Blizzard Amulet Basket

Artist Laura Donefer (Canadian (born in the United States), born 1955)

Date2007

Dimensions15 1/2 × 14 × 6 in. (39.4 × 35.6 × 15.2 cm)

MediumColorless and opaque white glass, blown, tooled, applied, flameworked, assembled. Pontil mark ground and polished. Found organic objects (sea shells, bleached roots)

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

2010.8

Not on View

Label TextKnown as an artist with a brilliant command of color and attention to detail, Laura Donefer has been using glass as a primary artistic medium for more than 27 years. Unusual for her work, she chose a monochrome palette of transparent and opaque white glass for this Amulet Basket. According to Donefer, she was experimenting with the form in the middle of a blizzard in the winter of 2007, which inspired her to create this work with its wintry appearance. Donefer also often incorporates mixed media and—literally—“found” objects into her work. A confessed lifelong hoarder, her studio is crammed with what she calls “human sheddings, urban remnants, and natural bric-a-brac.”Exhibition HistoryFlint, MI, The Flint Institute of Arts, Blown Away: International Glass of the 21st Century, Exhibition catalog, 2009, p. 40, ill. p. 41.