Monthly Newsletter - July 2025
"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” – Émile Zola
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We will be jump-starting creative juices at our next meeting ... meet me there :)
Next meeting will be on Sunday, July 20, at 1pm - NOTE DATE CHANGE
At Mike and Sandi Penfound's Studio
1010 S Cody Street, Lakewood, CO, 80226
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For questions/issues with the newsletter, please get in touch with Gwendolyn Morgan at designer@mountaingirlglass.com
Notes from our Prez
With this next meeting, we will be doing some art exercises to get us ready for the children’s project for ARTMA. With the Children’s Project, we take drawings that cancer children have made, and turn them into 3-D glass sculptures. Then we auction them off at the ARTMA Gala, to be held in February 2026. This will be our fourth time doing this incredible project. If you have never done this
before, just talk to one of our members who has done this to find out how meaningful it is. All of this is to help raise money for Pediatric Cancer Research through the Morgan Adams Foundation. The theme this year is “Choose Your Fighter”. It will be interesting to see what the kids come up with. The drawings are being created right now at Children’s Hospital, and I am hoping to have, at least, 20 of them by August.
So, to help get our creative juices flowing, I am pulling up an old exercise we did from a couple of years ago. Everyone needs to bring some supplies (junk) they have lying around their house or on their way to the recycling bin. Raid your art box that is full of here’s and there’s and find remnants of things that you’ve been trying to find a home for. (Toilet paper rolls, tissue paper, paper clips, buttons, beads, yarn, thread, pinecones, pine needles, paper towel rolls, wrapping paper, etc.). We will then throw them all in the middle of a table (I’m hoping for outside). You will then draw a piece of paper out of a hat that will tell you what to make, (doll, house, rabbit, dog, etc.). Then it is up to you to put something together. In the end, we will look at everybody’s work and try to guess what they had written on their piece of paper. This will get us thinking of what we can do to translate those incredible kid’s drawings into glass 3-D works of art. The photo to the right is one that Leslie Bitgood put together one year. I’ll bring glue and clips, but there are also very creative ways to hold two pieces of something together.
As usual, please bring a treat to share. The club will provide water. This is such a fun project, I hope a lot of you will come. Hope to see you there.
Deborah Carlson
SHOW TIME
Two Not to Miss Exhibits About Town
Now We are Six
D'art Gallery Anniversary Show
Opening Reception, Friday, July 11, 6-9pm
Dessert and DJ, Friday, July 25, 6-8pm
Last Look, Sunday, July 27, 11am-4pm
Lots of fun for this one, especially the Dessert and DJ night. Come chillax and dance while enjoying wonderful art and sweets ... and our prez, Deborah Carlson also has 6 pieces in the exhibit.
ARTISTS:
Denise Bohart, Laura Brenton, Nea Brown, Gloria Campbell, Deborah Carlson, Shane Cooper, Marian Davis, Kim DiDonato, Barb DeMarlie, Melody Epperson, Robin Gates, Jutta Golas, James-Allan Holmes, Shelley Hull, Pete Iannuzzi, Claire Ibarra, Kathy Knaus, Carrie MaKenna, Christine Muldoon, Katelyn Odenheimer, Emily Oldak, Alanna Peters, Tom Riedel Lydia Riegle, Jean Smith, Vicky Smith, Tricia Soderberg, Benjamin Stanford, Amanda Stavast, Dmitri Valone, Marilyn Wells
900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO
42nd Annual All Colorado Show
Curtis Center for the Arts
On View, July 12 - August 29
Reception, Saturday, July 12, 6-8pm
Juror Talk, Saturday, July 19, 11am, w/Michael Paglia
Come out and see Deborah Carlson's piece in this show.
2349 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, CO 80121
Touch of Glass GAC Exhibit
Exhibit time!
Our Touch of Glass exhibit will be held July 26 - August 30 in the Acorn Exhibit Space at the Lakewood Arts Gallery, 6501 W. Colfax, Lakewood.
This show is open to any member of the Glass Artists of Colorado. Cost to enter: $10 per piece, limit 3. Gallery Commission $25. Application forms will be available at our GAC meeting. To get a feel for the space, you may want to drop by the Lakewood Art Center.
Lois would like to get an idea of who is interested. Please email rlrentz@comcast.net if you plan to submit a piece.
More information at our upcoming meeting.
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Picnic Fun
Bubblicious
Our annual picnic last month was tons of fun, including lots of bubbly peeps :)
Big bubbles, little bubbles, many bubbles, and prizes! Good food and fun times.
Our thanks to D&L Art Glass Supply for the prizes!
Corning: Coldworking
In June, Gwendolyn had the great pleasure of taking Jiyong Lee's Exploration in Coldworking class at Corning. She loves coldworking and wondered what she might learn in the class. What she discovered is that she actually knew very little and learned a great deal.
It was a fabulous class and Jiyong is an excellent teacher. She learned a ton. And by a ton, I mean that she I learned to use the gamut of cold working tools, but more importantly learned how critical every single step is to the process and why.
