Tucked away in Millville, The Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center remains one of the southern New Jersey area’s hidden gems. And every two years the center celebrates a Glass Weekend, the latest scheduled for June 10, 11 and 12, to revel in the art of glassworking even in our plastic dominated society.
And we mean revel.
The weekend is an International Symposium and Exhibition of Contemporary Glass that includes exhibitions, lectures, hands-on glassmaking, demonstrations and social events.
For the June event, two featured guest artists are Richard Royal and Giles Bettison.
According to the center, Bettison, a graduate of Australia's Canberra School of Art, is known for both artistic and technical innovation. As a student, he applied an ancient Venetian glassworking technique – the fusing of bundled glass cane cut into patterned slices called murrine – to a new material: an American-made colored sheet glass.
By using strips of sheet glass instead of cane, Bettison was able to achieve the appearance of woven textiles. He has applied this technique to a variety of forms, from traditional vessels to sculptural blocks mounted on steel.
Royal is recognized internationally as one of the most skilled and talented glassblowers in the studio glass movement. He has been an independent artist exhibiting work internationally in both solo and group exhibitions for the past 30 years.
His work is included in renowned public and private collections worldwide including The Mint Museum of Art + Design (Charlotte, NC), The High Museum (Atlanta, GA), the New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana, The Tampa Museum of Art (Tampa, FL), and the Daiichi Museum (Nagoya, Japan). Royal was one of the first Artists-in-Residences at the Waterford Crystal Factory (Ireland) and he continues to teach as both a guest artist and faculty member at various universities and the Pilchuck Glass School.
Arists demonstrations and workshops are scheduled throughout the weekend. The center also features displays and exhibits from more than a dozen noted art and glass galleries.
Though registration for the three-day symposium is closed, day visitors can attend Saturday and Sunday.
Admission is $10 adults, $9 seniors, $7 students. Children five and under are free. WheatonArts and the Glass Studio demonstrations are included in the price of admission. There is an additional charge of $6 per person to visit the galleries.
Hours are June 11, 10am-5pm and June 12, 11am-4pm.
For more information, call WheatonArts at 800-998-4552 or 856-825-6800 or visit glassweekend.com or wheatonarts.org.
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