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Wednesday March 26, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Winner of the 2014 Borowsky Prize, Helen Lee will lecture at UArts
FILED UNDER: Award, Education, Events
The inaugural Irvin Borowsky Prize in Glass Arts, an annual juried award that includes a $5,000 gift, was won by artist and University of Wisconsin, Madison, assistant professor Helen Lee. As part of the 2014 prize, she will deliver a special lecture at 6:30 this evening at University of the Arts's CBS Auditorium in Dorrance Hamilton Hall. Lee holds a BSAD in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and an MFA from RISD. 

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The Hot Shop room of the newly reconstructed Glass Art Centre.

Tuesday March 25, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

A new interactive glass art facility opens in the Czech Republic
FILED UNDER: Education, Events, News
With the opening of the Glass Art Centre in Sazava, the Czech Republic has opened a new door of interaction and opportunity for glass artists and aspiring artists. It will also help promote glass art to the general public. “There is not any other place in the Czech Republic at the moment, which would offer the same interactive environment and conditions for visitors, artists, experts and students as our new Glass Art Centre in Sazava,” said Frantisek Janak, an Art Manager at the Glassworks Frantisek, a newly renovated, non-profit organization owned by the “Josef Viewegh´s Foundation Glassworks Frantisek.” It was previously an old glassworks, part of the Kavalier Company.

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Thursday March 20, 2014 | by Andrew Page

International Flameworking Conference featuring Joyce Scott to get underway March 28
FILED UNDER: Education, Events, News
Joyce Scott and Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen will be the featured artists at the International Flameworking Conference, taking place from March 28th through 30th at Salem County Community College in Carney's Point, New Jersey.  The 14th annual event is the leading annual gathering of flameworkers spanning the full range of torch work from artistic, scientific, and pipe making pursuits.  Beadwork will take center stage in this year's big event as Scott's beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces take center stage, addressing political and social concerns with a frank engagment of issues of gener, race, and class.

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Wednesday March 19, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Glass Secessionists to “gather” at the GAS conference on heels of American Craft interview
FILED UNDER: Events, News
The Glass Secessionist Facebook discussion group, in which artist Tim Tate moderates an online bulletin-board conversation about wide-ranging work in glass that in the eyes of followers draws a line where Studio Glass ends and a new type of work begins, is holding an in-person meeting during the 2014 Glass Art Society conference in Chicago. Taking place at 12 noon on Friday, March 21st, and billed as "the Gathering," the idea is to bring together in real life those who know each other mostly from the posting of photos of glass artwork, installations, and architecture and responding politely and usually positively. (Tate admonishes members to "keep it civil or have your post deleted" and keeps a tight rein on the exchange to prevent "cyber-bullying.") (Disclosure: Tim Tate published an essay laying out why he embarked on his Facebook enterprise in GLASS #133, and GLASS contributing editor William Warmus is one of the most frequent contributors to Glass Secessionism after Tate).

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Thursday March 13, 2014 | by Andrew Page

At-Risk Youth Program summit at the Glass Art Society Conference
FILED UNDER: Education, Events, News
In the two decades since Hilltop Artists in Residence was formed in 1994, the unique power of hot glass to reach at-risk youth who may have been left behind by traditional education has been established. Programs using hot glass to teach life lessons have been cropping up around the U.S. separated by thousands of miles and limited communication. The distance between these programs is about to narrow considerably thanks to a summit taking place as part of the 2014 Glass Art Society conference. A special panel from 10:30 AM to 12 noon on Friday, March 21st, will offer instructors and program heads a chance to exchange best practices and share success stories. But the more important goal of this event (sponsored by the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation) is to build bridges that will continue into the future in hopes of advancing the field through shared knowledge and experience (Disclosure: GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet editor Andrew Page is also the director of the Robert Minkoff Foundation). To that end, a special Website at www.atriskglass.org seeks to be a hub for interorganization dialogue and cross-pollination into the future.

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Wednesday February 26, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Chicago stars of food and drink to showcase talents at GAS conference kick-off reception
FILED UNDER: Announcements, Events
The Glass Art Society is mixing the culinary and glass art worlds with a special pre-conference fundraising event taking place on Wednesday, March 19, at Ignite Glass Studios, a prime venue for the 2014 Glass Art Society Conference in Chicago. Two representatives of Embeya restaurant, one of Esquire magazine's best new restuarants of 2013, will be on hand to kick the evening off with drinks and appetizers. Creative cocktails will be crafted by the restaurant's beverage director Danielle Pizzutillo, while the trays of hors d'oevres will be the work of Embeya's chef Thai Dang. Look for asian-fusion flavors prepared with French culinary techniques, with both the food and drinks said to be "glass-inspired" according to a GAS announcement about the event that will run from 6 PM to 10 PM. (Tickets are $200 for GAS members and $225 for non-members.)

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Thursday February 20, 2014 | by Andrew Page

The Glass Virus Think Tank convenes in Amsterdam
FILED UNDER: Education, Events
A gathering of 27 artists, professors, and students gathered at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam for a two-day meeting described by co-organizers artist Marc Barreda and Gerrit Rietveld professor Jens Pfeifer as a "think tank" to consider the future of glass education. The assembed group, supplemented by online input solicited through a Tumblr page, are tackling a broad range of topics, including the economics of running a glass department, changes to curriculum, whether there is a bias against glass art, and a range of questions about the future.

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Friday January 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: UrbanGlass spotlights work by recent graduates of M.F.A. programs
FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, Opening
Since 2004, UrbanGlass has been hosting a juried exhibition to highlight the best work by recent graduates of M.F.A. programs whose work features glass. The 2014 MFA exhibition will open on January 22nd in the Robert Lehman Gallery at the Agnes Varis Art Center at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, New York. The four artists whose work will be featured are Melissa Athey (Virginia Commonwealth University); Sarah Briland (VCU); Weston Lambert (Tulane University); and Wil Sideman (Rochester Institute of Technology).

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