A river runs through it....the lobby that is

Jill Reynolds and Dan Spitzer's calendar for the next several months has just filled up a bit. The announcement was made today that the proposal by the glass blowing duo from Beacon has been selected for the commission of a permanent art installation in the lobby of a business tower in Pittsburgh, PA. The proposed installation titled "River of Glass" will cover about 1500 sq ft and incorporate about 1500 blown glass elements.
That's like one glass blown element for every square foot!

Last week I posted about Jill and Dan's proposal which was at that time being considered with 3 other finalist proposals.

Dantastic!

In what may prove to be one of the more suggestively written articles ever run in the NYTimes, Kathryn Shattuck covers the searing stage antics of the Corning Museum's Glasslab. As I understand it, the Glasslab pairs the Museum's glassmasters in a real time collaboration, transferring concepts into glass on stage. One of Beacon's resident glassmasters, Dan Spitzer is among the glassmakers on the project that runs through June 3 in the garden of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

I'll tastefully forego enumerating the moments of erotic innuendo I found in the story, and leave you, dear reader, to your own discovery. Consider it a contest. I'll just say if all references to glass were omitted from the article, it could easily become a review for some super bawdy Chippendale's-like dance routine, which might bode well for the four sweat beaded men on stage in case this glass thing doesn't pan out.