Image Credit: John Littleton and Kate Vogel, Celebrating Muskegon, 2021, glass, stainless steel, with LED lighting, 22.5'h x 35'w x 29'd Muskegon, Michigan. Photo courtesy of the artists.
Join BRAHM for a conversation with the artist team John Littleton and Kate Vogel about their lives, artistic process, and current body of work.
This program is presented alongside the exhibition Uncommon Volumes: Sculptural Selections from Studio Glass in the Region.
About the Artists
Photo by Lucy Plato Clark, 2022, courtesy of the artists.
Blue Galaxy, 2021, glass, 24” h x 4 1/2" d x 10 1/4" w. Photo courtesy of the artists.
John Littleton and Kate Vogel, Illuminated Sphere, 2022, Glass steel and LED light 70" h x 25.5" w x 24" d; Apodaca Science Building, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC. Photo courtesy of the artists.
John Littleton and Kate Vogel’s collaboration began shortly after they met at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Since 1979 they have lived in the vibrant Toe River Arts community that surrounds Penland School in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Their art has taken many directions over the years and at the core of it all is their collaboration and shared lives. Their creations communicate and record their interrelationship with the world, creating powerful works from whimsical to introspective.
John and Kate are called on to give lectures at art museums and universities, and have taught casting and blowing at Penland School of Crafts. Their work is in public and private collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan, including institutions such as the Art in Embassies Program; The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY; Glasmuseum Ebeltoft in Denmark; The White House Collection at The Clinton Library in Little Rock, AR; High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.
They have been included in articles in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, CBS Sunday Morning and NC Weekend UNCTV. They are featured artists in the film “The Blue Ridge Parkway - America’s Favorite Journey”; shown at the Blue Ridge Parkway Destination Center.
You can see more of their work here, on their website.
Vessel for the Soul. Photo courtesy of the artists.
PLEASE NOTE: Limited seating available. An 80% refund will be issued if the participant cancels three weeks prior to the event. For cancellations made less than three weeks prior to the event, BRAHM will issue a refund IF the museum is able to fill the vacated spot.