Her piece is very much NOT finished. Why? The final full workday, which was also the day she planned as her busiest/longest work day, was riddled with challenges, including the electric company’s substation catching fire and a subsequent power outage. To the right is a video of her unfinished piece.
It was a fabulous class and Jiyong is an excellent teacher. She learned a ton. And by a ton, I mean that she I learned to use the gamut of cold working tools, but more importantly learned how critical every single step is to the process and why.
Her piece is very much NOT finished. Why? The final full workday, which was also the day she planned as her busiest/longest work day, was riddled with challenges, including the electric company’s substation catching fire and a subsequent power outage. To the right is a video of her unfinished piece.
Stained Glass Experience in Mexico
Next, Gwendolyn headed to Mexico to spend time with family. She made a connection with a local stained glass artist in the area. While Gwendolyn is a glass artist, using many different processes in her craft, she knew very little about stained glass ... until this trip.
She had the great opportunity to learn from Sergio Aimar, https://www.facebook.com/sergio.aimar.336, in Chapala. Sergio lives and works two towns over from Ajijic Jalisco, where Gwendolyn's family resides.
She spent every morning for about a week in his studio. Sergio was working on an amazing commission piece, while Gwendolyn claimed part of his workspace.
Working from her original drawing, Sergio guided her as she transformed her image from paper to glass. Gwendolyn says Sergio is an excellent teacher and also does excellent work, as she saw firsthand in one of his incredible commission pieces. Fabulous artist!
LET'S HIGHLIGHT MEMBERS: To help us get to know each other, we will be spotlighting members on our website and in our newsletter. I would love to learn more about you. Please send pictures and any information you would like to share to Gwendolyn Morgan at designer@mountaingirlglass.com
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Glass Stash Swap and Shop
Do you have things to give away or sell? Are you looking for something special? Post it here in our swap and shop space. Send information and photos to Gwendolyn at designer@mountaingirlglass.com for inclusion in the newsletter.
FOR SALE: Retiring / Downsizing:
Member Elizabeth Rulli is a glass and tile painter in Cheyenne who wants to mostly retire and move in about 2 years. Her stash goes back a good 30-35 years. Her studio and garage would make for a great field trip this summer or early fall!!
The bevels were made in Taiwan and have beautiful clarity. They are 3 mm. The paperweights are very good 2nds. She has accumulated all of these over the last 30+ years and the prices are what she paid, no markups. Photos and descriptions to the right.
Elizabeth also has sheets of original Wasser glass ( mostly pastels). There are also partial sheets of Cz gold flash glass from Dan Fenton’s studio, partial rolls of lead came, a 36” Paragon kiln with computer controls, a Plasplug tabletop tile saw with 2 diamond blades for cutting glass, plywood frames for glass circles ranging from approx 4.5 to 19”. She says that there is no telling what else will surface as she continues digging. Contact for more info :(307) 631-9420 Dumpsterglass@gmail.com Elizabeth can also entice you with the fact that there are good Indian, Thai, and Korean restaurants in the area :)
Elizabeth also has sheets of original Wasser glass ( mostly pastels). There are also partial sheets of Cz gold flash glass from Dan Fenton’s studio, partial rolls of lead came, a 36” Paragon kiln with computer controls, a Plasplug tabletop tile saw with 2 diamond blades for cutting glass, plywood frames for glass circles ranging from approx 4.5 to 19”. She says that there is no telling what else will surface as she continues digging. Contact for more info :(307) 631-9420 Dumpsterglass@gmail.com Elizabeth can also entice you with the fact that there are good Indian, Thai, and Korean restaurants in the area :)
* 2.5” .65 ea/ 3” .95/ 4” .95/ 4.5” 1.45/ 6” 1.85/ 8” 2.62 glass or mirror
* 6” squares .77/ 2 x3” rectangles .24/ 7” equilateral triangles .50/* Paperweights 2.5”x4”x.5” 1.00/ odd pentagons 5”w x5”h .57* 4” squares all drilled with 5mm hole .29, case of 288 $84Showing various things I have made with these. Great for painting classes, fired orAcrylics* 1.75 x 3.5” ovals .54/ 2 x 3” ovals 1.08/ 1.5” octagons .27* Frames made from 1/2” plywood, glass circle sizes range from approx 4.5 to 19”
FOR SALE - Sandblast skat blast cabinet, skat blast hepa vacuum system and cyclone pressure pot
Will only sell as a set. Local pick up only in Fort Collins, Colorado
Cabinet is a skat blast 780-TL. Includes wheeled base, siphon gun, gloves, light and misc. parts. Purchased new in 2004. It is 36” W, 23” deep and 54” high. Top door opening 14 ¼ deep x 30” wide
skat blast Vac-36 hepa vacuum system dust collector. Purchased used in 2003. Cyclone PT-100 pressure pot purchased used in 2003.
There is some silicon grit is in.
Original purchase paperwork is available. All in great shape, and all work well.
Contact for more info:
Sue Palmer, supalm@aol.com
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