Kiln Glass 2011 Summer Studio Photo Book
at the Prague Institute
de Benton Jones and students of Kiln Glass 2011 Summer Studio
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These pages reflect three years of program development. A 13th century building in Prague center had to be re-wired to accommodate the specialized glass kilns, a three day class excursion coined "The Glass Route" in Northern Bohemia was plotted, and a demanding syllabus formulated.
My greatest appreciation goes to Dana Bartelt, the director of the Prague Institute, for recognizing the potential that this program could have, and for orchestrating every aspect required in its implementation.
I would also like to thank the Czech glass designers and artists our class was fortunate to meet and glean inspiration from. Finally, a toast to my students, who were courageous enough to fully embrace this subject, while at the same time, facing the demands of living in an unfamiliar country.
Na zdraví!
-Benton Jones, instructor
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Benton Jones has committed himself to relentless sculptural experimentation and strives to impart layered meaning into each object he creates. Often combining materials with contrasting properties, like molten glass and non-ferrous metals, Jones captures liquid sculpture in mid-motion by precisely choreographed cooling in his kilns. The search for commonality within disparity, both in subject matter and media choice, is a recurring theme in Jones’ work. He has transformed century old Sandwich Glass remnants into contemporary drop-ring vessels, made a series of work entitled Oceanic Experience from the glass walls of the old Provincetown Aquarium, and, in a collection of ice-like glass sculpture entitled Melting Hemispheres, Jones captured the attention of the New England Cable Network, when he reshaped glass flotation spheres previously in use by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for climate change research, in an effort to draw attention to the issue.