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Translucide : CERFAV's students' exhibition
The last Compagnon Verrier Européen's class from the CERFAV exhibits her work during all the summer. The different pieces are results from two years of work and passion for glass. You can visit the exposition at the Conseil Regional in Metz (France) or on our website :
http://www.idverre.net/voir/promo13.php
The Compagnon Verrier Européen's glass degree is a chartered programme of unmatched excellence and innovation in perfect harmony with the glass tradition.

Arcverre, object / design
Xavier Lenormand : Bouteilles
Katharine Coleman : Edo Orange
Pilar Aldana-Mendez : Casas Africanas
Marc Bretillot, Culinaire Design : Destruction/construction
Daum Design, Cosmos

Robert Held Art Glass has a position for a "Hot Glass Worker"
If you have had some experience in a large "hot shop" this might be the job for you. Robert Held Art Glass is Canada's largest glass-blowing studio. The work is "production based" and the job is full-time, 8 hr day.
Many of Canada's current master glass blowers have worked with and for Robert Held.
To review some of the products that Robert Held Art Glass makes, visit the website www.robertheld.com
Send resumes via e-mail to : info@robertheld.com, or visit the studio at 2130 Pine St. Vancouver, B.C., phone: 604 737-0020

Selected website : Lulu Sylvest
All projects are linked together by abstract concepts such as the relationship of forms, how they work together and how they interact visually. Her primary concern in the design process is to create a dialog between form, function and material.
http://www.lulusylvest.dk

glass people

Two french artists in Tacoma this year
The Museum's Visiting Artist Program invites internationally known artists and emerging artists from the region and around the world to work with the Museum's resident Hot Shop Team to explore, invent and create with glass. It gives artists an opportunity to experiment and push the limits of their work. Offering a diverse mixture of culture, style, focus and expertise, each artist creates a sense of excitement and wonder, giving the rare opportunity to witness professionals making art
Nadege Desgenetez, Canberra, Australia
July 19 - 23, 2006
Conversation with the Artist, July 23, 2 pm
Jean-Michel Othoniel, Paris, France
October 18 - 22 and October 25 - 29, 2006
Creating work for 2007 exhibition, Mining Glass
Conversation with the Artist, October 22, 2 pm
Museum of glass
1801 Dock Street Tacoma
WA 98402 3217
www.museumofglass.org

Juan Lopez and Celina Re are working together for four years.
They have in common the art passion which takes part of their life. They had founded their own workshop studio known as Studiovetro, where they create jewels mostly based on glass.
By adding an important personal investment, they folow monographs classes in two foundations : one in Barcelona named "Fundacion Centre Vidre de Barcelona" and in other one named " Fundacion Centro Nacional del Vidrio de la Granja".
They used to show their collection during commercial demonstrations, expositions for public and sector professional people, and recently on their new website :
www.studiovetro.com

network

Dale Chihuly visited the Glass Furnace (Turkey)
Dale Chihuly, one of the world's leading glass artists and founders of Pilchuck Glass School visited The Glass Furnace on June 24, 2006. Dale Chihuly came together with Beykoz Mayor Muharrem Ergul and masters/artists and students of The Glass Furnace. He presented a slide show of his work and installations in all over the world to all guests.
Chihuly expressed his gratitude of being at The Glass Furnace and congratulated Yilmaz Yalcinkaya, founder of the Glass Furnace for establishing such a great glass school in Turkey.
Yilmaz is looking forward to working with him at The Glass Furnace in coming years.
www.glassfurnace.org

events

Erwin Eisch exhibition
The pioneering artist Erwin Eisch is staging an exhibition at the Red House Glass Cone this summer.
One of the founders of the studio glass movement and a confirmed anglophile, Eisch will be showing three of his famous glass heads. These are a self-portrait, a head of Thomas S Buechner and his famous Picasso's Women piece.
The show from 19 August to 24 September will run in conjunction with the cone's own Love Contemporary Glass show which celebrates the work of the resident artists. This runs from 18 August to 15 September.
Both shows can be viewed between 10am to 5pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 4pm Sunday, at the Red House Glass Cone, High Street, Wordsley. Entry is free and all pieces in Love Contemporary Glass are for sale. For more information call 01384 812750 or visit www.dudley.gov.uk/redhousecone
For further information contact : Sarah Hall Red House Cone 01384 812750

Liquid Fusion - glass design
Workshop and festival on glass art from 6 - 17 August 2006,
Domaine de Boisbuchet, 16500 Lessac/Confolens, France
In cooperation with the Vitra Design Museum and The Corning Museum of Glass, the Centre International de Recherche et d'Education Culturelle et Agricole (CIRECA) organises the ten day workshop "Liquid Fusion" on the subject of glass design. The course will be conducted by American designer Paul Haigh and leading staff members of The Corning Museum of Glass. On the occasion of this workshop, international glass artists will be invited to come to France and show their work at the "Festival de Confolens - Arts & traditions populaires du monde" (9 - 13 August 2006). On Saturday, 12 August 2006, a public event will take place at the Domaine de Boisbuchet, in the course of which The Corning Museum of Glass' team and the invited glass artists will introduce a variety of glassworking techniques.
For further information please contact :
Vitra Design Museum
Silvia.Gross@design-museum.de
www.design-museum.de
www.boisbuchet.org
www.cmog.org

ARTSingapore 2006
Gerry King from Adelaide, Australia has been selected as the feature artist at
ARTSingapore 2006. The event is held during September and October. He will present a retrospective exhibition of his 30 years in contemporary glass.
While in Singapore Gerry will present illustrated lectures on his work. The exhibition and lectures are sponsored by ARTSingapore and other corporations. The exhibition will be managed by Gaffer Studio Glass Gallery, Hong Kong and is supported by Austrade.
Gerry King may be contacted at gerrykingglass@ozemail.com.au

Exhibition Folon in staind glass
This exhibition presents the major stained glass windows created by Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005) throught preliminary designs, original full-scale patterns, the windows themselves, films and photographs.
15 june to 22 October 2006
La Galerie du Vitrail
17 Cloitre Notre-Dame
F-28000 Chartres, France
Tel/Fax : 02 37 36 10 03
E-mail : galvitrail@wanadoo.fr
www.galerie-du-vitrail.com

Re-crafting tradition
Exhibition reuniting more than 30 artists in fine contemporary craft.
Glass will be represented with the works of Michèle Lapointe, Elizabeth Marier, Jean-Marie Giguère, Bruno Andrus, John Cosgrove and Patrice Potvin.
Curators: Elaine Cheasley Paterson, Craft Historian, Concordia University and Denis Longchamps, Art Historian
A symposium, focussed around the exhibition and its theme, will be organized by the curators for November 2006 at the Museum. A catalogue is also planned.
September 11 to December 3, 2006
Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec
615, avenue Sainte-Croix
Montréal (Québec, Canada)

Northern Lights
North Lands Creative Glass 10th. Anniversary Benefit Exhibition.
04/08/06-06/09/06
Scottish Gallery
Edinburgh, UK
Tel: 0131 558 1200 or 0131 558 3900.
E-mail: amanda@scottish-gallery.co.uk
www.scottish-gallery.co.uk

The Batch
22/08/06-28/08/06
University Of Wolverhampton M.A. Glass Student Exhibition.
Holy Trinity Church. Amblecote, UK
Tel : 07855 724 445
Email: david.green@wlv.ac.uk

press review

Wearringlass ( exhibition London- Sunderland)
The catalogue of exhibition 80 pages hardback colour
ISBN 0-9551372-0-9
http://www.wearingglass.com/catalogue.htm

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