Robert DuGrenier’s new chandelier installation and accompanying exhibition, VitroVerse, will open on Friday, July 22, 2022, at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont. Two hundred hand-blown glass planets, each illuminated by an LED light, will hang from the ceiling of the grand staircase in Yester House. Each planet will have a digital life as an NFT (non-fungible token), a unique digital asset that represents a work of art or collectible and purchasers of NFTs can control the color LED light for their corresponding planet. A companion exhibition of the 200 NFTs as well as larger hand-blown glass planets will be on view in Gallery 1.

“I’ve been fascinated by the sun, moon and stars in the universe since I was little,” says DuGrenier. “I had a telescope in my room and would spend hours looking out the window at the night sky. My NFT VitroVerse collection is a joining of two worlds: the universe and the metaverse”.