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Thursday June 12, 2014 | by Elena Tafone

GlassRoots expands program to at-risk youth with new scientific glassblowing apprenticeship

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Education, News
GlassRoots is an organization that devotes itself to fanning the embers of creativity in young people until they burn hot enough to forge bright futures. Since its inception in early 2001, the nonprofit based in Newark, New Jersey has worked to teach at-risk youth the importance of teamwork, self-reliance, and entrepreneurial skills through glassmaking. The discipline required to transform glass into art carries over into other aspects of their lives, giving them the confidence and determination to succeed. The focus has been on glass art, with training in business skills important to careers in the arts but applicable to a wide range of careers. Now, thanks to a generous grant from the Agnes Varis Charitable Trust, this community outreach program will be able to further expand that reach with a new apprenticeship in scientific glassblowing.

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Tuesday June 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

EXHIBITION: Glass exhibition on Bainbridge Island puts the focus on Seattle scene

Through June 30th, 2014, the Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gallery is hosting "Blown Away, Cast Away," an exhibition curated by GLASS Quarterly contributing editor Victoria Josslin. Featuring the work of Granite Calimpong, Bruce Greek, Janusz Pozniak, Lynn E. Read, Boyd Sugiki, Takuya Tokizawa, and Lisa Zerkowitz, the exhibition combines sculptural and design works in glass.

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Using motion capture technology, as well as chronophotography and projection, Harty recreates the silhouettes of Venetian glass forms.

Sunday June 8, 2014 | by Andrew Page

EXHIBITION: Kim Harty’s quest for motion capture informs a wide-ranging body of work

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, News
The photos are lined up neatly, like a checkerboard, fixed to the wall with binder clips. They feature a blurred figure caught in motion, her arms tracing the lines of sculptures in front of her. This is just one piece by artist Kim Harty, BOLT Resident artist, as she breaks down artmaking frame by frame in her new exhibition "Human Factors." Using motion capture technology, chronophotography, and projection, Harty's pieces seek to record the elusive artistic process and examine the dichotomy between human expression and industrial efficiency. The solo exhibition is on view at the Chicago Artists Coalition throughl Tuesday, June 14. (Disclosure: Kim is the former managing editor of GLASS Quarterly.)

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Marie McKee will retire at the end of 2014, after 16 years as president of the Corning Museum of Glass.

Thursday June 5, 2014 | by Elena Tafone

Marie McKee to retire as president of The Corning Museum of Glass, Karol Wight to assume top post

FILED UNDER: Museums, News
After 16 years as president of the Corning Museum of Glass, Marie McKee will retire at the end of this year. Current museum executive director Karol Wight will take on the additional title of president. A newly created position of deputy director of collections and exhibitions will be filled in January 2015 to provide administrative oversight to the expanding museum that will see a new 26,000-square-foot gallery opening this December.

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L to R: Marc-Andre Fontaine and Armel Desreus.

Thursday June 5, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

OPENING: Espace VERRE Graduate Exhibition

Armel Desrues and Marc-Andre Fontaine, this year's graduates of the three-year Diploma of College Studies in Fine Crafts – Glass Option, offered through Espace VERRE and Cegep du Vieux Montreal, will be showcasing their work in the exhibit titled “SiO2” at Espace VERRE, on view today through September 5, 2014. Established in 1983, the non-profit organization Espace VERRE offers education programs in glassmaking for artists and the public in addition to their collegiate program, promotes glass art through exhibitions, sales, and special events, and offers studio rentals. 

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A rendering of Hiroshi Sugimoto's glass tea house that will open on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.

Tuesday June 3, 2014 | by Elena Tafone

OPENING: A Japanese tea house made of glass will open in Venice on June 6, 2014

Noted Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto will be making his first foray into the third dimension with his installation "The Glass Tea House Mondrian," which will open to the public on June 6, 2014. As part of the activities of Le Stanze del Vetro, the temporary pavillion will grace the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy. The pavilion consists of two main elements. The first is an open-air landscape, which will feature a reflecting pool and a path, which leads visitors to the second: an enclosed glass cube. Roughly eight by eight feet, this space will play host to regularly performed Japanese tea ceremonies. With roots winding as far back as the sixteenth century, this ritualized custom has transformed from simple hospitality, to an art form all its own. 

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"I Am A Mountain"

Tuesday June 3, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

Jens Pfeifer’s “I Am A Mountain” exhibit at the Chinese European Art Center

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, News
A three month residency spent exploring the tendency of individuals to become absorbed within their own cultures despite being members of a global society has culminated in Katrin Korfmann and Jens Pfeifer’s exhibition, “I Am A Mountain” at the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen, China.

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Monday June 2, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

American Glass Guild celebrates glass and light in Bryn Athyn, Pa at 10th annual conference

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Auction, Events
Now in its tenth year, the American Glass Guild will host its tenth annual conference, this year titled "Glasstopia," in Bryn Athyn, Pennslyvania, from Thursday, June 26 through Monday, June 30. The guild is aimed at people with an "interest in stained, leaded and decorative glass and its preservation and restoration," according to the organiztion's Website.

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CUD's shoe mosaic in the making

Thursday May 29, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

On heels of Norway residency, John Drury opens Brooklyn exhibition

Elgin Gallery, a gallery focusing on local talent and international Outsider Art in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, will be showcasing the work of John Drury in a solo show entitled "My World is Not Your World." Opening June 13th and running through July 11th, 2014, the exhibiton will be a departure from Drury's typical collaborations with Robbie Miller in the project known as CUD. In May, CUD completed a residency and exhibition in Bergen, Norway, that culminated in a public art installation. Drury is also a frequent contributor to GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly.

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Glass: The UrbanGlass Quarterly, a glossy art magazine published four times a year by UrbanGlass has provided a critical context to the most important artwork being done in the medium of glass for more than 40 years.