Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan's Upper West Side, went from soldier to singer to antique dealer before becoming a full-time artist. Philadelphia's Ray King, 27, until recently had to make ends meet by restoring old stained-glass windows; now he is one of the few artists in the medium who can earn a living making his own experimental pieces. Benida Solow, 30, whose lustrous Innerscape, a freestanding screen, was included in the Los Angeles show, has been represented at five other California exhibitions in the past two years...
...throughout the U.S. After Artist Don Davidson started teaching stained-glass works as a pilot project for 25 fifth-and sixth-graders at Houston's Luther Burbank elementary school, parents clamored successfully for their own afterschool classes. Louisiana State University is offering a full-time course in the medium for undergraduates. At North Adams, Mass., an institute sponsored by the Hoosuck Corporation, a nonprofit organization that promotes design-oriented manufacturing businesses, has just completed a two-week, $330 class in rudimentary technique; it was sold out. Another course in April will teach painting on glass; in June under Albinas...
...Today artists and artisans, students and professionals are creating a distinctively American form, moving away from mere decoration and drawing eclectically from the other visual arts. As Artist-Editor Fred Abrams writes in Glass magazine, a journal for artists and craftsmen: "Glass is the most beautiful and magical art medium in the world,... and we have only begun to explore its possibilities and potential." To which its admirers and practitioners can only add amen, translucent tomorrows and "gret joye...
...members say they are looking for a happy medium between the current General Education program and the proposed core curriculum. Backers of the ERG proposal say a by-pass option would reduce enrollment in core classes and provide a greater choice of courses...
Robert Gardner, senior lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies, who recommended the "no video" policy to the Faculty says, "In a better of possible worlds we would have video production. It is an important medium of expression and it's terribly important in a place like this in visual studies to undertake some work because video is an important medium in the country and in civilization. To leave out video and TV is quite artificial but it is required because of the practical exigencies of financing...