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“DeVilbiss Pat Sept 15, 1908,” on the collars. These perfumes were overwhelm the viewer with ornate abstraction and viral accrual.
affordably priced to the public for $1.25 each. Together, Cowan’s contemporary artworks, and the vintage artifacts
In addition to developing glassware designs of their own, DeVilbiss displayed within them, illuminate a slice of history—the rise and fall of
sought out relationships with the highest quality American and European American factory production and ever-changing American tastes and
glass manufacturers for its bottles, including Imperial, Steuben, styles—as well as the enduring possibilities of glass.
Cambridge, and Vineland in the U.S., Brosse in France, and Moser of Treasure hunting is part of Cowan’s process. She collects antique
Bohemia. Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, and Japan also provided pressed glassware from the heyday of American glass manufacturing
glassware for DeVilbiss atomizers. In all, DeVilbiss acquired glass and (think vases, candlesticks, candy dishes, figurines, and knickknacks) from
porcelain bottle blanks from at least 60 different suppliers from America, flea markets and thrift shops, as well as cullet, the gleaming, gemstone-
Europe, and Japan throughout its 71-year history. like hunks of the scrap glass that remain after a factory’s production run.
DeVilbiss would send the glass houses their designs or models of the Cowan melts the cullet to create new elements, which fill her sculptures
bottles and would commission glass houses to manufacture them on their and continue to reveal themselves the longer you look.
behalf. It was there that they would then be made in the colors, shapes, “My work is based on the rejuvenation and reuse of American pressed
and types of glass according to their specifications. Some of the bottles glass,” says Cowan. “The majority of the material I use is “cullet” or the
were finished products that just needed to be fitted with atomizer scrap glass left after the production run in a glass factory. I travel and
mountings at the DeVilbiss plant. The others were known as blanks and search for cullet yards throughout the country where there are barrels and
were given further decorative elements like hand painting, stenciling, or piles of old dead stock colors which I then remelt scrap by scrap through
gilt encrustation at the DeVilbiss plant. the process of flameworking into the multitude of forms that create each
DeVilbiss discontinued perfume atomizers in 1969 when demand for of my sculptures. The glass that I use is generally procured from now-
atomizers waned. Today, DeVilbiss perfume bottles are highly desirable defunct pressed glass manufacturers … Nowadays, this material is out of
and collectible. fashion and relegated to the dustbin of American design. I take this
material which is abundant on the shelves of thrift stores and flea markets
Amber Cowan (1981- ): Recycled Glass Artist and rejuvenate it into a new second-life.”
Cowan received her BFA in 3-dimensional Design with an emphasis
Forty-three-year-old Amber Cowan is having a in Hot Glass from Salisbury University in 2004 – the first woman to
moment today in both the art and glass worlds graduate from Salisbury University with this specific degree. She received
with her use and repurpose of vintage glass in her her MFA in Glass/Ceramics from Tyler School of Art at Temple
artwork: “her entrancing sculptures illuminating the University in 2011, where she is currently a faculty member of the
history and enduring possibilities of American glass glass department.
art,” according to art critics. Cowan’s work is included in the collections of the Corning Museum
Amber Cowan’s sculptural glasswork is centered of Glass, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Museum of
around the use of recycled, upcycled, and second- Arts and Design, and the Shanghai Museum of Glass. She has been
life American pressed glass. She uses the process of flameworking, featured many times at the Heller Gallery in New York City, and the
hot-sculpting, and glassblowing to create large-scale sculptures that G Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco. C
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