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FIA Contemporary Crafts Wing opens with blitz of thanks, hopes for a “world saved by beauty”
By Jan Worth-Nelson What does art—and a major investment in making, acquiring and exhibiting it–mean to the City of Flint? Organizers of the weekend celebration and ribbon cutting for the opening of the 20,000-square-foot, $14 million Contemporary Crafts Wing and three new studios at the Flint Institute of Arts assembled a range of local luminaries,…
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“Thrill-seeker’s” theater of glass, heat and light opens for FIA “Hot Shop” crowds
By Jan Worth-Nelson Brent Swanson, the Flint Institute of Arts glass programs manager, says he is a “thrill seeker,” and that’s why he makes glass art. It’s fast, it’s risky, and it’s hot. And that’s what visitors settling into their stadium seats at the new FIA glass art “hot shop” demonstration arena starting every Saturday…
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“Glass is light” in stunning new additions at Flint Institute of Arts opening April 21
By Jan Worth-Nelson The ribbon-cutting at 10:30 a.m. April 21 of the Flint Institute of Arts blockbuster new wing, galleries, and studios will be the climax of a story rivaling the best door-stop novel. It is about a middle-aged woman’s third marriage to a furniture baron named Glass, and how, maybe on a whim, she…
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