Sandwich Glass Museum presents:

Lights from the Parlor: The Overlay Lighting Collection of Stuart P. Feld.

During the latter half of the 19th century, kerosene became the lighting fuel of choice in most homes. The lamps, which held this relatively safe and inexpensive fuel were made of various materials including glass. Most glass kerosene lamps were utilitarian and provided task lighting. Kerosene was also used to light the most elegant of spaces including the parlor. Among the most elaborate of the parlor lamps were the plated or overlay lamps manufactured by the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company during 1860s and 1870s. These exquisite glass lamps graced the finest homes, providing not only light, but visual appeal, when not in use. Lights from the Parlor will feature feature a wide variety of Sandwich overlay lamps from the collection of Stuart P. Feld.

The Glass Artistry of Christopher Belleau

The Sandwich Glass Museum is proud to present a solo exhibition by Christopher Belleau. The exhibit, which opens to the public on Monday, March 2, and runs through November 1, 2018, showcases Mr. Belleau’s adeptness and wide variety of styles in blown glass.

Chris trained as a potter, apprenticing at age 13 to a craftsman from his home town in Wisconsin. He was eventually drawn to the more ethereal, fluid and translucent qualities of glass. But what really hooked him was the opportunity glass provides to play with color. Chris is proud to say that he is the only glass blower in Rhode Island that makes colored glass from the raw ingredients on a regular basis. This allows for variations of intensity of hue, tone and depth which are not available with commercial colors. Recently, he has been experimenting with irridizing hot glass. He is captivated by the rainbow flow of colors with the variations of metalic and matt surface textures.