Show Schedule and Publications
Gallery Representation
Leslie is represented by the Sherrie Gallery in Columbus Ohio
Leslie Kaplan will have a sales booth at the following events in 2012
March 3, 4, and 5, Germantown Friends School Craft Show Philadelphia, PA . Field house, Booth #45
May 19, 20, Northern Virginia Arts Festival, Reston Virginia.
June 9, 10: Clay Glass and Metal Art Festival, Royal Oak, Michigan.
July 18-21, State Street Art Fair, Ann Arbor, MI
September 7, 8, 9 Fair in the Park, Mellon Park, Pittsburgh, PA
September 22-23 Common Ground’s 38 Annual Birmingham Street Art Fair, Birmingham MI
October 5 – 7 Sugarloaf Craft Festival, Timonium MD
October 12-14 Sugarloaf Craft Festival, Gaithersburg, MD
November 2-4 Sugarloaf Craft Festival, Oaks, PA
Studio Sale Friday November 10, 6 – 9 pm Saturday, November 12, 9am – 4pm, Sunday Nov 13 1-3pm
125 S. Lang Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15208 (in Point Breeze)
December 3 and 4 Pittsburgh Glass Center, Holiday Sale
Exhibits
Leslie’s work was be featured in the following juried exhibits and publications :
From the Earth to the Fire and Back, Pittsburgh Glass Center, March 2010
Floracycle
I have three pieces on exhibit in this environmentally themed show: ‘Floracycle’ made of copper wire and glass flowers and leaves made of melted and reshaped bottles. The flowers are acid-etched to give them that beach-glassy look. ‘ Hydrocyle’ was all about the water cycle in a necklace – glass spirals flowing off of a peyote fringed framework, with white spirals in the middle representing the rain/snow/atmospheric water, flanked by greens on one side for plants, and blue on the other side for free water. The third piece is mostly recycled copperwire wrapped around repurposed ‘rings’ of various materials I found at Construction Junction – leather, rubber, metals. They are mixed with recycled bottle glass leaves I melted, too, and the whole piece is delicate and trembly.
Convergence II
Adorning the Past, Present & Pretend
Did you ever wonder what type of bracelet might have been worn by the Greek goddess, Persephone of the Underworld? Or perhaps what style of necklace Sigmund Freud might design? Visit the Artist Hall at HCCC to discover how members of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB) have been inspired by persons of fact and fiction in this phenomenal juried exhibition. Convergence II features 55 pieces of stunning jewelry—including necklaces, brooches and collars—all made of handmade glass beads. Each piece is inspired by a person from history, real or imagined, and designed with that person in mind.
My piece was designed with Imelda Marcos in mind. It is entitled:
Excess - Imelda Marcos Style
‘Excess – Imelda Marcos Style’. There are a multitude of flameworked glass shoes strung amid tropical beaded-wire foliage. Imelda Marcos, the wife of deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines, is often remembered for symbols of the extravagance of her husband’s political reign such as her collection of 2700 pairs of shoes.
This show opened in July, Rochester NY during the 2010 ISGB Gathering.
It will move to the
Kobe Lampwork Glass Museum (http://www.lampwork-museum.com) from April 16 to July 4, 2011. During this extended time period, the exhibition will be moved to also participate as part of the Bead Art Show in Yokohama (http://bead-art-show.com) from May 20 to 22, 2011.
Houston Center for contemporary Craft
September 25 – November 28, 2010
4848 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 5 PM; Sunday 12 – 5 PM
713-529-4848
BEAD&BUTTON SHOW
MIDWEST AIRLINES CENTER
400 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414.687.6001
June 3 – June 7, 2011
126 W. Main Street
Lancaster, Ohio
2011
shoes!
A juried competition of handmade glass bead jewelry in the the theme of ‘The Elements – Air, Water, Fire and Earth’, co-sponsored by the ISGB and the Bead and Button Magazine. The exhibit will be displayed in the following places:
OHIO GLASS MUSEUM
'Harvest', designed for the Earth Element
126 W. Main Street
Lancaster, Ohio
740.687.0101
May 1 – May 24, 2009
BEAD&BUTTON SHOW
MIDWEST AIRLINES CENTER
400 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414.687.6001
June 3 – June 7, 2009
WINDISCH-HUNT FINE ARTS GALLERY
2911 Grand Avenue
Coconut Grove, Florida
772.480.3131
June 20 – July 24, 2009
Bead and Button Magazine’s ‘Jewelry Designs with Art Glass Beads’ , October 2009 – On Sale now!
Several of the winners of the ‘Convergence’ contest will be featured in this special ‘step by step’ issue in October, 2009. My necklace, ‘Harvest’, was chosen, and it is accompanied with a ‘how to’ that I wrote for using disc shaped beads in jewelry.
Perspectives: Traditions and Innovations in Glass Beads
The ISGB informed me that my bead ‘Flounced’ , seen at the right, was one of the beads chosen for thier 2009 Perspectives exhibition and part of the GAS Conference in Corning, New York!
This juried exhibit presented by ISGB, represents the endlessly captivating styles, techniques, and processes used in contemporary glass beadmaking. Unique color, form, and textural elements were combined to highlight the infinite possibilities of glass, as expressed by our members. Artists were encouraged to create a bead that best captured their inspiration, innovation, and personal “voice.”
This distinctive collection of small wonders in glass artistry can be enjoyed June 5 to September 7 at the Radisson Hotel, Corning, and opens specifically as part of the 2009 GAS Conference. Artists, collectors, gallery and museum personnel, writers, and critics from around the globe will come together to celebrate the medium that unites us all – glass!
