Regional authors will return to Orange City, Iowa, for the second annual Author’s Corner, one of Tulip Festival’s newest attractions on May 13, 14 and 15th.
Iowa author Amelia Painter will be featured again this year as she joins other authors to sign and talk about their books and writing projects. Last year was a fun event that was enjoyed by all that attended, so clear your calendar and head to Orange City’s 2010 Tulip Festival.
Spencer, Iowa — Author and Internet Professional Amelia Painter recently volunteered her time to help promote the educational courses available at the Curiel-Reynolds School of Visual Arts at the Art Barn during the 2009 Clay County Fair. Painter is scheduled to teach Internet Marketing classes at the Spencer artist training facility in the spring of 2010.
Alec Welch and Amelia Painter
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Louis "Tony" Curiel and Angie Roberts working together to create astonishing lampwork beads
Louis “Tony” Curiel’s art glass is found in the prized collections of both corporate and private collectors and in public galleries and museums around the world.
Over the years, Curiel’s work has been an influential part of the revolutionary changes in blown glass that have instrumentally defined American glass art forms as we know them today. Curiel is one in an elite list of prolific of glass artists that include Dale Chihuly, Dante Marioni, Fritz Driesbach, Marvin Lipofsky, and Mark Bogenrief. These 20th century glass artists have combined their passion for natural lifeforms into living glass works.
According to historians, Glassblowing was initially invented by the Phoenicians at approximately 50 B.C. when collections of waste were collected from mikvah, “a ritual bath in the Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem dated from 37 to 4 B.C.”
In Curiel’s artistic career, he has focused primarily on neon, illuminated and plasma glasswork along with an serious love of lampwork.
Lampworking is a type of glasswork that uses a gas fueled torch to melt rods and tubes of clear and colored glass. Once in a molten state, the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with a variety of tools and hand movements. It is also known as flameworking or torchworking, as the modern practice no longer uses oil-fueled lamps. Although the art form has been practiced since ancient times, it became widely practiced in Murano, Italy in the 14th century. (*Wikipedia.org)
Lampwork beads, paperweights and pendants are favored by Curiel, and when he opened the Curiel-Reynolds School of Visual Arts in Spencer on July 20, 2008, he made sure there was a Glass Blowing and Lampworking Lab where students could learn the the contemporay skills of the art form.
Now with the school in its second year, the glass master has decided to work with a select group and write a book on the art of making lampwork beads. To spearhead the book project, Curiel has selected author Amelia Painter. Along with Painter, Curiel has selected professional lampwork bead artists Jon Curiel and Angie Roberts to work on the project.
Since Curiel is a scientific glass artist, he believes that his glassblowing/lampworking son Jon, who is the main lampwork instructor at the Curiel school, can add great value to the book in the chapters that cover working glass with a torch. And, since Robert’s lampwork tends to be dainty and whimsical, her contribution to the book project will add a creative touch the book might not otherwise have. The co-authors hope to have the new book on the shelves prior to Christmas 2009.
To learn more about Tony and Jon Curiel, visit the Curiel-Reynolds School of Visual Arts online at: www.curielarts.org.
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Amelia chatting with a local volunteer that enjoyed talking about books in the Author's Corner.
Iowa author, Amelia Painter, returned home from fourdays of book signings at the Tulip Festival Author’s Corner held in Orange City, Iowa May 13 – May 16th.
The Tulip Festival was an entertaining celebration for over 100,000 visitors this year. The Author’s Corner was a new addition to the 2009 celebration. There was a total of 22 authors featured.
My husband and I attended the public reception on Wednesday, May 13th from 6-7:30pm and we met a number of local residents that later would be volunteering at various festival events.
I initially schedule for two days in the Author’s Corner, but we were having such a good time that we ended-up staying all four days.
And we were in good company. We met a number of authors that were new to us, and had lots of laughs with local authors with which we were already acquainted. Noteworthy authors new to me included: Patricia Phipps, author of “My Grandma Always Told ME” — a collection of stories that range from humorous to serious and religious to ridiculous; Nicole Baart’s books. Nicole writes redemptive, hope-filled fiction; Tricia Currans-Sheehan, author of “The Egg Lady” and “The River Road;” and Dan Reinking from Bartlesville, OK, with his fascinating book “Oklahoma Breeding Bird Atlas” that provides comprehensive information on all species of birds known to nest in Oklahoma and other Mid-west states.
On Saturday, Spencer’s Vicki Myron, author of the New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Bestseller, “Dewey,” was on-hand to showcase and sign her book.
As for my book signing adventures, I have to report honestly that we had a great time. The facility was really nice and the organizers even nicer. My cookbook, “Discover Iowa: Cooking with Iowa Wines, Meats & Other Iowa Products” was the popular of the two books featured at my table. It is a real favorite of cooks of all ages across the state.
If you’d like to learn more about my writing go to: http://published.ameliawrites.com/
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