Thinking About Glass with Jane Bruce
| Date: | March 12 & 13, 2011 10 AM - 6 PM each day |
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| Class Size: | 8 students (max) | |
| Tuition: | $350 - includes all materials and lunch |
About the Class
This two-day seminar class will discuss various ways of thinking about glass; its history, form and function. Through thought provoking discussions, exercises and visual presentations, and by using individual examples of student work, thoughts on the nature of glass, creativity, and the development of ideas into finished works will be shared and explored by all.
Each student is requested to bring a finished work of their choosing, images of previous work (maximum 8), which show how they arrived at the finished work and/or which typify what they make. Students are also asked to bring 5 images of what inspires them. Images should be in a digital or slide format suitable for presentation to the class. This class is limited to 8 students so that all may participate in presentations and discussions.
About Jane Bruce
Jane Bruce is currently an independent artist and educator living in New York City.
Born in England, Bruce received an MA degree from the Royal College of Art, London, and undertook further post-graduate study at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred. She has taught extensively in the US as well in Australia, Canada and Europe; from 1994 -2004 she was a Senior Lecturer in the Glass Workshop, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, and Head of Workshop in 2001 and 2002. From 2002-2007 she was the Artistic Director for North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland.
Throughout her career Bruce has been the recipient of a range of visiting artist awards and fellowships, including two Masterworks Fellowships from the Creative Glass Center of America, an Artist-in-Residence award at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, a Visual Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a New Work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts.
She exhibits her work internationally and it can be found in many prestigious museum collections world wide, including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Broadfield House Glass Museum, UK; Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg and Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA and The Corning Museum of Glass, USA; the National Art Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, and the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
You can visit Jane's website at janebruce.com.
