The openVertabrate 3D Vertebrate Archive is a recently released open library of 3D scans of vertebrates from the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Resource submitted by Ben Orozco
The openVertabrate 3D Vertebrate Archive is a recently released open library of 3D scans of vertebrates from the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Resource submitted by Ben Orozco
The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive is a space centralizing knowledge, articles, and artifacts of Black craftspeople in the United States. From 1619 to beyond, Black craftspeople, both free and enslaved, worked to produce the valued architecture, handcrafts, and decorative arts of the American South. The archive is categorized by trade/discipline, including glazers.
Resource submitted by Ben Orozco
Glass | Cash Survey is a 2018 survey conducted by artist, educator, and GEEX Director Helen Lee, resulting in the first major compensation survey specific to glass.
Resource submitted by Ben Orozco
Curator and educator Michelle Millar Fisher compiled a list of writing opportunities for undergrads and emerging voices in the hopes of providing transparency and sustainability in the field of arts writing, inspired by her own career trajectory.
Resource submitted by Emily Leach
An article by art studio and gallery Cultivate (Grand Rapids, MI) on strategies and practices to help artists develop a unified body of work.
Resource submitted by Ben Orozco
Following the Spring 2024 BIPOC Community Table meeting on Opportunity Sharing, facilitators Bre’Annah Stampley and Adeye Jean-Baptiste gathered a list of resources and opportunities to support BIPOC learners after graduation.
Last updated: 6/26/24
An article from Fractured Atlas’ Inciter Art blog providing a helpful guide to artist grants, from planning, to selection, and other forms of finding funding.
Resource submitted by Ben Orozco
GEEX Flame Affinity Group
Flame Business Practices Toolkit
February 19, 2024 7:00PM EST
Facilitated by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith, with Special Guest Wes Heart
Business Practices Toolkit (GOOGLE DOC)
Notes compiled by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith
Each bullet point represents a comment by a participant.
Entries in quotes are copied directly from the chat.
What’s the going rate for skilled and unskilled labor in the flameworking industry? Does it range regionally? What are the rates in the midwest? West coast? Rural vs. urban?
Links:
Is anyone using Artificial Intelligence to streamline functions?
LINK TO RESOURCE: MEETING NOTES (GOOGLE DOC)
LINK TO RESOURCE: TOOLKIT (GOOGLE DOC)
Last updated: 4/16/24
Stephanie Syjuco, Artist and Educator at UC-Berkeley, made a small advice booklet for her undergraduate art students to prepare them for the world beyond school. The free, downloadable booklet contains 54 pieces of advice from various artists, curators, and creatives who responded to her prompt for advice and words of wisdom.
Resource submitted by Ben Orozco
Cited in Britt Ransom’s GEEX Talks lecture, the 3D Addtivist Cookbook provides an open-source resource for thinking through the potentials of 3D fabrication techniques and larger topics in technology and society.
The 3D Additivist Cookbook, devised and edited by Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, is a free compendium of imaginative, provocative works from over 100 world-leading artists, activists and theorists. The 3D Additivist Cookbook contains 3D .obj and .stl files, critical and fictional texts, templates, recipes, (im)practical designs and methodologies for living in this most contradictory of times.
Resource submitted by Ben Orozco
This is an Instructable to walk you through how to make a sensor-controlled relay power strip using an IR sensor.
“I am an instructor who teaches Plasma Design in the Scientific Glass Technologies program at Salem Community College. One of the challenges has been finding a reliable and affordable transformer to run small plasma displays. Unfortunately, there are not many products on the market, so I decided to make a device which can be used with any transformer to initiate and control the length of time a bulb is turned on. It works great for student displays, especially with Tech22’s L7020 transformer.
I use this device in my own plasma work, and find it handy to use in exhibitions. The device is designed to minimize the risk of injury or the glass being damaged, uses less power, and extends the life of the transformer. By waving their hand in front of the sensor, viewers can initiate the illumination of a plasma bulb without touching the device itself, retaining the interactive quality that is unique to plasma displays. The timer can be set to customize the output for many different situation, including animating the plasma display.
