Nathan Purcell and Ian Kerr
have closed their two glass
spaces in Philadelphia—Silica
Galleries and Philadelphia
Glass Works—but continue to
operate Easy Street Gallery
in Brooklyn (easystreetbrook
lyn.conT).
Granted
From the Rockefeller Foun-
dation, $ 600,000 to the Coo-
per-Hewitt, National Design
Museum, New York City,
for an exhibition series explor-
ing design solutions for “un-
derserved and marginalized”
communities around the
world.
.. From the Coby
Foundation, $418,000 for 19
fashion and textile arts proj-
ects, among them “Lace in
Translation” at the Design
Center at Philadelphia Uni-
versity (through Apr. 3) and
“Connecticut Needlework:
Women and the Emergence
of American Art, 1740-1840,”
opening in October at the
Connecticut Historical
Society.
On Commission
A historic 6os-era high-mod-
ernist office tower in down-
town Pittsburgh is the site of
a dramatic new lighting instal-
lation—
Rivers o f Glass,
an un-
dulating cascade of some 1,300
handblown blue globes sus-
pended in the lobby of 11 Stan-
wix Street. The city’s three
rivers inspired artists Jill
Reynolds and Daniel Spitzer,
who modeled the work on
high-speed images of water
droplets to represent a sound
wave from the composition
“Diminuendo and Crescendo
in Blue” by local jazz legend
Billy Strayhorn. The Pitts-
burgh Glass Center partnered
with the building owner and
e d g e
Studio architects to
sponsor the project.
.. While
working on
2 Cannes,
a hanging
sculpture for the café of the
new Sherman Health Hospital
in Elgin, IL, Matthew Burke
thought back to the wearisome
weeks he spent eating in a hos-
pital cafeteria after his first
son was born. “ I was [then]
emotionally and physically
exhausted, and I tried to put
myself back in that head-space
as I was making this work.”
Made of natural materials for
a “reassuring, nurturing tone,”
the piece echoes the splendor
of a nearby 15-acre geothermal
lake.
.. A tree symbolizing
family and community is de-
picted in
North, South and
Home,
a six-panel stained-glass
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