April 8, 9, 10                       

VIVA EL VIDRIO!    

We are gearing up for the biggest glass event    Tucson has ever seen!  Featuring the glass  artists of  the Southwest and Latin America, museums and galleries all across town are showing glass art this spring.  Many of the exhibitions are already up,  including  “It’s A Dry Heat”, showing top artists from Arizona And New Mexico here at Philabaum Glass Gallery.  Our exhibition includes Bandhu Dunham, Jordan Ford, Bronwen Heilman, Elodie Holmes, Fritz Dreisbach, Cynthia Miller, Charlie Miner, Kevin O’Grady, and Carole Perry.

But you can see more at the Tucson Museum of Art, Pima Community College’s Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, University of Arizona’s Museum of Art and Joseph Gross Gallery, Davis Dominguez Gallery,  Skyline Gallery, Etherton Gallery, Madaras Gallery, Wilde Meyer Gallery, Fire Ranch Glassworks & Gallery, Jane Hamilton Fine Art, The Fifth at Sixth, Obsidian Gallery, and the Tucson International Airport.

The finale takes place on the weekend of April 8 – 10, and features demonstrations by a variety of artists using a variety of techniques, a talk by Ana Thiel of Mexico, who has a retrospective showing at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, and  a special Fire & Feast event for those who want the extra special events with the headliners. (more information on Fire & Feast at 884-7814)

Visiting the galleries to see the exhibitions is free, but to gain entry to the demonstrations, a $10.00 ticket can be purchased that will  cover most demos for 3 days.  Demos will be held at Philabaum Glass and the Sonoran Glass Art Academy, and tickets can be purchased at either location.  Parking ($5.00) at Sonoran Glass is recommended, as the Philabaum lot will be closed.  A shuttle will run between the two locations.  There will also be glassblowing demos at Fire Ranch Glassworks in Catalina.

Check the schedule of demonstrations at www.sonoranglass.org to make your plans for the weekend!

Tom’s latest exhibition opens Saturday, March 5, at Davis Dominguez Gallery on 6th Street, 6-8 pm.  Come see us!

Opening Reception: February 11, 6-8 pm

Show runs February 12 – June 12, 2011

TMA presents a fantastic show of glass (Borderlandia) by Einar & Jamex De La Torre along with Tom Philabaum’s Precarious Rocks Exhibition.

February 5, 2011

Opening Reception: 5:00 – 8:00 pm

“IT’S A DRY HEAT”
Arizona & New Mexico Glass Artists

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This exhibition features a broad span of work from nine Southwestern artists.
We present studio glass pioneer, Fritz Dreisbach, whose large Mongo pieces and a hot-formed Pick-Up Truck represent some of the best of his 50 year glass career. The cast glass of Charlie Miner contrasts with the glass tapestries of Carole Perry. Elodie Holmes’s blown vessels are suspended from metal supports, and Bandhu Dunham’s flame worked machines seem to defy the medium.  Cynthia Miller’s wall art fuses glass onto copper.  Jordan Ford creates sphere sculptures with layers of depth shown through sandblasting.  The bracelets and marbles made by Kevin O’Grady bring elegance and beauty to the art of flame working, and  Bronwen Heilman will show her new arty line of “green” jewelry, using recycled bottle glass and bicycle tire rubber.

This show coincides with the Tucson Glass Festival, providing a cross-cultural event for glass artists from the Southwestern United States and Latin America, taking place on April 8-10.  Please see the website of the Sonoran Glass Art Academy, sonoranglass.org for more information.

January 15, 5 – 7 pm

Illuminating!

Philabaum Glass Gallery and Monrad Engineering invite you to experience our recently re-lighted gallery space with its new sense of flair and drama!

Utilizing updated lighting sources that offer superior color rendition, beam control, lamp life, and energy efficiency compared to legacy lighting systems, the gallery aesthetics and artistic presentations are freshly tuned for the New Year!

Christian Monrad, P.E., LEED-AP, will share the details of this new technology and implementation strategies along with a wine and cheese fest hosted by Tom, Dabney, and the Philabaum Gallery team.

Come see what you can do in your gallery, home, or office with this state of the art lighting!

Thanksgiving Weekend and more-

Our Holiday Market begins as soon as        you’ve recovered from your Thanksgiving meal! It starts at 10 am on  Friday, November 26, and Saturday, November 27th, and continues the following week, Tuesday through Saturday, Dec. 4th.

All Philabaum work will be marked down, with substantial discounts on products that are discontinued, overstocked, been around too long, or just plain taking up too much room!  In addition, we will have our de riguer new batch of Christmas Ornaments, at special prices!

The glassblowers will be working the furnace for your shopping entertainment during the sale.

Shop Local!

November 20, 2010 – January29, 2011

“TO URN A LIVING”
The Art of the Vessel

With a play on words, our current show celebrates the artist and the glass vessel, with artists demonstrating a wide range of styles and techniques.

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Gartner/Blade	Gartner/Blade
Weiskamp	Messenger
Zweifel	Zweifel
Hunting	Hunting

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Closing Statement Here.

September 25 – November 13, 2010

Opening Reception: October 2, 4:00 – 7:00 pm

Our current exhibition, “Playing with Fire”  features the work of six flameworking glass artists.  Flameworking, also known as lampworking, is a precise method of heating glass rods in the flame of a torch, and manipulating the hot glass to very precise and often delicate outcomes.

Don’t miss seeing the  fantastic Marble Machine by Bandhu Dunham  in motion!

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Bandhu Dunham	Shane Fero
Kathleen Elliot	Robert Mickelson
Loy Allen	Margaret Zinser

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Playing with fire.

September 2010

We are all in the planning stages for the April 8-10
Tucson Glass Festival, “Viva el Vidrio!”
Tom is coordinating the exhibitions for the festival, which will feature Southwestern glass artists and Latino glass artists from our neighbors south of the border.  At this time, 16 Tucson galleries and 2 museums will be featuring glass exhibitions.  There will be bleachers set up for demonstrations of glassblowing and flameworking at Philabaum Glass,  Sonoran Glass Art Academy, and Fire Ranch Glassworks.  Pima Community College will have a demo by a neon artist.  Shuttles will run between most venues.

We are very excited about this Festival, and hope to entice the Tucson community with the lure of glass art!  Mark your calendar for

April 8, 9, 10, 2011!

Watch for the program insert in Tucson Home magazine.  Email or call to get on our email list for further updates.

VIVA EL VIDRIO!

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We’ll be in Loveland, Colorado on August 6, 7, 8th with the latest group of Precarious Rock Sculptures at the Sculpture in the Park show!  If you’re in the area, come see us!