Hello and welcome back to Cracked with Chevonne Ariss!
Trained as an architect, Josephine A. Geiger’s glass art is inspired by hidden depths in the landscape. These scenes are distilled into a bold palette of rectangles and squares of colored light as she translates a photo or sketch with an Impressionistic eye, capturing the essence of the subject. Josephine’s process is organically linear, adding, shifting, flipping, or removing glass elements until the visual puzzle is finally solved — often in surprising ways.
In addition to a steady stream of private commissions (even a chicken coop), Josephine's artwork is represented in various installations and public collections. Josephine also recently created and installed an original skylight on the Frank Lloyd Wright Lovness Estate in Minnesota. Her distinctive style has earned multiple awards and has been featured in both regional and national print publications, as well as TV episodes on TPT’s MN Original and INSP’s Handcrafted America.
Join me as I crack it all wide open!
To see more of Josephine’s work, her instagram is @jageigerstudio and her website is jageigerstudio.com.
For the Cracked Patreon page members she is giving away a fused Holiday ornament as well as one of her new 2023 Calendars. I’ll be doing a drawing for that on Dec 18th, 2022 which is 12 days after this episode is released. Your name is automatically entered into these artist giveaways when you join for as little as $5 per month. Find out more at Patreon.com/runaglassworks.
Honorable mentions from this episode:
From Josephine:
PotekGlass – The Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul area) had BOTH main stained glass supply locations close the first quarter of this year. Malcom Potek had been stepping into the fused glass retailer space the year before, but ended up hiring on the restoration specialist from one closed location and has started stocking stained glass supplies (in the physical store). He is also a fabulous artist and teacher.
Favorite artists-
Kristen Dieng – mosaic artist
kristindieng.com
@kristinindiengart
Karl Unnasch – public artist, and one of the presenters at the 2022 SGAA Conference karlunnasch.com
FLW book – Growing Up Wright [Building a Dream by Hand with the World’s Greatest Architect
growingupwright.com
Fletcher ScoreMaster II Glass Cutter – this is Josephine's difficult to find glass cutter https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SWVF5O/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Copper re-strip
delphiglass.com
McKesson Adhesive Bandages –
amazon.com
Fine Art Studio Online website host-
try.faso.com
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The Stained Glass Association of America
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