All About Glass
All About Glass
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Watch as Nancy Callan and her team create a large sculpture in the Amphitheater Hot Shop. Nancy Callan’s artistic voice as a glass sculptor reflects her high-level training and talents. Callan attended the Massachusetts College of Art (BFA 1996) and lives in Seattle, WA where she is part of the
Watch as Nancy Callan demonstrates for her class, Roulette, which explored ways to extend the possibilities of the relationship between line, pattern, surface and form. In this demo, Callan makes one of her signature clouds with a double rainbow pattern, using a Roman style plunger pick up.
In this demo, Nancy Callan makes a large vessel designed by Guest Artist Mel Douglas, who plans to complete the piece by cold-working in her signature style. Highly regarded for her mastery of the craft, Douglas' delicate, subtle work comes from the slow and considered process of engraved mark