Art vs. Life

Glass the Elemental Beauty with Deep Cape Cod History

Meet a glass sculptor Thursday 

 The Studio on Slough Road will be hosting a beautiful evening  for Benton Jones, the Glass Sculptor from the Millstone Gallery on 6A in Brewster. One of the most sophisticated and elegant contemporary galleries in the area, Benton shows many styles and techniques with his beautiful vessels and very sophisticated aesthetic.  Join us Thursday evening from 6pm to 8:30pm.

The Studio will have the work displayed throughout the gallery and the gardens will be open to walk about and enjoy the woodlands and late summer blossoms. Sandwich was once the center of glass and Benton will speak about his experience as a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon, and his connection with Corning in New York.

He plans to use the internet to connect the the Studio on Slough by webcam to his studio as a Kiln firing is remotely controlled by internet.  He has set up a monitor so people can see this primal and beautiful process.

Having become entranced by glass while I was living in New Orleans with the fabulous Tulane Art Department Glass program, under Gene Koss, and the development of Studio Inferno in the Bywater area, with artist Mitchell Gaudet, both show at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, I went on to grow my love and knowledge of the medium.  In Seattle/Tacoma I was so fortunate to become involved with a  remarkable woman, Amy McBride, who ran the Public Art Program in Tacoma.  During her years there  the Internationally famous Tacoma Museum of Glass arrived. Dale Chihuly and Pilchuk leaders in the Art Glass World with the of City Tacoma were instrumental in putting this destination on the world scene in Contemporary Glass.  If you are intrigued, Google the Tacoma Museum of Glass and see the fabulous building designed around an open, huge Hot Box which give the structure is watery, nautical imagery in the Port of Tacoma.  To find this wonderful East Coast artist, celebrating and creating a new movement
right here in Brewster is just too wonderful.

Come by around 6pm on Thursday and hear him speak and see these beautiful "Vessels"  of Glass and other beautiful sculpture.  Check out the website under events for more information see our website.