CIA Glass Invitational The CIA Glass Invitational, an exhibit that features work by 12 CIA alumni and faculty members, opens today at River Gallery with a reception that takes place from 3 to 7 p.m. During tonight's event, CIA faculty member and participating artist Zac Gorell will put on a glass-blowing demonstration. The exhibition will be on view through July 31. CIA Glass Department Chair Benjamin Johnson and River Gallery owner G. Ara Hamamjian curated the exhibit which features work from CIA alums and faculty members.
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Sam Herman was a multi-talented artist whose work with glass, together with his influence as a teacher, freed that medium from the confines of the factory and enabled the nascent studio glass movement to flourish internationally in the 1960s and 1970s.
The combined development of a suitable glass formula and the “small furnace” first demonstrated by the studio glass pioneer Harvey Littleton at Toledo Museum of Art in 1962 allowed artists to work directly in the mercurial medium of hot, molten glass, where before they might typically have passed drawn designs to professional glassmakers, restricting their creativity. Herman studied with Littleton, and with the sculptor Leo Steppat, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he seized the opportunity, as one of Littleton’s first students, to develop studio glass techniques, and received a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Glass in 1965. He then won a Fulbright Scholarship to study cold-working glass techniques with Helen M
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FELTON, Calif., Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The global ultra-thin glass market size is anticipated to reach USD 27.74 billion until 2025. It is anticipated to register growth with 10.1% CAGR during the forecasted period, 2020 to 2025. This growth can be attributed to the rising usage of electronic devices like televisions, smartphones, laptops, and computers among the millennial population.
Properties like good abrasion resistance, transparency, surface smoothness have paved the way for usage of such glasses in the manufacturing of optical & electronic sensors, organic electronic devices, and semiconductors.
The popularity of smartphones, LCDs, LEDs, monitors, laptops, and OLEDs is increasing on account of clarity and better resolution. Xiaomi launched Hongmi Note 5, a smartphone that used 0.3 mm thickness ultra-thin tempered glass. Also, surging usage of smartwatches among the health-conscious millennial population is gaining traction, ther