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Wednesday May 12, 2010 | by Kim Harty

Last Chance: “Ends and Means” at Fullerton Art Museum closes tomorrow
FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work
Today and tomorrow will be your last chance to see “Dylan Palmer and Colby Bird: Ends and Means,“ at the Robert V. Fullerton Museum of Art at the California State University, San Bernadino. The show, which includes sculpture, neon, photography, and glass, is accompanied by a printed pamphlet of nine essays by editors and curators such as Tina Oldknow, curator of modern glass a the Corning Museum of Glass, and Colby Chamberlain, managing editor at Cabinet Magazine. The show title is an apt reference to the Adlous Huxley book, Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization).

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Tuesday May 11, 2010 | by apekshavanjari

Corning’s GlassLab will give designers free range to improvise with glass at German design museum
FILED UNDER: Events, New Work, News
Timed to overlap with Art Basel taking place just four miles across the border from Weil am Rhein, Germany, the Vitra Design Museum will play host to the Corning Museum of Glass’s GlassLab from June 14th to June 20th. GlassLab is a portable, energy-efficient and green hot shop where designers work with a team of experienced glassblowers to bring their sketches to life in front of an audience. Not only does GlassLab provide audiences interested in product design a look into the process of prototyping and refining glass objects, but designers themselves get a chance to work with glass in real time and in real life. This is far different than the virtual world where most design takes place through computer programs. Here, rather than a prototype arriving by mail from an Asian factory weeks later, a harsh reality of our increasingly global design and manufacturing process, designers will have a chance to see first-hand how glass designs intersect with the realities of the hotshop, and modify their plans accordingly.

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Saturday May 8, 2010 | by Andrew Page

2011 Tucson GAS conference cancelled, date changed, new location yet to be announced
FILED UNDER: News
Yesterday evening, in an official email sent to its members, the Glass Art Society‘s executive director Pamela Koss announced a major shake-up in its plans for its 2011 conference citing a tough economy and Arizona’s recent passage of a controversial new law targeting immigrants. The opening paragraph of the announcement mentioned the Glass Art Society Board of Directors’ “fiduciary responsibility.” This seems to be an allusion to what must have been shaping up as a poorly-attended, money-losing conference. An email from the Hot Sheet to Koss requesting further details had not received an immediate response Saturday morning.

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Thursday May 6, 2010 | by Andrew Page

Opening: Glass design show “Breakable” will debut at Heller Gallery on Friday evening
FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, Opening
Opening Friday, May 7th, “BREAKABLE: Glass By Design” will showcase new work that pushes the limits of glass as a material for cutting-edge design. Organized by the American Design Club in association the Heller Gallery, the exhibition will overlap with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair which runs from May 15th — 18th, 2010. The “BREAKABLE” exhibition will continue through May 28th, 2010, and a special reception on Sunday, May 16th, will celebrate the “Best in Show,” which will be announced that same evening.

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