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France, Fonds Silvano Tagliapietra
"'Prize Stéphane Heregots" Competition
no later than June 30, 2007
Download the entry form and rules of the competition

Arcverre, objects/design database
Michèle Lapointe, Contes muets
Michèle Lapointe, Les ampoules de nuits interminables
Karen Akester, Ambershoes
Karen Akester, Frolic
Karen Akester, Rubbish Party Bettina
Ericandmarie, Lettres

Selected website : Forum "Perles au Chalumeau"
A French forum about lampworking
perles-au-chalumeau.forumactif.com

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Interview : Yilmaz Yalcinkaya, founder of the Glass Furnace, art glass school in Turkey
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Montreal - Galerie Elena Lee
Galerie Elena Lee has been specializing in contemporary glass art for over 30 years. The gallery has become synonymous with glass in Canada as well as abroad, and several of its artists are well respected in international glass art circles. The gallery's main objective is to present works that best translate the sculptural possibilities of glass. The aim is not to capitalize on a decorative medium but to explore our socio-cultural heritage in depth.
At the same time, the gallery has pursued another distinct direction in contemporary art, characterized by a strong tendancy to incorporate artwork into eceryday life. In pursuing this direction, the gallery and its artists did not want to limit themselves to the medium of glass. The orientation of the gallery has therefore changed from a glass gallery to a contemporary art gallery, with glass in the dominant position. The gallery promotes its artists also internationally at SOFA (Sculpture Objects + Functional Art) in Chicago and New York, and more recently in Florida at Palmbeach3.

William Morris Announces Retirement
Glass artist William Morris has announced that he is retiring, and will no longer engage in making glass.
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France, Bretagne, New job for Natacha Frenkel, specialized in the conservation and restoration of the objects of art and archeology in materials ceramic and glass.
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New Job Opportunities, Alberta College of Art + Design. Calgary.
Deadline For Application: 20/04/07
- Glass Casting/Kiln-forming Instructor(s)
- Hot Glass Instructor - one position GLSS 201
Contact :
Alberta College of Art + Design
Attention: Human Resources, 1407 14th. Avenue N.W. Calgary Alberta T2N 4R3 Canada Fax : 00 1 403 284 6236
HR@acad.ca
http://www.acad.ca

Glass companies are especially concentrated in the north of the Czech Republic, where glass schools and the supporting infrastructure have developed over the years. This concentration of glass manufacturers, their suppliers, education institutions and other supporting organizations, along with interest in the maintenance of the tradition of Czech glass, lead towards the establishment of CGC-Czech Glass Cluster. This organization offers to its members a platform for co-operation in raising their competitiveness so that the tradition of quality Czech glass will be preserved for future years.
www.glasscluster.cz/eng/index.htm

Meurthe-et-Moselle, the worldwide cradle of crystal and glass
In 1764, Louis XV allowed Mgr. de Montmorency Lavel, bishop of Metz, to make the Crystal base-making of Baccarat.
Since the ignition of the first oven with crystal in 1816, the city of Baccarat made Meurthe-et-Moselle the worldwide cradle of the crystal glass-making.
More than 250 years after, its big fame attracts the curiosities of the whole world, presenting its flagship products and its creations, as well as its participation of the realm of the fashion. In this frame, Baccarat and Meurthe-et-Moselle suggest to the public discovering the world of crystal glass-making and glass.
The fragments of the mosaics establish the dress of our logo and illustrate our universe. The last proposition of stay by the Local Tourism Committee offers to discover the museum of the crystal of Baccarat and its creations.
Concerning « know-how », the second stay proposes a training of conception of stained glasses at a craftsman glassworker for 5 days. The curious visitor can get a first impression of the techniques of the Art Glassworker especially the cutting in the editing.
For the eye pleasure, the Local Tourism Committee creates fixed-priced packages including the visit of Art Nouveau collections and of other exhibitions of craftsmen for individuals and groups. The discovery of the museums of Ecole de Nancy and Beaux-Arts without forgetting the glass manufacturing and decoration in Badonviller and Euvezin are also part of the programme.
Within the framework of the partnership with the craftsmen, the Local Tourism Committee realized technical studies on art professions. It takes also part in the jury of the competition "L'Oeuf à la poule".
The Crystal and the Ceramics constitute one of the 12 themes highlighted in the new communication and marketing campaign launched by the Local Tourism Committee.
Would you like to discover the art glassworker in our department? or to escape thanks to our "Fugues enchantées"?
Meet you on our website www.tourisme-meurtheetmoselle.fr

competition

The Heart of Venice
www.promovetro.com/portal/concorso/lista_progetti.php

The 6th international film festival on clay and glass will be held in Montpellier, France on April 4th, 5th and 6th, 2007 at the Corum Congress Centre.
Clay, ceramics and glass are the links between all the films. Themes covered are as varied as portraits of artists, workshops, technicality, archaeology, ethnology...
We are now preparing the festival selections, and are looking to explore additional films (documentaries, fictions, experimental and animated films) to be included. To be presented 'For Competition', films should have been produced after 2000, the others shall be introduced 'Off Competition' in the program.
The deadline for sending the entry form and your VHS tape or DVD is September 3rd, 2007. However we recommend that you send us a VHS tape or a DVD of your film as soon as possible to make the organization of the viewing easier. Entry form and rules of the competition are available on the website :
www.ateliersdartdefrance.com
Contact : Françoise Aitgougan : 33 1 44 01 08 30
Ateliers d'Art de France
6 Rue Jadin, 75 017 Paris, France
francoise.aitgougan@ateliersdart.com

