THE STUDIO GLASS MOVEMENT: Selections from the Esterling-Wake Collection

Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Jorge Daniel Veneciano Celebrating the Studio Glass Movement -- Sharon Kennedy The Language of Glass: Material, Method, Meaning -- Therman Statom Selections from the Esterling-Wake Collection -- Sharon Kennedy A Conversation with Steve Wake -- Gregory Nosan Checklist of the Exhibition Compiled by Ashley Hussman Selected Bibliography and Notes Contributors Copyright Upon visiting the glass collection housed in the Esterling-Wake home, I began to imagine these remarkable works on display in Sheldon’s Great Hall. I pictured them in translucent splendor, imbibing the natural light that sweeps through the space daily. Few works in our collection can withstand the light from the cathedral-high windows at each end of the museum’s nave. These exceptional objects, however, hold their own against the daylight and harness its energy in the service of their own visual beauty

THE STUDIO GLASS MOVEMENT: Selections from the Esterling-Wake Collection

Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Jorge Daniel Veneciano Celebrating the Studio Glass Movement -- Sharon Kennedy The Language of Glass: Material, Method, Meaning -- Therman Statom Selections from the Esterling-Wake Collection -- Sharon Kennedy A Conversation with Steve Wake -- Gregory Nosan Checklist of the Exhibition Compiled by Ashley Hussman Selected Bibliography and Notes Contributors Copyright Upon visiting the glass collection housed in the Esterling-Wake home, I began to imagine these remarkable works on display in Sheldon’s Great Hall. I pictured them in translucent splendor, imbibing the natural light that sweeps through the space daily. Few works in our collection can withstand the light from the cathedral-high windows at each end of the museum’s nave. These exceptional objects, however, hold their own against the daylight and harness its energy in the service of their own visual beauty

Media Revolution: Early Prints from the Sheldon Museum of Art

In the digital age, when videos are streamed and books can be read electronically, it is hard to fathom the revolutionary impact that printed images had when they first appeared in Europe around 1400. Their introduction changed forever the traditional practice of manually crafting images one by one, creating a world in which pictures could be reproduced almost without limit on a new material called paper, expanding the possibilities and audiences for images and texts of all kinds. This publication, which brings to light little-seen masterpieces from the Sheldon Museum of Art’s collection, explores the three major print techniques of the early modern period: woodcut, engraving, and etching. Along the way, it suggests not only how the print revolution evolved as it spread across Europe and the British Isles, but also how it gave rise to images that are intimate and public, sacred and secular. These pictures, which transformed the everyday lives of their original users, remind us of the many ways in which print technology continues to shape our own. Contributions from Jesse Kudron, Tessa Terry, Andrea Nichols, Greg Spangler, Christopher Delano, Erin Boyle, Alexander Severn, Michelle Lindholm, Constance Hamer, Caitlin Donohoe, Kelli Dornbos, Sarah Penry, Kayla Johnson, and Amanda Washburn.https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1008/thumbnail.jp