Glass Studio
Bill Glass, Jr. and Demos Glass - Artists
"Little People Cave", Glass Studio
Art Installation, Siloam Springs Cherokee Casino
"Fish Dreams"
Demos Glass, 2007
"Fire and Water" Demos Glass
fabricated pewter and padauk
Demos Glass
ART EDUCATION:
1994-1999 - Fine Arts Program, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
2001-2002 - Welding, Northeast Oklahoma Training Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
SPECIAL EXHIBITS:
January 2003 - Metalworks: Containers of Form, Function and Beauty, Heard Museum North, Scottsdale, Arizona
October 2005 - Changing Hands, Part 2, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
PUBLICATIONS:
2005 - "Changing Hands: Art without Reservation 2", Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:
2019 - Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, Two "War and Peace Feathers", stainless steel/ceramic, 6'x2'x2', Tahlequah Cherokee Casino, Tahlequah, Ok.
2019 - Glass Studio, commissioned by Cherokee Nation Businesses to select and manage a team of Cherokee artists with various skills to install the concept of The Cherokee migration story from Turtle Island in the Cherokee Capital Museum stairwell and lobby of second floor. Courthouse square downtown Tahlequah, Ok.
2015 - Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, developed and created a stainless sculpture for Cherokee Nation Roland Casino that is suspended from the ceiling.
2013 - Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, developed and carved aluminum plates of clan symbols for Quapaw Nation, Downstream Casino, Joplin, MO.
2013 - Commissioned to design and fabricate Miss Cherokee crown. 2014-2016 Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, created three stainless steel with ceramic inlay prayer feathers. Commissioned by Cherokee Nation, two for medical clinics in Salina, OK and Sallisaw, OK. One feather sits in front of the chapel at Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, OK.
2012 - Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, developed two architectural sculptures for Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Ramona, OK. These sculptures stand 46’ and 49’ high.
2011 Glass Studio, Bill and Demos Glass, developed and produced a conceptual “Little People Village” for Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Siloam Springs Casino, Siloam Springs, OK.
2010 Commissioned to design and fabricate Miss Keetoowah crown.
June 2009 - Best of Show, Masters of Influence 2009, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
August 2008 - 3rd Place Jewelry, 3rd Annual Cherokee National Holiday Art Show, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
July 2008 - 1st Place Sculpture, Competitive Show, Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee, Oklahoma
July 2007 - 1st Place Sculpture, Competitive Show, Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee Oklahoma, Holiday Art Show
August 2006 - Best of Show Award, 1st Annual Cherokee National Holiday Art Show, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
June 2006 - Best of Division Award, Sculpture, Red Earth Indian Art Show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
May 2006 - 1st Place Sculpture, 35th Annual Trail of Tears Show, Cherokee Nation Heritage Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
October 2002 - First Place Jewelry, 7th Annual Cherokee Homecoming Art Show, Cherokee Nation Heritage Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
September 2002 - Merit Award Sculpture, Fourteenth Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show, Lawrence, Kansas
July 2002 - 2nd Place Sculpture, The Five Civilized Tribes Museum Art Show, Muskogee, Oklahoma
April 2002 - 1st Place Metals, Art Under the Oaks, Muskogee, Oklahoma
June 2001 - 1st Place Mixed Media Sculpture, Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market, Indianapolis, Indiana
May 2001 - Special Merit Award Miniatures, 30th Annual Trail of Tears Art Show, Cherokee Nation Heritage Center, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
June 1999 - 1st Place Sculpture, Red Earth Art Show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March 1999 - Wagoner Metals Award, Undergraduate Art Show, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
April 1998 - 1st Place Metals, Art Under the Oaks, Muskogee, Oklahoma