{"id":1227,"date":"2012-10-14T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2012-11-07T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T22:26:50","slug":"ron-carlson-artist-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"Ron Carlson Artist Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Started working in glass in 1988 at Blodgett Glass.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ron\u00a0Carlson\u00a0taught at UC San Diego Crafts Center from 1973 and was Director from 1977-2011. In 1988 he started working with glass at Blodgett Glass with Wally Blodgett. He reopened the glass program in 1996 at UCSD, &#8220;Fat Baby Glass Works,&#8221; with the help of Thor Bueno. He started the Neon Program at UCSD in 1988, &#8220;Grove Gas &amp; Electric Co.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0He has been an active supporter of the glass and neon arts in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started in 1988 at Blodgett Glass in a program I put together with\u00a0Buzz&#8217;s father Wally. I put together the glass program at UCSD in 1996 with the help of Thor Bueno (CLARIFY)Impressive list, the only other things I can think of are: Wally Blodgett started his glass studio &#8220;&#8221;Blodgett Glass&#8221;&#8221; in Lucadia, Ca in 1969 or 70. Buzz would know. Wally was a true pioneer . The program I put together with Wally lasted two years, he had so much work he\u00a0didn&#8217;t have time or space for classes.\u00a0I started the Neon Program at UCSD in 1988, &#8220;&#8221;Grove Gas &amp; Electric Co.&#8221;&#8221; The Glass Blowing program at UCSD that re-opened on campus in 1996\u00a0was &#8220;&#8221;Fat Baby Glas Works&#8221;&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ron Carlson is a member at large of the Art Glass Association of Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started working in glass in 1988 at Blodgett Glass. Ron\u00a0Carlson\u00a0taught at UC San Diego Crafts Center from 1973 and was Director from 1977-2011. In 1988 he started working with glass at Blodgett Glass with Wally Blodgett. He reopened the glass &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=1227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,15,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s-artists","category-artist-bio","category-california-artists","category-conference-presenters","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}