The Milton Academy community hosts a reception in honor of internationally renowned glass artists, Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin, on March 4, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Schwarz Student Center. Guggisberg and Baldwin’s latest work, entitled Circus of Spheres, will be on display in the Student Center until March 10.

The work of Guggisberg and Baldwin is composed of two principal parts: free-blown hot glass forms and cold-worked surface cutting. They have developed their own unique expression of techniques. One of these techniques is the Swedish overlay method in hot glass forming, which allows for the application of thin layers of color between layers of clear glass.

“One thing especially excites us about our latest work: the celebration of the sphere – the most profoundly primordial and ubiquitous shape in the known universe – going all the way back to the supposed Big Bang,” say Gussisberg and Baldwin. “One of the fundamental symbols of all cultures throughout humanity’s sojourn on earth, the sphere embodies our sense of community, the wholeness of things, cosmic universality. Whatever we hold sacred may be found in the sphere.”