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Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition

March 3 - April 1, 2012

An exhibit reception and awards presentation will be held Thursday, March 15th, from 6-8 pm with an awards presentation and remarks at 7pm.

The museum will host this showcase of local high school talent for the 14th year, but with a new focus: glass.
Realizing few schools currently offer glass in the art curriculum, the museum has arranged for nearly 100 art students from Fox Valley high schools to attend glass classes in the new glass studio at the museum. Students will have the opportunity to create glass objects using torch working techniques and kiln-formed glass methods. To offer expert instruction in glass, the museum has collaborated with three area glass artists, Jenna Larson of Oshkosh, Mary Jo Weidert of Wild Apple Glass Studio and Gallery in Menasha and Beth Wenger Johnstone of Bumblebead Studio in Appleton. As was the process in the past, high school art teachers have selected select student work to be included in the show.

Thank you, exhibition sponsor, Miller Electric.

Upcoming

Ricky Bernstein: Kitchen Dreams

April 14-September 2

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum brings another look at glass as we invite you to step into a comical world of 1950's pop culture with Ricky Bernstein's Kitchen Dreams. Using glass, aluminum and childhood memories, artist Ricky Bernstein pieces together everyday life through a caricature of social roles and cultural icons. Bernstein's life-sized collages animate a bold, bright, somewhat surreal world, bound to bring you a good belly laugh.

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Members-Only
Artist Reception and Exhibit Opening

Friday, April 13^th 5:30-7:30pm
Artist's Presentation at 6pm

Public Opening
and “Coffee Talk” with the Artist

Saturday April 14
10:30am

Past

Past Exhibitions

Big Ideas/Small Packages: Magnificent Glass Under 20

November 1, 2008 through February 21, 2009

Big Ideas Poster This exhibition honors the paperweight tradition on which Bergstrom-Mahler Museum was founded. It explores the processes of glass techniques used in paperweight making and earlier, to examine the continuum of glass working methods today.

Many of the techniques used in working and decorating glass did not begin and end in one era. Glass is a material that evolved over centuries with a long history of use for creating decorative and functional objects. The earliest objects were small precious inlays, beads, unguent jars and containers for oils and perfumes. These can be traced back to Egyptian use, at least 6,000 years ago or earlier.

This exhibition examines the dynamic possibilities of these ancient glass methods, expanded upon by technology, creativity and contemporary thought, in small scale to honor the initial direction of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum and discover the unending possibilities of the material.

The visual surprises are many as you explore the profound ingenuity of the artists using this historically alluring, versatile and dynamic material: glass.