Mosaic & Enameling Intensive with Visiting Artist - John Drury - June 23-27 (all levels)
Dates: June 23rd-27th, 2025 from 9am-4pm
Course Description:
Each summer, Buchanan Arts hosts one visiting artist for a week-long studio intensive. For the Summer of ‘25 New York City-based artist, author and independent curator John Drury is our featured artist.
Join us for this week-long mosaic and fired-enameling extravaganza, while also leaving a permanent impression on Buchanan Arts! Participants in this workshop will learn to work collaboratively to create a public artwork/sign to be displayed outside of the Buchanan Arts studio building. Many hands will allow for the successful completion of this goal; a group project employing your new found skills in fired enameling and mosaic.
At course’s end you will have a thorough understanding of the dos and don’ts of glass mosaic. You will be comfortable cutting glass, you will know the proper adhesives, grouts and support grounds, for both indoor and outdoor projects.
We will also investigate the technique of fired enamels as informed in the historical application of its use for stained glass windows and as exampled in contemporary practices. Each of these techniques, mosaic and enameling might be used, also, in combination and are ideal methods for bringing conceptual grounding to your work - through ideas and imagery rooted in you.
No experience is necessary, and all are welcome.
Ages 18 and up, all materials and tools provided.
Course fee: $400.00
Financial aid is available: HERE
Instructor Biography:
JOHN DRURY is a multi-media artist, published author, independent curator and instructor. Drury holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design (1983) and a Master of Fine Art Degree (1985; majoring in Sculpture, and including a minor, in Painting), from Ohio State University. Living in New York City since 1989, John is the father of two young adults and has received the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, for his work as a sculptor (1997). In 2023, Drury received a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, to serve as visiting artist, at the Land Gallery, in Brooklyn; that facilities mission to work in support developmentally challenged artists. John is a member of the influential art-duo CUD, celebrating thirty-seven years of collaboration in 2025. Mr. Drury has exhibited his work at the Willoughby Sharp, Exit Art and Holly Solomon Galleries in NYC.
John is a contributing editor of GLASS magazine (with more than 200 published texts); writing also, a dozen feature articles for Neus Glas magazine. Thirty texts are available online, those written for the WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Drury’s written work can also be found in the monograph “Shooting the Sun/Splitting the Pie” (2015), on the life work of visionary multi-media artist Jerry Pethick (1935-2003), First Nation’s artist Preston Singletary’s monograph accompanying his experiential, traveling exhibition “Raven and the Box of Daylight” and in Czech Republic artist Ivana Sramkova’s catalog; that accompanying her exhibition (April 25-September 22, 2020), “Beings”, at the Toyama Glass Art Museum in Japan - to name but a few.
In 2019, Drury curated two exhibitions - “The Other Glass: An Alternative History”, at the Heller Gallery in Manhattan and “As In Also: An Alternative Too”, at the Traver Gallery in Seattle. There was a second curatorial effort for the Traver Gallery, in April of 2023 - Native Influence: Tony Jojola’s Life of Influence; an exhibition including a dozen indigenous makers, in celebration friendship, sharing and respect. Early in 2024, his next curatorial effort, “The Builders”, was realized at Sarahcown Gallery, in Manhattan. John Drury has taught throughout the US, and internationally in Australia, Canada, Norway and Turkey. John co-taught in 2023, for a sixth time, at the prestigious Pilchuck Glass School – this engagement, with internationally celebrated artist and musician Lonnie Holley. He returns to Pilchuck, in the Fall of 2025, to assist sculptor Tom Otterness.
Dates: June 23rd-27th, 2025 from 9am-4pm
Course Description:
Each summer, Buchanan Arts hosts one visiting artist for a week-long studio intensive. For the Summer of ‘25 New York City-based artist, author and independent curator John Drury is our featured artist.
Join us for this week-long mosaic and fired-enameling extravaganza, while also leaving a permanent impression on Buchanan Arts! Participants in this workshop will learn to work collaboratively to create a public artwork/sign to be displayed outside of the Buchanan Arts studio building. Many hands will allow for the successful completion of this goal; a group project employing your new found skills in fired enameling and mosaic.
At course’s end you will have a thorough understanding of the dos and don’ts of glass mosaic. You will be comfortable cutting glass, you will know the proper adhesives, grouts and support grounds, for both indoor and outdoor projects.
We will also investigate the technique of fired enamels as informed in the historical application of its use for stained glass windows and as exampled in contemporary practices. Each of these techniques, mosaic and enameling might be used, also, in combination and are ideal methods for bringing conceptual grounding to your work - through ideas and imagery rooted in you.
No experience is necessary, and all are welcome.
Ages 18 and up, all materials and tools provided.
Course fee: $400.00
Financial aid is available: HERE
Instructor Biography:
JOHN DRURY is a multi-media artist, published author, independent curator and instructor. Drury holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design (1983) and a Master of Fine Art Degree (1985; majoring in Sculpture, and including a minor, in Painting), from Ohio State University. Living in New York City since 1989, John is the father of two young adults and has received the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, for his work as a sculptor (1997). In 2023, Drury received a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, to serve as visiting artist, at the Land Gallery, in Brooklyn; that facilities mission to work in support developmentally challenged artists. John is a member of the influential art-duo CUD, celebrating thirty-seven years of collaboration in 2025. Mr. Drury has exhibited his work at the Willoughby Sharp, Exit Art and Holly Solomon Galleries in NYC.
