Perry Price leaving American Craft Council to run the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Education, News

After four years as director of education for the American Craft Council, Perry Price is departing from the Minneapolis-based non-profit to take over as executive director of the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. In his new role running the 15-year-old nonprofit visual arts center with a mission of advancing "education about the process, product and history of craft," Price is charged with growing the Texas craft center into an organization with a national profile. He is slated to start in the new position on February 29, 2016.

Tuesday January 12, 2016 | by Andrew Page

HELP WANTED: Toledo Museum of Art seeks paid glass curatorial intern

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Help Wanted, Museums

The Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, is looking for a curatorial intern, preferably someone currently a graduate student with a focus on museum studies or art history, for a paid position. The successful applicant will have an opportunity to work extensively with the museum's renowned collection of decorative and sculptural glass objects. The Hirsch Glass Curatorial Intership, as it is known, involves assistance with exhibition planning and organization, as well as opportunities for research and writing about the glass collection.

Tuesday January 12, 2016 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Gene Koss debuts new work at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, News, Opening

At his new exhibition "From a Distance," which opened on Saturday, January 9, Gene Koss unveiled a wide range of mixed-media work. The new glass-and-metal works at Arthur Roger Gallery in downtown New Orleans reference two very different environments — the majestic rural landscape of Wisconsin farmland where Koss grew up, and the more vulnerable Mississippi River Delta ecosystem, where man-made engineering vies with the unruly river and gulf waters that are held at bay, imperfectly, through an elaborate system of levees and dams.

Wednesday January 6, 2016 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: April Surgent exhibition debuts at the Museum of Northwest Art on Saturday

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, Museums, New Work

Opening January 9, 2016, April Surgent's exhibition at the Museum of Northwest Art entitled "Observations of Life on Ice" employs the age-old practice of cameo glass engraving to comment on and investigate very contemporary issues of our environment in flux. The La Conner, Washington, museum's mission is to connect "people with the art, diverse cultures and environments of the Northwest." The Seattle-based artist's newest work is based on her eight-week residency in the Antarctic during 2013, when she was admitted to the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artist and Writers Program. (Disclosure: GLASS Quarterly editor Andrew Page moderated a discussion at the 2015 SOFA Expo in Chicago in which Surgent was a panelist.)

Tuesday December 22, 2015 | by Andrew Page

HELP WANTED: Toyama City Institute of Glass Art seeks coldworking professor

FILED UNDER: Education, Help Wanted

The Toyoma City Insitute of Glass Art, which has been offering 2-year certificate programs in glass at the basic and advanced levels since 1991, is looking for a professor or associate professor of coldwork for a two-year contract, which may be renewed. The Ideal candidate will have a fine art degree in glass, experience as an artist or in higher-education, and bring at least 10 years of coldworking experience. Applications must be received by January 29, 2016. The position begins on September 1, 2016.

The interior display area at JamFactory, Adelaide

Tuesday December 15, 2015 | by Andrew Page

JamFactory announces new juried prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Award, Call for Submissions, News

When the Ranamok Prize was awarded for the final time in 2014, New Zealand and Australian artists lost the region's richest award recognizing the best work being done in glass. Today, JamFactory announced it would step in to fill the void with a new juried glass prize set to debut in 2016. Carrying an award of AU$20,000 (about $14,300 in U.S. dollars), the new biennial FUSE Glass Prize was born out of a lengthy discussion between the Adelaide-based art center and prominent glass collectors Jim and Helen Carreker. The couple are the founding donors for the prize in addition to six other individual collectors and a foundation.

Tuesday December 15, 2015 | by managingeditor@glassquarterly.com

HOLIDAY SALE: For a limited time only, gift subscriptions to GLASS are half off

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Print Edition

This winter, share the gift of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly with friends and family. Give the latest news from the field, lavish photography of stunning new sculptures, and critical insights into the most important artwork in the medium of glass by purchasing a gift subscription at an exceptionally low price. Existing subscribers can purchase a gift subscription of GLASS for only $17 (for U.S. subscriptions only) — half the standard rate.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 | by Andrew Page

GLASS magazine awarded National Endowment for the Arts funding for 2016

FILED UNDER: Award, News, Print Edition

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly $15,000 for 2016, part of $27.7 million in arts funding the government agency is distributing to 1,126 projects across the nation next year under its "Art Works" major funding category. The Art Works program has a "focus on the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing work, lifelong learning in the arts, and public engagement with the arts through 13 arts disciplines or fields," according to the NEA announcement.

Artist Ben Young at the Kirra Galleries booth at SOFA Chicago.

Tuesday December 1, 2015 | by Joanne Kim

A conversation with New Zealand glass artist Ben Young

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, New Work

The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet caught up with Ben Young, a self-taught artist from New Zealand who was a recent finalist for the Ranamok Glass Prize. Represented by Kirra Galleries at the recent Chicago SOFA 2015 art fair, Young started out as a boat builder, but discovered glass a dozen years ago. He says he's found glass the perfect medium for his creative expression.

Tuesday November 24, 2015 | by Andrew Page

Hot Off the Presses: GLASS #141, Winter 2015-16

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Print Edition

The Winter 2015-16 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#141) is hitting newsstands and subscriber mailboxes this week. On the cover is a detail of an exuberant work by Tony Cragg, which was exhibited as part of the fourth iteration of Glasstress, a collateral exhibition at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Cragg is one of more than 150 contemporary artists who have taken Adriano Berengo up on the offer to come to his Murano studios to realize work in glass with the assistance of a team of highly skilled glass masters. Cragg exhibited work at the very first Glastress in 2009, his participation giving the event added prestige as he also represented his native Britain in the main Venice Biennale in 1988. Cragg chooses materials for their ability to behave according to a set of rules and processes, building up cross sections into sculptures that vibrate with rotational energy, which is especially appropriate for working with glass, something he's done since his early works with found objects. Cragg's untitled work on the cover is a fitting image for the new issue which features artists who embrace the material's unique properties and process in service of very different visions.