Below are the most recent press releases from Flame Run.

Be an artist for a day and create your own blown-glass ornament with the help of the glass artists at Flame Run contemporary art glass studio. Guests have the opportunity to choose their own colors and then actually blow their own ornament.  This year you can also make a glass snowman.

Dates: Personal ornament sessions with a Flame Run artist are available by appointment only beginning November 18 through December 22.  Slots are available on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays as well as December 18 through December 23.

Cost: The cost is $40 per person per ornament. The snowman ornaments cost $50.

"It's a unique opportunity to create an original work of art to enjoy for yourself or to give as a gift," said Flame Run co-owner Brook Forrest White, Jr. "A one-on-one experience with a Flame Run artist will make a memorable holiday outing, and blowing your own ornament makes a great new family tradition."

A great family event, kids ages 5 and up are welcome to participate, and it also makes a fun outing for corporate groups.

Be an artist for a day this fall and create your own blown-glass pumpkin at Flame Run contemporary art glass studio. Flame Run artist Jake Pfeifer is taking appointments for blow your own pumpkins October 1 through November 11. Sessions are held between 10:00 am - 4:30 pm on Fridays and Saturdays and on Sundays from 10:00 am - 2:00pm.   

Participants can choose up to three colors from eight color selections. The experience takes 15 or 20 minutes and costs $50.

Guests can also get into the fall spirit by purchasing one of Pfeifer's glass pumpkins that start at $30 each.

Please call (502) 584-5353 to make an appointment.

Flame Run art glass studio will showcase the work of artist teams in "Odd Couples" from Sept. 26 through Nov. 18.  An opening night reception begins at 6 p.m. Oct. 7.

Unlike other art mediums, the heat and physical demands of glass art often make it necessary for glass artists to work in teams. The exhibit, which includes works by artists working together for the first time as well as long-time partners, will explore what happens when such collaborations are formalized.

"Everybody has a slightly different style, so by bringing artists together, you marry techniques and styles and different points of view about glass," said Tiffany Ackerman, the Gallery Manager.

Confirmed artists are:

Steven Hagan, Joe Peters, Philip Vinson, Nikolaj Christensen, Brent Cole, Mike Hernandez, Eoin Breadon, Tiffany Ackerman, Jake Pfeifer ,Jason Chakravarty, Gillian Preston, John Moran, Mike Hudson, John Stokes, Paul Nelson, Jeanne Nelson, Brook F. White, Jr., Aubrey White, Chrisler White, Devyn Baron, Carrie Battista, Patrick Frost, Sergio Vettori, Jacob Stout

Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery celebrated the contemporary glass bead movement with an exhibit of beads by artists from across the world. The juried exhibit included 59 beads, ranging in size from one inch to twelve inches wide.

Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery introduced children to the wonders of contemporary art glass and raised money for Children's Hospital Foundation with "The Glass Carnival" exhibit. The show included glass art that kids recognized and appreciated as well as ice cream vendors, balloon animals, face-painting, and giant (four-feet tall) popsicles at the Flame Run entrance.

Flame Run featured a solo exhibit of the contemporary glass art of Alexandra Marchant. Marchant is best known for what she calls her "sculptural drawings," three or four identically engraved glass drawings mounted on a piece of metal over images painted in acrylic. The show also included blown glass, fused glass and ceramic pieces.

Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery featured a solo exhibit of the work of Sungsoo Kim.

The show  included work from Rediscovery, Kim's series of vividly colored kiln-cast glass sculptures. To make his molds, he uses discarded styrofoam packaging and other recycled consumer and industrial products. The Rediscovery series was inspired by packaging from a computer purchase.

Nine Flame Run artists represented Kentucky at one of the foremost contemporary art and design events in the world, SOFA Chicago.

Flame Run artists helped the general public be artists for a day by creating their own blown-glass ornaments.

Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery featured a solo exhibit of the work of Curtiss Brock. Curtiss has established himself as a teacher with a dynamic style.

Glass in its simplest, most basic form, was the subject of "Pure," at Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery.

Twelve artists, including White, participated: Sergio Rodrigues, Matthew Cummings, Che Rhodes, Patrick Martin, TIffany Zink, Tiffany Ackerman, Alexandra Marchant, Paul Nelson, Mike Hudson, Jake Pfeifer and Jonathan Capps.

 "Centre College & Friends," celebrated Stephen Rolfe Powell, who is a seminal figure in contemporary glass art in Kentucky, and also celebrated a wide-ranging group of artists Powell mentored over the last 25 years while he built the Centre College glass program.  

Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery celebrated the work of Ben Edols and Kathy Elliott, the Australian couple whose reclining leaf series and other signature blown and cold-worked collaborations have won international acclaim.

"The Usual Suspects" included the work of owner Brook Forrest White Jr., and resident artists Susie Slabaugh, Paul Nelson, Paul Hugues, Tiffany Ackerman, Mike Hudson, Jon Capps, Bryan Holden and John Stokes.

Flame Run offered personal ornament blowing sessions with a Flame Run artist.

Flame Run contemporary art glass studio celebrated its 5^th anniversary by showcasing work from more than a dozen old friends and past exhibitors.      

Science as a theme in glass art of all kinds was the subject of "Weird Science", which included pieces that represented the weird and wonderful elements of science fused with the elements of glass art.

Brook White and Susie Slabaugh White exhibit in "Double Vision" at the Marta Hewett Gallery in Cincinnati.

 Show runs from Feb. 6 to March 28

Flame Run contemporary art glass studio featured Eoin Breadon, a glass artist whose work is influenced by Irish folklore and craftsmanship.

Flame Run celebrates its resident artists

An exhibit of work by 3 Flame Run artists at Actors Theatre