Since its launch in 2018, the Toyama Museum of Glass in Toyama, Japan, has been holding its International Glass Exhibition every three years. For its third iteration, the triennial received 785 entries from artists in 50 countries. The submissions were considered by a panel of judges made up of Corning Studio director Amy Schwartz, Neues Glas publisher and editor Uta Klotz, Shanghai Museum of Glass founder and director Zhang Lin, Japan's National Museum of Art director Tsuchida Ruriko, and Toyama Glass Art Museum director Nohagi Naka. The jury chose Slovenia's Tanja Pak, and her work Rêveries, for the grand prize, which comes with an award of ¥3,000,000 ($20,500 USD). Lithuania's Daila Truskaite won the gold prize for her work, Forgotten, which is accompanied by an award of ¥1,000,000 ($6,800 USD). Two silver prizes, with awards of ¥300,000 (USD $2,000) each, were presented to Japan's Michiko Sakuta for The ebb and flow of the light, and Estonia's Birgit Pahlapiju for Riot of flies.
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