Schantz Galleries Contemporary Glass

02/03/2025

Now Streaming! See the award-winning documentary film Paul J. Stankard: Flower & Flame, now available for streaming at www.flowerandflamefilm.com.

This epic documentary from Dan Collins Media follows Paul's incredible journey as he masters the art of flameworked glass in the pursuit of excellence and beauty. The film won the award for Best Jersey Feature at the 2024 Jersey Shore Film Festival and celebrated its European festival premiere at the 2024 Glass Art Society Film Festival in Berlin, Germany.

We hope you enjoy this unique look into the life of a living master of flameworked glass.

"Exquisitely crafted" - Andrew Page, Glass Quarterly

"As if we're sitting right next to Stankard as his works come to life" - Richard Propes, The Independent Critic

Thanks to our generous supporters!

Executive Producer
Graeber Art Glass

Major Film Sponsors
Chemglass Life Sciences | Salem Community College | L.H. Selman Ltd. | WheatonArts | Maureen and David Winigrad David Winigrad

Producers
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass Camden County College

Associate Producers
Delaware Valley Paperweight Collectors Association | Gloucester County Art League Artists Workshop of Southern NJ | High Volume Oxygen | His Glassworks, Inc. | Paperweight Collectors Association (PCA) | Abe Fleishman | Schantz Galleries Contemporary Glass

Additional Glass Photography and Video
Jeff DiMarco Photography Josh Skolnik

10/13/2024

We are re-posting this to help out the area where Alex Bernstein and his family are deeply affected by the floods in Ashville. Help if you can.

The South Toe and Celo communities in Western North Carolina ha… Nate Tibbits needs your support for Rebuild the South Toe River Valley After Hurricane Helene

05/22/2024

There are still a few days to sign up and stream this amazing film!

Thank you to everyone who attended the Seattle International Film Festival () this year! The Maestro’s new feature film, Sono Lino, was a hit taking second runner up for the Documentary Golden Space Needle Award out of 47 other films at the festival.

To anyone who was unable to attend the screening, SIFF has offered this documentary as one of the select few for US streaming. To watch this film from the comfort of your home, click here: https://www.siff.net/festival/sono-lino. Sono Lino is available to stream May 20-27.

Don’t miss your chance to watch!

02/29/2024

Now in his 80s, the New Jersey-based artist is finding new audiences through a just-released documentary, a new book and a major museum retrospective

02/19/2024

Here is a sneak peek of new work by Jim Schantz! Stop by the Gallery to see them in person and/or check them out on Artsy 🌈

Link in bio and here:
https://www.artsy.net/partner/pucker-gallery/artists/jim-schantz

Images (top to bottom):
1. Jim Schantz | "Winter Sunset, Monument Valley" | 2024 | Pastel on Stonehenge paper | 18 x 46" | JMS803
2. Jim Schantz | "Barrington Dusk" | 2024 | Pastel on Stonehenge paper | 21 x 29" | JMS800
3. Jim Schantz | "Sunset, Towards Monument Valley" | 2024 | Pastel on Stonehenge paper | 15.75 x 30" | JMS802

01/27/2024

Yes!!!

The Smithsonian Visionary Award will be presented to two outstanding glass artists, Dan Dailey and Judith Schaechter, during the 2024 Smithsonian Craft Show Preview Night Benefit Wednesday, May 1, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Dailey is honored for his innovative and captivatin...

01/18/2024

THE SPIRIT OF COLOR –
Few contemporary artists delight in the potential of color, push the boundaries of its established rules, or harness its emotional capacity like artist Dale Chihuly. With over 300 differently-hued glass specimens in his hotshop in Seattle, Chihuly possesses “a never-ending palette of colors.” Of the seven fundamental elements of art—line, shape, form, space, value, texture, and color—color is a potent guiding force for Chihuly. He is known for mastering, challenging, and modernizing traditional glassmaking techniques, for embracing the elemental qualities and inherent unpredictability of molten glass, for experimenting and stretching the acknowledged limits of the material. He is known for gathering influences from his world travels and incorporating them in visceral and unexpected ways, resulting in vital and dynamic works of art that connect people with their own intuitive experience of life. Within all this, a fascination with color permeates every aspect of the work down to the color-themed titles of his pieces. In the vernacular of Chihuly, red is oxblood, lilac is dusty, and green is golden celadon. The breadth of colors is inspired by myriad elements, from geologic to geographic, historical to metaphorical.

To an artist so intoxicated by the capacity of color, the question of medium becomes more fluid. While Chihuly’s drawings are exercises in formal discovery and conceptual experiments for works in glass, they are also lively studies in color and fully resolved works of art. A sense of unfiltered immediacy permeates these works, of color applied to paper with intuitive and unrestrained joy. These are concentrated colors—sultry reds, neon greens, cerulean blues, hot pinks—that infuse the surface with such boundless energy the confines of the paper struggle to contain them.

Chihuly once said, “I never met a color I didn’t like.” His body of work—feats of glass and light, yes—are an homage to the artist’s abiding affection for color. To the four elements of Western culture, the Greeks added a fifth, the Spirit. Chihuly’s artwork captures the panoply of colors witnessed in Earth, Air, Fire, and Water but it also relishes in the unique way that color speaks to the Spirit.

Excerpted from the catalog for our 2019 CHIHULY exhibition, essay written by Jeanne Koles for Schantz Galleries.

