The centerpiece of this collaboration is the presentation of Dale Chihuly: Baskets at Glassworks, featuring abstract sculptures in vivid color grouped together as single works. Chihuly was inspired by woven Indian baskets that were stacked together and slumped under their own weight. None of Chihuly’s subsequent work would have been possible without the aesthetic innovations he perfected while creating the Baskets. Dale Chihuly: New Works from the artist's signature series, will be exhibited at the Tobin-Hewett Gallery in Glassworks. Throughout the three-month event, recognized artists from around the world will give demonstrations and workshops at Glassworks studios.

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The Museum of Arts + Design will feature The Glass Vessel: An International Invitational, featuring a wide variety of glass vessels produced by over 50 artists from around the world, including Lino Tagliapietra, Stephen Rolfe Powell and Dante Marioni. In addition, the Museum will present Rick Beck: Sculpture. Beck is known for his large-scale cast glass sculptures depicting industrial, everyday objects such as screws, bolts and clamps, and objects that usually are viewed as inconsequential parts of larger items. These exhibitions will mark the grand opening of the Museum’s new location at 715 West Main Street.

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The Louisville Visual Art Association will host A New Millennium, A New Light: An International Survey of Architectural Glass Art, the most complete international architectural glass exhibition in twenty-five years. Internationally renowned art glass designer, Kenneth vonRoenn, will curate the exhibit, which will feature representations of large-scale architectural installations, as well as concept pieces and original stained glass works by some of the most prominent architectural glass artists from around the globe, including the two most significant artists in the last half century, Ludwig Schaffrath and Johannes Schreiter.

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The Speed Art Museum will present The Light Within: Glass Sculpture from Louisville Collections, featuring a range of magnificent glass sculptures created by renowned artists. Monumental works will include brooding, introspective pieces by Sweden’s Bertil Vallien and the Czech husband and wife team of Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová. Smaller scale works will also be included, such as a glass and barbed wire purse by Silvia Levenson, an artist interested in gender-related issues. Throughout the exhibition, pieces will be unified by the pure visceral and intellectual appeal of contemporary glass.

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