Glass Form 1964

Lipofsky was one of the students in Harvey Littleton’s first glass course in fall 1962. Under the tutelage of Littleton, Lipofsky began to work with glass, although his primary interest was making sculptures from clay: “Even though we were in the ceramics class, he wanted us all to come out to his farm, and we each got a day out at his farm to blow glass” Lipofsky said in an interview for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. This glass vessel was included in a small display of glass included in Lipofsky’s 1964 MFA exhibition at UW–Madison. After graduating from UW, the artist accepted a position teaching at UC–Berkeley in fall 1964. There, he established Berkeley’s first glass lab. The Wisconsin State Journal announced in July 1964 that Lipofsky would be “the first disciple to spread the Littleton influence to another campus.”