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James Akers<p>Visited with students and gave slide talks two days ago- and pulled tubes with some very talented students yesterday. Gonna give another demo for UW glassblowing students today.</p><p>It's like my birthday came early with the tubes. Gonna make a video at some point to share the glassblowing fun- but Amber Mans an Skye Xollo were SO helpful, with Amber having blown glass since they were very young, and learning to pull tubes from my favorite tube puller in Tacoma.</p><p>I saw wonderful undergrad and graduate student work, seen here are Amber's "two truths and a lie" tubes covered in black glass powder and resist sandblasted through (I pulled some of that black/ brown). A studio visit with Morgan, a third year grad student was very neat- their ceramic and neon sculptures playing with texture, dementia, memory, and structure- integrating the neon and clay quite nicely. </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/visitingartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visitingartist</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassblowing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glassblowing</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/artschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artschool</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/wisconsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wisconsin</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/madison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>madison</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ceramics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ceramics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>students</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/roadtrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roadtrip</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a></p>
James Akers<p>Two days ago my friend Dani Kaes stopped by to give a pumping demo and a "stuffed tube" demo to the students. Basically Dani cuts a bunch of 10 and 12mm tubes up, cleans them with acetone or other solvent and then stuffs the little tube pieces inside another clear 15mm tube. <br>She processes them a little differently, using argon on the bombarder to gently heat the inner tubes, without getting the outer one too hot too quick and cracking things. </p><p>Its really neat shaking the stuffed tubes- their fill tubes rainbow jostle and jingle back an forth :)</p><p>Already seeing students scavenging for fancy color scraps to cut them into tiny pieces for stuffing :)</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glassschool</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pilchuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pilchuck</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/neon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neon</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/visitingartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visitingartist</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/demo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demo</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/rainbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rainbow</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seattle</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pnw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pnw</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/friends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>friends</span></a></p>
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