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Tuesday July 13, 2010 | by Andrew Page

Help Wanted: Newark, New Jersey, glass nonprofit seeks executive director

FILED UNDER: Help Wanted, News

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Tuesday July 13, 2010 | by Lee Brooks

October conference to cap year-long celebration of 400 years of glassmaking in Scotland

FILED UNDER: Events, News

A new book by Shiona Airlie and Brian Blench provide a definitive history of four centuries of glassmaking in Scotland. (click image for more info)

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Monday July 12, 2010 | by Andrew Page

New glass art festival planned to rise from ashes of canceled Glass Art Society conference

FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, News

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Friday July 9, 2010 | by Andrew Page

And the site of the 2011 Glass Art Society Conference is ... Seattle!

FILED UNDER: Events, News

The U.S. capital of glass art and home to its highest-profile practitioner, Dale Chihuly, Seattle will be the setting for the 2011 GAS Conference.

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Thursday July 8, 2010 | by Andrew Page

Red Dot Report: What sold on Day One of SOFA WEST in Santa Fe

FILED UNDER: Art Market, Exhibition, New Work, News

The scene at the Duane Reed Gallery booth during the opening night of SOFA WEST Wednesday evening.

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Tuesday July 6, 2010 | by Andrew Page

University of Edinburgh graduate takes top honors at first design prize by the British glass artists

FILED UNDER: Award, News

Alan Horsley, center, surrounded by jurors, won the first prize in the Contemporary Glass Society's first-ever young designer competition.

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Friday July 2, 2010 | by Andrew Page

Pilchuck announces third executive director since 2008

FILED UNDER: Education, News

New executive director James Baker in a 2006 photo.

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Thursday June 17, 2010 | by sagevega

Infectious artworks in glass by Luke Jerram stir discussion in the NYTimes

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, News

Luke Jerram, HIV 3/5, 2010. Glass. H 7 1/2, W 7 1/2, D 7 1/2 in. courtesy: heller gallery, new york

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Tuesday June 15, 2010 | by Lee Brooks

Glass Curiosities: Cape Town Stadium’s 4,700-ton roof may be the largest glass ceiling in the world

FILED UNDER: Curiosities, Design, News

An aerial view of what some are calling the largest glass ceiling in the world.

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Monday June 14, 2010 | by Lee Brooks

In Memoriam: Thomas Buechner (1926-2010), founding director of The Corning Museum of Glass and mento

FILED UNDER: In Memoriam, News

A self-portrait of the late Thomas Buechner from his 2000 book on painting. He was a serious figurative painter who devoted the last decades of his life to portraiture.

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