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I use aerospace technology in my studio to make my artwork of hi-performance glass, plastics, and innovative new materials that provide continuous visual variation and are impact resistant. Because my hands are on the work, I am able to engage the process and provide the aesthetic quality of the artwork to achieve outstanding results.
“ Unlike many contemporary glassworkers, Patti works alone, and as a consequence his nonarchitectural objects relate to the scale of his hand. They are also the result of copious planning; the objects are built up of many layers of glass that are fused together, injected with gas while still hot to create an inner cavity, and then manipulated ...
Jun 26, 2012 · At age eight, Tom Patti lost the sight in his right eye when a spinning contraption he was building came apart and a sharp piece flew into his face. Perhaps because of that accident and how it affected the way he saw the world, Patti, the internationally acclaimed glass artist and Pittsfield native, seems particularly sensitive to the perspective—literal and metaphorical—of children.
Glass artist Tom Patti commissions include public art, private and residential art, installations, glass sculpture and architectural art glass. Commissions include Villa Lula, Bart at Oakland Airport, Echoes in Space at Berkshire Museum, Miami Marquis, Charlotte-Douglas Airport (CLT), Eric Carle Mus
In 2015, Tom had the honor of being selected by the African American Chamber as their “Man about Town” in recognition of his many local contributions. Tom Patti is a five-time state and Golden Gloves boxing champion. He briefly considered a professional boxing career in 1986 and spent time in New York training with the legendary Cus D’Amato.
The Corning Museum of Glass has chosen Tom Patti for the 2015/16 Speciality Glass Artist-in-Residence, an award granted for a unique opporutnity to work with cutting-edge formulations of glass. The residency will allow the artist freedom to work in an industrial laboratory with the assistance of the museum's glassmakers, research scientists ...
Born in 1943 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Thomas “Tom” Patti is a glass artist, who works primarily in industrial and architectural glass. He creates small sculptures and large public installations. Growing up in a company town, Patti spent his childhood exploring easily accessible industrial debris from the nearby General Electric plant ...
