At the Duncan McClellan Gallery and the DMG School Project, we love sharing the wonders of glass art and glass making with our local community, tourists, students, and anyone who...
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Teaching the public about the art of glassmaking is our passion at the Duncan McClellan Gallery and the DMG School Project. Creating glass art is a complex and fascinating discipline, and we want to share it with anyone who wants to learn. Whether you are a student planning to take a class in our hot shop, a teacher looking to organize an event with our mobile glass blowing lab, or an aspiring glass artist, there are always new and exciting things to learn about this art form. Check out this list of five interesting and fun facts about modem glassblowing….
If you’ve ever had the opportunity to see glass artists creating their work, you may have heard them use some terms you’d never heard before. Like any other art or craft, the creation of glass art uses many special tools and pieces of equipment, and these things have names that people outside the glass art community aren’t familiar with. Whether you are planning to attend glassmaking workshop, want to spend some time in the Hot Glass Workshop at the Duncan McClellan Gallery watching artists create their works, or simply want to learn more about how glass art is made, this…
Over the last few decades there’s been a trend of cutting funding for arts education in public schools. Driving this trend is the common perception that arts education is somehow less essential than other branches of education, such as science, mathematics, and language skills. But this idea couldn’t be further from the truth. The Duncan McClellan Gallery created the DMG School Project because we’ve seen the expansive benefits of art education. Everyone involved with the project has a story about how art education has positively contributed to their life, but working with children has given us the chance to broadened…
Glassblowing, like most other art forms, uses specific materials that are unique to the discipline. If you’ve spent some time in a hot shop, like the St Pete Hot Glass Workshop at The Duncan McClellan Gallery watching the DMG School Project glass artists work, you’ve probably heard terms for materials that left you mystified. Getting familiar with terminology is a great first step to learning more about any art form, so we’ve put together this guide to help you better understand what these terms mean and how they are used in making glass art. Batch – The raw materials to…
As we quickly approach the end of summer, the team here at Duncan McClellan Gallery is gearing up for an exciting season filled with hot glass, public & private events,...
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Recently the Duncan McClellan gallery was featured in an article on Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, highlighting the amazing creative efforts and expansions happening around the neighborhood. The St. Pete warehouse...
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Did you know…? Part of fulfilling DMG School Project’s mission to inspire personal growth through the medium of glass art is providing residencies to artists, both emerging and established. Raven Skyriver, one of our artists regularly on display, has been a recipient of two residencies sponsored by the DMG School Project: in 2015 and ‘16 respectively. In January of 2015 Skyriver was given two weeks of hot-shop access, as well as assistants ready to help with anything he might need: The two weeks that I had to work in your hot shop, was such an amazing opportunity to experiment and…
Mark your calendars – Nancy Callan will be returning to St. Petersburg as our featured artist in April, 2017. Callan’s glass career spans over 20 years and has taken her around the world as a guest artist and educator. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, she became an integral part of maestro Lino Tagliapietra’s team in 1996, where she learned and developed advanced cane and murrini techniques from the Maestro. The concepts of ‘play’ and ‘fun’ are very important to Callan in her artistic process. She seeks joy in the making, and in the visual/optic play…
