Filigrana Goblet by Marc Barreda & Geir Nustad (the techniques of renaissance Venetian Glass)

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Marc Barreda (USA/NL, 1977).
After receiving a bachelor's degree in Biology from Williams College, Marc started a career in the arts, working as a mixed-media sculptor and training as a glassblower. He developed an understanding of glass by working for a variety of artists and by taking and assisting at classes at glass schools around the United States and Europe. This commitment to the medium opened a variety of doors for him, both domestically and abroad. In 2005, Marc made his first trip to Holland to help develop the Vrij Glas Foundation. In 2009, he moved to Amsterdam full time to pursue a master's degree at Sandberg Institute, the graduate program of the Rietveld Academie. His work is shown internationally and is housed in the collections of The Creative Glass Center of America, the Museo Nacional del Vidrio in Spain, the Nationaal Glasmuseum of the Netherlands, and elsewhere. Marc also works with acclaimed artists and designers to help realize their ideas in glass and teaches at the KABK in The Hague. In the summer, Marc is also a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska.
"My work develops through a reciprocal relationship between scientific concepts and the drama of existence, emphasizing an attention and devotion to fine craftsmanship and phenomenological explorations."
Geir Nustad
I was born in Tromsø, in the north of Norway in 1984.
Here I grew up and lived the first part of my life being socially and political active, and since 2002 working with art and cultural projects .
In 2006 I moved to Kosta, Sweden, to begin my studies to become a glassblower at the Kosta Glascenter (one of Europe`s most renowned glass schools).
I graduated In 2009 with promising results and continued the search for my own expression with glass. That same year I started studying in the Glass Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where I graduated with a BFA in the summer of 2012.
I am currently living and working in Amsterdam.
My practice as an artist stretches from drawings and paintings, to objects, sculptures and installations, that consist mainly of glass, either as a sculptural medium or in the direction of design/applied-arts. I am trying to stretch the use of glass as a material and to create a bridge between craft, design and fine arts, creating a deeper connection between the object or sculpture and the spectator.