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2009 Ovation Award Winner for Outstanding Visual Artist

"Teresa Barnes is an artist that loves to work in three dimensional media. She is comfortable creating art in either clay or glass. She is an excellent teacher but is always ready to increase her skills by furthering her own arts educatioin. She has gone from simply designing dishes and vases in glass to creating the most beautiful picturesque scenes in glass. When you consider the difficulty of making glass do what you want it to do instead of what it wants to do, her art is truly remakable."

The color and sparkle of glass has always attracted me. To experiment with forms and formulas, to be able to create a work of art using glass, heat, and my imagination is what being an artist is all about

Glass fusing and slumping is the art of creating works both functional and artistic using colored glass. More versatile than leaded or stained glass because of the ability to shape and mold the glass, use colored glass powder to create shadow, and generally being able to paint with glass is very exciting. The results, whether fanciful character studies or a set of one of a kind sushi dishes all share the same dedication and attention to detail that has always been the hallmark of my work. Of course, the colors and sparkle are always there.

An artist will spend a lifetime learning their craft, but at some point the need to give back becomes important. Adults can learn glass fusing and slumping in my classes at The Art Station in Kennesaw, The Art Place, or at the Mable House in Mableton, GA.

I would like to offer my congratulations to Ann Tewelow, one of my students who won a "Juror's Choice" award at the South Cobb Arts Alliance's 2011 Member show. I won a "Juror's Choice" award for my new piece, "Amber II".Ann also had a piece accepted into the South Cobb Ars Alliance's 2011 National Juried Show. Linda Queen, also a former student, had two pieces accepted in the South Cobb Arts Alliance's National Show, and won an Honorable Mention for one of the pieces. I had two pieces accepted in the National Show and won a Purchase Award for "Kaliedascope" Teresa with Amber II

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