The crowds really enjoyed watching Jay and team work this week. The very large colorful forms, the complexity of the process, the pushing of the material to its extremes and Jay’s willingness to get on the mic and talk to the audience all made for a fantastic week. If you’ve missed it, you have one more shot to see Jay at work in our Hot Shop tomorrow. Here are some photos from this week…
Joining us from Canada this week is Jay MacDonnell. Jay plans to continue working in his Formulations series, and in the video he discusses the work using a recently made piece as an example.
Jay Macdonell is no stranger to the Museum, having been a Guest Artist in the Hot Shop, and his work is regularly shown at William Traver Gallery in both Seattle and Tacoma.
Jay has been blowing glass since 1992. He completed a traditional apprenticeship at Robert Held Art Glass in 1996 and studied with maestro […]
Formulations
This series began in the summer of 2000 at Pilchuck Glass School. I wanted to explore the relationship between form, tension, and balance. I chose to resolve these issues by connecting three separate forms together. This allowed me to play with the proportion not only of the forms themselves but also of the piece as […]
