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Charlotte – A Theater from a Church

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The pride of Spirit Square is the 730-seat McGlohon Theater, named in honor of the late legendary jazz pianist Loonis McGlohon of Charlotte. With beautiful stained glass windows and a cupola, this space served as the First Baptist Church sanctuary for many years. The theater has been carefully restored to preserve and enhance its unique architectural details.

Charlotte – Inside McGlohon Theater at Spirit Square

Charlotte – Firebird Sculpture

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Affectionately known as “Disco Chicken” by area residents, the shimmering Firebird sculpture was installed in 2009, and stands at the entrance of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, North Carolina. The statue stands over 17 feet tall and weighs over 1,400 pounds. The entire statue is covered from top to bottom in over 7,500 pieces of mirrored and colored glass. The piece was created in 1991 by French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle.

Charlotte – Firebird Sculpture

Charlotte – Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

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The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a 36,500-square-foot museum space dedicated to the exhibition of mid-20th-century modern art. The museum is designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. A key design element of the four-story structure is the soaring glass atrium that extends through the museum’s core and diffuses natural light throughout the building.

Charlotte – Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

New Bern – Centenary United Methodist Church Stained Glass Window

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Centenary United Methodist Church in New Bern, North Carolina has numerous colored glass and stained glass windows. In addition to the original glass which lines its library, sanctuary and chapel walls, newer stained glass panels are mounted in the narthex doors, showing a history of Centenary Church.

New Bern – Centenary United Methodist Church Stained Glass Window

New Bern – Centenary United Methodist Church

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Centenary Methodist Church is a historic church located in New Bern, North Carolina. It was built in 1904-1905, and is an irregularly shaped, brick multiple-use church complex. The front facade includes an entrance five-bay arcade beneath a low conical roof flanked by square corner towers of unequal height.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972

New Bern – Centenary United Methodist Church

Chihuly at Biltmore – Lighted Pergola Garden Fiori

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The various shades of lighted. colored glass art by Chihuly at Biltmore

Chihuly at Biltmore – Pergola Garden Fiori Lighted Shades of Orange and Red

Chihuly at Biltmore – Pergola Garden Fiori Lighted Shades of Green and Black

Chihuly at Biltmore – Pergola Garden Fiori Lighted Shades of Blue

Chihuly at Biltmore – Float Boat and Niijima Floats

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Chihuly first filled boats with glass in Nuutajärvi, Finland, during the “Chihuly Over Venice” project in 1995. After several days of glassblowing, Chihuly started tossing glass forms into the Nuutajoki river to see how they would look in the environment. As the glass floated downstream it was retrieved in wooden boats by local teenagers, inspiring Chihuly to begin massing forms into wooden boats, creating what would become the Boat series.

Named for the island of Niijima in Tokyo Bay, and for the small Japanese fishing floats Chihuly would find on the shores of Puget Sound as a child, Niijima Floats are very likely the largest glass spheres ever blown (up to 40 inches in diameter and up to 80 pounds). The Floats are generally displayed in groups, either indoors or outdoors. New Floats were blown for the Biltmore exhibition.

Chihuly at Biltmore – Float Boat and Niijima Floats

Chihuly at Biltmore – Burnished Amber, Citron, and Teal Chandelier

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Chihuly’s first concept form for his Chandeliers premiered at the 1992 Seattle Art Museum exhibition. The series, which reflects the artist’s longtime interest in architecture, was further explored and perfected during preparation for Chihuly Over Venice, an ambitious two-year project.

Chandeliers can be made from as many as 1,000 individual pieces of glass. The elements that comprise Chandeliers can be bulbous, long and twisted, short and spiraled, and even frog-footed. Carefully arranged and attached to a
specially-designed steel armature, the many forms combine to create an intricate suspended composition.

Here is the Burnished Amber, Citron, and Teal Chandelier at Biltmore made in 2017.

Chihuly at Biltmore – Burnished Amber, Citron, and Teal Chandelier

Chihuly at Biltmore

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American artist Dale Chihuly shattered established boundaries of glass as an art medium creating masterpieces of marvelous color, form, and light.

Chihuly at Biltmore represents the first art exhibition in Biltmore’s historic gardens and the first garden exhibition of Chihuly’s works in North Carolina. The exhibition is currently going on at Biltmore Estate and Gardens in Asheville, North Carolina.

Will be posting a series of images taken during the day and night.

Chihuly at Biltmore

Saint Mark’s Basilica in Glass

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A depiction of Saint Mark’s Basilica (Venice) is beautifully made up in a glass nicromosaic at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.

This may be the largest Venetian micromosaic in existence. It measures five by seven feet, and it weighs one ton. As a rule, micromosaics are small works that emphasize detail; rarely do they exceed the size of a modest painting. This panel depicts Venice’s Piazza San Marco and its basilica. It provides an almost photographic record of the mosaic decoration on the basilica’s facade as it existed at the start of the 20th century. The panel is signed by the mosaicist E. Cerato, and it was on display in the store of the glass company Pauly & C. at the Piazza San Marco until the late 1950s. Developed in Italy during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the micromosaic technique made use of minute tesserae of colored glass that were arranged to create painterly effects. These tesserae were cut from thin opaque glass rods, of which there were more than 20,000 different tints.

Saint Marks Basilica in Glass

Saint Mark’s Basilica in Glass

The zoomed in image shows the various pieces of glass that were used to make up this masterpiece

Saint Marks Basilica in Glass Detailed

Saint Mark’s Basilica in Glass Detailed

 

Saint Marks Basilica in Glass Detail

Saint Mark’s Basilica in Glass Detail