Gallery W.D.O

At Metal Earth Art each metal creation is hand designed, then cut on a plasma table. We specialize in western, welcome signs and garden art scenes and Pacific Northwest art. We can also create custom gallery art from your ideas or pictures! Our products are made of solid steel and painted black in color unless otherwise stated. Some of our custom gallery art pieces are hand torch colored using a rainbow effect. Each piece is made to order, one at a time.

Metal Art makes a great addition to any home or garden decor, it is also great on the barn, in the garden, on entrance gates, and more! The possibilities are endless!

Rosetree Glass Studio, Inc. was founded in 1993 with a goal of making quality, affordable, beautiful, handmade blown glass objects. Every piece is individually made to give each its own unique character. Due to the nature of glassblowing, no two pieces are ever exactly alike.

At Rosetree we melt our own glass from raw materials to give us the clearest glass available for studio use. An extensive color palette is achieved through the addition of color glass chips and powders to the clear glass.The glass is then treated with a solution of rare and precious metals to produce the beautiful, multi-colored, iridescent effects. Rosetree Glass is found throughout the United States in fine craft shops, galleries, museum shops, and specialty stores.Our beautiful creations have been purchased as corporate gifts for major corporations, including White Westinghouse and Gibson.

A unique collection of handmade fused glass designed objects (plate, service ware, vase, trays, bowls etc) for the sensual home. All made in Greece.

Glass Studio

gallery W.D.O. in Charlotte, NC, will present an exhibition entitled, Animal Magnetism, featuring clay sculptures by Rick Crown. The exhibition begins Feb. 1 and continues through Mar. 2, 2002. This show will be the last at the gallery’s Atherton Mill location in Charlotte’s South End district. Later this year, the gallery will move to a new location in the Hearst Plaza on Tryon Street in Uptown Charlotte.

Crown is an Associate Professor of Art at Queens College in Charlotte, where he has been on the faculty since 1971.

“This work owes a huge debt to those founding members of Modernism who valued African and Pre-Columbian art. They established a context for primitivism and validated naiveté. From these roots has grown my own exploration of animal forms,” says Crown, adding “With the energy of a child, I approach the plastic potential of clay to create these animals. Both construction and gesture are primarily spontaneous. Color and texture are used to emphasize the emotional expression of these creatures. When the work is at its best, I lurk beneath their body language and their attitudes.”