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VITRA
The complete VITRA website and its e-learning tools will be available in autumn 2007.
A large gathering of the European Glass Schools will take place from the 25th to the 30th of September 2007 in France (in Nancy and at the CERFAV). The scope of these remarkable tools will then be explained and the event will be the opportunity for the Schools to develop their network and carry out exchanges of trainers and students.
Programme:
- conferences, presentation of the VITRA website and videos, demonstrations by the artists featured in the videos, exhibition of the artworks made by the students of the European Glass Schools in the City of Nancy, auction sale of the artworks and more...
www.idverre.net/vitra/EN/symposium.html

Arcverre, object / design database
Victoria Scholes : Scholes domestic gospels III
Victoria Scholes : Scholes domestic gospels VII
Victoria Scholes : Scholes domestic gospels VI
Victoria Scholes : The next thing I knew
Salviati : Lustre collection & design Salviati
Fabienne Picaud : Empreinte en couple

Catherine Labonté has been selected as a winner in the 2007 NICHE Awards for the piece entitled "Squirrel" in the Animals category. Winners of the Niche Awrds were announced at the ceremony during the Philadelphia Buyers Market of American craft on february 18th, 2007. 39 artists won awards among more than 1000 entries.
The program began in 1990 to recognize outstanding creative achievements with technical excellence, market viabilité and original and creative thought.
www.catherinelabonte.com

Furnace Building Workshop at Pilchuck Glass School
Help build Pilchuck's new glass melting furnace during this special two-week workshop, April 15 - 28, 2007.
Participants will discover the evolution of engineering, design and construction of Pilchuck's 1,600-pound continuous-melt glass furnace. Hands-on involvement will be augmented with evening programming. Chuck Lopez and Jasen Johnsen will lead this workshop with presentations by experienced equipment designers. This class is appropriate for anyone interested learning to build, upgrade or maintain a glass furnace.
To Apply, Please send a letter stating your interest and technical experience along with a completed Summer Program Application found at
www.pilchuck.com

Selected Website : Shimal'e
Lighting, wall decoration, stained glass... warm coloured glass pieces from the Israelian artist Shimal'e.
www.shimale.co.il

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Verrerie of Saint-Just located near Saint-Etienne in France, filial from Saint-Gobain Glass, is producing since 1826 mouth blown glass, for stain glass application, restoration monuments, and now decoration application. Saint-Just has a unique expertise and knowledge and has today a product range of more than 200 colours of mouth blown glass. Find all our products details and best references on our website :
www.saint-gobain-glass.com/saint-just

Verrerie has also a second industrial activity : the production of frits for the colouration in feeder (containers)

In addition to this, Verrerie of Saint-Just is also distributing a whole range of coloured glass, acid etching glass for decoration, furniture. Saint-Just team is at your disposal for to answer to your question and is ready to study with you, your projects. Verrerie of Saint-Just is also opened to visitors, booking is done via the tourism office loire Forez,
Tel : 00.33.4.77.52.18.18 groupe@loireforez.net

Jean-François Outin, Commercial Managing Director, Tel 00.33.6.64.06.35.33

Verrerie de Saint-Just, zone Industrielle La Verrerie - 42176 St Just St Rambert Cedex - France
(France)
Tel : (33) 04 77 36 21 12 - Fax : (33) 04 77 36 48
Tel : (33) 04 77 36 21 13 (Export)
verrerie.st.just@saint-gobain.com

PMB Couleur - 8 route des champs fourgons - BP 100 92230 Gennevilliers Cedex - France
Tel : (33) 01.46.13.94.30 - Fax : (33) 01.46.13.94.31
pmb.couleur@saint-gobain.com

glass people

Ray King installs light responsive sculpture in new weill greenberg center at Cornell University in NYC
On January 26, 2007, 'Light Wings,' Ray King's dynamic suspended glass sculpture was unveiled in the lobby of the
Weill Greenberg Center, a new clinical research facility located at 70th and York in New York's Cornell University medical complex.
The sculpture, made from 10 000 dichroic glass elements, hovers 19' high in the lobby's atrium plaza and spans 35' wide, sweeping over the center's main escalators. The work interacts with light to trigger brilliant chromatic projections and reflections into the surrounding space.
The glass elements are laminated with four different dichroic coatings 'cyan, yellow, blue and magenta' which reflect one color and project its opposite. The glass elements are strung on stainless steel cables at precise intervals to create a three-dimensional pattern echoing the form and movement of the escalators.

