Fire. Glass. Art. Music. A free evening of entertainment.
St. Louis' newest tradition, Third Fridays at Third Degree Glass Factory are HOT! We present a variety glass activities and entertainment every third Friday of the month from 6 - 10 p.m. Family friendly. Handicapped accessible.
Every Third Friday you'll see glassblowing demonstrations and art exhibits in the East Gallery. Or browse the HotShop Gift Gallery for glass items made by local glass artists. Hear live music beginning at 8 p.m. No cover charge.
Get hands-on with glass. Sign up at the front desk to work with our instructors make a paperweight, glass tile keepsake or beads during Third Friday. You can also cast your hand in glass.
Stop by for a drink before or after dinner in The Loop or Central West End. Cash bar. Or have dinner at Third Degree. Now offering dining Third Degree style. See below for more information.
August 20, Third Friday, 6-10pm FREE
August dog days got you howlin'? We got the cure! Watch artists turn, blow, and pull glowing taffy-like glass into glorious art. Enjoy art, opera, small plates, live music, fire spinning and more.
Dinner@Third Friday: It's Summer Lite dining with My Chef Heidi's tapas-style small plates at small prices to keep you cool. Menu items range from $2 - $8 each. Eat in the gallery or enjoy al fresco dining in the courtyard. August's menu: BLT wraps with roasted garlic mayo, Caesar salad with Heidi's croutons, pesto shrimp crostini, hummus and pita chips, and a sweet treat. No reservations needed.
LIVE - Opera at Third Degree. Performers from Union Avenue Opera give a sneak peek preview performance of Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, a Russian opera with soldiers, secrets, ghosts, and gambling for love. Da those Russions are at it again. To buy tickets for the full performance, contact Union Avenue Opera www.unionavenueopera.org.
Get your hands-on glass. Offering three glass adventures: Work with instructors and make a paperweight $30, fused glass jewelry $20 or glass beads $20.
Third Friday tradition: Bring your fave bottle - NO LABELS - and presto we'll turn it into a glass platter for $10. Note: Must be age 10 and up for paperweights and glass beads. Glass projects and glass platters must be picked up the following week, Tues. - Sat., 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Barefoot Jones at 8 p.m. Barefoot Jones serves up a tasty stew of acoustic Americana Folk Rock with flavors of blues, funk, country and pop. Yes, you will want to take off your shoes and boogie.
Fire Spinning at 8:30 p.m. Yippee! See fire tossed, swung and spun.
Third Degree East Gallery opens:
Finding a Balance: Sarah Vaughn. How are the cards stacked? This exhibit of cast cards is about transition, finding a place where you belong and getting along with where you end up in-between. Vaughn received her BFA from SIU-Carbondale where she was the sole recipient of the Rickert-Ziebold Award Trust, the university's most prestigious art award. After graduation she joined Third Degree as an instructor. In January 2010, she became the artist-in-residence in glass at the University of Oregan's Craft Center, where she continues to teach and create works in glass.
Where Connections Meet: Teri Moore. People connect with places and objects. Objects connect with other objects. In this exhibit, Moore's work presents the threads of connection that tie us together. She lives near Marthasville close to the KATY trail. She has a BA in Art from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, IL and MS in Education from Quincy University. In addition to being an artist, she teaches art at East Central College.
Through August 17
Selections: Third Degree Glass. A variety of glass pieces that are blown, fused, and cast by Third Degree artists. Pieces have a red theme to complement the wall pieces from Art Saint Louis encore exhibit. The works all have a tactile quality and beg to be touched (but please resist). Artists: Doug Auer, Jon Biscan, Judy Gartland, Mike Hayes, Amber Marshall, Jim McKelvey, Mark Salsbury, Sarah Vaughn, Doretha Washington
Seeing Red: Art Saint Louis Encore. Passion. Guilt. Courage. Intense. Local artists interpret "seeing red" in this exhibit of photographs and paintings. Artists: Blake Carroll, Christina Denney, Christine Giancola, Sheldon Johnson, Greg Kluempers, and Bill Turner. Works invite the viewer into a dream which ends in Idle Thoughts.
We decided to laugh at Mr. Sun and go out and have some fun. We headed to our baddest destination -- Third Degree. And it was actually comfortable there thanks to air conditioning and large fans. We watched the glassblowers sweat. Better they than us, right? Then - OMG - we saw pirates in the parking lot! hahahaha! Not real pirates. They were Union Avenue Opera performers. The pirates and maidens in long dresses did a short performance from Pirates of Penzance. Boy can they sing or what?! Note to self: Buy tickets ASAP. We saw art, too --Seeing Red and Selections, which was also red themed. We made paperweights and fused glass jewelry. Got hungry. My Chef Heidi served up South-of-the-Border tapas-style treats and we chowed down. The Brownie Bombs were the most decadent I've ever had. At 8 p.m. Maple Jam tuned up and played hit after hit. In the courtyard we saw fire spinners. One guy ate fire, too. That was amazing. So it was a COOL night after all.
