From pbhouk at gmail.com  Wed Aug  4 19:21:27 2021
From: pbhouk at gmail.com (Peter Houk)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 19:21:27 -0400
Subject: [Glass-mit] Fwd: Harvard University + Barry Art Museum
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Thursday: Our FINAL lecture in the Cross-Pollination series

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*TOMORROW**!*
*Cross-Pollination Lecture Series:*

Jennifer Brown, Collection Manager of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at
Harvard University speaks with Interim Director Charlotte Potter Kasic, who
will discuss the work of artist Debora Moore.

*Thursday | August 5 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM *
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FREE Virtual Lecture

Our final event in the Cross-Pollination Lectures, a series of
conversations between contemporary artists featured in the "Orchids:
Attraction and Deception" exhibition at the Barry Art Museum and botanical
experts in the field.

*This lecture will not be recorded, and is only available LIVE
?one-time-only Thursday at 6:00 PM. *

This event is brought to you in partnership with the Herbaria/Harvard
Museum of Natural History and the ODU Office of Community Engagement.
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*Image Above: *Natalja Kent (Czech-American, b. 1981), Glass Specimen:
Oncidium Tigrinum or Tiger Striped Oncidium. Model number: 226; Artist(s):
Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka; Date: 1891; Glass Flowers: Marvels of Art and
Science at Harvard. 2018. Chromogenic Print; Digital inkjet reproduction,
2021; The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, Harvard
University Herbaria/Harvard Museum of Natural History ? President and
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*ABOUT*
*JENNIFER BROWN*
Jennifer Brown is the Collection Manager for the Ware Collection of
Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at Harvard University, better known as the
Glass Flowers. After receiving a BFA in interrelated media from the
Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2003, Jenny moved to New York
City where she started her career in the fashion industry. She was later
hired as a studio assistant for the renowned glass artist Toots Zynsky
Maintaining Zynsky?s digital and physical archives inspired Jenny to pursue
a master?s degree in library and information science at the Pratt
Institute. During graduate school, she interned in the research libraries
of the American Museum of Natural History and The Metropolitan Museum of
Art and created an inventory of artworks and archival materials for
abstract painter Doug Ohlson's estate. Jenny became the collection manager
for the Glass Flowers in 2012 and she has worked on many exciting projects
since then, which include co-authoring Glass Flowers: Marvels of Art and
Science at Harvard, completing the most extensive exhibit renovation in the
collection?s history, and co-curating special exhibitions within the Glass
Flowers gallery.
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As an artist, Debora exemplifies the delicate fragility of the natural
world through sculptural interpretation. Her work with Orchids and other
botanical studies displays a fascination with their intricate structure and
how they thrive in harmony with each other.
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Peter Houk
Artistic Director, MIT Glass Lab
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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From pbhouk at gmail.com  Sun Aug  8 21:19:12 2021
From: pbhouk at gmail.com (Peter Houk)
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 21:19:12 -0400
Subject: [Glass-mit] Update: Tentative Live MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch
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Hello Glass Lab people, volunteers, and other interested parties,

Greetings! I hope this finds you as well as can be.
Usually this message about the upcoming MIT Pumpkin Patch would have been
sent out two or three weeks ago, during the height of summer. We've been
waiting for clarity. Alas - clarity has proved elusive. So, let's just call
this an update.

Last fall, a very small crew of senior instructors was allowed to return to
campus. Since we have been unable to teach any classes for the last 18
months, we have focused on developing and refining COVID-safe methods of
blowing glass and teaching glass blowing. A new compressed air/foot pedal
system has proven to be very effective, and we're excited to try it out
with Glass Lab students this fall.
Our little group has also spent a great deal of energy making this our best
harvest of glass pumpkins ever! We've reprised some of our favorite old
designs and explored new directions in patterns and color combinations. The
plan for 2021 is to do a combination online and live sale: roughly half the
pumpkins we made this year will be sold on the site
<https://mitglasslab.org/> we used last year, and the other half will be,
*hopefully*, sold live once again on Kresge Oval.
Currently, Institute event policy indicates that masking and density
requirements have been relaxed for outdoor events, and so I am optimistic
that we'll be able to have some sort of live sale in Kresge Oval this
September. But, as you all know, the COVID environment is in constant flux.
CDC guidelines and Institute policy may change quickly, so we can't know
for sure what the Kresge event will look like, or even if we can do it for
sure.
So I'm reaching out, in a hypothetical sort of way: *if *guidelines permit
us to do the live outdoor event, *I'd like to have a show of hands of those
who would be willing to volunteer to help sell pumpkins* on *Saturday,
September 25. *The setup and schedule will be pretty much the same as in
previous years, although we may have to reduce the number of lines and
packing stations in order to create more space between people and comply
with density requirements. This will be OK, since we will only have about
half the usual number of pumpkins at the live sale. Our first priority is
to keep everyone safe.
On a personal note, I have missed the community that comes together each
year to make this event happen, from the Glass Lab students and instructors
who make the pumpkins to the volunteers who help us sell them in September.
You *all *make this event possible, and with it, the continued existence of
the MIT Glass Lab.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in the near future!
Peter
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-- 
Peter Houk
Artistic Director, MIT Glass Lab
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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