A Glass Act
Courier-Journal - March 2008
Ambition is no stranger to Brook White. For a long time, the Kentucky native thought he was a soccer player destined to get a real job as a lawyer. But we can all be glad that instead he got mesmerized by the hot-glass program at Centre College in Danville, Ky.
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Apprenticing with a Master
Arts Across Kentucky - December 2007
Legacy of Stephen Rolfe Powell - written by Brook Forrest White, Jr.
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About the Arts: Blow Your Own Glass Ornament
Advocate-Messenger - November 2007
Flame Run in Louisville is offering a unique opportunity this holiday season. Aspiring artists can create their own blown-glass ornaments with the help of glass artists there.
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What I'm into . . .
The Courier Journal - November 2007
Tiffany Ackerman has been playing clarinet since she was 10 and studied painting in college, but all along she knew that she wanted to be a glass artist.
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Glass-blowing is breathtaking
The Cincinnati Enquirer - November 2007
This holiday season, why not start a tradition that's hot and dangerous? Louisville's Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery lets you do just that with its annual Holiday Ornament Blow.
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Hot Stuff in Louisville
Southern Living - November 2007
Blown Away at Flame Run.
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Louisville: Renaissance City of Glass
AACG - July 2007
Look no further for a place that combines a warm, friendly atmosphere with one of the most progressive and cutting-edge contemporary glass experiences in the nation.
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Focused on Flame
The State Journal – June 11, 2007
The sculpture hanging as a chandelier in the entryway of the Christian Life Center under construction at First United Methodist Church reflects a significant experience in religious history.
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Flame Run Celebrates Women in Glass
Kentucky Monthly – June 2007
Flame Run studio and gallery is celebrating women glass artists with "Women in Glass," an exhibit that features the work of nationally recognized artists and their local counterparts.
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"Women in Glass" molds new picture
Courier-Journal – May 27, 2007
With such fashion accents as Kevlar sleeves, leather aprons, respirators and goggles for hot-glass artists, it's clearly a dress-down job with fancy results.
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Glass from the class: Students help with school art
Courier-Journal - April 7, 2007
Flame Run co-owner Brook White, with a little help from Hazelwood Elem. students, made a glass sculpture that was installed above the school's front doors.
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Ten Years Out
Ceramics Monthly - March, 2007
An exhibition featuring the work of ten glass artists and ten ceramics artists who graduated between 1996–2006 from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, is on display at Flame Run Gallery and Studio.
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Be A Glass Master
Kentucky Living – December 2006
Create your own blown-glass ornament with the help of the glass artists at Flame Run.
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100 Great Kentucky Gifts
Kentucky Monthly – December 2006
Kentucky Monthly lists 100 great gifts that are produced in Kentucky or readily available throughout the commonwealth
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Tree Festival Sparks Flame Run’s Interest
Courier-Journal - November 17, 2006
This weekend's Festival of Trees and Lights is special to Brook Forrest White Jr. and his wife, Susie Slabaugh, owners of the Flame Run contemporary art glass studio.
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Flaming success
Business First -
June 16, 2006
Local glass studio trying to build industry one customer at a time.
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Fire Power
Louisville Magazine - June 2006
Glass is a remarkably dynamic medium for art. As a sculptural form, it is fluid and mobile, and the depths of its possibilities have yet to be fully plumbed.
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Art of Louisville
Courier Press - April 28, 2006
Once a year, the Kentucky Derby puts Louisville in the spotlight.
Year-round, however, the city offers increasingly more attractions than the fancy-hat horse race it's best known for.
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Stephen Rolph Powell
Evansville Living - March/April 2006
Owensboro native Brook Forrest White, Jr. studied under internationally acclaimed glass artist Stephen Rolphe Powell at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, before opening his own glass studio.
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Flame Run Gallery
Louisville.com - January 2006
Primitive forms of plant life appear to dominate the blown glass in “New Growth: Signs of Life,” an exhibit by Flame Run Resident Artist Devyn Baron which opens February 10. Read Complete Article » (Off-site link)
Creating a Glass Destination - Brook Forrest White Jr. shares the magic of Flame Run
Lane Report - August 2005
For Brook Forrest White Jr., the art of glass-blowing is magic, pure and simple. Read Complete Article » (Off-site link)
Louisville's Flame Run
Shows a Lot of Glass
Cincinnati-Enquirer - March
13, 2005
At Louisville's newest glass studio,
Flame Run, the
artists want the public to share the excitement of the
creative process. Read
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Shaping an Art-Glass Reputation
Studio, Gallery Builds Recognition
The Courier-Journal -
October 17, 2004
Rising from the floor of the Flame Run art glass studio in downtown
Louisville is as nice a basketball goal as you'll find on any driveway
in Kentucky. It stands like a piece of ironic art in the back half
of the cavernous shop in the former Tractor Supply building at 828
E. Market St. Read
complete article (pdf)
Noble Series Awards
January 27, 2005 - 2004
Governor's Awards for the Arts are hand blown glass vessels from the "Noble Series", created by Kentucky artist Brook Forrest White, Jr. White is a Kentucky Arts Council 1998 Al Smith Fellowship recipient and a juried participant of the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program. Read Complete Article » (Off-site link)
Flame Run
Kentucky Educational Television (KET) -
July 4, 2004
Glass artists Brook Forrest White Jr. and Susie Garbee Slabaugh further enhanced Louisville’s growing reputation as a destination for contemporary glass art with the July 2, 2004 opening of the Flame Run studios. Read complete article (Off-site link)
Art glass is becoming a booming class act
Louisville Scene -
July 4, 2004
Art appreciation in Louisville is booming, but increasingly it seems
to be appreciation of art glass. Read complete article at Glassonweb.com
(Off-site link)
New Glass Studio and Gallery Furthers Louisville's
Reputation as Emerging Glass Mecca
June 29th, 2004
Glass artists, Brook Forrest White Jr. and Susie Garbee
Slabaugh are further cultivating Louisville’s
status as a destination for contemporary glass art
with the July 2, 2004, opening of Flame Run studio
and gallery, the largest glass blowing studio in the
region. Read Full Press
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LEO Weekly Magazine Features Flame Run on
Cover and Article "Meet the Team at Flame Run"
June 22nd, 2004
Glass working is a team effort that requires multiple hands and
minds to converge in a specialized sort of choreography; besides
Brook Forrest White Jr. and Susie Garbee Slabaugh, Flame Run’s
team includes Paul Hugues, Paul Nelson, Devyn Baron, Casey McMains
and Amy Pender. Read Full Story »
Artists
fire up glass operation in former Tractor Supply site
Louisville Business First -
March 19, 2004
A gallery of original glass creations, a working hot shop and classes
in glass artistry are ingredients for a new glass-blowing venture
created by two area artists. Read
Complete Article » (Off-site
link)
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