Bill Glass Jr. no relation Demos Glass
Bill Glass Jr. is a Cherokee Nation ceramic artist, sculptor, and public artist, who was named a Cherokee National Treasure in 2009.Art career
After working as art coordinator for several years, Glass turned to his own art full time in 1977. Glass uses Georgia clay, which allows him to fire at higher temperatures than locally-sourced clays. Higher glazing temperatures then allow for a wider range of glazing colors. His work is inspired by the art of the Southeastern Woodlands people during the Mississippian era. During this era, Willard Stone (1916–1985) and Cecil Dick (Cherokee Nation, 1915–1992) served as Glass’ mentors.
Glass exhibited nationally and garnered awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market, Heard Museum Guild Fair, Philbrook Indian Annual, Tulsa Indian Art Festival, Cherokee Art Market, and Artesian Arts Festival.Bill Glass is the father of artist Demos Glass, and in the early millennium the father-son team began to build public sculptures together. The two share a large studio where they can craft their public pieces. The two convened Team Gadugi, an intertribal group of artists to create the public sculptural installation, The Passage (2003) about the Trail of Tears in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Father and son also sculpted Touched to Above for the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Glass led a team of artists to create Origins, an installation at the Cherokee National History Museum in downtown Tahlequah, that depicts Cherokee oral history of an ancient migration.
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