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This page has mostly work from a few years ago. After a very rough year in I'm finally back on the torch!These are the wonderful teachers I have learned much from over the past 8 years, Shane Fero & Fred Birkhill (who I consider my biggest influences & mentors,they were my first teachers & have taught me more about glass,the community & its history than anyone!) also...Paul Stankard, Lucio Bubacco, Milon Townsend, Sally Prasch, Loren Stump, Emilio Santini, Kristina Logan, Eric Goldschmidt, Beth Lipman, Roger Parramore, Jen Zitkov, Marcel Braun, Walter Hellbach, Robert Mickelsen,Vittorio Costantini, Ric Allen and Ed Schmid. Also all the talented friends I have made in my travels (too many to list but you know who you are!) have had as much of an influence on my life & my work as all the classes combined!
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This Past weekend I held my first class out of my studio (aka The Bat Cave). These are some pics from that class & random studio shots. It was tons of fun & I can't wait to teach more! Gremlin also came over to guest demo & colab (see GP for pics)
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more pics of new work coming soon!!!
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My daughter calls this my Dr. Suess piece...it is sandblasted & oil painted & the beads going up the stem are moveable.
I started this durring Robert Mickelsons organic forms & painting on glass class a few years ago...I just got a sandblast cabinet & plan on doing more work like it in the future
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This tree of life woman is pregnant with a polished opal & behind her are the mountains and night sky with an opal full moon (also signifying fertility).
She was made as a gift for one of my closest friends, Dolina, who is a natural mother.
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This tree of life woman menorah was inspired by a Jewish musician. In his music I didn't so much as hear a religious message as a spiritual one (I tend to tune out religious babble anyway) His message of love and life and light shown through and she was the vision his music created in my head. Her candles glow in the dark and are filled with oil and each has a small wick (not in the pic)
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This Genie perfume bottle stands about 5in tall and has a tiny bellydancing genie dropper inside. It also had a protecting eye on the top and in the center of the flower. I've been taking Bellydancing classes for a few years now & have found it very inspiring. I plan on making many more bellydance related glass objects (and am currently working on a full glass bellydance costume complete with glass coins)
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This was an oil lamp I made at AGI this year for Barrys competition. There were 15 names drawn and we were each given a pack with all less than a foot of a small piece of ionx tube, a small clear tube, i forget what other size clear tube, some clear rod, a wick & 3 ugly colors & were not allowed to use any other material & given till 7pm the next day to make an oil lamp (which knowing flameworkers turned into 3 days later) Everyone made amazing things & my vote went to Mike Shelbos awesome goblin, but I ended up winning 1st place with this piece
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These are pictures from Ed Shmids fall concentration class @ Penland. This was the first Hot Shop class I've ever taken. I really enjoyed the class & Ed is a wonderful teacher, however I discovered quickly that I'm a Flameworker at heart! I took the class just to learn the basics of the hot shop. Ed told us those 2 months were equal to 2 years of normal classes. (i'm having problems uploading pics so I'll try to put more up tomorrow)
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This Goblet was ordered specifically to have a light cobalt body with cobalt and dark cobalt wings. Above the angels head sits an encased black opal. The top is adorned with a dicro image with dark cobalt backing.
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This piece was special ordered by a Dr.'s Wife as a gift for her husband in light blue and clear. It is the age old medical symbol with two snakes wrapping around a winged pole.
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14" x 12"
This large Fairy stands atop a chunk of beautiful amethyst. The figure is clear and sandblasted with verying colors of teal and white in the wings and hair. She is dancing playfully with a butterfly whos wings have a stained glass look with amber purples and ruby reds. in the other hand she holds a flower that is difficult to view from this angle.
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This 10" panel was made during an experimental class I took at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Our focus was a class project of a three panel depiction of the Divine Comedy. This was my first practice piece for the process we were experimenting with. I made the silhouetted figures flat on the torch with soft glass. In the hot shop I arranged powders and frits inside a graphite mold and hot glass was ladled over it then the figures were added, torched briefly and another layer of clear glass was ladled over them. The scene depicted is of a Devil holding his pitchfork up triumphantly displaying the severed head of the Angel.
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13"x8"
A caramel fairy with ruby red hair stretches out playfully upside down resting on gold fumed wings. Wrapped around her leg is the vine of the orchid resting atop her foot. The center of the ruby and caramel orchid is a perfume bottle.
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The top photo is of a 1 1/2"x1" sea shell with a small encased herkimer diamond encased with a dicro backing inside.
The bottom photo is of a 2" boro paperweight I made while studying under Milon Townsend at the Corning Museum of Glass in NY. The very tiny fairy and flower were stumpsucked with clear and backed with ruby frit the bottom 3/4" that is not visible is coated with moon blue and hobnailed with amber purple.
