This collection includes 88 contemporary glass artists from the Glass Glass Collection, on loan from the Isabel Foundation. Amassed during a ten-year period by Atlanta-based collectors Sherwin and Shirley Glass, this contemporary glass collection represents the greatest achievements by a large and diverse group of important national and international artists, including Lino Tagliapietra, Howard Ben Tré, Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova, William Morris, and Karen LaMonte, to name just a few. Additionally, works by artists Dale Chihuly, Dante Marioni, and Kari Russell-Pool, are also part of the FIA’s permanent collection.
Highlights of the Contemporary Craft - Glass Collection
Green Eye of the Pyramid, 1993-2004
Stanislav LibenskýCast, cut and polished glass, I-Beam pedestal
L2017.72
5 Part Black Twill Collection, 2015
Tobias MøhlBlown glass vessels in wall-mounted light box
2015.59
Aesthetic Engineering Series: Inventing Flowers, 2005
Ginny RuffnerLampworked, sandblasted and painted glass
L2017.106
July Field Flowers Column with Honeybee, Figures, and Masks, 2001
Paul StankardFlameworked and cold-worked glass
L2017.115
Libellula Mizimah, 2000
Toots ZynskyFused and kiln-formed filets de verre (glass threads)
L2017.137