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Call for Entry : Lucent : A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Glass - Craft Year 2007
The Glass Art Association of Canada is organizing a juried exhibition open to all Canadian glass artists. This exhibition will be juried by three recognized glass professionals; Norman Faulkner, Tina Oldknow, and Carole Pilon. This exhibition will take place during "Invisible Visible", the Alberta College of Art and Designs (ACAD) symposium on craft. In conjunction with the Craft Organization Development Association's (CODA), first international conference, hosted by the Alberta Crafts Council and ACAD.
The exhibition will take place in the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, a public gallery sustained by the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Artists working in all categories of glass are encouraged to submit 3 digital images of contemporary glass art. These images must be of work that will be exhibited in the show. As well, images of selected work will be published in the quarterly magazine, Contemporary Canadian Glass that will be distributed to our membership, collectors and art institutions.
As well, the exhibition will be featured the association website.
There is also a possibility that this will be a traveling exhibition and be featured in The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton.
Deadline for Entry : March 30, 2007
Exhibition Dates : May 30 - June 18, 2007
More informations : gaacavac2007@gmail.com

Future Contemporary Glass Museum's Millennium Art Glass Gallery
Contemporary artists working with glass are invited to submit examples of their art for consignment in the future Contemporary Glass Museum's Millennium Art Glass Gallery.
The Gallery, within the soon-to-open museum, will offer for sale to the public a large selection of contemporary art glass pieces by selected artists working with glass. Works of art will include all objects of art glass from jewelry and paperweights to goblets, vases, and large glass sculptures.
Grand Opening of the Contemporary American and European Glass Museum and Millennium Art Glass Gallery is planned for late Fall or early Summer 2007. Artists are encouraged to submit a brief bio and photographs of their work to Frank Herendeen, 324 W. Olive Ave., Redlands, CA 92373.
Commission for pieces sold in the Gallery is 30% Museum - 70% Artist.
The Contemporary American and European Glass Museum and Millennium Art Glass Gallery is housed in an 1888 Victorian house located next door to the 1905 Historical Glass Museum, which opened its doors to the public in 1985, at 1153 N. Orange Street, Redlands, CA.
See the HGMF web site for further details glassmuseums.com

events

France, Antoine LEPERLIER, la métaphysique du verre
March 23 - June 27
Musée National de la Céramique Place de la Manufacture 92310 Sevres

France, Claude MORIN, rétrospectives
march 17 - may 12

Edmée Delsol
April 15 - May 20
Galerie Complément d'Objet
Les Fiefs
27340 Martot
Tel : 02 35 87 18 25

France, Jean Pierre Umbdenstock
March 31 - April 28
Galerie Michèle Guérin
La Cour Normande
12, rue de la Mairie
78270 Limetz-Villez

France, Fragment d'Elles
March 17 - June 10
Catherine Bernard, Flavia Fenaroli, Barbara Idzikowska, Agathe Larpent, Véronique Lutgen, Marianne Requena, Jean-Pierre Umbdenstock
Galerie HD Nick et Association 'Les Artistes Nomades'
324 Chemin du Chasaret
30250 Aubais
Tel: 04 66 80 23 63
hdnick@wanadoo.fr
www.hdnick.com

France, Nancy, "Daum et l'esthétique des années 1950"
October 27 2007 - January 7 2008]
Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy

Canada, Graduates exhibition, Unique at the plurial Featuring
Vincent Chagnon, Marie-Michele Clavet, Sophie Cloutier, Pascal Leclerc, Myriam Legault-Monty, Jinny Levesque, Tahnie Parent-Aubry, Eliane Paul-Hus, Marylene Samson, Laura Sasseville.
May 31st-September 7th, 2007
Espace VERRE Gallery Montreal, Quebec, Canada
www.espaceverre.qc.ca

Canada, OCC Scholarships
The Ontario Crafts Council offers approximately $15,000 though an annual program of awards, scholarships and supply grants to Student and Craft Professional members. All craft disciplines are considered. The deadline to apply is mid-April, annually, and awards are presented at the Annual General Meeting each June. 2007
Deadline for Submission:
Monday April 16, 2007
Check out www.craft.on.ca/prog-awardsPage.php for more information

GBUK is delighted to announce that Corina Tettinger will be teaching in the UK...
... on the run up to the GBUK Bead Fair at Stourbridge. GBUK are indebted to Plowden & Thompson at Dial Glass Works for making their lamp-work room available once again.
More informations...

