Jerri has received a commission to create quite a few glass pieces for the humanities council. She is somewhere around the half way point in creating them, and I’ve taken a few shots of the ones she has finished. Although I doubt I can do justice to describing how she makes them, my version is that she melts a bunch of glass that she pours into a new sheet, then she cuts and polishes a circle out of that new sheet, and then slumps the polished circle into the form you see here.
There are a few more views in the slumped glass gallery over at lightandglass.net.
These are awesome.
I assume, based on the title, that these are going to be given out as awards. Are their plaques associated with these or are they meant to stand alone?
When I was in high school I took a ‘materials’ class with a local artist. A lot of the time he was working on awards for various local groups. A hand-made award is so much more interesting than the alternatives.
There has been some discussion of stands for these that will have small engraved plaques on them, but I’m not sure if that is going to happen or not. Maybe Jerri will chime in on that . . .