Dinner on Glass
ADMISSION: $350 ($315 for BMAC and Vermont Glass Guild members)
Space is limited. Advance registration required.
To purchase tickets, click here or call 802-257-0124 x101.
REFUND POLICY:Ticket purchases are refundable (less 10%) up until October 24, 2024, or the event is sold out, whichever comes first. After that date, ticket purchases will only be refunded if BMAC is able to resell your tickets to someone on the waiting list.LOCATION: Solinglass at Fire Arts Vermont, 485 West River Road (Route 30), Brattleboro VT 05301
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Dinner on Glass combines fine dining, glass blowing, and performance art into a dazzling and unforgettable feast for all the senses.
Glass artist Randi Solin’s Brattleboro studio is the setting for diners to watch artists and chefs work together to create an exquisite multi-course meal cooked entirely on hot glass. This one-of-a-kind, genre-defying, culinary experience will be produced by Glasstronomy, a collaboration of glass artist Robert DuGrenier and chef Alex Sorenson of Blank Slate Kitchen.
The process of cooking with molten glass is one that requires great skill. When glass first comes out of the fire, its temperature reaches approximately 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. The glass quickly reduces in heat, leaving the chef a small window of time to cook the ingredients. Once the glass cools to 1,200 degrees or lower, there is an increased risk of the glass shattering. The result is a thrilling demonstration of artistic ingenuity and technical expertise.
Sorenson’s chef collaborators include Neal Myers of the Silver Spring Country Club, Ridgefield, Connecticut; John Gould of Fennel & Fig Catering, Westminster, Vermont; and Luis Sanchez and Iliana Nedoklanova of Amaru Gourmet, Brattleboro, Vermont. The menu will speak to the theme of Day of the Dead, a holiday to honor friends and family members who have died, widely observed in Mexico on the first or second day of November.
Saxtons Distillery will provide a bespoke cocktail for the event, and Artisanal Cellars, will offer wine tastings for each course. Diners will enjoy live music by Project Platypus, a world music band from Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Proceeds benefit BMAC and the Vermont Glass Guild.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS & CHEFS
After earning his MFA at Illinois State University, Robert DuGrenier moved to New York City and launched his career as an artist, sculptor, and designer, primarily working in glass. He moved to Taft Hill Farm in West Townshend, Vermont, 20 years later and opened Robert DuGrenier Glass Art Gallery in Townshend. Long enamored of interactive and immersive experiences, DuGrenier enjoys combining his loves of making glass and growing and eating delicious food.
Alex Sorenson is a New York Times-starred chef who has worked in a wide range of fine-dining restaurants throughout New York City and abroad. He has lived and worked in France, Rwanda, and Borneo. Sorenson recently relocated to West Townshend, Vermont, where his passion for local food and community inevitably led to his connecting with DuGrenier, with whom he has collaborated on numerous art/culinary events.
Randi Solin has been working in glass for over 30 years, She established Solinglass, her Brattleboro, Vermont, glass studio in 1998. Solin creates original blown glass sculptures by using glass like a contemporary abstract expressionist painter. Her work has been collected and exhibited throughout the world, including the permanent collection of The White House, nine U.S. Embassies, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
