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SHANE FERO

Spirit Vessels

June 2nd thru July 15 2023

SHANE FERO

Shane Fero was born in Chicago, IL in 1953 and has been a flame-worker for 50 years and maintains a studio next to Penland School in North Carolina. He participates in international symposia and conferences by lecturing and demonstrating. Fero is also an educator and has taught at institutions such at Penland School, Urban Glass, the Pratt Fine Arts Center, the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, the University of Michigan, Eugene Glass School, Espace Verre, Montreal, Quebec, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pilchuck Glass School, Bild-Werk, Frauenau, Germany, the International Glass Festival in Stourbridge, UK, Scuola Bubacco, Murano, Italy, Chameleon Studio, Tasmania, Taiwan, China, Australia, Turkey and in Seto, Osaka, and the Niijima Glass Art Center in Japan. His work can be found in collections both private and public institutions worldwide.

He has had over 33 solo exhibitions since 1992 and has participated in over 400 group exhibitions during his career. He has been honored with three retrospectives; a 30 year at the Berkowitz Gallery at the University of Michigan in 1999, a 40 year at the Huntsville Museum of Art in 2008 and at the Christian Brothers University in 2010. His work can be found in over 30 museum collections worldwide including the Museum of Art & Design NY, The Corning Museum of Glass NY, GlasMuseum, Denmark, the Asheville Art Museum, NC, the Huntsville Museum of Art, AL, the Museum fur Glaskunst, Lauscha, Germany, and the Nijiima Contemporary Glass Museum in Japan. He is the Past-President of the Board of Directors of the Glass Art Society and received the Lifetime Membership Award from GAS in Chicago in 2014, honored in 2009 for Extraordinary Contribution to the Glass Art World, Salem Community College, Carney’s Point, NJ and Award for Significant Contributions to the Chinese Glass Community from the Hejian Government, Hejian, China in 2017.

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Opening Reception

Shane Fero

Saturday June 10th 2023

1-4pm

In conjunction with the Chestnut Hill Business Association Second Saturdays

Pick of the Month

MARY BERO

Mary Bero, Wavelength, textile and paint, framed, 22 8 3/4″ X 8 3/4” artwork, 2022

Mary Bero, Matrix, textile and paint. framed,

10 1/4” X 9 3/4” artwork, 2022

Mary Bero is a self-taught artist, using traditional and nontraditional needlework techniques in combination with various other art forms such as painting, printmaking and sculpture to express a unique viewpoint based on her observations of the world, through sight and emotion.

A nationally endowed Fellow for the Arts in 1986 & 1992, her work can be found at the Boston Museum of Art; Block Gallery, Northwestern University, IL; Chazen Museum, Madison, WI; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan; Helen Allen Textile Collection, UW, Madison, WI; Highsmith Inc., Ft. Atkinson, WI; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN; MMOCA, Madison, WI; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.

“Mary Bero fearlessly breaks all the traditional rules of fiber art. She deftly combines embroidery, painting, and sculptural elements to create exuberant works of art. She is a virtuoso of color. Her images are loosely connected, as if part of a daydream or, at times a nightmare. The various elements in the picture plane come together through a succession of small marks, and build to a cohesive whole.” –Jane Sauer, Speaking with Threads exhibition.

You are invited to view Mary’s work at Graver’s Lane Gallery.

New Staff

Give a warm welcome to a brand new face at GLG !

Jools Skeet

Associate at GLG

b. London, U.K., recently moved to Philadelphia.

After completing university Jools trained as a TEFL teacher – combining her love of education with travel. She taught university students in Leon, Nicaragua for a couple of years and then settled in the Basque region of Spain, where she co-founded a venture to combine interactive storytelling with language acquisition. She and her colleague told stories in hundreds of classrooms throughout the region, as well as supporting teachers’ professional development through workshops.

She and her family moved to Vermont 15 years ago and since then she has delighted in telling stories with hundreds of people of all ages and abilities. Her love of connecting with people through the imagination and stories is central to who she is. Her own Collage Art reflects these imagined worlds and has been displayed in shows and sold in craft fairs and local stores.

Recognizing the importance of creating and maintaining spaces where creativity can shine, she is honored to be joining the GLG team. Jools is really looking forward to being a part of the gallery’s future and is excited to see how this very important community space will grow.