35th Annual Virginia Glass Guild Juried Exhibition

The Virginia Glass Guild presents a juried exhibition featuring various forms of glass created by artists across Virginia. The exhibition showcases a wide range of glass processes, including blown, carved, and painted glass. This year's exhibition was juried by Dr. Carolyn Swan Needle, the Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum.

Juror's Statement

"Our community is very lucky to have such enthusiastic and talented glass artists living and working here in Virginia, crafting artworks that enthrall the eye and entice the mind. The works submitted for this year’s exhibition included a fascinating variety of blown, cast, kiln-formed, flame-worked, mosaic, stained glass, and mixed-media objects, making it a true pleasure to jury the 35^th exhibition of the Virginia Glass Guild. Many thanks and congratulations to all the artists for their vision and participation!"

Juror's Bio

Carolyn Swan Needell, PhD, is the Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass at The Chrysler Museum of Art. A graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A.) and University College London (M.Sc.), she holds a PhD from Brown University and specializes in the study of ancient and medieval glass; her research has been published in the Journal of Glass Studies and scholarly journals of archaeological science. At the Chrysler, Carrie is responsible for the care and research of more than 10,000 glass objects in the collection dating from antiquity to the contemporary era.

She curates two temporary glass exhibitions at the museum each year to explore the artistry of glass, including, for example, Agony & Ecstasy: Contemporary Stained Glass by Judith Schaechter and Fantastic Creatures of the Venetian Lagoon: Glass 1875-1915.

Top 3 winners:

• Best in Show - Night Garden, Jenny Thomas (Main image)
• 2nd Place - Innocent In A Sense (Echoes In A Sentence), Phaedra Beauchamp (Bottom image)
• 3rd Place - Butterfly, David Henderson

Excellence Awards

• Japonisme Gets A 21st Century Look, Hollister Weber
• Lily, Mary Fierman (Right image)

Merit Awards

• Solar Study #4, Chris Skibbe
• Break Glass In Emergency, Muffarah Marr
• If At First, You Don't Succeed, Ben Carl Riley
• Quanta, Joshua Solomon (Left image)
• Total Eclipse Magic, Staci Katsias (Second image)

The 35th Annual Virginia Glass Guild Juried Exhibition is currently on display until Saturday, August 24. We invite you to visit and admire these unique and creative glass sculptures. The Charles H. Taylor Visual Arts Center is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm.