Without paying attention, it’s possible to miss the works of Mimi Ọnụọha that will appear across Columbus during the coming months. The Nigerian American artist’s exhibition will run throughout the city and includes parts of her recent work, “What Is Missing Is Still There,” which is a collection of her projects from the last six […]
University of Wisconsin Madison visiting artist 2025 Tube Pulling
Visited with students and gave slide talks two days ago- and pulled tubes with some very talented students yesterday. Gonna give another demo for UW glassblowing students today.
It's like my birthday came early with the tubes. Gonna make a video at some point to share the glassblowing fun- but Amber Mans an Skye Xollo were SO helpful, with Amber having blown glass since they were very young, and learning to pull tubes from my favorite tube puller in Tacoma.
I saw wonderful undergrad and graduate student work, seen here are Amber's "two truths and a lie" tubes covered in black glass powder and resist sandblasted through (I pulled some of that black/ brown). A studio visit with Morgan, a third year grad student was very neat- their ceramic and neon sculptures playing with texture, dementia, memory, and structure- integrating the neon and clay quite nicely.
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Wrapped up all my commercial projects and final mirror world class, along with working on a new hanging chandelier sculpture with @alifeeney . The stick sculpture runs a #webcam server with GPIO controls so that anyone can view and interact with the sculpture from anywhere in the world.
It's website is down currently, as it's the sculpture is my minivan with me as I drive cross country. I visited some old friends in Corning last night, and am staying with an exceptional neon bender who bent a lot of work for Bruce Nauman in Chicago tonight.
My show, "Embracing Fallibility" opens along with my "Mind Benders" class at FOCI, in Minneapolis in a few days. Until then, I will be driving a bunch listening to radio drama's and chatting with students as a visiting artist at UW Madison.
Oh it's hectic, but it's nice to be on the road again - the voice an stories of Joe Frank keeping me company
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Two days ago my friend Dani Kaes stopped by to give a pumping demo and a "stuffed tube" demo to the students. Basically Dani cuts a bunch of 10 and 12mm tubes up, cleans them with acetone or other solvent and then stuffs the little tube pieces inside another clear 15mm tube.
She processes them a little differently, using argon on the bombarder to gently heat the inner tubes, without getting the outer one too hot too quick and cracking things.
Its really neat shaking the stuffed tubes- their fill tubes rainbow jostle and jingle back an forth :)
Already seeing students scavenging for fancy color scraps to cut them into tiny pieces for stuffing :)
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Two mini rainbow doodles being bent. The "92.7 KREV Zooted Lil' Rainbow Doodle" and the "89.7 Experimento Mini Rainbow Doodle" These are made of a rainbow of tiny scrap tubes sourced from benders I admire across the SF Bay Area. Thanks Adam Taylor for pumping these at Neon Works Oakland.
Still trying to make a #mini double #rainbow and a #doodle with this new bend and wrap sequence. LA is next! New colors are there!
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