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Mauro Azua Fused Glass He works in his tiny taller (workshop) and stores his finished pieces in his home because his shop is so small. The technique he uses for his glass work is called fused glass. He makes dishes, jewelry, religious objects such as crosses, unusual bent bottles, baskets, ashtrays, tequila shot glasses, trophies and candleholders - almost all the glass he uses is recycled. Glass fusing is the process of using a kiln to join together pieces of glass. If you apply heat to glass, it will soften. If you continue to apply heat, the glass will become more fluid and flow together. Two or more pieces of glass will stick (or "fuse") to each other. When the right kind of glass is heated and then cooled properly, the resulting fused glass piece will be solid and unbroken. Many people also use the word "fusing" to include bending and shaping glass using the heat of a kiln. This manipulation can take many forms, but the most common is slumping, where a mold is used to cause already fused glass to take on the shape of a bowl, a plate, or similar object. Other kinds of manipulation done with fusing techniques are combing, which involves using a tool to distort the shape of the glass while it is hot, and fire polishing, which uses a kiln to heat the glass just enough to make it shiny and smooth.
He recently finished teaching a workshop in "The New World School of the Arts" in Miami Dade, Florida. Mauro has also exhibited at the World Trade Center in Mexico City, the Banamex Expositions Center, Mexico City, Feria Nacional Potosina in San Luis Potosí, the New Expositions Center in Mc Allen, Texas, and the Jacob Javits Center at the the New York Gift Fair in New York, New York. He garnered First Place in the contest "Premio Estatal de Artesanías" in San Luis Potosí in 2004. Contact information: Or contact Marianne Carlson at (from the US) 01152 376 765 7485 or email mariannecarlson@gmail.com. |
