Be Safe, Have Fun, Do Excellent Work with Ariana Makau of Nzilani Glass
01/10/23 • 117 min
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Today’s guest is Ariana Makau of Nzilani Glass. She is the 2nd person in the world – and the first woman – to receive a Master’s Degree in Stained Glass Conservation from the Royal College of Art in London. Equally comfortable on a job site, at a board meeting or in a museum, Makau has over 25 years of experience with art and architectural preservation. She is a Board Member and Health and Safety Chair of the SGAA and is a Fellow of AIC. Before Nzilani, she worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum in LA, London’s V&A Museum, and the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art. Approachable and non-judgmental, Ariana enjoys sharing her professional experience in classroom and public talks.
I could have spoken to Ariana for 2 more hrs and still only scratched the surface of her extensive experience and knowledge of glass conservation and preservation. Asbestos testing /Respirator fit tests-
Ariana recommends you do a local search with the key words "asbestos material testing company" and "respirator fit tests". In some cases, people might be able to get the latter sourced through a museum. Local paint companies sometimes teach one day lead certification classes as well.
"Nzilani is hoping to roll out hosting contracted respirator fit and BLL testing next year as a service to local artists. I encourage individual artists to network and do the same in their areas. Joining together can reduce costs, build community and empower folks to be accountable to their own health and well-being."
-Ariana Makau
cascademetals.com Ted Sawyer- Bullseye lead scientistbullseyeprojects.com
Tyvek Suitpksafety.comHope Crewsavingplaces.org/hope-crew
Conservation Schools:
Buffalo State University Art Conservation Department
Winterthur UD Program in Art Conservation
NYU Conservation
UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program
James Turrell
jamesturrell.com
Liza Enebeis
@booksloveliza
Emily Atef
wikipedia
Cyril Atef
@cyrilatef
Octavia E. Butler
wikipedia
Glass artists:
Harry Clark
wikipedia
The Professional Trade Association for Architectural Art Glass
Paul Wissmach Glass Co.
Your Source of Colored Sheet Glass
Canfield Technologies
Canfield sets the standard for the Stained Glass industry.
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
Today’s guest is Ariana Makau of Nzilani Glass. She is the 2nd person in the world – and the first woman – to receive a Master’s Degree in Stained Glass Conservation from the Royal College of Art in London. Equally comfortable on a job site, at a board meeting or in a museum, Makau has over 25 years of experience with art and architectural preservation. She is a Board Member and Health and Safety Chair of the SGAA and is a Fellow of AIC. Before Nzilani, she worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum in LA, London’s V&A Museum, and the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art. Approachable and non-judgmental, Ariana enjoys sharing her professional experience in classroom and public talks.
I could have spoken to Ariana for 2 more hrs and still only scratched the surface of her extensive experience and knowledge of glass conservation and preservation. Asbestos testing /Respirator fit tests-
Ariana recommends you do a local search with the key words "asbestos material testing company" and "respirator fit tests". In some cases, people might be able to get the latter sourced through a museum. Local paint companies sometimes teach one day lead certification classes as well.
"Nzilani is hoping to roll out hosting contracted respirator fit and BLL testing next year as a service to local artists. I encourage individual artists to network and do the same in their areas. Joining together can reduce costs, build community and empower folks to be accountable to their own health and well-being."
-Ariana Makau
cascademetals.com Ted Sawyer- Bullseye lead scientistbullseyeprojects.com
Tyvek Suitpksafety.comHope Crewsavingplaces.org/hope-crew
Conservation Schools:
Buffalo State University Art Conservation Department
Winterthur UD Program in Art Conservation
NYU Conservation
UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program
James Turrell
jamesturrell.com
Liza Enebeis
@booksloveliza
Emily Atef
wikipedia
Cyril Atef
@cyrilatef
Octavia E. Butler
wikipedia
Glass artists:
Harry Clark
wikipedia
The Professional Trade Association for Architectural Art Glass
Paul Wissmach Glass Co.
Your Source of Colored Sheet Glass
Canfield Technologies
Canfield sets the standard for the Stained Glass industry.
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
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WOWOWOW welcome to 2023!
Shout out to all my hobbyists listening, this episode is for you because not all artists need to sell what they make and honestly the hobbyists make up the majority of my listeners so I was stoked to have that conversation represented here too.
Sara Strickler is today’s guest and she is from Virginia, but currently lives on a small island called Alameda in the Bay Area and works by day as a designer for Nest. In her free time she’s an incredible stained glass artist. She’s actually one of the many great talents coming out of Dan Grimaldi’s shop in San Francisco called Cradle of the Sun.
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To see more of Sara’s work her instagram is @_sarastrickler_
For the Patreon members Sara has generated another custom pattern just for us so we can all partake in an AI collaboration! We are so excited to see all of your interpretations so please please tag us in your finished products.
Honorable mentions from this episode:
Cup Noodle Museum
https://www.cupnoodles-museum.jp/en/osaka_ikeda/
Cradle of The Sun link
https://www.cradleofthesun.com/Brad pusher tool
acehardware.com
The nails will vary based on the depth of the window casings, but they will be something like this:
lowes.com
Favorite artists
Matisse
henrimatisse.org
David Sheid
davidscheidstainedglass.com
For episodic sponsorship opportunities please email [email protected].
Thank you to this episode's sponsors:
Canfield sets the standard for the Stained Glass industry.
Hoevel Technologies
Time Saving Tools for the Stained Glass Artists!
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Hello and welcome back to Cracked with Chevonne Ariss! My guest today is Jane Littlefield. Jane works with stained glass from her workshop in Great Longstone, Derbyshire. She studied Fine Art at Ravensbourne College and has worked in different areas of design over the years. Jane works to commission and has produced work for homes, schools and businesses. She also runs glass workshops. Her own work consists of stained glass panels that have multi – layered, painted glass images that are inspired by the Peak District, its nature, history and folklore. "I use images of creatures, landscape features and organic motifs to create these glass panels." The glass is hand painted using traditional stained glass paints and translucent enamels, often using many layers and textures, that are fired in the kiln. They are assembled using lead and solder.
Let’s get into it...
Join me as I crack it wide open!!
For the Cracked Patreon page Jane is gifting one of her blackbird eating a warm small suncatcher pieces that’s about 9cm or just about 3.5” and also a pack of 5 owl rondel greeting cards. All so so cute. I’ll be doing a drawing for that in my Instagram stories on Sunday Jan 29th 2023.
To see more of Jane’s work, her instagram is @jane.littlefield.glass
and her website is linktr.ee/Janelittlefieldglass.
Honorable mentions from this episode:
Well Dressing
historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Well-Dressing/
Castleton Garland
castleton-garland.com
Cappy Thompson
cappythompson
International Festival of Glass
ifg.org.uk
Glass artists
Lilly Eris
@lekkasuka
Liz Huppert
@lizhuppertstainedglass
Thank you to this episode's sponsors:
For episodic sponsorship opportunities please email [email protected].
Time Saving Tools for the Stained Glass Artists!
Canfield Technologies
Canfield sets the standard for the Stained Glass industry.
Monarch Glass Studio
Kansas City, Missouri's Finest Glassblowing studio.
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
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