john wilkes

When I'm not at work or travelling, I try to spend as much time as I can trying to learn how to blow glass.

Until I have time to create a proper page with more details, here is a sample of some of my work from 2007-2009.

For many happy years, I blew glass at the San Francisco State University glassblowing program, until it was closed down. Now I mostly blow at Public Glass in south San Francisco, a wonderful public-access studio that also runs a wealth of classes, COVID-19 permitting.

Sarum seminar: gothic architecture and medieval life

I host the web page for the Sarum Seminar, a group of people who meet roughly monthly as a result of Robert Scott's 1994 course on Gothic Cathedrals and Great Churches of England, 1150-1350, run by the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.

Titian's Venus of Urbino

In the spring of 1996, Christy Junkerman taught a superb Stanford Continuing Studies course on Italian Renaissance art. One outcome was an essay I wrote on the possible meaning of Titian's Venus of Urbino.