Staying Centered
In this course, Ben and Dante will demonstrate and explain traditional off-hand glass making with an eye toward the vessel. Cane patterns and murrini will be a part of the program. Using skills they have learned over several decades, they will be passing on what each of them have gleaned from being life-long professional glassblowing artists. This class is geared toward aspiring professionals with lots of glassblowing experience that want to further skill and knowledge.
Dante Marioni burst onto the international glass scene at the age of 19 with a signature style that has been described as the purest of classical forms executed in glass by an American glassblower. His amphoras, vases, and ewers are derived from Greek and Etruscan prototypes, yet they are imaginatively and sometimes whimsically reinterpreted. His impossibly elongated, sinuous shapes are made with bright and saturated contrasting colors.
Benjamin Edols has been blowing glass since 1987. He received his BA from Sydney College of the Arts and went on to successfully complete a postgraduate diploma at Canberra School of Art in 1992. Since that time Ben has travelled to work alongside colleagues in America, Italy and Japan. Ben has given glassblowing workshops at Pilchuck Glass School, The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Niijima Glass Centre, The Jam Factory and Sydney College of the Arts.
