Jen Hall Made A Short Video Of Our Debut
Our friend, Jen Hall created a short teaser of our first show at the Millarville Christmas market. She came in, shot some footage, and peeled out and sent this to us like a day later. She is fast, and we are always happy to be subjects of her experiments and practice as a photographer.
Thanks, Jen!
The Art of Making Art As An Enterprise
The origin of this collective is based on our two founder's need to create conceptual work, and develop a mastery of glass blowing. The world of art is very nuanced when it comes to making money through art, where ideas are cultivated independent of market viability. Some concepts need to be expressed to create dialogue with an audience, and the result might not be[ financial security.
The Glass House is taking the same steps as many artists and crafts people before us where we are sharing the whole experience of the artist's process of glass blowing. This endeavor is a challenge because we are making ourselves and some types of work we make a 'product' in order to make a living, the trade up is when we make work based on concepts that look for a dialogue with an audience - that audience might ignore us.
This is the age old dilemma in art, does one make what they believe is important and risk many years living an unstable life, or make market ready products and gain some financial stability, risking lost credibility when we make conceptual work.
All things come to those who order them...
Our equipment arrived and has been tested and now is ready to be put on the truck for final tweaking.
We ordered 3 major pieces of equipment for this touring hot glass studio:
1) The glass melt furnace - heats up the glass to 1200C where it stays molten!
2) Reheating station - after getting the glass out of the furnace to shape, it cools quickly and becomes hard to shape. This bad boy heats it up again.
3)Annealer - glass cools down slowly in this oven like device after you are done shaping a piece, otherwise it will crack if you left it out in the open!