NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Born in New York City, Paul Housberg studied painting early in his career, but was drawn to glass for its atmospheric color. After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: For more than 50 years I’ve been creating images and objects through photography, serigraphy, stained glass, painting, drawing, textiles, and constructions. The catalyst for this work was and is historical, biblical, and personal. Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio: Alan Metnick was born in […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Michael McCoy Glancy, Sr. (1950 – 2020) was born in Detroit, Michigan, and later earned a BFA from the University of Denver in 1973 and a BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1977. Enticed by the […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Daniel Clayman has been working with glass as his primary medium for forty years. His work reveals his interests in engineering, the behavior of light, and how the memory of experience acts as an impetus to his studio explorations. Working large and […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Steven Easton majored in glass at Rhode Island School of Design and has lived in Rhode Island for over four decades. Easton uses the lost wax / lost foam process to achieve crisp detail in his kiln cast glass portraits, and architecturally […]
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Nicole Chesney, born in 1971, moved to Providence seven years ago, after undergraduate studies at the California College of Art and the Massachusetts College of Art, as well as an MA from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue Credits: Video: Richard Goulis Music: Written and Performed by Michael Delia “Piece […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Toots Zynsky received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1973. In 1971, she assisted in the founding and early development of the Pilchuck Glass School. Later that year she explored new possabilites in creating large slumped plate glass […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Elizabeth Pannell lives and maintains a studio in Providence, Rhode Island. As a plain air painter working primarily in oils and gouache, Pannell strives to capture the essential impressions of the New England coastal areas with intensity and immediacy. She is a […]
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Howard Ben Tré’s sculpture, and especially, as we shall see, his public works, are permeated by idealism. Even when his sculptures are intended for more private viewing, they draw on forms that are at once simple and universal. Ben Tré recounts that he began to cast glass when he looked at the molten liquid and […]
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