Although this device was designed for use with plasma displays, the output can be any device that plugs into a standard plug on the power strip. It could be used for many other purposes, including art installations.”
This Instructable was designed for use in the Plasma Design course at Salem Community College as part of the Scientific Glass Technology program and was supported in part by a Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center For Craft in 2023. Many thanks to those who supported, tested, and facilitated the development of this project.
In the spirit of giving back to the community, This Instructable is protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 © 2024 by Amy Lemaire) International license, through which it is my intent to keep this information accessible and free for educators.
This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for noncommercial purposes only. If others modify or adapt the material, they must license the modified material under identical terms.
Resource submitted by Amy Lemaire
GEEX Educator Affinity Group
Glass Education in the Past, Present and Future
October 6, 2023 4PM CDT
Planning by Emily Leach and Ben Orozco
Facilitated by Helen Lee and Ben Orozco
Notes compiled by Ben Orozco
During the Glass Madison Educational Gathering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (10/6-10/7/2023), GEEX hosted an in-person gathering with educators representing schools attending Glass Madison, as well as GEEX Subscribers and Facilitators.
This meeting provided an opportunity to take a pulse check of the field of Glass Education, from the past, present, and future. Below are some notes and soundbites representing the three breakout groups and their discussion points.
What histories have we been teaching in our classes? How do we expand, update, or change the curriculum?
What challenges are you facing in your classes? How are you finding solutions to those challenges? What’s working for you as an educator?
What trends are you noticing? What challenges or opportunities do you see on the horizon?
Last updated: 11/10/23
GEEX Flame Affinity Group
Teacher Roll Call
October 16, 2023 7PM EDT
Facilitated by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith
Each bullet point represents a comment by a participant.
Entries in quotes are copied directly from the chat.
What do different structures for studio accessibility look like? How much access do you give outside of class? What do you feel is necessary for people to accomplish the goals of your curriculum in order to work outside of class?
What do your students want you to teach?
If you’re self taught, are you your own teacher in some way?
Last updated: 11/10/23
An overview of visual art copyright, tailored towards glass and neon artists. This presentation and resource list includes information on how to register a copyright, ideas for how to protect your work online, and what to do if your work has been infringed upon. All information was gathered from and confirmed by a copyright attorney.
A video presentation was paired with this slide deck during a She Bends presentation at UrbanGlass in May 2021.
Lawyers for the Arts by State
https://law-arts.org/national-vla-directory
Artist Guide to Copyrights by The Creative Independent
https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/an-artists-guide-to-copyrights/
Copyright Registration
https://www.copyright.gov/registration/
DMCA
https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/how-to-send-dmca-takedown-notice/
Satava vs. Lowry
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1169793.html
McGucken v. Newsweek, LLC,
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2019cv09617/524753/35/
Resource submitted by Meryl Pataky of She Bends
GEEX Flame Affinity Group
Equity and Access in Public and Private Spaces
February 23, 2023 7PM EDT
Facilitated by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith
Notes compiled by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith.
Entries in quotes are copied directly from the chat.
Each bullet point represents a comment by a participant.
Do you rent a studio? Rent a space? Work in an institution? What is your workspace like?
What environment do you prefer to learn in? (For example, traveling to an institution group studio to take an in person class, participating in a webinar virtually in your home studio and accessing instruction virtually through Twitch/Discord/Zoom)
How do you assess the safety of a space, and what does a safe space look like to you, socially, emotionally, and physically?
Pittsburgh Glass Center
Wheaton Arts CGCA Fellowship
Urban Glass
Corning Museum of Glass
Snow Farm
Pilchuck Glass School
Pratt Fine Art Center
Penland School of Craft
“Studio practice tends to be kind of fluid for all of us over time.”
Last updated: 4/4/23
GEEX Flame Affinity Group
The Economics of Flameworking
November 3, 2022 7PM EDT
Facilitated by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith
Notes compiled by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith.
Entries in quotes are copied directly from the chat.
Each bullet point represents a comment by a participant.
