2018 Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition

The Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass will open on Saturday, March 3rd to showcase talented young area artists and celebrate national Youth Art Month.

The museum offered schools an opportunity to bring students to the museum to work in The Glass Studio with artists.

Throughout the months of January and February, students worked in the glass studio creating objects using flame working techniques to make beads and Borosilicate glass to create detailed sculptures. 

Students experimented with a variety of fused glass methods including open weave fusing, reactive glass techniques, whereby specific glasses are layered on top of one another to create color reactions with the metals in the different glass layers. Students also included copper foil and wire in their creations. The majority of the works exhibited were created during these workshops. Additional artwork created at the schools will also be on display.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website