Looking forward to the LA Art Show in February 2023! I’ll be there with Montague Gallery of San Francisco, showing some new works including this beauty: “Interspace”, Blown Glass 2022, 18 x 14 x 7″.
You’re invited to watch me at work at the Museum of Glass, August 24 – 28!
I’ll be making new works in the MOG hot shop with the help of their fabulous team and mine.
There are two ways to join the fun — come to beautiful Tacoma, WA and watch in person, or tune in any day to the MOG Livestream!
Visiting Artist Nancy Callan
August 24-28. 2022 Musuem of Glass
1801 Dock Street
Tacoma, WA 98042
“Melon Droplet” is now part of the permanent collection at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. “The gift of the Pforzheimer Collection of Studio Glass, which was announced today, includes over 200 works of international studio glass as well as about 40 pieces of historic European and American glass. It greatly expands PEM’s holdings of studio glass and joins an already robust assemblage of historic American glass at the museum. ”
Nancy Callan is featured in the April 2022 issue of Art & Antiques magazine. John Dorfman, Editor in Chief, interviews her about her creative journey, love for the material of glass and her current work.
“It is exciting to have a show in San Francisco, I haven’t been to the city in a number of years and it is great to visit and see what the art scene is like here. Montague has a gorgeous showroom with great visibility from the street. During the pandemic we really missed out on seeing art in person…I make sculpture and there is really nothing like seeing something physically, being able to walk around it and experience how light interacts with the work….”
Please join us on April 7, 2022 at 3 p.m. PST for a virtual tour of my new exhibition, “Nancy Callan: Phenomena”.
Dani Montague of Montague Gallery (San Francisco, CA) will host the tour from the gallery space and I’ll join in to add some reflections on the work and answer your questions!
Thrilled to say that my collaborative exhibition with Katherine Gray, “The Clown In Me Loves You”, is open at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA)! Five years in the making, we are so happy to unveil this project and get you thinking about the archetype of the clown and glass art in a fresh way. Kathy and I collaborated on every aspect of the work in this show, from designing the patterned panels and sculptures to the titles to the show design.
There will be a 48-page catalogue available in August, with essay by William Warmus and introduction by Greg Robinson and Amy Sawyer, co-curators.
Making large-scale work in hot glass is a rare treat, and it’s even better when you get to work with a good friend! Here’s a look back at my 2018 residency with Katherine Gray at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. We had a notion to make some of the classic clown horns in glass, but extra big like Claes Oldenberg & Coosje van Bruggen’s Pop Art sculptures. Little did we know that these XL horns would become “Tell Us How You REALLY Feel”, a central work in our collaborative show “The Clown In Me Loves You”, on view at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (WA) thru September 2019. Enjoy!
Nancy With Finished Horns (Blown Glass with Silver Leaf, Sound Recording)