Nespresso design contest 2008
To participe in the contest register online as of march 1 2007 and submit your project no later than october 31, 2007
www.nespresso.com/design

Call for Contemporary Glass Artists
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 Spring 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
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events

France, Nîmes, Bijoutiful
20 to 22 april
Parc des Expositions de Nîmes (30)
tél. : 33 (0)4 66 84 93 39

Belgium, Bruges, Artifact, International contemporary crafts fair
21 to 23 april
tél. : +32(0)2 227 49 02
www.artifact.be

Belgium Salon International de la Céramique ancienne Château d'Enghien
Michel Delfosse, Satoshi Okamoto, Pascale Riberolles, Anne-Lise Riond Sibony, Bernadette Sepulchre, Gérald Vatrin, Pedro Veloso
27 April to 1 may 2007
www.ceramiqueancienne.be

Switzerland, art verrier suisse contemporain
Thomas Blank, Françoise Bolli, Gil Boss, Hubert Crevoisier, Diego Feurer,
Mattéo Gonet, Jacqueline Hoffmann Botquelen, Yann Oulevay
Exhibition
18 avril to 12 mai 2007
Espace Arts & Objets, Lausanne
www.eaobjets.ch

Vicenza, Italy'SEMI di FUOCO'
blown glass works created on the theme of 'Fire'
at Teatro Civico di Schio
20 to 21 April 2007
PERFORMANCE A 30 minutes walk in the old Teatro Civico for groups of 20 people, through artistic glass works, music, dance and art theatre.The first entrance is at 5 pm ; the last one is at 10 pm. Free entrance. Booking is appreciated.
22 April 2007
EXHIBITION More than 150 blown glass works created on the theme of "Fire", installed in the fascinating rooms of the old Teatro Civico di Schio. Free entrance.
For further Information contact Studio Cremasco: phone +39 0445 511203 info@giulianocremasco.it

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BEConvincing
BEConscious
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BECon 2007
Big Ideas : Kiln-glass in Architecture
July 19 to 22, 2007 Portland, Oregon, USA
See www.bullseyeglass.com/becon/ for complete details and to apply to register. BECon 2007 brings together the world's leading authorities on kilnformed glass. From artists and architects to fabricators, designers and technicians, this unique conference is a must-attend event for anyone who works-or wants to work-with the dynamic medium of kiln-glass.

Amsterdam,Braggiotti Gallery, Anne Lise Riond Sibony
14 april to 19 may 2007
Braggiotti Gallery
Singel 424
1016 AK Amsterdam Netherlands
"Since my first personal exhibition in 1999 at the Braggiotti gallery, I always worked on heads. As the instrument of thought, the head seemed like a good place to start when expressing my own thoughts... This new exhibition is a return to my initial inspiration, expressing my violent incomprehension of what constitutes life. To do so, I searched for pieces that tell stories of conception, death, and what we are in between: material, finite beings through our bodies, and at the same time immaterial, indefinable souls and spirits.These stories are necessarily ambiguous, as are the characters (real or imagined?) whose heads are shown. Are the cells giving birth or spreading death? Are the veins that creep along the heads nourishing or smothering them? Is our body working for us or against us? What links our body to our soul, and how do they combine to shape our destiny?
This work does not aim to give answers: it is simply my way of asking questions that I do not express with words, but with my work." Anne-Lise Riond Sibony

Montréal, Galerie Elena Lee,Tanya Lyons
April 10 to May 1, 2007
Dividing Spaces
Glass and mixed media
Laureate of the François-Houdé prize in 2005, Tanya never stops confronting new challenges. Her last body of work looks at space and how it is divided to suit our needs of privacy, by the same token determining the way we live: separated by walls that break up space, but also block out light, sound, and air. Tanya combines glass, with recycled doors and windows and other found or recuperated objects in order to add light, texture, and detail. It is important to her that these materials have a history. She is looking to take the old and disregarded into something new and thought provoking (and environmentally conscious as well). Using windows and doors, which usually give access to other spaces or let us look into them, Tanya suggests a dialogue between normally divided spaces. Her pieces tell a story, serve a function, communicate.
Galerie Elena Lee
1460 Sherbrooke O., Suite A
Montréal, QC H3G 1K4
Tel: 514-844-6009
www.galerieelenalee.com

8th june 2007 : two special events
Vernissage of the exhibition 'Jardin de Cristal' with Baccarat, Daum, Saint-Louis, Lalique, Val Saint Lambert as you have never seen them!
Launching of the website 'Jardin de Cristal' to learn everything about Glass and Crystal Glass in Lorraine.

Peter Layton & Friends - Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the London Glassblowing Workshop
An exhibition of contemporary glass by Peter Layton and his talented co-workers which celebrates the longevity and achievements of the London Glass Blowing Workshop.
Date: 12 March to 22 April 2007
Time: 10am to 5pm daily
Venue: National Glass Centre
Liberty Way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Tel +44 (0)191 515 5555
www.nationalglasscentre.com

USA, Tacoma, Museum of Glass
Stained Glass Next in History of Glass Series
Sunday, April 15, 2 - 5 pm
Our popular History of Glass series continues with a look at stained glass. This session traces the history of stained glass, from the great medieval churches of Europe, to contemporary stained glass.
The 10-presentation History of Glass series is led by teaching artist and historian Walter Lieberman. Each session includes a 1-hour lecture in the Museum Theater followed by live demonstrations in the Hot Shop.
museumofglass.org

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