Heather Hancock's Mural, Link, in Chicago

Heather Hancock has a bunch of her great work up on her blog.
I like her "integrated glasswork."  Look at this mural she did. 6' by 30'
Link

AGG Menber Paul Housberg: New Project

Here is a new project from AGG member Paul Housberg:

Art glass wall at Mayo Clinic Simulation Center lobby, 2013

“We know all too well the necessity for efficient management, but there is a spiritual as well as material aspect in the care of sick people." -William J. Mayo, M.D.

Well, I know life is reaching a new height of busy when I look back on the year and realize I never posted about exciting projects that wrapped up months ago. Amidst working on the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital project earlier this year, I also was hard at work on another commission, an art glass wall for the new state-of-the-art J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Simulation Center at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Read more of this post

Bottle World Healing Garden

Sorry no flat glass here but I couldn't resist sharing this great video brought to my attention by the Looking at Glass Blog. I'm posting this for Tom Krepcio who I know is into bottle structures and also to inspire my colleagues at Wheaton Arts!
Elayne Lansford's Bottle World healing garden is a tribute to triumph over life-threatening illness and the power of healing through gardening. Reframing her reality by giving new life to old objects helped her when husband John Villanacci faced a random disease and lung transplant, soon after she recovered from breast cancer. It was a twist for Elayne, a psychologist who helps clients every day. In her refuge of sanctuary and peace, she worked out some of her sorrow and anger through hands-on activity and creation.

LED installation in Madrid

From the Blog: INHABITAT/Design will save the world:
Madrid's festive season gets a colorful start thanks to a wonderful new installation by Italian designer Teresa Sapey. Commissioned by the city as part of an annual tradition to brighten up Madrid's streets during the holiday season, Sapey opted for row after row of circular LED lights in every color imaginable that warm up a relatively featureless part of the Spanish capital

Read more: Swirling LED Lights on a High Fashion Street Kick off the Festive Season in Madrid Teresa Sapey Christmas Lights in Madrid – Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building 

Banksy's Stained Glass window at Moca

http://www.flavorwire.com/171142/pic-of-the-day-banksys-stained-window-at-moca

Civic Space, Sacred Space, and the Cathedral of Christ the Light

How might a cathedral, conceived in the 21st century, within a rapidly changing Pacific Rim setting, possess the cultural integrity and the power to inspire that define the great European cathedrals? How might a new cathedral speak to contemporary culture while honoring two millennia of Christian tradition? And more specifically, how might this new cathedral provide a meaningful setting for both spiritual renewal and civic discourse in its immediate community, the city of Oakland?
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://faithandform.com/feature/light-and-shadow/

Amazing LCD Glass Installation

Patterned by Nature was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (naturalsciences.org) for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The exhibit celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, across all scales of space and time.

10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer. Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass.

"Bloom Skin": Video

Dancing window display. Mesmerizing.

Ellen Mendelbaum: New Website

Stunning new website showcasing AGG member Ellen Mendelbaum's architectural stained glass & paintings
Visit: http://ellenmandelbaum.com/

Stained glass by Judith Schaechter amid Eastern State's iron bars

Artist Judith Schaechter stands below her stained-glass window "The Battle of Carnival and Lent," the largest of 17 windows she created for skylights of the vacant and decaying Eastern State Penitentiary. 

LINKS for additional information:
Stained glass by Judith Schaechter amid Eastern State's iron bars
http://www.usaprojects.org/project/eastern_state_penitentiary/about/updates#description

J. Kenneth Leap: Lindenwold Station news article & video

Read the full article here: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/BZ/20120317/NEWS01/303170018/Glass-from-past?odyssey=nav%7Chead

Help Fund Kathy Barnard's Project - final days

Narcissus

http://www.nquagliata.com

Architectural Decorative Glass

http://www.pulpstudio.com/

New Glass by J. Kenneth Leap for NJ TRANSIT

"Through to the Sea", by AGG Member J. Kenneth Leap was installed yesterday. This project, when complete will consist of over 1000 square feet of digitally printed laminated glass panels which will enhance the waiting areas and shelters at NJ TRANSIT's Lindenwold Station. The waiting area panels shown above depict the history of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad.


More images of the installation and the design are available here:
http://paintedwindowdesigns-lindenwold.blogspot.com/

Metropolis II by Chris Burden (the movie)

Gerhard Richter

http://www.gerhard-richter.com

4900 Colours (2007) is composed of 196 panels, each of which consists of 25 squares. Each individual spray-painted enamel square measures 9.7 x 9.7 cm and each panel of 25 squares is supported by Alu-Dibond. 

The panels can be arranged in 11 core configurations (each using all 196 panels), ranging from multiple smaller grid combinations of various sizes to just one large-scale work. The 11 variations are presented on this and the following pages. 

The order of the coloured squares is based on chance, having been generated randomly by a computer programme. The 11 configurations were selected by Richter and there is no hierarchy among them. 

Richter started work on grid paintings as early as 1966, when he reproduced industrial colour charts as used by paint manufacturers. In 1971 the element of chance was introduced into his compositions, with the distribution of colours randomly decided, although there remained a white grid between the colour fields. 

Grids comprising a variety of numbers of squares were produced at this time, from 4 Colours (Catalogue Raisonné: 353-1, 1974) to series of works using 1024 and 1025 squares (also 1974) and even as many as 4096 squares in 4096 Colours (CR: 359, 1974). It was in this same year, 1974, that Richter first removed the grid in favour of direct contact between the colours. After an interval of 33 years, Richter returned to grid paintings in 2007. 

4900 Colours and the earlier grid paintings have certain formal similarities with Richter’s Cathedral Window (CR: 900), which he designed for the south transept of Cologne Cathedral. The work, which consists of approximately 11,500 squares of glass in 72 colours, was unveiled in 2007. Some of the brightly coloured square panes were arranged randomly, while others were selected in response to the architectural context

The Michelin Man

http://www.bibendum.co.uk/

Nancy Nicholson asked about this image and here is a reply from Tom Krepcio:

I remember seeing this image years ago, and was amazed that it came from 1911.
It's in a restauraunt in London. There is another one with bibendum on a bicycle.
They also have a pdf explaining some of the history of the windows,

Curiously, it does not mention (at first glance anyway) who did the windows, but it does say what posters the art is based on.

http://www.michelinonline.co.uk/centenary/downloads/Michelin%20House-final.pdf

IN FLUX (Video)

IN FLUX Art in vacant storefronts in Scottsdale Arizona, see video below:



If you're an artist living in Arizona here is a link to the current CALL FOR ARTISTS to participate in the next IN FLUX: http://www.tempe.gov/arts/news/INFLUX.pdf
If you're not from Arizona - contact your local State Arts Council or Chamber of Commerce about developing a program like IN FLUX in your city.