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Julie R. Riggs

Posted by Julie R. Riggs on 1/25/2004

These are the wonderful teachers I have learned much from over the past 9 years,
Shane Fero & Fred Birkhill (who I consider my biggest influences & mentors,they were my first teachers & have taught me more about glass,the community & its history than anyone!)
also...Paul Stankard, Lucio Bubacco, Milon Townsend, Sally Prasch, Loren Stump, Emilio Santini, Kristina Logan, Eric Goldschmidt, Beth Lipman, Roger Parramore, Jen Zitkov, Marcel Braun, Walter Hellbach, Robert Mickelsen,Vittorio Costantini, Ric Allen and Ed Schmid.
Also all the talented friends I have made in my travels (too many to list but you know who you are!) have had as much of an influence on my life & my work as all the classes combined!

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Dolinas Wedding Bouquet

I made this bouquet for my best friends wedding. It has 7 glass flowers, 6 glass curly swirls, glass leafs (on the crystal vines), Swarovski Crystals, Swarovski Pearls, gold & colored wires, natural & dyed peacock feathers and gold ribbon tooling...all together on a clear bouquet ball. I also made her a throwing bouquet out of the silk flowers I used as models for the glass, extra feathers and crystals. I made her husband a matching lapel pin.

I am offering Custom MADE~TO~ORDER Glass Wedding Bouquets, please contact me for details!
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Eye Rings

When I visited Lauscha, Germany I took a private lesson with Master Eyeball maker Walter Hellbach. These are some rings made out of boro using the techniques I learned from him (using Lauscha Glass)
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Flower pendant with faceted center

This is the very first flower pendent with faceted center I made. The center is mostly clear so when worn over any color it shows through. I really liked how it came out so I made 2 others the next night with some other pieces I had practiced faceting with. All 3 are for sale on the marketplace.
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Flower Pendants with Faceted centers

I just got a Faceting thingie and these are some of my first faceted pieces.
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Marks Roses

This boquet of roses was commissioned as a gift for Marks Mother...the feather accents are dyed peacock feathers
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Wine Stoppers by Julie Riggs & Devon Marino

Our neighbors asked us to make them a few wine stoppers for the holidays & they showed them to their friends & colleagues who ordered lots more...simple prodo pieces...but paid for our "new" 73 VW Squareback :)
*Photos by Devon Marino*
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My First Class & Studio Shots

This Past weekend I held my first class out of my studio (aka The Bat Cave). These are some pics from that class & random studio shots. It was tons of fun & I can't wait to teach more! Gremlin also came over to guest demo & colab (see GP for pics)
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Bird of paradise perfume bottle

more pics of new work coming soon!!!
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Birth of Imigination

My daughter calls this my Dr. Suess piece...it is sandblasted & oil painted & the beads going up the stem are moveable.
I started this durring Robert Mickelsons organic forms & painting on glass class a few years ago...I just got a sandblast cabinet & plan on doing more work like it in the future
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Dolinas Tree

This tree of life woman is pregnant with a polished opal & behind her are the mountains and night sky with an opal full moon (also signifying fertility).
She was made as a gift for one of my closest friends, Dolina, who is a natural mother.
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Tree of Life Menorah

This tree of life woman menorah was inspired by a Jewish musician. In his music I didn't so much as hear a religious message as a spiritual one (I tend to tune out religious babble anyway) His message of love and life and light shown through and she was the vision his music created in my head. Her candles glow in the dark and are filled with oil and each has a small wick (not in the pic)
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Genie in a Bottle

This Genie perfume bottle stands about 5in tall and has a tiny bellydancing genie dropper inside. It also had a protecting eye on the top and in the center of the flower. I've been taking Bellydancing classes for a few years now & have found it very inspiring. I plan on making many more bellydance related glass objects (and am currently working on a full glass bellydance costume complete with glass coins)
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Barrys oil Lamp

This was an oil lamp I made at AGI this year for Barrys competition. There were 15 names drawn and we were each given a pack with all less than a foot of a small piece of ionx tube, a small clear tube, i forget what other size clear tube, some clear rod, a wick & 3 ugly colors & were not allowed to use any other material & given till 7pm the next day to make an oil lamp (which knowing flameworkers turned into 3 days later) Everyone made amazing things & my vote went to Mike Shelbos awesome goblin, but I ended up winning 1st place with this piece
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Penland 08

These are pictures from Ed Shmids fall concentration class @ Penland. This was the first Hot Shop class I've ever taken. I really enjoyed the class & Ed is a wonderful teacher, however I discovered quickly that I'm a Flameworker at heart! I took the class just to learn the basics of the hot shop. Ed told us those 2 months were equal to 2 years of normal classes. (i'm having problems uploading pics so I'll try to put more up tomorrow)
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Angelic Goblet

This Goblet was ordered specifically to have a light cobalt body with cobalt and dark cobalt wings. Above the angels head sits an encased black opal. The top is adorned with a dicro image with dark cobalt backing.
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Caduceus in light blue

This piece was special ordered by a Dr.'s Wife as a gift for her husband in light blue and clear. It is the age old medical symbol with two snakes wrapping around a winged pole.
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Dancing with a Butterfly

14" x 12"
This large Fairy stands atop a chunk of beautiful amethyst. The figure is clear and sandblasted with verying colors of teal and white in the wings and hair. She is dancing playfully with a butterfly whos wings have a stained glass look with amber purples and ruby reds. in the other hand she holds a flower that is difficult to view from this angle.
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Devil with the face of an Angel

