26th Annual Peninsula Glass Guild Members Exhibition

Jude Schlotzhauer: Glass Bone Animals

These shows end January 26, 2014 at Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton VA

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Fritz Dreisbach

About the Juror Fritz Dreisbach was a founding member of the Glass Art Society. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Society's Lifetime Achievement Award, and is an unofficial historian of the American Studio Glass. He received the 1993 Rakow Commission, celebrating the first 30 years of studio glass and his own glass career. He has traveled the country lecturing, demonstrating, and organizing workshops. He has taught in most major glass programs in North America, Asia and Europe. Dreisbach has inspired so many artists to work with glass that he has rightly been dubbed the "Johnny Appleseed" of the American Studio Glass movement. Juror’s Statement I extend an enormous thank you to the Peninsula Glass Guild for my invitation to Virginia. The PGG members and the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center staff were very helpful during my trip here. I am pleased to find many wonderful unexpected surprises among the exhibition entries, especially cameo cut glass pieces, accompanied by a diverse variety of glass techniques. It is most encouraging, for me, to see the range of historical references in the juried artwork. It is also most exciting to see artists working towards the diverse goal of improving the glass arts. The southern east coast glass movement is on the rise of a new creative horizon exploring not only performance art, but classic glass at its best.