials, the artist creates plaster molds and then uses breath to inflate molten glass into slouching, bulging, and gleaming forms and vessels. Some of the objects become zombie-like in their glassy refusal to die. Others are voluptuous and effulgent, with shapely lumps and folds of skin.”

There are many incredible artists included in this issue. Congratulations to my fellow artists!

KAYLA COLLYMORE + DONNA CRUMP, APOLO GOMEZ, WEN-HANG LIN, ELLEN BABCOCK, STEFAN JENNINGS BATISTA, DANIEL HOJNACKI, ALEXANDRA LECHIN, ALEJANDRO MACIAS, JULIA C. MARTIN, DALLIN MAYBEE, JILL O’BRYAN, ROSALINDA PACHECO, AUGUSTINE ROMERO, BRENDA STUMPF, ROSSITZA TODOROVA, EVERTON TSOSIE