Lecture with Artist John Drury at Glass Axis

Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Join us for a special off-site visit to Glass Axis, a glass art studio in Grandview Heights.  Guest artist John Drury will give a lecture about his work in our current exhibition, Tracing Lines.  Drury will give a demonstration immediately following his lecture from 4 to 6pm in conjunction with the free monthly demonstrations offered at Glass Axis the last Saturday of every month.

Glass Axis art studio is located at:
1341 Norton Avenue-B
Columbus, OH 43212

John Drury Biography

Originally from Ohio, John Drury currently lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn, NY.  A founding Trustee of Glass Axis, Drury earned his BFA at CCAD and MFA at OSU.  Drury has been an active artist and member of the American Studio Glass movement.  Among his many accolades, he was awarded the Pernod Liquid Art Award in 1994 and Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for the Visual Arts in 1997.  Drury has taught and lectured around the US and internationally including locations such as Pilchuck Glass School, The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey, UrbanGlass, New York, The Museum of Glass, Tacoma, and the Rhode Island School of Design.

In 1988 John Drury and Robbie Miller of Vancouver began an extensive body of conceptually based work that they signed and exhibited under the joint moniker Cud.  A group of works from their Bridges series created at the Pittsburgh Glass Center is included in the Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review 26.  A work from the Bridges series is featured in the Tracing Lines exhibition (pictured on left).

Image: Untitled (BRIDGES series) by Cud: John Drury & Robbie Miller, fired enamel on etched glass bottles, 2004