Artist Lecture and Hot Glass Demo with David Patchen

Sun Mar 15 2026 at 12:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-04:00

Duncan McClellan Gallery | St. Petersburg

Duncan McClellan Gallery
Publisher/HostDuncan McClellan Gallery
Artist Lecture and Hot Glass Demo with David Patchen
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Visiting artist David Patchen demonstrates ancient Italian glassblowing techniques for this special event!
About this Event

David is a glass artist who works as a chairman for glass arts communities. For two decades, David’s creative energies primarily found an outlet in music, but a blowpipe and a glass furnace have firmly replaced his guitar.

David has studied at the prestigious Pilchuck Glass School. In 2010, David was invited to Seto City, Japan as Artist in Residence, spending a month lecturing, demonstrating, and making work through an award from the Seto City Art and Cultural Foundation. Early in his career, he learned from, a wide range of talented local artists, combined with a great deal of experimentation and visits with Afro Celotto, maestro and former assistant to Lino Tagliapietra in Murano, Italy. David has received awards for his work, including an artistic merit scholarship for his studies at Pilchuck.

Patchen is actively involved in the glass arts communit?y as Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors at Public Glass (San Francisco’s center for glass art) and a former member of the Board of Directors, Glass Alliance of Northern California. David maintains a private studio within Public Glass where he creates his work and occasionally instructs. He enjoys and finds inspiration in international travel, SCUBA diving, photography, architecture, science, and nature.

Born and raised in New York, David Patchen now resides in San Francisco. David’s work, renowned for its intense colors, intricate details, and meticulous craftsmanship, is held in numerous private collections and exhibited in select galleries throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

We invite you to join us on March 15th to hear from a master glass artist and to witness them work in our hotshop. Lectures begin promptly at noon, followed by hot glass demos until 4 pm. This event is free and open to the public of all ages!

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Duncan McClellan Gallery, 2342 Emerson Avenue South, St. Petersburg, United States

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