LIFEFORMS 2016

-THE RUDOLPH AND LEOPOLD BLASCHKA GLASS BIOLOGICAL MODEL EXHIBITION

After a stunning and successful first run of Lifeforms in 2013, we're doing it again.

"Lifeforms 2016" will be be an exhibition of the best biological glass models made in the spirit of the famous 19th and 20th century models of invertebrates and plants made by the father and son team, Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka for the Harvard University’s Botanical Museum. Models are mandated to be of specific species and rendered as accurately as possible, but artistic presentation and creative contexts are strongly encouraged. Artists working in any glass technique (flameworking, glassblowing, casting, pâte de verre, etc.) are invited to submit an entry (one per artist or collaborative team). The jurying criteria will be based on accuracy in representing the organism, aesthetic beauty, presentation, and originality. 50 pieces will be selected from the work submmitted for the show.

Deadline entry: 10/12/2015

Posted 16 November 2015

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Types of Biology acceptable:

Botany models may consist of any recognized plant species. They may be a life-size reproduction or a proportionally scaled (larger or smaller) model. Magnified plant parts may also be included as part of the work or as an individual entry.

Zoology models may include any recognized invertebrate or vertebrate species, including insects and birds. Skeletons or other anatomical features, in part or whole, life-size or proportionally scaled, may also be individually represented.

Scaled models of microorganisms are also acceptable and can include microscopic plants (such as algae), animals (as plankton), fungi, lichens, diatoms, bacteria, and so on.

The juried show will be selected by Heather McElwee, Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Glass Center, Kait Rhoads, artist from Seattle, WA, Amber Cowan, artist from Phildelphia, PA, David Francis, PhD, guest curator, Museum of Glass Tacoma, and Robert Mickelsen, artist from Mims, FL.

There will be both an online catalog and a printed catalog of the “juried”s show. The “open” show will be available online as well.

The show will be open from Feb. 5, 2016 to May 15, 2015 at the Hodge Gallery at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, and then will travel to the Houghton Gallery at 171 Cedar Arts in Corning, NY from May 20, 2016 to June 22, 2016. The show will be open during the 2016 Glass Art Society conference in Corning, NY from Jun 9 - 11, 2016.
For more information, submission and registration visit www.glasslifeform.org.

Read the Article Lifeforms Award Winners 2013>

See the works in the 2013/2014 edition>

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"Eternal Bloom" created by Carolyn Baum of Gardiner, NY
featured in the first Lifeforms exhibition in 2013.