NCAGG: A CELEBRATION OF 45 YEARS

A Juried Show by

the National Capital Art Glass Guild

at

The Mansion at Strathmore

10701 Rockville Pike

North Bethesda, Md 20852

September 5, 2023 – October 28, 2023 

Opening reception: Thursday, September 14 7-9pm

Click here to see the virtual tour of this exhibit.

The Guild greatly appreciates the hard work of our jurors - Michael Janis, Kirsty Little, and Eileen Martin

Michael Janis is a Co-Director of the Washington Glass School & Studio. An architect for 20 years in Chicago, IL, and Brisbane, Australia, his glass artworks showcase his very disciplined approach to the medium. In 2005, Janis was made Co-Director, overseeing the studio’s many site-specific and public art commissions. As the child of a Chinese/Filipino immigrant and grandson of Greek and German immigrants, the family histories and struggles to assimilate have been a perpetual source for his narrative artwork that deals with understanding identity. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012, Janis went to England's University of Sunderland and taught at the UK's National Glass Centre, where he became an Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for International Research in Glass (IIRG). Massachusetts’s Fuller Craft Museum mounted a solo show of Janis’s glass panels and sculpture in 2011, where his artwork is in their permanent collection. Janis’s artwork is also in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tacoma (WA) Museum of Glass, Florida’s Imagine Museum, and Fort Wayne, IN, Museum of Art, as well in the artwork collection at the US Embassy in Bucharest. The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities awarded him the 31st Annual Mayor’s Arts Award for “Excellence in the Arts.” In 2022, Janis’s glass sculpture, made in collaboration with Washington, DC artist, Tim Tate, was featured in the 59th Venice Biennale of Art collateral exhibition “Glasstress.” www.michaeljanis.com

 

Born in England and presently living in DC, Kirsty Little is a former Circus aerialist from the UK for two decades when a move to the USA in 2011 led her to find a new path as a sculptor in the art world. She is drawn to working with themes of womankind, organic anatomy, and the struggling environment. She makes sculptures with porcelain, wood, and wire, and mixed media installation. Her art activism focuses on raising awareness, through huge installations, of the world’s plastic pollution crisis and women’s equality issues. She is Artist-in-Residence at Otis St. Studios. She teaches aerial yoga. She is in the Guinness book of World Records with the most aerialists choreographed on silks. She is a founding member of Ch/Art Chevy Chase artists group and chair for two years. Recent solo shows of fine art include The Phillips Collection DC, The Fisher Gallery NOVA, Honfleur Gallery, and Zenith Gallery DC. She has curated five shows into the WOW project – seven former shop windows in Friendship Heights. She is currently the lead artist on the RightNOW project – a women’s equality interactive public art installation with over 1000 participants in MD.   Kirstylittle.com   @kirstylittlejoy

Eileen Martin opened her studio in 1997 after spending 24 years with a variety of contractors and government entities. She had always been fascinated with glass, and, when her career stopped being fulfilling, she decided to take some stained-glass classes. She found that she was quite good at it, so she left her job; she opened a studio and took on commissions. A few thousand panels (literally) later, she has expanded her repertoire beyond lead and copper-foil stained glass fabrication and glass painting to fused and kiln-formed glass, lamination, and sand-blasting. She also works with a variety of other media including clay, metal, rubber, concrete, encaustic, paper, stone, and wood in her sculptural pieces. Eileen is one of the very few people in this region who do on-site restoration of stained glass, so you can periodically find her on scaffolding in a church in the area. Her commission work is highly sought after. She exhibits in shows either independently or as a member of the National Capital Art Glass Guild or the Washington Guild of Goldsmiths, which holds shows in the Maryland, DC, and Virginia regions. Eileen also teaches art (fused, stained, mosaic, and mixed media) at numerous locations in the Metropolitan area and acts as a juror for glass, enamel, and pottery guild shows and exhibitions. She works with the Montgomery County Public School system as a guest lecturer and, from those contacts, she has been able to work with hundreds of students, enriching their art experiences and her life.  www.martinglasscreations.com

To view images from previous NCAGG Exhibition Shows, kindly scroll down.

The POETRY of GLASS – NCAGG MEMBER SHOW

The catalog for the NCAGG show "The Poetry of Glass" at the Sandy Spring Museum can be viewed and downloaded on the Museum's website. 

Click here to view the catalog

Below are photos from our Gallery B exhibit opening reception in November, 2022