American Glass Guild celebrates glass and light in Bryn Athyn, Pa at 10th annual conference

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Now in its tenth year, the American Glass Guild will host its tenth annual conference, this year titled "Glasstopia," in Bryn Athyn, Pennslyvania, from Thursday, June 26 through Monday, June 30. The guild is aimed at people with an "interest in stained, leaded and decorative glass and its preservation and restoration," according to the organiztion's Website.

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Saturday May 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Mary Shaffer exhibition opens in Taos, New Mexico

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A solo exhibition of pioneering Studio Glass artist Mary Shaffer opens today at the E.L. Blumenschein Museum, a historic landmark in Taos, New Mexico. Up through June 22, 2014, the exhibtion entitled "A Different View" features the artist's signature "mid-air slumping" technique. Antique farm tools such as buggy wrenches and sheep sheers are adorned by a flourish of drippinghot glass, strategically cooled to preserve the fluidity and grace of the material subject to gravity.

This will be the second iteration of the Collective Design fair in New York City.

Tuesday May 6, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

DESIGN: Glass figures prominently in design fairs opening in New York City and London

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Coming off a successful inaugural year, the second Collective Design Fair opens today and runs through May 11th, 2014, in Skylight at Moynihan, highlighting limited editions of design pieces and one-of-a-kind artworks in various media. Glass figures in many of the exhibitors displays, primarily in various approaches to lighting from the French Art Deco-style designs at Maison Gerard, to the sculptural glass lighting by Thaddeus Wolfe and Jeff Zimmerman at R and Company, to a mix of lighting and fine art glass works at Wexler Gallery, which blurs the boundaries between art and design.

The studio demo at UrbanGlass on Saturday, May 3, has sold out but there is a waiting list.

Thursday May 1, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

OPENING: Lino Tagliapietra in New York for gallery opening, demo, and birthday party

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Lino Tagliapietra, a world-renown maestro with 69 years of experience working with glass, will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Heller Gallery that opens this evening, mixing his blown work with some of his large-scale glass panels. When Lino first began visiting the U.S. from Murano, Italy, in the late 1970s, he brought with him traditional Venetian techniques and, just as importantly, a desire to share them. He was inspired to connect with the spirit of discovery and experimentation he saw in the U.S. Studio Glass movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. As he told GLASS Quarterly magazine in an exclusive interview (GLASS #104, Fall 2006), America represented a liberation, and he says he became "a better artist" as a result.

Tuesday April 29, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Dan Graham collaborates with landscape architect for Metropolitan Museum rooftop project

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On a blustery spring day, the site-specific work "The Roof Garden Commission" by artist Dan Graham in collaboration with landscape architect Günther Vogt opened atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Architectural constructions of sensuously curving beams of steel supporting curved panels of lightly mirrored glass, the work is arranged on a grassy lawn that connects the rooftop to the adjacent green landscape of Central Park. The glass is carefully designed to both reflect and be permeable to light, offering complex and constantly-shifting perspectives for visitors walking in and out of the structure. The outdoor installation will be up through November 2, 2014, available to museum visitors when the weather permits.

Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend and Paul Marioni

Thursday April 24, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

Paul Marioni and Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend celebrate long artistic friendship in Los Angeles exhibit

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Artists and longtime friends Paul Marioni and Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend have several things in common, and their long association is the reason for a joint exhibition on view through June 28, 2014 in Los Angeles. Both artists have a fondness for the unexpected in their work, and in, "Seeing Into It: Messages in Glass" at the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles, Marioni and Stinsmuehlen-Amend carry on their tradition of creating works outside the boundaries of traditional glass art, both in style and execution.

Tuesday April 22, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

Glass Art Society 2015 conference in San Jose accepting proposals for presentations

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Work by Lisa Demagall

Thursday April 17, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

Pittsburgh Glass Center to exhibit work by four emerging female artists

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The Pittsburgh Glass Center’s newest exhibition titled, "Breaking Through: Moving 4ward," is slated to open at the Hodge Gallery on May 2, 2014 and run through July 20, 2014. The four up-and-coming women artists whose work will be featured— Lisa Demagall, Laura Beth Konopinski, Anna Mlasowski, and Nadine Saylor — have each spent a month in residence at PGC, where they experimented with new techniques for their craft, displaying varying styles and concepts as they worked from four different studios within PGC.

Tuesday April 15, 2014 | by Andrew Page

PERFORMANCE: Classic Greek play of vengence adapted for glass studio event

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Billed as a "glassblowing-theater adaptation," a novel production of the Euripedes' drama Medea will fuse the sights, heat, and sounds of glassblowing with ancient Greek tragedy that charts the horrific vengence undertaken by a woman scorned. Patricia Coleman, a New York City writer and theater director, has adapted the classic drama "developing a pared-down text that goes to the heart of female aggression," according to a Website about the upcoming event, taking place at the for-profit studios of Brooklyn Glass for four performances (on April 18, 19, 25, and 26th at 8 pm).

Wednesday March 26, 2014 | by Andrew Page

AUCTION: Christie’s upcoming sale of legendary dealer Barry Friedman’s glass collection

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Art dealer Barry Friedman, who announced his plans to retire this month back in November 2013, is auctioning off his substantial holdings in 20th- and 21st-century decorative arts and design, fine art, photography, ceramics, and glass. A total of 400 lots are going up for a series of auctions at Christie's Rockefeller Plaza location that, for glass collectors, will culminate in the sale of his holdings in Italian and contemporary glass in the morning and the afternoon of Thursday, March 27th respectively.