Laceface, Hickory, and Phil Siegel | Guest Artist Flameworking Demo

In the culmination of a week-long collaborative engagement, flameworkers Laceface, Hickory, and Phil Siegel will bring together a sculpture that integrates each of their unique styles into a single work of art, during a live demonstration.
Lacey (Laceface) Walton
Lacey (LaceFace) Walton was born in Grants Pass, Oregon in the early 80’s. She was exposed to the blossoming art form of glass blowing and pipe making from an early age. Determined from the beginning to create beauty, Lacey fell in love with the color, fluidity, and form of glass the moment she began working on the torch in 2004. Lacey spent the next several years concentrating on her growing skills as a glass artist while simultaneously putting herself through school. After graduating with an associate degree in the Arts, she became heavily involved in the expanding glass pipe art movement.
Lacey's website: www.lacefaceglass.com
Lacey's Instagram: @lacefaceglass
Chris (Hickory) Vickers
Chris “Hickory Glass” Vickers began working with glass in 2001. In that time, he developed his highly recognizable style of making pieces that look like driftwood. This voice for making natural, woody-looking glass has also led him to develop techniques for making birch, cedar, and most recently burnt or rotted wood. He is constantly inspired by the natural world and enjoys creating pieces that will be used for many years by his collectors. 
Winning the 6th annual Pipe Classic flameworking competition at the Bern Gallery in Burlington, VT helped Chris gain national recognition and established him within the upper echelon of the flameworking community.
Hickory's Instagram: @hickoryglass
Phil Siegel
Phil lives in the remote coast of Washington State. With no formal apprenticeship or education in art, he uses his extensive background in construction and architecture, to guide his own, very personal, artistic vision and approach to the medium.
By combining the ridged form language, he learned while designing architecture with the limitless flowing nature of glass, he challenges himself to achieve a marriage between fantasy and structure, and to relate his deepest life experiences through the emancipation of his inner most spiritual, intellectual, and emotional self.
Phil's Website: www.philsiegelglass.com
Phil's Instagram: @philsiegelglass

[@lizblood5435]

So incredible and what talent. I am in awe of the skill that it took to execute this. The pipe community is having such an incredible impact on contemporary flame working. They have really pushed the art to another level.

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Couldn't agree more!

[@noeljoyce3930]

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[@shable1436]

Pipe community is where it's at bro

[@tabbycat6458]

Thats my favorite wowzer 😮that's awesome ❤

[@jeannereed-neidigh1192]

Magnificent!

[@maggiebannenberkowitz9254]

Amazing!!

[@talie7863]

Impressive piece ! Hi from France !

[@corningmuseumofglass]

👋

[@Kingfarter]

More borosilicate!!!! Woot!

[@corningmuseumofglass]

More coming soon!

[@cebundy]

Magical! wonder if the hand torches run on propane/oxygen too. I've had trouble with attachments, thanks for the tips! How do they know how long they can keep the piece out of the kiln, especially when your working with a bigger composition?

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Good question! It's really a testament to their experience and skillset, more or less they focused on the color changes in the treehouse components. They knew once the treehouse was a certain color it was getting too cold for comfort and thus it would get returned to the kiln.

[@dolcevitausa6448]

stunning

[@andreakonya8063]

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[@eviljohnson23]

Where did Lace get those Oakleys? They are awesome and functional!

[@Kingfarter]

Black flys eyewear customs i believe

[@olegk11]

Wow.. what is the value of a team effort such as this?

[@corningmuseumofglass]

That is great question for Lacey and the team!

[@gregory6488]

Are they using propane and oxygen on the their burners?

[@lindacondray7918]

Yes, all of the torches (big ones and the Little Smith hand torches) are Propane and Oxygen. The hand torches have a separate purchased nozzle that concentrates the heat more, but same fuels. I’m not sure all the hand torches had covers over their hoses, but if one of the 3 doesn’t, you’ll see green and red hoses running to under the table where the gas hook-ups go. Red is for propane and green for Oxygen. Hope this helps. Those Little Smiths are extremely helpful for sculptural work.

[@colele75]

Hi, interesting video! .. Thanks to my father I was born in this sector and it is a job that I am passionate about, I hope to reach this video quality also on my channel. Greetings from Murano Italy

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Thanks for sharing!

[@richardsmalls8286]

So much cursed commentary