{"id":110,"date":"2012-08-24T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=110"},"modified":"2012-08-28T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T08:12:07","slug":"bruce-pizzichillo-artist-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Pizzichillo Artist Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Started working in glass in 1975 at California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA) in Oakland, CA.<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Artist Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quepasaglass.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.quepasaglass.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Pizzichillo began his glasswork in 1975 at CCAC and finished in 1980 with a BFA in glass.\u00a0 In 1984 he established Pizzichillo-Gordon Glass Studio with his wife and partner Dari Gordon in Oakland CA, making it the oldest running glassblowing studio in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>In 1988 he was the recipient of a fellowship to Creative Glass center of America, Wheaton Village, NJ.\u00a0 Bruce served as President of the non-profit Jazz in Flight, an organization for jazz music production and free children&#8217;s music classes from 1999-2005.\u00a0 His work has been featured in numerous publications and books such as Lark Books&#8217; <em>500 Glass Objects<\/em>, as well as being in several private, corporate and museum collections such as Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia PA; U.S. Embassy, Ottawa, Canada; Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA.\u00a0 Bruce was featured annually for 17 years in Glass Now, a traveling exhibit of American glass art sponsored by the Yamaha Corporation throughout Japan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_143\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143\" title=\"Fishnet Group\" src=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-3.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Fishnet Group&#8221;<br \/>Bruce Pizzichillo<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_141\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141\" title=\"Mosaic Incalmo Bowl  24&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-1.jpg 639w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-1-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bruce-Pizzichillo-1-383x300.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Mosaic Incalmo Bowl&#8221; 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