Busy busy busy

Its been a pretty crazy couple of weeks, full of lots of traveling and lots of work up at school. Its fun, but positively exhausting.

The last couple of weeks we've had a visiting glass artist in town from the Czech Republic, Frantisek Janak. He's a really cool guy, and incredibly knowledgeable. He's been really helpful the entire time he's been in town, and we've been making some really neat work as a result.

Last weekend was a whirlwind of activity. Friday was spent in Portales NM, at Eastern New Mexico State University. We had a Graduate show up at their gallery, and Friday was the closing. It was a really nice show, and we had a really good time visiting with everyone. That night, I rushed back to Canyon for our Night Blow, a big cookout and glassblowing demo that we do every semester to get the community involved in our program. We had a great time, and started working on producing pieces from a couple of molds that Frantisek designed.

Saturday morning a group of us headed for Ft. Worth, to attend the Vitro MoDA (a Glass Art runway show held at Neiman Marcus at Ridgemar Mall. The entire event was beautiful, and although we had a few things that did not go our way that day we wound up having a really great time. There was a runway set up, and we were able to see runway models carry glass work from artists all over the US. The event was set up as a fundraiser for SiNaCa Studios, a glass shop/gallery in Ft. Worth. They had a sale and a silent auction, and served hors d'oeuvres, dessert and drinks all evening. Its great to see a group of people raising awareness of glass art in Texas. The next morning we headed over to SiNaCa studios to assist Chad Holliday and Frantisek Janak in a glass blowing demo. We made several pieces while we were there, and I met a lot of really great people who will be good connections in the future. I hope I get to go back there soon!