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Face & Glass Objects
Ingrid Nord catches the urban landscape with its sounds and movements and captures it in a black and white graphism.
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The Website of the Month
Glas & Glimt is a decoration workshop set up in 1996 in Skorping, Denmark. Gitte Klarup Andersen drawing her inspiration from nature and animals creates various objects for home and jewellery items in a colourful and good-humoured style.
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USA - Seattle (WA) - Pilchuck selects Interim Director
Pilchuck Glass School has announced the selection of Ralph Bufano as its interim executive director, succeding Patricia Watkinson, who is retiring. Bufano is a 38-year veteran of museum and arts management. He has been a program director at Corning Glass Center and Museum, director/curator of the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh WI, vice president of the EAA Aviation Foundation, president of the Kansas City Museum, executive director of the Ward Foundation Museum, and director of the Museum of Flight in Seattle. He studied fine arts at the University of Minnesota and attended the Institute in Arts Administration at Harvard.
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Czech Republic - Kamenicky Senov - 5th International Symposium of Engraved Glass
8 - 14 September 2008
For glass art engravers, independent artists, art historians, museum people, collectors and gallery people, business oriented journalists.
languages: Czech, English, German.
Aims of the Symposium: development of impulses for a new creation in the branch of glass engraving, adopting this idea by the best world experts in the branch, reviving of old contacts and development of new ones.
Secretariat of the Conference: Agentura Carolina Ltd.
Ing. Magdalena Kocourkova, Albertov 3a/7, P.O.Box 45, 128 01 Praha 2, CZR
Tel : +420 224 990 827 - Fax : +420 224 918 681
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Turkey - two weeks of glass and nature this summer at Glass Furnace, Istanbul
Learning glassblowing, fusing, beads making and touring in Istanbul, Ephesus or Cappadokia, what a programme!
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Portugal - Fundacio Centre del Vidre de Barcelona
March Bulletin of Vitra Project partner.
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Scotland, Great Britain - North lands Creative Glass 2008 Season
Week end of 06 to 07 September 2008
Master classes and week end conference programme brochure, sources of inspiration now out!
Any artists or students wishing to apply for the master classes should contact our administration team right away at: info@northlandsglass.com
Annual week end conference is open to one and all - you don't have to be an artist or maker to attend. All collectors, museum curators, writers, dealers and anyone with a general interest in contemporary glass is welcome.
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events

France - Paris - Andrea Branzi at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
The famous Italian designer presents two new installations created in a six year collaboration with the CIRVA in Marseille. The Foundation has published a catalogue on this exceptional project with drawings, pictures of the exhibition's installation between the glass walls of Jean Nouvel's building.
28 March - 22 June 2008
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 261 boulevard Raspail, 75014 Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 42 18 56 50
Fondation Cartier's website

Luxembourg - Zora Palová
Galerie Jean-Claude Chapelotte
07 March - 09 May 2008
Tel/fax: +352 471 818
Gallery's website

Slovakia - Bratislava - Czech and Slovak Glass in Exile
Exhibition including Jaroslav Mykisa, Angela Thwaites, Vladimira Klumparova.
Slovak National Gallery - Bratislava
27 February - 11 May 2008
Tel: +44 191 515 3697
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Gallery's website

Germany - Glashütte Gernheim - "50 Vasen - 50 Künstler"
including Mark Angus, Chris Bird-Jones, Kenneth Cantillon Howell, Iestyn Davies, Frances Federer, Ray Flavell, Denise Hunt, Alison Kinnaird M.B.E., Gerhard Ribka, Mare Saare & Angela Thwaites.
LWL Industriemuseum, Glashütte Gernheim, Petershagen, Allemagne
17 February - 18 May 2008.
Tel: +49 5707 93110 - Fax: +49 5707 931 111
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Switzerland - Burgdorf - "Internationale Künstler"
including Nicola Ransom, Göran Wärff, Matteo Gonet, etc.
Glass Inspiration - Lyssachstrasse 3
28 February - 25 May 2008
Tel: 00 41 34 423 57 47
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United Kingdom - Exhibition "The Secret Garden: Cameo Glass By Helen Millard"
Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford, GB.
23 February - au 06 July 2008
Tel: +44 01384 812 749 - Fax: +44 01384 812 746
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competition

Italy - The Trieste Contemporanea International Design Contest
Set up in 1995, the contest is advertised under the patronage of CEI (Central European Initiative) every two years by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee and it is open to designers from the 18 Central Eastern European Countries adhering to the CEI and from the Baltic Countries, Germany and Turkey.
The announcement asks for a project of an object in response to the edition's requested theme and material. Once the participation terms are up, an international jury selects among the most interesting works the winners and a number of projects to be executed and shown in a conclusive exhibition, that is intended to be touring in different venues.
A catalogue reports the results and the names of all participants.
Theme of the contest: To exalt the search for modern formal quality, in the vast typology of receptacles destined to contain liquids, a new design for a vessel for drinking, with or without a foot, is requested. As inspiration, the competitor may use principles and conceptions that refer to symbolic meanings of the Grail in the various traditions and legends.
The object designed is to be made exclusively with the technique of glass blowing.

Deadline: Tuesday 10th June, 2008
Participation in the competition is free of charge. The competitor must apply utilizing the online form. The application form is to be filled out in its entirety and the project should be attached. Groups who wish to participate will have to fill out the application form with the name of the group leader and indicate the names and birthplaces of the others in the group. The information sheet and project have to be presented within the 24 hours of Tuesday, June 10, 2008 (Italian time.)
Trieste Contemporanea, Via del Monte, 2/1, 34121 Trieste - Italy
Phone: +39 040 639187 - Fax: +39 040 367601
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press review

France - Montpellier - the 10th International Film Festival on Clay and Glass
27 March -10 April 2008
With 1200 participants and six awards, the Festival was very successful.
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