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Tuesday December 3, 2013 | by Andrew Page

GALLERY: Scenes from the Jonathan Christie Memorial Event
FILED UNDER: Image Gallery, In Memoriam, News
Billed as "A Celebration of Jon's Life and Achievements," a memorial event took place at the Chihuly Boathouse on Sunday Oct 20th from 11 AM to 2 PM, where the Evelyn Room and Hot Shop were open to friends, family, and well-wishers honoring the memory of the late Jonathan Christie (1968 – 2013). Organized by Jonathan's father, David, the event also saw the launch of a 24-page book entitled Remembering Jon that includes a 9-minute DVD focusing on the evolution of Lyrical Light (2006). Weighing two tons, and made up of more than 300 individual glass horns, the large-scale public artwork is installed at a Jacksonville performing arts center and represents the pinacle of the late artist's output in terms of size and technical complexity. The video was edited down from the 60-minute documentary entitled "Glass Ceiling" that was produced by the local public television station in Florida.

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Thursday November 21, 2013 | by Andrew Page

Barry Friedman announces plans to retire, will close Chelsea gallery by March 2014
FILED UNDER: Announcements, News
The show of photographs by Michael Eastman currently on view at Barry Friedman Ltd, a major Chelsea gallery that has long represented artists working in glass as well as other materials, will be the last exhibition for this important venue for art. After close to a half-century of art dealing, gallery principal Barry Friedman will be retiring, though he will remain a partner in the adjacent gallery Friedman Benda also located at 515 West 26th Street , which will continue on as a major venue for contemporary art. The art dealer announced the end of his 48-year run as an active dealer during The Salon: Art + Design fair last week.

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Wednesday November 13, 2013 | by Paulina Switniewska

3 Questions For… Roisin de Buitlear
FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, New Work
GLASS Quarterly Hotsheet: What are you currently working on?Roisin de Buitlear: I am currently working on three different projects. I'm about to install a public art commission, an architectural installation in a public library in Dublin, which is based on the Yeats poem, "Sailing to Byzantium." The concept is based on transient light as a metaphor for the transience of life. Alongside that, I am preparing drawings for my forthcoming residency at the Museum of Glass where I will begin a new series of blown work based on Damask linen and lace. I have a number of shows in the new year, in Ireland and Europe. When I return, I will start to make a series of drawings for two long entrance glazed screens for a basilica in Ireland at the Pilgrimage site in Knock, County Mayo. 

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Thursday October 24, 2013 | by Andrew Page

Glass Art Society launches completely redesigned Website
FILED UNDER: Announcements, News
Founded in 1971, the Glass Art Society has grown in the more-than-four decades since it began as a semi-formal meeting of glassblowers at Penland, into a full-fledged nonprofit organization with a full-time staff and an office in Seattle, Washington. The scale of its annual get-togethers has grown as well, culminating in the 2012 GAS conference in Toledo when glass artists and aficionados from around the world gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Toledo Museum of Art workshops that many credit with launching Studio Glass. Aside from this year's canceled conference, the annual meeting of glass artists has been a key opportunity to check in with colleages, reconnect with old friends, and attend lectures and demonstrations that help advance the field technically and intellectually. With the launch of a completely redesigned Website, however, GAS has expanded beyond an organization primarily focused on its annual conference. Though it is charging ahead with its 2014 conference in Chicago next March, it has also overhauled its Internet presence with a just-relaunched Website that redefines its online presence as a place for artistic exchange as well as news and information. Among the key features are an expanded and redesigned member directory that showcases member artists' works to the general public as well as to fellow members, taking its impressive networking role into the digital realm.

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