Fire. Glass. Art. Music. A free evening of entertainment.
St. Louis' newest tradition, Third Fridays at Third Degree Glass Factory are HOT! We present a variety glass activities and entertainment every third Friday of the month from 6 - 10 p.m. Family friendly. Handicapped accessible.
Every Third Friday you'll see glassblowing demonstrations and art exhibits in the East Gallery. Or browse the HotShop Gift Gallery for glass items made by local glass artists. Hear live music beginning at 8 p.m. No cover charge.
Get hands-on with glass. Sign up at the front desk to work with our instructors make a paperweight, glass tile keepsake or beads during Third Friday. You can also cast your hand in glass.
Stop by for a drink before or after dinner in The Loop or Central West End. Cash bar. Or have dinner at Third Degree. Now offering dining Third Degree style. See below for more information.
August 20, Third Friday, 6-10pm FREE
August dog days got you howlin'? We got the cure! Watch artists turn, blow, and pull glowing taffy-like glass into glorious art. Enjoy art, opera, small plates, live music, fire spinning and more.
Dinner@Third Friday: It's Summer Lite dining with My Chef Heidi's tapas-style small plates at small prices to keep you cool. Menu items range from $2 - $8 each. Eat in the gallery or enjoy al fresco dining in the courtyard. August's menu: BLT wraps with roasted garlic mayo, Caesar salad with Heidi's croutons, pesto shrimp crostini, hummus and pita chips, and a sweet treat. No reservations needed.
LIVE - Opera at Third Degree. Performers from Union Avenue Opera give a sneak peek preview performance of Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, a Russian opera with soldiers, secrets, ghosts, and gambling for love. Da those Russions are at it again. To buy tickets for the full performance, contact Union Avenue Opera www.unionavenueopera.org.
Get your hands-on glass. Offering three glass adventures: Work with instructors and make a paperweight $30, fused glass jewelry $20 or glass beads $20.
Third Friday tradition: Bring your fave bottle - NO LABELS - and presto we'll turn it into a glass platter for $10. Note: Must be age 10 and up for paperweights and glass beads. Glass projects and glass platters must be picked up the following week, Tues. - Sat., 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Barefoot Jones at 8 p.m. Barefoot Jones serves up a tasty stew of acoustic Americana Folk Rock with flavors of blues, funk, country and pop. Yes, you will want to take off your shoes and boogie.
Fire Spinning at 8:30 p.m. Yippee! See fire tossed, swung and spun.
Third Degree East Gallery opens:
Finding a Balance: Sarah Vaughn. How are the cards stacked? This exhibit of cast cards is about transition, finding a place where you belong and getting along with where you end up in-between. Vaughn received her BFA from SIU-Carbondale where she was the sole recipient of the Rickert-Ziebold Award Trust, the university's most prestigious art award. After graduation she joined Third Degree as an instructor. In January 2010, she became the artist-in-residence in glass at the University of Oregan's Craft Center, where she continues to teach and create works in glass.
Where Connections Meet: Teri Moore. People connect with places and objects. Objects connect with other objects. In this exhibit, Moore's work presents the threads of connection that tie us together. She lives near Marthasville close to the KATY trail. She has a BA in Art from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, IL and MS in Education from Quincy University. In addition to being an artist, she teaches art at East Central College.
Through August 17
Selections: Third Degree Glass. A variety of glass pieces that are blown, fused, and cast by Third Degree artists. Pieces have a red theme to complement the wall pieces from Art Saint Louis encore exhibit. The works all have a tactile quality and beg to be touched (but please resist). Artists: Doug Auer, Jon Biscan, Judy Gartland, Mike Hayes, Amber Marshall, Jim McKelvey, Mark Salsbury, Sarah Vaughn, Doretha Washington
Seeing Red: Art Saint Louis Encore. Passion. Guilt. Courage. Intense. Local artists interpret "seeing red" in this exhibit of photographs and paintings. Artists: Blake Carroll, Christina Denney, Christine Giancola, Sheldon Johnson, Greg Kluempers, and Bill Turner. Works invite the viewer into a dream which ends in Idle Thoughts.
We decided to laugh at Mr. Sun and go out and have some fun. We headed to our baddest destination -- Third Degree. And it was actually comfortable there thanks to air conditioning and large fans. We watched the glassblowers sweat. Better they than us, right? Then - OMG - we saw pirates in the parking lot! hahahaha! Not real pirates. They were Union Avenue Opera performers. The pirates and maidens in long dresses did a short performance from Pirates of Penzance. Boy can they sing or what?! Note to self: Buy tickets ASAP. We saw art, too --Seeing Red and Selections, which was also red themed. We made paperweights and fused glass jewelry. Got hungry. My Chef Heidi served up South-of-the-Border tapas-style treats and we chowed down. The Brownie Bombs were the most decadent I've ever had. At 8 p.m. Maple Jam tuned up and played hit after hit. In the courtyard we saw fire spinners. One guy ate fire, too. That was amazing. So it was a COOL night after all.