BULLSEYE PROJECTS
BULLSEYE PROJECTS /'prä jek(t)s/
Started in 1974 by three recent university arts graduates, Bullseye Glass is a Portland, Oregon-based artisanal factory, hand-casting colored glass for artists, designers, and architects. The company also operates a fabrication studio, underwrites materials research, and develops educational programs that are disseminated through its various US resource centers and in collaboration with school programs worldwide.
The small internal team known as Bullseye Projects collaborates with museums, schools, and arts organizations around the world to promote and advance the artists, methods, and programs closely tied to the art glass produced in its Portland factory.
AND BULLSEYE PROJECTS /prä 'jek(t)s/
Stepping away can be a way to zero in. Two decades ago, Bullseye reached out into the further northernmost county of mainland Britain in order to explore glass with small groups of artists, expanding their practice through workshops, residencies, installations, and group interactions.
A HIGHLAND BYRE
That activity today manifests in a triennial exhibition within the old stone barns attached to a former Church of Scotland manse amidst sheep fields and wee cliff-ringed harbours.
The Byre at Latheron House is open to visitors by appointment only. Works by artists involved with The Byre, and the Latheron House collection, are frequently featured in Bullseye Projects’ annual presentation at the Crafts Council’s contemporary craft and design fair, Collect, in London.
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COVER: Petr Stanický, Sign: What is from Where, 2021. Hand-rolled sheet glass, mirror, stainless steel. Created by the artist
for Passage at The Byre, on view through early 2024.
Installed views of Anne Petters works in the 2019 Byre exhibition Field Notes. From left: Silent Echos (one of three panels) and Book of the Sea I (acquired by National Museums Scotland).
BULLSEYE @ COLLECT
Bullseye Projects regularly shows at Collect, the London-based international art fair for modern craft and design. This year, Bullseye Projects is proud to include works by a number of artists who are part of The Byre’s past and future programming, including within the Highland home collection at Latheron House.
Connect with us at projects@bullseyeglass.com to learn more about visits, commissions, and other opportunities related to Bullseye’s work in the Scottish Highlands and around the world.
FROM FAIR TO HOME TO MUSEUM
Our long-term mission is to place works by exceptional artists, both emerging and established, in locations of high visibility for both public and personal reflection. To that end, Bullseye Projects works with a number of museum curators and private collections to not only place, but also to preserve and promote the glass treasures resulting from the artistic inspiration ignited in the Highlands and abroad.
Clockwise below from left: kilnformed glass work by Joanna Manousis, Heike Brachlow (acquired by Victoria and Albert Museum, London) and Anthony Amoako-Attah (acquired by Contemporary Art Society, London).
ARTIST COLLABORATIONS + COMMISSIONS
While the works that Bullseye Projects shows annually at Collect are most often of a domestic scale, they can also be the starting point for much larger installations. Such is the case with a commission-in-progress by artist Joseph Harrington. Harrington’s tabletop sculptures intrigued a homeowner seeking a multi-part work that would suggest both the off-shore sandstone stacks of the Northeastern Highlands, and the key mountainous elements of her Japanese-inspired garden on the US West Coast.
Glass is a surprisingly durable material for exterior installation. It is also an ideal material for larger architectural applications. Please contact us at projects@bullseyeglass.com to discuss, or visit our factory studio website at https://studio.bullseyeglass.com to learn more about the variety and possibilities of kilnformed glass fabrication for both residential and commercial use.
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Above: Joseph Harrington carves ice to create the forms for mold making. Right: Inspiration, sketches, and models for Harrington’s large-scale kilnformed glass commissioned project.
, 2019, kilnformed glass and steel.
BULLSEYE + EDUCATION + Tg
For almost 50 years, Bullseye’s parent glass factory has spearheaded educational activities to drive the development of the field of kilnformed glass. From residencies to workshops, conferences, and individual artist explorations, time at Bullseye’s Portland studios have helped artists to push their ideas into new methods and new materials.
Bullseye Projects has been central to identifying artists for these opportunities via competitions and our relationships with university glass programmes.
Learn more and watch for news about the next Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass competition at: https://www.bullseyeprojects.com/tg-competition/
Above: Joanna Manousis at work in the studio. Clockwise from top left: Kilnformed glass works by Joshua Kerley, Anthony Amoako-Attah, Heike Brachlow, and Choi Keeryong. learn about Tg
BULLSEYE + THE HIGHLANDS
What is a US-based artisan glass factory doing in the northernmost county of mainland Britain?
“Twenty-two years ago, a friend suggested we come,” is the simple explanation from Bullseye’s co-owner and Projects Director, Lani McGregor. “We did, and intend to stay.”
Dan Klein had long been among the most influential voices in contemporary glass in Britain. He told Bullseye’s owners about a place at what seemed like the Ends of the Earth. They concurred: Where else would artists want to be?
In the years since, Klein and partner Alan J. Poole donated what is likely the most important collection of contemporary glass assembled in Britain to National Museums Scotland (NMS). Bullseye’s owners have since pledged to carry on their friend’s legacy with regular curator-selected donations from The Byre installations.
The most recent donation selected by NMS Curator Sarah Rothwell is work by Æsa Björk, on view at The Byre through early 2024.
COLLABORATORS + PARTNERS
Bullseye Projects works with museums and arts institutions to design and travel exhibitions, and actively facilitates artwork acquisitions.
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, Wisconsin
Boise Art Museum, Idaho
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, California
Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh
Corning Museum of Glass, New York
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles
David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
KMAC Museum, Louisville
Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee
Minnetrista, Muncie, Indiana
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
COVER:
Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Palm Springs Art Museum
Pittsburgh Glass Center
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Portland Japanese Garden, Oregon
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California
Schack Art Center, Everett, Washington
The Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Wing Luke Museum, Seattle
Right: Installed view of Æsa Björk’s works in the current Byre exhibition Passage BACK Installed views of Emily Endo’s works in the 2016 Byre exhibition Permeable Structure
