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Tuesday May 11, 2010 | by apekshavanjari

Corning’s GlassLab will give designers free range to improvise with glass at German design museum
FILED UNDER: Events, New Work, News
Timed to overlap with Art Basel taking place just four miles across the border from Weil am Rhein, Germany, the Vitra Design Museum will play host to the Corning Museum of Glass’s GlassLab from June 14th to June 20th. GlassLab is a portable, energy-efficient and green hot shop where designers work with a team of experienced glassblowers to bring their sketches to life in front of an audience. Not only does GlassLab provide audiences interested in product design a look into the process of prototyping and refining glass objects, but designers themselves get a chance to work with glass in real time and in real life. This is far different than the virtual world where most design takes place through computer programs. Here, rather than a prototype arriving by mail from an Asian factory weeks later, a harsh reality of our increasingly global design and manufacturing process, designers will have a chance to see first-hand how glass designs intersect with the realities of the hotshop, and modify their plans accordingly.

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Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by apekshavanjari

Opening: New Work by Renowned Studio Glass Artist & Prof. Bill Carlson
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The internationally collected glass artist, Endowed Chair, and UM Art Department Professor William Carlson will be featured in the The University of Miami Lowe Art Museum’s exhibition. Opening April 4 through June 6, 2010 is the “William Carlson: Aquila Non Capit Muscas (An Eagle Does Not Catch Flies)” which will feature Carlson. Along with the William Carlson’s work and exhibition will be the “Annual Juried Student Competion Exhibition” which will be on view through May 9th.

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Glass: The UrbanGlass Quarterly, a glossy art magazine published four times a year by UrbanGlass has provided a critical context to the most important artwork being done in the medium of glass for more than 40 years.