Mark Your Calendar for the 2010 Virginia Hot Glass Festival

Saturday, April 24, 9am to 6pm

& Sunday, April 25, 10am to 5pm

Free Admission

             At Sunspots Studios, 202 South Lewis St., Staunton, Virginia. 

(540) 885-0678.  info@sunspots.com.

Info for Artists-Click Here

 

 

More Photos can be viewed at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Sunspotsstudios/VirginiaHotGlassFestival2009#

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/Sunspotsstudios/VirginiaHotGlassFestival2006

 

VIRGINIA HOT GLASS FESTIVAL FACTS:

• Virginia’s only art show devoted to hot glass artistry.

• Hot glass artists from across the region exhibiting & selling their work in one location.

• Live demonstrations of Glass Blowing, Flame Working, Bead Making, Slumping, & Fusing by the various artists. 

• Multiple demonstration areas.

• Pandora Jewelry Trunk Show during Festival hours.

• Glass Blower skill contests Saturday afternoon.

• Located in Historic Downtown Staunton with many other attractions

  For information about all there is to see and do in Historic Staunton,

  check out the Visit Staunton webpage (www.visitstaunton.com)

  or call our Tourist Information Center at (540) 332-3971

• 5 minutes from I-81 (Exit 222) & I-64 in historic downtown Staunton,

•     near train station (on the corner of Lewis & Middlebrook).

• Parking on-site.

• Held indoors.

• Handicapped Accessible.

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• "Daleutian" by Victor Chiarizia (below)

New to the Festival in 2009 were glass artists Victor Chiarizia, Doug Sweet, Lynn Burcher, & Annette Fleischer!

 

• Virginia Hot Glass Festival Artists’ names:

  • Glass Blowers -   Art of Fire artists (Josh Ries, Todd Hansen, Keith Daly, Bruce Ferguson Heather Rowe, & Dave Zimmerman), Devin Burgess, Stefan Baum, Victor Chiarizia, Neil Duman, Scott Dunahee,   Charles Hall, Bill Hess, Clay Hufford, John Geci, Minh Martin, Dan Scogna, Michael Peluso, Ron Rogers & Sam Rempfer/Spitfire Glass, Eric Schneider, Doug Sheridan, Joshua Solomon, and Doug Sweet.

  • Bead & Jewelry Artists/Flame Workers/Fused Glass - Lynn Burcher/Gilded Lily Glass, Beth Carey, James Clark, Elizabeth England/Dragonfly Dreams Designs, Annette Fleischer/Sculpture in the Rough,  Nolly Gelsinger/Bead Ladies, Roseanne Gusler/Wanchese Art,  Ben Kable, Gene Messick/Regeneration Glass, Lisa Mosser, Amy Jean Nichols/Rigadoon Glass, Clare Nykolyszyn/Crow Candy, Kristen Pickett/Gypsea Art Glass,  Joe Schlemmer/Mad Man Marbles, James Spaloss, Linda Spence/Wolf Song Designs, Chad Trent/Cosmo Glassworks, and Debby Weaver.

• Types of Glass Making to be demonstrated:  Bead Making/Flame Working, Traditional Blown Glass, Mold Blown Glass, Sand Casting, Fusing.

 

          

Generous Support Provided by:

Gallery G Glass/Hot Block Tools

Baja Bean-Staunton

Jim Moore Tools

• 2004 Photo Gallery (Click on thumbnail for larger view.)

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