Fire Ruby Basket Set with Ebony Lip Wraps, 2017, 16 x 35 x 36"
Golden Sapphire Basket Set with Navy Lip Wraps, 2017, 9 x 21 x 19"
Optic Topaz Basket Set, 2018, 8 x 17 x 17"
© 2017–18 Chihuly Studio

10/23/2023

Nancy Callan is working towards an exhibition at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, which opens next year. "Nancy Callan: Forces at Play" will be a celebration of the thoughtfulness, wit, and sense of wonder that are signatures of Callan’s work and inviting viewers to see the medium of glass with the same curiosity and passion that have fueled Callan’s artistic career. We thought you might like to see a few of her newest creations before then, since it opens in October 2024!

Nancy working with assistance from Dave Walters
"Kilauea Spire", 2023, 25.5 x 12.5 x 12.5"
"Ondine", 2023, 20 x 10.5 x 7"
"Nutmeg Droplet", 2022, 17.5 x 14 x 14"
"Baltic Cloud", 2023, 12 x 16.5 x 9"
"Rosita Paloma", 2023, 24.5 x 12" x 9"

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10/16/2023

Fiaz Elson’s cast glass sculptures are expressive in their form, provoking an emotional and intellectual response. She investigates form and volume to communicate and respond to the material but also to create tension and contradictions. Through the work, the artist explores emotive worlds; experiences and memories, acknowledging that we all have several aspects to our personalities and, consciously or unconsciously, we reveal or keep them hidden. This concept is expressed through the use of curves, angles, line, color and space.

Shown:
"Parallel Verve", 11 x 14 x 3”. Cast green and transparent black glass with internal lens.
"Expanding Lines", 16 x 16”, Cast glass with two tone blue/violet glass.
"Still I Rise, Still I Rise", 16 x 16 x 3”, Cast glass, metal base.
"Ocean, 2022, 16 x 16 x “, Cast glass with yellow and blue centre section. Hand polished curved front.

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10/14/2023

Collaboration between Ross Richmond and Preston Singletary. These two artists have been working together every now and then over the years, and we have these classic works from 2014 in our collection. Both artists works are typically narrative, working mainly with both figurative and symbolic narratives with relations to the natural world. Richmond's sculpted faces and hands are very beautiful and expressionistic, a source of silent communication, using gestures and titles to help convey an overall story. His pieces are usually about communication with self, or between others.

Works shown are hot sculpted glass with sand carving:
"Warrior Raven", 2014, 19.25 x 9 x 9.75”
"Eagles Offering", 2014, 15.5 x 8 x 11"
"Raven's Eye", 2014, 16.5 x 16 x 9.5”
"Raven's Offering, 2014, 14 x 7 x 8.5”

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10/12/2023

While all of Sidney Hutter’s objects are interesting and complex, the classic vase form always get the most amazed expressions of awe by first time viewers. They are primarily constructed of cut, ground, and polished plate glass which Hutter assembles using his colored adhesives. The simple shape challenges the visual sensation when moving around the form, colors shift, or a solid form appears to empty or fill with color or light. Hutter pursues these juxtapositions with intention and thought.

See more on his page of our website. www.schantzgalleries.com

Shown: Polished Laminated Vertical Vase, 2005, 18 x 12 x 8” A construction of cut and polished 1/4” and 1/2” Krystal Klear plate glass circles and bars laminated with yellow, red and blue dyed adhesive in the circles and blue dyed adhesive in the bars.

10/09/2023

FOG WOMAN by PRESTON SINGLETARY.
One of the many things we love about the work of Preston Singletary, are the stories that inspired him. Story telling is a way to keep history and cultures informed about the past and teach each other about the gifts and challenges of life. Through the objects Preston creates, he continues to teach us. "Fog Woman" is about keeping promises, and we have copied the story below from the Alaska Native Knowledge Network, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks website. At 29" in height, "Fog Woman" combines clear, bubble filled "fog" with the sand carved figure.

RAVEN AND THE FOG WOMAN
Raven wanted to get married. He went to the chief called Fog-Over-The-Salmon, who had a young daughter of marriageable age. The chief was glad that Raven wanted to marry his daughter, but he said, "You must promise to treat my daughter well. You must have respect for her, and look after her. If you behave badly, she will leave you and you won't get her back."

Raven agreed to what the chief demanded, and the couple were soon married. They lived contentedly in the village near the water all summer and fall. Then winter caine, and they were without food.

One, bleak rainy day, after they had been hungry for some time, Raven's wife started making a basket. "What are you making a basket for?" asked Raven testily. "We have nothing to put in it." His wife did not answer him, but continued making the basket, until it was very big.

That night they went to sleep hungry again, and the next morning when Raven woke up, he saw his wife sitting on the floor washing her hands in the basket. He got up to look at what she was doing, and when she had finished, there were salmon in the basket! These were the first salmon ever created.

Raven and his wife were very glad, and they cooked and ate the salmon. Every day, she did the same thing: she washed her hands in the basket, and when she had finished, there were salmon in it. Soon, their house was full of drying salmon, and they had plenty to eat.

After a while, however, Raven forgot that he owed his good fortune to his wife. He quarreled with her. Every day they would exchange bad words with one another; and in the end Raven got so angry that he hit his wife on the shoulder with a piece of dried salmon! He had forgotten the words of his father-in-law, the chief.

Raven's wife ran away from him. He chased her, but when he tried to catch hold of her, his hands passed right through her body as if through mist. She ran on, and every time Raven clutched her body, there was nothing to hold on to. He closed his hands on emptiness.
Then she ran into the water, and all the salmon she had dried followed her. Her figure became dim and she slowly disappeared into the mist. Raven, could not catch her, because she was the fog.

Raven went to his father-in-law, Chief Fog-Over-The-Salmon, and begged to have his wife returned. But his father-in-law looked at him sternly, and said, "You promised me that you would have respect for my daughter and take care of her. You did not keep
your promise. Therefore, you cannot have her back."