John is a contributing editor of GLASS magazine (with more than 200 published texts); writing also, a dozen feature articles for Neus Glas magazine. Thirty texts are available online, those written for the WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Drury’s written work can also be found in the monograph “Shooting the Sun/Splitting the Pie” (2015), on the life work of visionary multi-media artist Jerry Pethick (1935-2003), First Nation’s artist Preston Singletary’s monograph accompanying his experiential, traveling exhibition “Raven and the Box of Daylight” and in Czech Republic artist Ivana Sramkova’s catalog; that accompanying her exhibition (April 25-September 22, 2020), “Beings”, at the Toyama Glass Art Museum in Japan - to name but a few.
In 2019, Drury curated two exhibitions - “The Other Glass: An Alternative History”, at the Heller Gallery in Manhattan and “As In Also: An Alternative Too”, at the Traver Gallery in Seattle. There was a second curatorial effort for the Traver Gallery, in April of 2023 - Native Influence: Tony Jojola’s Life of Influence; an exhibition including a dozen indigenous makers, in celebration friendship, sharing and respect. Early in 2024, his next curatorial effort, “The Builders”, was realized at Sarahcown Gallery, in Manhattan. John Drury has taught throughout the US, and internationally in Australia, Canada, Norway and Turkey. John co-taught in 2023, for a sixth time, at the prestigious Pilchuck Glass School – this engagement, with internationally celebrated artist and musician Lonnie Holley. He returns to Pilchuck, in the Fall of 2025, to assist sculptor Tom Otterness.
Dates: June 23rd-27th, 2025 from 9am-4pm
Course Description:
Each summer, Buchanan Arts hosts one visiting artist for a week-long studio intensive. For the Summer of ‘25 New York City-based artist, author and independent curator John Drury is our featured artist.
Join us for this week-long mosaic and fired-enameling extravaganza, while also leaving a permanent impression on Buchanan Arts! Participants in this workshop will learn to work collaboratively to create a public artwork/sign to be displayed outside of the Buchanan Arts studio building. Many hands will allow for the successful completion of this goal; a group project employing your new found skills in fired enameling and mosaic.
At course’s end you will have a thorough understanding of the dos and don’ts of glass mosaic. You will be comfortable cutting glass, you will know the proper adhesives, grouts and support grounds, for both indoor and outdoor projects.
We will also investigate the technique of fired enamels as informed in the historical application of its use for stained glass windows and as exampled in contemporary practices. Each of these techniques, mosaic and enameling might be used, also, in combination and are ideal methods for bringing conceptual grounding to your work - through ideas and imagery rooted in you.
No experience is necessary, and all are welcome.
Ages 18 and up, all materials and tools provided.
Course fee: $400.00
Financial aid is available: HERE
Instructor Biography:
JOHN DRURY is a multi-media artist, published author, independent curator and instructor. Drury holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design (1983) and a Master of Fine Art Degree (1985; majoring in Sculpture, and including a minor, in Painting), from Ohio State University. Living in New York City since 1989, John is the father of two young adults and has received the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, for his work as a sculptor (1997). In 2023, Drury received a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, to serve as visiting artist, at the Land Gallery, in Brooklyn; that facilities mission to work in support developmentally challenged artists. John is a member of the influential art-duo CUD, celebrating thirty-seven years of collaboration in 2025. Mr. Drury has exhibited his work at the Willoughby Sharp, Exit Art and Holly Solomon Galleries in NYC.
John is a contributing editor of GLASS magazine (with more than 200 published texts); writing also, a dozen feature articles for Neus Glas magazine. Thirty texts are available online, those written for the WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Drury’s written work can also be found in the monograph “Shooting the Sun/Splitting the Pie” (2015), on the life work of visionary multi-media artist Jerry Pethick (1935-2003), First Nation’s artist Preston Singletary’s monograph accompanying his experiential, traveling exhibition “Raven and the Box of Daylight” and in Czech Republic artist Ivana Sramkova’s catalog; that accompanying her exhibition (April 25-September 22, 2020), “Beings”, at the Toyama Glass Art Museum in Japan - to name but a few.
In 2019, Drury curated two exhibitions - “The Other Glass: An Alternative History”, at the Heller Gallery in Manhattan and “As In Also: An Alternative Too”, at the Traver Gallery in Seattle. There was a second curatorial effort for the Traver Gallery, in April of 2023 - Native Influence: Tony Jojola’s Life of Influence; an exhibition including a dozen indigenous makers, in celebration friendship, sharing and respect. Early in 2024, his next curatorial effort, “The Builders”, was realized at Sarahcown Gallery, in Manhattan. John Drury has taught throughout the US, and internationally in Australia, Canada, Norway and Turkey. John co-taught in 2023, for a sixth time, at the prestigious Pilchuck Glass School – this engagement, with internationally celebrated artist and musician Lonnie Holley. He returns to Pilchuck, in the Fall of 2025, to assist sculptor Tom Otterness.
