Glassblowing - Michael Magyar

Michael Magyar's glass is found in restaurants (including Pearl in Wellfleet), the Cape Cod Hospital lobby, and the Sandwich Glass Museum. It may also be found in your kitchen cupboard, where his sea bubble line captures the color and movement of water in glassware.

Sea Bubble lager glass

We also love his ocean balls. Filled with Cape Cod sand and shells, it's like Cape Cod take-out.

When we visited his studio (click for images), he wasn't demonstrating glass blowing, so we came home and found it on video. We thought you might like it, too:

 

Mary-Melinda Wellsandt

"I have been making 'pretty things' since I was about 3 years old, painting the gravel from our driveway with watercolors and peddling it around the block to our neighbors. In the years that have passed I believe my work has become somewhat more refined and sophisticated, but I have retained my 3-year-old sense of joy and delight in the creation of these pieces." - Mary-Melinda Wellsandt

We just updated our website with Mary-Melinda's latest designs. check it out!

making art with art, for art

Cindy Knight created this gorgeous arrangement for the MFA's Art in Bloom, using a Willsea-O'Brien Funnel Vase.

Michael Magyar - a studio visit

Every once in awhile we get out and about and do some visiting. Last week we dropped by to see Michael Magyar in his studio, Glass Studio on Cape Cod.



Unfortunately, we were not there on a glass blowing day. That meant they were able to chat with us a bit, but it also means we'll have to go back later for some awesome demonstration photos. Darn.


We love seeing where people work! To be in a space where they make the art we unpack and display at the gallery is kind of magical. Especially if you're a kid.


There's a box labeled "for kids only!" It's full of glass bobbles. Kids get to pick out a bobble to take home. It's important work, picking out the perfect one.


Everywhere you look there are ornaments and glasses, vases and lamps. Because we spend so much of our time with artists, we take some of this for granted. Despite the rose-colored glasses (no pun intended) through which we view the world, everything people use and buy is NOT made this way anymore. With mysterious looking tools and very hot fires, with techniques handed down through generations. It makes you look differently at your water glass.