Schantz Galleries Contemporary Glass

02/03/2025

Now Streaming! See the award-winning documentary film Paul J. Stankard: Flower & Flame, now available for streaming at www.flowerandflamefilm.com.

This epic documentary from Dan Collins Media follows Paul's incredible journey as he masters the art of flameworked glass in the pursuit of excellence and beauty. The film won the award for Best Jersey Feature at the 2024 Jersey Shore Film Festival and celebrated its European festival premiere at the 2024 Glass Art Society Film Festival in Berlin, Germany.

We hope you enjoy this unique look into the life of a living master of flameworked glass.

"Exquisitely crafted" - Andrew Page, Glass Quarterly

"As if we're sitting right next to Stankard as his works come to life" - Richard Propes, The Independent Critic

Thanks to our generous supporters!

Executive Producer
Graeber Art Glass

Major Film Sponsors
Chemglass Life Sciences | Salem Community College | L.H. Selman Ltd. | WheatonArts | Maureen and David Winigrad David Winigrad

Producers
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass Camden County College

Associate Producers
Delaware Valley Paperweight Collectors Association | Gloucester County Art League Artists Workshop of Southern NJ | High Volume Oxygen | His Glassworks, Inc. | Paperweight Collectors Association (PCA) | Abe Fleishman | Schantz Galleries Contemporary Glass

Additional Glass Photography and Video
Jeff DiMarco Photography Josh Skolnik

10/13/2024

We are re-posting this to help out the area where Alex Bernstein and his family are deeply affected by the floods in Ashville. Help if you can.

The South Toe and Celo communities in Western North Carolina ha… Nate Tibbits needs your support for Rebuild the South Toe River Valley After Hurricane Helene

05/22/2024

There are still a few days to sign up and stream this amazing film!

Thank you to everyone who attended the Seattle International Film Festival () this year! The Maestro’s new feature film, Sono Lino, was a hit taking second runner up for the Documentary Golden Space Needle Award out of 47 other films at the festival.

To anyone who was unable to attend the screening, SIFF has offered this documentary as one of the select few for US streaming. To watch this film from the comfort of your home, click here: https://www.siff.net/festival/sono-lino. Sono Lino is available to stream May 20-27.

Don’t miss your chance to watch!

03/16/2024

Happening today! Preston Singletary is working at the Museum of Glass, and you can watch on the Hotshop Livestream this weekend.... what is he making?!

02/29/2024

Now in his 80s, the New Jersey-based artist is finding new audiences through a just-released documentary, a new book and a major museum retrospective

02/19/2024

Here is a sneak peek of new work by Jim Schantz! Stop by the Gallery to see them in person and/or check them out on Artsy 🌈

Link in bio and here:
https://www.artsy.net/partner/pucker-gallery/artists/jim-schantz

Images (top to bottom):
1. Jim Schantz | "Winter Sunset, Monument Valley" | 2024 | Pastel on Stonehenge paper | 18 x 46" | JMS803
2. Jim Schantz | "Barrington Dusk" | 2024 | Pastel on Stonehenge paper | 21 x 29" | JMS800
3. Jim Schantz | "Sunset, Towards Monument Valley" | 2024 | Pastel on Stonehenge paper | 15.75 x 30" | JMS802

01/27/2024

Yes!!!

The Smithsonian Visionary Award will be presented to two outstanding glass artists, Dan Dailey and Judith Schaechter, during the 2024 Smithsonian Craft Show Preview Night Benefit Wednesday, May 1, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Dailey is honored for his innovative and captivatin...

01/18/2024

THE SPIRIT OF COLOR –
Few contemporary artists delight in the potential of color, push the boundaries of its established rules, or harness its emotional capacity like artist Dale Chihuly. With over 300 differently-hued glass specimens in his hotshop in Seattle, Chihuly possesses “a never-ending palette of colors.” Of the seven fundamental elements of art—line, shape, form, space, value, texture, and color—color is a potent guiding force for Chihuly. He is known for mastering, challenging, and modernizing traditional glassmaking techniques, for embracing the elemental qualities and inherent unpredictability of molten glass, for experimenting and stretching the acknowledged limits of the material. He is known for gathering influences from his world travels and incorporating them in visceral and unexpected ways, resulting in vital and dynamic works of art that connect people with their own intuitive experience of life. Within all this, a fascination with color permeates every aspect of the work down to the color-themed titles of his pieces. In the vernacular of Chihuly, red is oxblood, lilac is dusty, and green is golden celadon. The breadth of colors is inspired by myriad elements, from geologic to geographic, historical to metaphorical.

To an artist so intoxicated by the capacity of color, the question of medium becomes more fluid. While Chihuly’s drawings are exercises in formal discovery and conceptual experiments for works in glass, they are also lively studies in color and fully resolved works of art. A sense of unfiltered immediacy permeates these works, of color applied to paper with intuitive and unrestrained joy. These are concentrated colors—sultry reds, neon greens, cerulean blues, hot pinks—that infuse the surface with such boundless energy the confines of the paper struggle to contain them.

Chihuly once said, “I never met a color I didn’t like.” His body of work—feats of glass and light, yes—are an homage to the artist’s abiding affection for color. To the four elements of Western culture, the Greeks added a fifth, the Spirit. Chihuly’s artwork captures the panoply of colors witnessed in Earth, Air, Fire, and Water but it also relishes in the unique way that color speaks to the Spirit.

Excerpted from the catalog for our 2019 CHIHULY exhibition, essay written by Jeanne Koles for Schantz Galleries.

Fire Ruby Basket Set with Ebony Lip Wraps, 2017, 16 x 35 x 36"
Golden Sapphire Basket Set with Navy Lip Wraps, 2017, 9 x 21 x 19"
Optic Topaz Basket Set, 2018, 8 x 17 x 17"
© 2017–18 Chihuly Studio