USA, 35th Annual International Glass Invitational
Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak Michigan, USA
April 21 - May 19, 2007
www.habatatglass.com

UK 'Plunge'
National Glass Centre, Sunderland UK
Solo exhibition of graceful sea imagery exploring the essence of life:water.
April 24 - June 24, 2007
www.nationalglasscentre.com

Netherlands 'Reflections at Sea'
Sculptuur Biennale Kijkduin 2007
International Glass and Sculpture Exposition
Kijkduin, The Hague, Netherlands
Exhibition of large scale glass sculptures and photography
June 1 - 24, 2007
www.holland.com/denhaag/gb/discover/kijkduin/

UK, North Lands Creative Glass, Masterclass & Conference Programme 2007
Lybster. Scotland
Applications are now invited for the North Lands Creative Glass 2007 Masterclasses to be held in July, August and September 2007 at the Alastair Pilkington Studio, Lybster, Caithness, Scotland.
Applications for Masterclasses received by 31st. March will enter the initial jury round. Further applications will be considered after this deadline should a class have spaces remaining.
North Lands Annual Weekend Conference on 1st. & 2nd. September 2007, entitled 'The Expression Of Self'
Speakers will include Masterclass leaders (excluding Silvia Levenson) also a hot shop demonstration by Gareth Noel Williams, Dr. Martin Conway, Director Of The Institute Of Psychological Science at the University Of Leeds and the leader of Leeds Memory Group, Shona Illingworth, discussing her current project, Ashley Page O.B.E. will explore the dynamic relationship between choreographer and artist and Bruno Romanelli, will discuss how figurative work has changed over the past few years also showing a selection of new works. The conference will conclude with a discussion on topics raised over the course of the weekend and will be moderated by Peter Aldridge, North Lands Creative Glass C.E.O.
For full details of the Masterclasses, funding assistance, logistics, booking forms and North Lands Creative Glass annual conference and residencies, please contact :
info@northlandsglass.com
www.northlandsglass.com

Bild-Werk Frauenau Summer school program 2007
Bild-Werk Frauenau's 20th Birthday celebration course program is now announced!
Course dates:
Spring academy: 26.5. - 3.6.2007
Summer session A: 14.7. - 27.7.2007
Summer session B: 1.8. -17.8.2007
Late Summer Extra: 1.9. - 8.9.2007
To download the full program: www.bild-werk-frauenau.de
Tel : 0049 / 99 26 / 18 08 95
E-Mail : info@bild-werk-frauenau.de

Canada, Works to Work Summer Certification Program
Festival dates : June 22-July 4, 2007
13 days of innovation and creativity. Currently, The Works team is seeking students to participate in the Works to Work Certification Program which grants successful candidates a paid summer internship for the months of May to August. Theoretical training and hands-on learning are implemented in three progressive levels for the following two streams.
- The Exhibit and Technology stream provides the student with experience in art handling, planning, install/dismantle, lighting, sound, construction techniques, inventory and resource management.
- The Curatorial stream provides the student with experience in curatorial research, registration, condition reporting, archiving, curatorial intent, audience development and information dissemination.
Students in both streams will work full time from May to August and are integral in producing The Works Art and Design Festival every year, working directly with the artists and artworks displayed in the festival. Interested individuals should apply with a resume and cover letter by :
Mail #200, 10225 - 100 Avenue
Edmonton, AB,
T5J 0A1
Attn: Michele Gall
Email: Michele.Gall@theworks.ab.ca
Fax :780 426 4673 Attn: Michele Gall/Works to Work
Tel : 426 2122 Ext. 223 for more details.
Deadline for application is Friday, March 30 at 5pm.

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