{"podcast":{"title":"Talking Out Your Glass podcast","slug":"talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080","podcast_index_feed_id":558080,"rss_url":"https://talkingoutyourglass.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.talkingoutyourglass.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/e/3/4/2e343f03e16c01c7/NEW3ITUNES.jpg","author":"Shawn Waggoner","episode_count":299,"summary":"Former editor of Glass Art magazine Shawn Waggoner interviews internationally respected artists and experts in hot, warm and cold glass. For questions or comments shawntelroyale@yahoo.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T02:18:52.207818+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080"},"episode":{"title":"Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend: Stretching Concepts and Pushing Processes of Traditional Glass","slug":"susan-stinsmuehlen-amend-stretching-concepts-and-pushing-processes-of-traditional-glass","published_at":"2026-03-13T14:34:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080/susan-stinsmuehlen-amend-stretching-concepts-and-pushing-processes-of-traditional-glass","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080","url":"http://www.talkingoutyourglass.com","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkingoutyourglass/Susan_Stinsmuehlen_Amend_audio_only.mp3?dest-id=356274","summary":"Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend is an artist for whom ideas have always been more important than media, and possibly more integral to her work. It's interesting then that her art has been consistently viewed through the lens of glass. In the creation of her early X series to more recent Calendar Notations , she has pioneered techniques such as non-traditional, unfired painting on glass, mixing glass with other media, and presenting painted, decorated glass on the wall in reflected light. Throughout her career, the artist distilled her own life experiences in the creation of progressive and experimental work. While studying Fine Arts at the University of Texas, Austin, in 1973, Stinsmuehlen-Amend was serendipitously introduced to glass and went on to become partner with Rodney Smith and designer of Renaissance Glass, an architectural glass studio. Beyond teaching and employing 14 artists, she built a creative hub that included studio space, glass supplies, a hot glass studio, education and exhibitions. Understanding the cutting edge in the field, Stinsmuehlen-Amend invited luminaries in the Studio Glass movement such as Dale Chihuly, Paul Marioni, William Morris, and Narcissus Quagliata, among others, to lecture and teach in the early 1980s. The studio became the center for contemporary glass in Texas from 1973 to 1987. While balancing single motherhood, donating time to the arts, and running her business, she became the Glass Art Society's first woman president (1984 – '86). Concurrent with designing stained glass commissions, Stinsmuehlen-Amend was determined to make the craft form a means for personal expression. Through experimentation and rebellion and influenced by the local punk scene, her radical fashion designer best friend, Pattern & Decoration and Neo-Expressionism…","meta_description":"Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend is an artist for whom ideas have always been more important than media, and possibly more integral to her work. It's interesting…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7035,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080/episodes/susan-stinsmuehlen-amend-stretching-concepts-and-pushing-processes-of-traditional-glass/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080/susan-stinsmuehlen-amend-stretching-concepts-and-pushing-processes-of-traditional-glass.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}