Last updated: 1/4/23
Want a tool for beginners struggling to keep pipes/punties level? Ken Flanagan developed the punty level as a glassblowing teaching aid for Professor Helen Lee at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This tool emits a tone based on the degree of deviation from the level plane. It is loud enough to hear over the ambient noise in the hot shop. It attaches to a pipe/punty with a 3D-printed clamp that can accept a large range of different pipe/punty diameters. The hinges are printed in place, meaning that there is no assembly once the print is complete (other than the electronics).
To minimize awkwardness for the gaffer, the punty level is quite small and can easily be mounted on the far end of the pipe/punty. It is secured with a rubber band.
For ease of replication, there is a GitHub page for the project (including instructions in the wiki) and a Thingiverse part for the 3D-printed clamp.
Resource submitted by Ken Flanagan
A list of links to resources about Fluxus including exhibitions, books, press releases, websites, and other documents.
A Book of Surrealist Games (.PDF)
Book – Assembled in 1995
Fluxus : selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection (.PDF)
1988 Catalog of Exhibition @ MOMA
Hans Ulrich Obrist Do it: the Compendium (BOOK)
2013 Compendium of Instructions by contemporary artists
Related exhibition website with instructions
Time and Motion Studies (.PDF)
1953 Report from Glass Technology Conference
Sol Lewitt Drawing Series (.PDF)
Pamphlet – 2006 Exhibition at DIA Beacon, includes wall drawing tites/instructions
Event Scores of Alison Knowles (LINK)
Silence: Lectures and Writing of John Cage (.PDF)
1939 Book
Work Ethic (BOOK)
Catalog – 1993 exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art
Great Bear Pamphlets (LINK)
1965-67 Fluxus inspired pamphlets
Erwin Wurm One minute sculptures (LINK)
2017 Artist Website
The Glass Object (LINK)
2018 Participatory project by Celest Wilson documented on Instagram
Merce Cunningham (.PDF)
Article by Jonathan Burrows, includes scores
How To Make A Happening (.PDF)
1966 Lecture by by Allan Kaprow, there are 11 rules of the game
Notes on Choreography by Merce Cunningham (LINK)
Short Essay about translation of notations
Fluxus Scores and Instructions (LINK)
2008 EFlux Announcement; Exhibition in Denmark
Notations by John Cage and Alison Knowles (.PDF)
1965 Book, visible, but behind paywall
The Artist and Writers Cookbook (NEED SOURCE)
1961 Book with scores and instructions by (then) contemporary artists
40 Years of Rule Based Art (.PDF)
2005 Catalog/Press Release for exhibition
Performers Guide to Interludes for a Prepared Piano (LINK)
Instructions to recreate 1949 piece by John Cage
Performance Artist’s Workbook
2017 Book about teaching Performance Art
Draw it with your eyes closed Website
2012 Book and Website
Grapefruit: A book of Drawings and Instructions by Yoko Ono
1965 Book
The Fluxus Performance Workbook
1960-70 Edited Compilation – published in 2002, scores from 60s and 70s
Resource submitted by Kim Harty
An easy-to-use spreadsheet for artists and designers producing sellable objects, created by artist and maker Heather Kraft. This worksheet provides a breakdown of cost of labor, fees, materials, markup, retail, wholesale, and asking price.
“This worksheet is a truth-teller, so it can be difficult to face. Work is expensive to make. Many artists and designers undervalue their work, according to what the market will pay for. Based on your results, you might decide the work isn’t worth the limited revenue stream. Be honest with yourself — and be kind to yourself.”
To use, visit the resource link below and make a copy or download the Google Sheets document.
LINK TO RESOURCE (GOOGLE SHEETS)
Resource submitted by Emily Leach
GEEX Flame Affinity Group
The Impact of Virtual Communities on the Field of Flameworking
June 20, 2022 7pm EDT
Facilitated by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith
Notes compiled by Amy Lemaire and Madeline Rile Smith.
Entries in quotes are copied directly from the chat.
Each bullet point represents a comment by a participant.
Last updated: 8/1/22