Brooklyn’s Bullseye Glass Gallery displays employee art

By Rita A. Leonard

The Bee, Nov 25, 2009

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“One of the most recent styles is ‘Australian roll-up’, which adds to the rich and varied material choices available to today’s glass artisans,” she adds.

The Bullseye Resource Center features a huge classroom and lecture studio, complete with furnaces and worktables. Classes are offered year-round, exploring everything from color theory and drawing with glass, to bead-making, coldworking, and working with the torch.

“Classes here are a good value in time, price, information, and practice, with internationally renowned artists invited to demonstrate and share their techniques,” says Bartholomew. “And anyone who has taken a class here can rent studio space to work on their own projects.” says Bartholomew.

Exhibited glass art includes both wall hangings and display art. There are buttons, scenics, goblets, glass beads, portraits, and free-form and functional pieces. Techniques involve carving, texturizing, powdered glass screen print, fused manipulated glass, Murrine silhouettes, blown glass, and kiln-formed glass. “We also have a gallery over in the Pearl District,” reveals Bartholomew. “It’s a huge old warehouse space with two floors of displays. Check online at: www.bullseyegallery.com.”

Clearly, Bullseye Glass represents the Brooklyn neighborhood well, offering much more than a retail outlet with racks of supplies and products. You may want to explore their galleries and class offerings, and discover the many fascinating forms that can be achieved with glass.

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