“The Glass Ride” is the newest addition to the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame, the sculpture is the work of Montana native Joe Stanaway, who spent an entire year and about $20,000 designing the glass motorcycle as his thesis project for his masters from the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.
“I saw an opportunity,” Stanaway said. “I wanted something that said a little bit about where I was from in American culture, and the bike was the perfect avenue to take for that.
The glass ride will be on display at the museum through the month of August and into September. After its stay here, Stanaway hopes to take it to shows across the United States.
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An example of Joe Stanaway’s glass artwork.
Artist Joe Stanaway, a Helena, Montana, native, has just completed his Masters in glass and architecture glass design from the Edinburgh College of Art, where he unveiled The Glass Ride in December 2006. Joe says of his work and himself “I find it easy to be drawn into the look of custom motorcycles. They are very much like glass; the extraordinary use of sculpted chrome polished to a mirror finish, the heavy clear coating over a beautiful buffed petrol tank giving it a transparent glass -like quality. In life we have a tendency to feel better in groups. The group I ran with chose to express themselves on iron horses; I was the black sheep that chose the road of hot glass.” Joe will follow that road of hot glass to Dillon, Montana, where he has accepted a professorship in the Glass Department at the University of Montana Western.
The Glass Ride will be on exhibit through the month of August and into September with a closing date that has yet to be determined. The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame is located at 999 Main Street in Sturgis, South Dakota. Further information about the artist is available at JoeStanaway.com, and about the museum at SturgisMotorcycleMuseum.com.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland - December 9, 2006 - With world-wide acclaim from the United Kingdom, to Pakistan, to New Zealand, to back home in the United States; my brother, Joe Stanaway unveiled his hand-blown and kiln cast glass motorcycle masterpiece ‘The Glass Ride’ at the Edinburgh College of Art Masters of Design 2006 exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland last week.
“I never thought in my wildest dreams that things would turn out this way,” said Stanaway of the global reaction today by email. “The global reaction took me by surprise, thank you for all of your love and support.”
The hand-blown and kiln cast sculpture is a full size replica of a Harley Davidson ‘chopper’ motorcycle. And, has been over a year in the making.
Joe Stanaway is an innovative artist specializing in glass from Helena, Montana in the United States. He has pioneered new glass blowing styles from vintage old west cowboy hats to one-of-kind glass ‘chopper’ motorcycles. He currently is finishing his Masters work at the Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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