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Marc Petrovic leading a demo at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Spring. The campus visit was an audition for the position he has been awarded after an international search. photo: robert muller

Saturday May 17, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Marc Petrovic hired to chair glass department at Cleveland Institute of Art

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Education, News

After an international search, the Cleveland Institute of Art has hired Marc Petrovic to chair its glass program, selecting him from the 35 qualified applicants for the position. The artist, a Cleveland native and alumnus of CIA, will join its faculty as an assistant professor for the upcoming Fall semester, taking over for his former professor and the longtime glass department chair Brent-Kee Young, who is retiring after 41 years. Petrovic will be relocating from Connecticut, where he has lived and worked for the past 20 years, and returning to the city where he was born, and where he earned his B.F.A. from CIA in 1991.

Thursday May 15, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

Crowdfunded art book on the work of Elias Hansen has until May 31 to hit goal and be published

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Book Report, New Work, News

Multimedia artist Elias Hansen, who frequently employs glass in his projects is set to publish an art book, Even Crooks Have To Pay The Rent, which documents his solo and collaborative works from the past decade. Part of a new publishing model, the publication of the book depends on hitting 500 advance purchases of the book. Published through the Minor Matters platform, Hansen’s book has attained 50-percent of its pre-sale goal of 500, with a deadline of May 31, 2014 for publication to proceed.

Thomas and George Woodall, The Intruders, ca. 1893, and The Attack, 1896 Blown, cased, acid-etched, and cameo-carved glass.

Saturday May 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

The Chrysler Museum of Art showcases new glass acquisitions as doors reopen to the public today

FILED UNDER: Museums, News, Opening

After an 18-month major expansion and renovation of its main building, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia opens to the public today with a 30-percent increase in the number of items in its glass collection on display, as well as greater connections to the activities of its glass studio. Proceeds from museum’s $45 million capital campaign—which included funding for the glass studio that opened in November 2011—financed this $24-million-project. An additional 10,000 square feet of exhibition space allows greater flexibiltiy for exhibiiton design as well as new paths for visitors to navigate the museum. Two new wings now flank the historic front entrance.

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

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Art Market, Design, Events, Exhibition, News, Opening

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

FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, New Work, News, Opening

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.

Work by Lisa Demagall

Thursday April 17, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

Pittsburgh Glass Center to exhibit work by four emerging female artists

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Events, Exhibition, New Work, News, Opening

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

Coburg Glass Prize awarded to Danish artist Karen Lise Krabbe

FILED UNDER: Award, Exhibition, New Work, News

The fourth Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass was awarded over the weekend, with the top honor including a 15,000 Euro (more than US$ 20,000) prize going to Karen Lise Krabbe of Denmark. Open to European artists working with glass, the richest prize in glass is awarded at multi-year intervals. The first was given in 1977, followed by 1985, and 2006. Second prize was awarded to American Jeff Zimmer (currently living in Scotland and thus qualifying for the competition). Sylvie Vandenhoucke of Belgium won third prize.

Tuesday April 15, 2014 | by Andrew Page

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

FILED UNDER: Events, New Work, News

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).

Panel depicting Jared

Thursday March 27, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

Twelfth-century stained-glass windows from the Canterbury Cathedral on display at The Cloisters

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, Museums, News

The Canterbury Cathedral, whose name many will recognize from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a famed pilgrimage destination, and one of the oldest Christian structures in England, has been the site of stained glass windows of staggering historical importance and beauty. For the first time, six of these priceless windows, have been temporarily removed from their home of nine centuries, and are on view for a limited time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cloisters Museum. Through May 18th, 2014, six life-sized stained glass panels depicting Christ’s ancestors and created in 1178-80 make up the "Radiant Light: Stained Glass from the Canterbury Cathedral" exhibition, which will be on display as part of the Upper Manhattan institution's 75th anniversary year.

Wednesday March 26, 2014 | by Andrew Page

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

FILED UNDER: Auction, Events, News

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.

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