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Thursday October 24, 2013 | by Andrew Page

Glass Art Society launches completely redesigned Website
FILED UNDER: Announcements, News
Founded in 1971, the Glass Art Society has grown in the more-than-four decades since it began as a semi-formal meeting of glassblowers at Penland, into a full-fledged nonprofit organization with a full-time staff and an office in Seattle, Washington. The scale of its annual get-togethers has grown as well, culminating in the 2012 GAS conference in Toledo when glass artists and aficionados from around the world gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Toledo Museum of Art workshops that many credit with launching Studio Glass. Aside from this year's canceled conference, the annual meeting of glass artists has been a key opportunity to check in with colleages, reconnect with old friends, and attend lectures and demonstrations that help advance the field technically and intellectually. With the launch of a completely redesigned Website, however, GAS has expanded beyond an organization primarily focused on its annual conference. Though it is charging ahead with its 2014 conference in Chicago next March, it has also overhauled its Internet presence with a just-relaunched Website that redefines its online presence as a place for artistic exchange as well as news and information. Among the key features are an expanded and redesigned member directory that showcases member artists' works to the general public as well as to fellow members, taking its impressive networking role into the digital realm.

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Thursday October 3, 2013 | by laguiri

Dramatically curved glass building generates hazardous light reflection
FILED UNDER: Architecture, News
A pioneering use of curved glass in the building at 20 Fenchurch Street in London has broken new ground in engineering. The strikingly bold design, which the popular press has dubbed "the Walkie-Talkie" building, has also raised unanticipated problems for Rafael Viñoly Architects. The voluptuous curve of the building facade focuses the lights rays at certain times of the day, creating a high-temperature beam of light that has damaged a parked car. The London Evening Standard recently reported on the hotspot created on Eastcheap Street by the building, which has already been blamed for melting parts of a parked Jaguar, including the wing mirror and Jaguar emblem. Reuters reported that some business owners near the building have experienced sun damage and carpet burns in front of their stores, and a TV crew even fried an egg in the hot spot, which has registered 161 degrees Farenheit.

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Friday September 27, 2013 | by Andrew Page

Seattle benefit smashes fundraising goal for glassblowing family’s cancer fight
FILED UNDER: Events, News

Taking a page from the highly successful benefits that have raised millions for arts organizations, the Seattle glassblowing community put on a festive art-filled event to generate money to help the local glassblowing family of Paul Cunningham and Kate Thorbeck care for their 2-year-old son, Finn, who has been battling leukemia since a diagnosis eight months ago.…

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