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Monday, July 9, 2012

Joy Creates Glass Sculpture

This week's featured artist is Joy Alyssa Day of GlassSculptureOrg. Joy and her partner work from Carmel Valley, California. Not only does Joy create amazing art, but she also has an amazing story.

Rose Nebulae Glass Tile Pendant


Joy was in her junior year at Purdue headed for a career in Computer Science, designing computer systems for spacecraft when she began to understand that she would find her true calling and happy life in art. Joy made a drastic change to her program from Computer Science to Theater-Costume Design and has never looked back. She is a professional artist and loves it. GlassSculptureOrg reveals her passion for what she creates and we can still see an element of her interest in space as well. Her pieces find a range of venues from jewelry like this pendant 


Earth "cast glass" Bowl











 to beautiful bowls like - Earth Bowl which Joy creates using a technique that she describes as "cast glass",











to The Planetary Society Cosmos awards in blown glass presented to James Cameron and Professor Stephen Hawking

Joy Alyssa Day & B.E. Johnson's Blown Glass Planetary Society Award presented to Stephen Hawking


Here are a sampling of images from GlassSculptureOrg.

Bubble in Glass Marble





This beautiful blown glass ball is accompanied by pictures, which I find fascinating, displaying some of the process necessary in making the piece.


Blown glass ball Christmas ornament
Christmas Ornament 






Whimsical and quirky items like 
Steam Punk Glass Gears

Glass Cupcake Paperweights



Notecards - set of 10
Notecards and special paintings are also part of the items on display. Such a variety of beautiful work.
















Kneeling Angel

Please stop by and take a look.

As well as the Artfire shop, you will find GlassSculptureOrg at the following links:
http://glasssculpture.org/
http://glassnebula.com/
http://sphericalmagic.com/
http://imperialearth.com/