RISD GLASS

Alum gave a great talk and then worked with the Transparent Matter class this week. We experimented with projecting through a hot glass lens & more.

Glass restoration committee.

Beginning Glass.

Transparent Matter class is back! We’ll be working in the FAV and Glass studios. First class was a blast.

Experiments in Optics 🔎 Spring Semester course has begun!

Also from the “Art as Perception” class - a review of work made for the Recognition on Sense assignment.

Sand casting in Daiqing Zhang’s “Art as Perception” Wintersession class.

Wintersession is in full swing! “The Unpromised” class (taught by Glass Grad Dongheng Yang) students are learning glass blowing skills.

First day of Wintersession - Five Glass Stories

Hot casting with pasta!

This is the last week to see the “Sustainable Futures”Exhibition in the lobby of Prov Wash. Lots of explorations with glass. Experiments in optics - YAY!

Everyone was working hard today. Come see - Graduate Glass Biennale “Either - Or”, opens 12/1.

Mark your calendars!! Graduate Glass Biennale “Either - Or” opens this Thursday 12/1/22 from 7-9pm, Sol Koffler Gallery.

Uthman Olowa, a 3rd year architecture grad, used a Polycam app to generate 3D prints of his face - all at slightly different angles. Those were then used to make hot glass castings - nice!

“Let’s make a fire”, an atmospheric HotNights event by teaching fellow Marek Šilpoch @ silpochmarek, reconnected our hot glass shop to the legend of Prometheus.

Field trip!! We traveled to see the “Symbionts” exhibition at MIT’s List Gallery featuring our alum J Fan .j.fan . After that we stopped in at the Mapparium.

🔬Alchemists presenting their recipe reconstructions/responses.⚗️🔮

Guest lecturer Lindsy Parrott, Executive Director and Curator of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, spoke to the Glass History class - taught by Cynthia Williams. Here’s the class with Lindsy and some Tiffany glass she brought for close inspection and handling.

Last Wednesday Glass seniors and 2nd year Grads were testing out ideas for their Spring semester HotNights sessions.

Alchemy updates🔥 Field trip to Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center and Marine Geological Samples Laboratory at University of Rhode Island. Looking at some uranium rock, lava, and soil samples.

On 10/26 Christopher Roberts joined us for a HotNights event titled: In Search of an Incandescent Blackness: Reflecting Race Through the Looking Glass of/beyond the Veil/s. A wonderfully woven lecture and prompt inspired our glass making teams - see some of their experiments…

Welcome to Marek Silpoch . Marek is our Glass Dept Teaching Fellow from UJEP in Czechia.

Fantastic lecture. Thank you King Cobra and thanks to all who attended the lecture.

Sunday and working.

HOTNIGHTS! "Glass:Accessing Nature" event is happening in the hotshop. Come and join glass department on wednesdays from 7:00 to 10:00 pm to experience risdglass. @ RISD GLASS

Mark your calendars!!!

🔥11/13 🔥

With panel discussion lead by Gregory Volk and special guests Jen Bervin, Tavares Strachan, and Stephanie Pender, followed by a reception and book signing with the contributors.

Link in profile for tickets 🎟


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Hot glass projector by

Huge thanks to Kambui Olujimi for spending time in the shop with us experimenting! (And also for sharing your work, answering our questions, and giving a glass photography workshop.)

Oh, hi! It's RISD Glass on Jeopardy...

Jeopardy!

Join us tomorrow at 1:10 in College Bldg. room 521 for artist talk by Mark Dion and later in the day from 7-10 in the shop for a collaborative project between glass students, Mark Dion, and glass faculty Chris Taylor. See y'all there 🎨 👍

Glass takes the beach! Collecting materials to make glass

Collecting "salt content" for upcoming alchemy workshop with the Making and Knowing Project

Full house tonight with guest artist Alexander Rosenberg

Join us during this year's RISD weekend to help kick off a year long celebration of 50 years of Glass!

See you tonight 7-9PM!

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