I am looking forward to heading back to CMOC this Summer with Kari. I wanted to share the class information to my people so that you don't miss this amazing opportunity.

​I will be helping out the students to get whatever they need for the class and be available to Kari for any of her needs. It would be great to see some of my friends there as well. Hope you will join us for some glass fun.

​Best-
Sarinda

Kari's Minnick's Class description

​Date:  June 12 - 17, 2017
Season Summer: Technique Kiln Working
Level: All Levels
Duration: One-Week SessionThe surface is the entry to a work of art. It can stop you in your tracks or lead a viewer into the layers below. It’s the part you want to touch. Using unusual applications of Bullseye sheet glass, powder, stringer and frit, in conjunction with multiple firings, you will learn strategies to enable rich textural surfaces and depth for fused glass.
Gritty, slick, or robust relief, kiln-forming materials and processes afford us exceptional textural and tactile qualities. Utilizing wet and dry powder processes, and combinations of glasses, students will create a variety of surface textures. Through the careful order of firings and observation of the effects of heat work, they will attain and maintain a diversity of desired textures on panel surfaces. Detailed firing schedules and layering strategies and will be explored. Color, composition, opacity and transparency will be considered. This highly creative and hands-on course is of interest to kiln glass workers as well as artists of other media.

The Glass Girl is in the Glass House.
A warm thank you to Glass house in Salt Lake City, Utah who invited me to show my work in their interior design studio.
Fun was had by all. Thank you to all who came to support my work and see us the evening of Gallery Stroll.
The show will hang until mid June 2017. Please stop in if you missed the opening.

Where: Glass House
Address: 3910 S Highland Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah, UT 84124
During Business hours: 10am - 6pm
More Info at: www.glasshouseslc.com
Telephone: (801) 666-6968

Enjoy!

"Portal" Kiln formed and cold-worked glass. 40"x22"x8" was installed into it's permanent home a few months ago.

-Do you often wonder how to go about commissioning an artist to do work for you?
-Or do you want to have more commissions if you are an artist?

How this particular commission worked for me. I was contacted by a local art dealer in Chicago who was collaborating on a new private residence, curating all of the art for the new home. We worked out the details with a digital sketchs, glass color samples, metal color samples and weekly updates.

​Below the beginning process images of this job. We started with drawings and renderings. Then went to physical samples and weekly process images.

Austen Diamond with Salt Lake Magazine a few years back made a visit to my studio to take images for a article about local artists. A huge thank you to Austen Diamond Photography and Salt Lake Magazine for sharing my work and studio. What I did not expect is that he was going to take action shots of me working. I do not wear lipstick and dress shirts to cold-work in.
Just Sayn' !!!!!

I thought I would share these as I always find it interesting to see the work space of other artists myself. I have moved my studio last year and it is fun for me to revisit one of my favorite art spaces where all the magic happens.

Complete side note, Austen took my husband's a my wedding photos.

This is a work in progress. I am trying to incorporate these structures into my artwork, both glass, and paintings.
I am not sure of when I first learned of these amazing sea creatures. Regardless, I know these microscopic, siliceous, sea skeletons are beautiful to cast your eyes upon.

Know that I will enjoy finding new ways radiolarians can live and breathe in my work.

Do you want to know more about Radiolarians....?
Go here for Images.
Go here for information.

I have made the decision to create my "blog" or "studio news" here on my personal website, instead of the "Blogspot" platform.  Ha ha- yes now you know how long I have been blogging, since 2008. Side note I started my profession of art in 2003. So my worry was that I would loose all the content from "Blogspot". Including the history of how I came to this point. I feel it is important for my collectors and patrons to see the process that got me to this point in my career. This lead me to transfer it to this blog. However- it would be a small miracle and the planets would need to be aligned perfectly to get that done. There are so many reasons for why..... SEO, all on one platform, better drives to my website. Well- You get the drift. 

So if you are interested in going down memory lane..... you can find that here.

The above image is of my art booth from 2006 at the Salt Lake City Farmers' Market. It is always interesting to look at past images and see your growth as a person and as a business.