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This Goblet features a torso stem(caramel with paracilicate white coating) entwined in grape vines and leafs. Ruby red grapes adorn the top and base and wrap over the shoulders.
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This is a piece I made during Roger Parramores class to Penland School of Crafts in August 2002. I had only been working with glass for a year and a half at the time.
It was my 3rd figure I had ever attempted and my first goblet. The Mermaid is clear and sandblasted with a design running down the sides of her tail.
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Class instructors Lucio Bubacco and Paul Stankard.
The focus of this class was to create (as a class) three panels depicting the Devine Comedy. The pics in this group are the components of each panel Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory before they were cast into panels. There are also photos of our class and Lucio and Paul and me.
Special Thanks to Andy (Andrew Jackson Pollack, pictured in the lower right of the class photo)for sending me the Photos!!!
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I miss Penland so much! Isn't it pretty!
Here are some pics from a class in 2002 at Penland with Roger Parramore (thanks again for the pics Andy)
.....I don't have time to upload them all right now but I will be putting more on later
Peace
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I have been traveling quite a bit this summer, from the conference in New Orleans to Oregon for project 33 to the wonderful trip to Lauscha, Germany hosted by Shane Fero, Fred Birkhill, and Marcie Davis. I will have pics of these and other glass related trips up soon I hope.
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Julie Riggs has been working with glass for 8 years and has studied under many of the worlds most renowned artists. Her work reflects her love of the human form and beautiful fantasies.
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 Comments on This Gallery Page
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julie,
hey julie..i met you at marcell brauns class at buttermik..I was loooking thru your stuff.and you never seace to amaze me....you are a huge inspiration to me..I hope to get to work with you soon.....I m taking the santini class this july..maybe sometime after that...peace livefree..
» Posted by
livefreedesigns
on 5/18/2004 5:00:10 PM.
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niice
i saw your work over on GP and came straight over here to leave you a comment. your figures are motivating at the least. keep raging!!!!!!!
» Posted by
ErikAnders
on 2/8/2005 10:14:11 AM.
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great work
great work. looking forward to the lauscha pics.
» Posted by
JohnVinEVinson
on 2/9/2005 4:05:38 PM.
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julie
sick work not to bad for three years you are one of the best ive seen at that age rage on
Charlie Mineral Spings Glass
» Posted by
charlie
on 3/28/2005 11:04:49 PM.
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wow
You really know how to capture the sexyness of the female form
» Posted by
Bryan
on 11/20/2005 4:44:22 PM.
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Yo, yo!
What's up. Any classes this summer? Work is looking good. Hope to see you soon. Andy
» Posted by
AndrewJ.Pollack
on 3/29/2006 8:32:47 AM.
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some sweet work going on julie, was nice to meet you at mickelson's..... hope to rage some more glass in the future...
» Posted by
Slinger
on 3/29/2006 8:14:15 PM.
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just browsing
I was just flipping around looking at stuff when I came across your gallery.I really love your work.especially the venus de merlot.
» Posted by
MichaelSorenson
on 10/29/2006 9:37:47 PM.
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Where you at???
I havent seen or heard from you in a long time. Hope your doing good.
» Posted by
RosarioAnastasiJr
on 2/9/2007 3:39:17 PM.
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Hey girl! met you (at) Smilefest last year, remember? You going this year?...Your work is FABULOUS!I just HAD to drop a line and give ya some props! Hope everything's goin' well for you and yours and if you're ever in the Hickory,N.C. area with some free time,give a yell...Erin
» Posted by
FireworxGlass
on 2/11/2007 9:49:16 PM.
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I love your Split!!!
I saw it on the Bodymods.org board... That's sweet!!! I love your work too!!!
Aloha!
» Posted by
BenBurton
on 5/10/2007 6:16:46 PM.
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julie....
hey hope you are well... just getting back to the internet communications now... gimme a call when you get a chance so we can catch up...
shelbo
» Posted by
MikeShelbo
on 5/17/2007 9:52:28 PM.
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Flame Off
Is there an image of your 2nd Place "Wearable" from last year?
» Posted by
OrganicsGlass
on 7/24/2007 11:03:07 PM.
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beautiful work with a killer resume under your belt..
» Posted by
DaEgoGlassDesigns
on 1/7/2008 1:03:04 PM.
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wow !!
hey julie,
the spiderweb is so impressing !!
and i really love your galleries
... just cool pics and really nice work !
keep it hot
hope to meet you one day
greets from germany
carla
» Posted by
Carlee
on 11/26/2008 11:44:10 PM.
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Good luck @ IGI in Vegas!
Saw you were competing (at) IGI in Vegas. We never met before, but I've seen your work alot. Very impressive! I am working team: Eugene Glass School. See you there! Mark-
» Posted by
MarkM.McCourt
on 2/26/2009 7:19:53 AM.
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