Inside Shawna Peterson's neon tube bending studio where puffs of air, charred wood and glass tubes meet to make brilliant signs and art. it's kind of really like by feel of when it's ready. There's ...
A friend of mine who works in the outdoor-sign business told me recently neon signs are about to be extinct; the large sign companies are giving up on the technology because they can’t find enough ...
Installation view of NEON: The Charged Line at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (all photos by Phill Heywood, all images courtesy Grundy Art Gallery) BLACKPOOL, UK — In White Noise, novelist Don ...
Neon art is elemental (in the periodic table kind of way). Sure, plenty of sculpture is made out of gold, silver, copper or iron, but these are all fairly run-of-the-mill metals. They behave in fairly ...
Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...
JANESVILLE—For nearly two decades, artist Tyler Kutz has been putting other peoples’ names up in lights. The 35-year-old neon artist and Janesville native said he creates nostalgic and custom designs, ...
October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and the folks at The Museum of Neon Art in Glendale are celebrating with a special exhibit. Neon art has been championed by the LGBTQ+ community for decades. ABC7 ...
If the Fourth of July fireworks don’t satisfy your hankering for dazzling colors, Glendale’s Museum of Neon Art has an offer: Come visit its storage facility on July 9 for a rare peek of what promises ...
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Shawna Peterson bends glass tubes for a living. She makes neon art, and has put glowing faces on a giant wall of recyclables for artist Erik Otto, bent two-inch circles for a wall sized circuit board ...