DruryDesignArt

Specialties

DruryDesignArt produces unique hand crafted kiln formed recycled and repurposed glass sculpture and art. We offer glass art classes and workshops at The Pendleton Art Center Studio 512 Cincinnati Ohio, Thompson Enamels Bellevue Kentucky and at your facility nationally by invitation.

Joe Drury art work is offered at The Pendleton Art Center, the 5Th Street Gallery, Art on The Levee, Virgil’s Café and has been offered at The Cincinnati Art Museum, The Eisele Gallery, Indigenous, The Hyde Park Show, and The Fusion Gallery.

Glass is recycled through a process of heating in a Ceramic Kiln by adding colored glass powders from Thompson Enamels and fusing and draping over stainless steel forms and stainless steel foils folded into unique artistic forms. This process takes up to 24 hours to allow the glass to heat, fuse, drape, anneal and cool back to room temperature. First time students from age 6 with an adult will produce art pieces the first class. Classes 11 to 3PM Saturdays and on demand

Meet the Business Owner

Joe Drury D.

Business Owner

Joseph F. Drury Artist’s Statement 2014

I re form found and saved glass to create one of a kind, kiln-​formed glass sculptures inspired by my years on and near the sea. The glass is recycled in a ceramic kiln by heating it in and over molds to a plastic state. This process re-​forms and fuses the glass into new and wonderful shapes. Powdered glass enamels and fractured glass are fused to the glass sculpture to create brilliant color fields and patterns. The glass is then carefully cooled and annealed to remove all stress. This process takes at least 24 hours per sculpture.

Biography:

Joseph F. Drury is an artist, sculptor, and instructor who has worked in glass, steel, and stone for ten years in Studio 512 at the Pendleton Art Center and currently produces abstracted kiln formed glass sculpture and objects of art. He holds a BFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University and has worked as an artist since 1964.