This 10" panel was made during an experimental class I took at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Our focus was a class project of a three panel depiction of the Divine Comedy. This was my first practice piece for the process we were experimenting with. I made the silhouetted figures flat on the torch with soft glass. In the hot shop I arranged powders and frits inside a graphite mold and hot glass was ladled over it then the figures were added, torched briefly and another layer of clear glass was ladled over them. The scene depicted is of a Devil holding his pitchfork up triumphantly displaying the severed head of the Angel.
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Fairy with Orchid perfume bottle

13"x8"
A caramel fairy with ruby red hair stretches out playfully upside down resting on gold fumed wings. Wrapped around her leg is the vine of the orchid resting atop her foot. The center of the ruby and caramel orchid is a perfume bottle.
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Sea Shell and Fairy Stretching on a flower

The top photo is of a 1 1/2"x1" sea shell with a small encased herkimer diamond encased with a dicro backing inside.
The bottom photo is of a 2" boro paperweight I made while studying under Milon Townsend at the Corning Museum of Glass in NY. The very tiny fairy and flower were stumpsucked with clear and backed with ruby frit the bottom 3/4" that is not visible is coated with moon blue and hobnailed with amber purple.
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Venus de Merlot

This Goblet features a torso stem(caramel with paracilicate white coating) entwined in grape vines and leafs. Ruby red grapes adorn the top and base and wrap over the shoulders.
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First Goblet

This is a piece I made during Roger Parramores class to Penland School of Crafts in August 2002. I had only been working with glass for a year and a half at the time.
It was my 3rd figure I had ever attempted and my first goblet. The Mermaid is clear and sandblasted with a design running down the sides of her tail.
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Penland August 2003

Class instructors Lucio Bubacco and Paul Stankard.
The focus of this class was to create (as a class) three panels depicting the Devine Comedy. The pics in this group are the components of each panel Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory before they were cast into panels. There are also photos of our class and Lucio and Paul and me.
Special Thanks to Andy (Andrew Jackson Pollack, pictured in the lower right of the class photo)for sending me the Photos!!!
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Penland and Pics from Rogers class

I miss Penland so much! Isn't it pretty!
Here are some pics from a class in 2002 at Penland with Roger Parramore (thanks again for the pics Andy)
.....I don't have time to upload them all right now but I will be putting more on later
Peace
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Pics from Lauscha......coming soon!

I have been traveling quite a bit this summer, from the conference in New Orleans to Oregon for project 33 to the wonderful trip to Lauscha, Germany hosted by Shane Fero, Fred Birkhill, and Marcie Davis. I will have pics of these and other glass related trips up soon I hope.
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Artist: Julie R. Riggs

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Julie Riggs has been working with glass for 10 years and has studied under many of the worlds most renowned artists. Her work reflects her love of the human form and beautiful fantasies.

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Comments

julie,
Livefreedesigns: hey julie..i met you at marcell brauns class at buttermik..I was loooking thru your stuff.and you never seace to amaze me....you are a huge inspiration to me..I hope to get to work with you soon.....I m taking the santini class this july..maybe sometime after that...peace livefree..
5/18/2004 5:00 PM

niice
Erik Anders: i saw your work over on GP and came straight over here to leave you a comment. your figures are motivating at the least. keep raging!!!!!!!
2/8/2005 10:14 AM

great work
John VinE Vinson: great work. looking forward to the lauscha pics.
2/9/2005 4:05 PM

julie
Charlie: sick work not to bad for three years you are one of the best ive seen at that age rage on
Charlie Mineral Spings Glass
3/28/2005 11:04 PM

wow
Bryan: You really know how to capture the sexyness of the female form
11/20/2005 4:44 PM
Yo, yo!
Andrew J. Pollack: What's up. Any classes this summer? Work is looking good. Hope to see you soon. Andy
3/29/2006 8:32 AM

***
Slinger: some sweet work going on julie, was nice to meet you at mickelson's..... hope to rage some more glass in the future...
3/29/2006 8:14 PM

just browsing
Michael Sorenson: I was just flipping around looking at stuff when I came across your gallery.I really love your work.especially the venus de merlot.
10/29/2006 9:37 PM

Where you at???
Rosario Anastasi Jr: I havent seen or heard from you in a long time. Hope your doing good.
2/9/2007 3:39 PM

Snoop: Hey girl! met you (at) Smilefest last year, remember? You going this year?...Your work is FABULOUS!I just HAD to drop a line and give ya some props! Hope everything's goin' well for you and yours and if you're ever in the Hickory,N.C. area with some free time,give a yell...Erin
2/11/2007 9:49 PM

I love your Split!!!
Ben Burton: I saw it on the Bodymods.org board... That's sweet!!! I love your work too!!!

Aloha!
5/10/2007 6:16 PM

julie....
Mike Shelbo: hey hope you are well... just getting back to the internet communications now... gimme a call when you get a chance so we can catch up...
shelbo
5/17/2007 9:52 PM

Flame Off
Organics Glass: Is there an image of your 2nd Place "Wearable" from last year?
7/24/2007 11:03 PM
Nathan Adami Designs: beautiful work with a killer resume under your belt..
1/7/2008 1:03 PM

wow !!
Carlee: hey julie,
the spiderweb is so impressing !!
and i really love your galleries
... just cool pics and really nice work !

keep it hot
hope to meet you one day
greets from germany
carla
11/26/2008 11:44 PM

Good luck @ IGI in Vegas!
Mark M. McCourt: Saw you were competing (at) IGI in Vegas. We never met before, but I've seen your work alot. Very impressive! I am working team: Eugene Glass School. See you there! Mark-
2/26/2009 7:19 AM

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