Artists John Littleton & Kate Vogel - Represented by Sara McDonnell, Art Makers

John Littleton & Kate Vogel

John Littleton & Kate Vogel

John Littleton and Kate Vogel met at the University of Wisconsin Madison where they received their BSA degrees.  Since 1979 they have lived in the mountains of North Carolina where they began their collaboration on blown and cast glass in the studio of John’s father, Harvey Littleton. In 1980 they moved to Bakersville, NC where they maintain their home and studio.

John and Kate’s blown works, are an exploration of soft forms that began in the early years of their partnership.  The fabric-like forms are as fanciful and fluid as hot glass.  Over time, the soft forms have come to mimic the playful relationship of their collaboration and family life.

Their cast work includes faces and hands, and combines techniques from hot and cold worked glass.  The process of direct casting gives a sense of super-realism and is a powerful tool for communicating and recording their interrelationship with the world.

John and Kate are called on to give lectures at art museums and universities, and have taught casting and blowing at Penland School of Crafts.  Their work is in public and private collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan, including institutions such as the Art in Embassies Program; The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY; Glasmuseum Ebeltoft in Denmark; The White House Collection at The Clinton Library in Little Rock, AR; High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.

They have been included in articles in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, CBS Sunday Morning and NC Weekend UNCTV.  They are featured artists in the film “The Blue Ridge Parkway – America’s Favorite Journey” shown at the Blue Ridge Parkway Destination Center.

If you are interested in learning more or purchasing a piece of John Littleton and Kate Vogel’s glass, please contact Sara McDonnell at Art Makers, artmakers.com/contact.

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Recent Exhibitions
2014
“Sculptural Objects & Functional Art” (S.O.F.A.) Chicago, IL
“South by Southeast, Masters of Studio Glass”, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Al
“Spaces Within”  Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC

2013
“Sculptural Objects & Functional Art” (S.O.F.A.) Chicago, IL
“Igneous Expressions”, Methodist University David McCune International Art Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
Invitational, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC

2012
“Sculptural Objects & Functional Art” (S.O.F.A.) Chicago, IL
“Fire on the Mountain”, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
“Global & Local”, Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, FL
“Spark and Flame”, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
“North Carolina Glass 2012”, The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
“The legacy of Littleton and his Students”, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI

Collections
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Asheville Art Museum – Asheville, NC
Bergstrom Mahler Museum   Neenah, WI
Corning Museum of Glass – Corning, NY
Federal Reserve Bank   Charlotte, NC
Glasmuseum Ebeltoft   Ebeltoft, Denmark
Glasmuseum Frauenau   Frauenau, Germany
Guilford College Art Gallery Permanent Collection   Greensboro, NC
Hickory Museum of Art – Hickory, NC
High Museum of Art  Atlanta, GA
Milwaukee Art Museum   Milwaukee, WI
Mint Museum   Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art – Mobile, AL
Musee de design et d’arts Appliques contemporains – Lausanne, Switzerland
The Museum of Fine Art – Houston, TX
Muskegon Museum of Art – Muskegon, MI
North Carolina Museum of History – Raleigh, NC
Racine Art Museum – Racine, WI
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
The Saint Louis Art Museum  St. Louis, MO
The University of Michigan Dearborn Permanent Art Collection, Library – Dearborn, MI
OberGlas Museum   Barnbach, Austria
New Orleans Museum of Art   New Orleans, LA
The White House Collection, The Clinton Library – Little Rock, AR

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