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Arcverre, object / design
Renata Noemi Jakowleff : Hemisphere
Renata Noemi Jakowleff : Wave domino
Renata Noemi Jakowleff : Wave animation
Renata Noemi Jakowleff : Bubble
Renata Noemi Jakowleff : Element
Gerhard Ribka : Two stations of the cross
Gerhard Ribka : Waldlicht Hasenhut Pharisee

The artist-plasticizer Michel Stefanini has set up this year four monumental sculptures in the public space
"Michel Stefanini is playing with paradox. He is moving "in and out of his time" apparently drawing inspiration from immemorial or still not emerged sources.
Playing with the confrontation of raw or futuristic material, with known or future languages, he creates thanks to his deep imagination some material essential to the dream.
Transforming spaces, capturing the light, he makes possible the juxtaposition of virtual and real worlds.
- April 2006 : order from the Regional Council of Limousin (France) for the Maryse Bastié's College in Limoges. Sculptures to travel all over and computerized sculpture with generation of words.
- June 2006 : order from Mende's city (France) for its north entrance. "La Traverseraie" (from the french verb "to cross"), a 12 high-meters sculpture, steel and enamelled glass.
- June 2006 : order from the départemental Council of Côtes d'Armor (France) for the "rest-area" Rance Fremur (by the freeway), four sculptures to travel all over. "Les rêves d'ailleurs" ("Dreams from somewhere else"), steel and enamelled glass.
- August 2006 : order from the General Council of Hauts de Seine (France) for the entrance of Clamart's city. 9 high-meters sculpture, steel and enamelled glass.
For furthur informations, hopefully you will be interested in his work and you will share it with some others, please go on the following web-site :
michel.stefanini.free.fr, rubric "commande publique".
Of course, you will always find informations directly by the artist (see adress and phone number at the top of the page).
We wish you a pleasant visit,
Sincerely yours."
Michel Stefanini

Selected website : Thomas Ervamaa
Solitary figures and transparent, mysterious glass crowds...
www.ervamaa.info

competition

Pearsons Glass Prize 2006
Following the overwhelming success of last yearsPearsons have decided to make it an annual event.
Artists and glass workers from around the country are invited to submit their work into the competition and as last year there will be a number of categories to cater for the different disciplines. The judges will choose winners and Jan Hein van Stiphout, the well-known Dutch glass artist, will select one overall winner on the night.
Due to the popularity of the Pearsons Prize we have added some new categories to further cover the full spectrum of the glass industry, and as before it is totally free to enter.
The venue for the awards evening is yet to be announced, but be sure we will try and better last years evening (if possible).
Closing date for entries is 22nd September 2006. For further information and details regarding the competition rules or to download an application form please visit our website: www.pearsonsprize.co.uk
Pearsons Glass Limited
Tel: 0151 207 1474
Email: steved@pearsonsglass.co.uk

North Lands Creative Glass : hot glass residency
19 February-16 March 2007
North Lands Creative Glass is offering a four-week residency for four talented glass artists. The North Lands Alastair Pilkington Studio enables the artists-in-residence to benefit from a wide range of facilities.
The residency programme is supported by the Scottish Arts Council. Additional funding for artists may be available for artists from their national or regional arts and crafts councils.
Applications must be received by North Lands by 11 October 2006
A selection panel will make the residency awards by 27 October 2006
Further information : www.northlandsglass.com/resident.html

network

As from August 2006 the newly constructed Dan Klein Associates website www.dankleinglass.com, included on the site is a selection of earlier and mid-career works for sale on the secondary market by internationally renowned Glass Artists, books for sale and news of exhibitions and events either curated by D.K.A. past and present or about British and Irish glass generally.
Sources DanKleinAssociates

Light my fire
Ben Evers
Lampworking Class
To be held at Wearside Glass Studio, The National Glass Centre, Liberty way, Sunderland, SR6 0GL
Two-day lampworking class
Some Lampworking experience beneficial
Saturday & Sunday
October 7th & 8th 2006
Using Borosilicate glass through a combination of demonstrations and practice time, this lampworking class will concentrate on building skills and Colour application, with a focus on pattern work VIA medium size blown vessels.
£150 for two-day class materials included.
Contact Zoë Garner
07860 783635
zoegarner@hotmail.com

events

Collection, the new gallery of Ateliers d'Art de France
September 21 to december 2
www.ateliersdart.com

Quebec contemporary pâte de verre
This fall at Espace VERRE, fifteen Quebec glass artists will participate in a tridimensional glass exhibition.
Master glass artists such as Donald Robertson will share the gallery with newly graduated students. The 15th artists selected by a jury are: Catherine Benoit, Nadine Busque, Angela Casalino, Diane Ferland, Rosa Grégoire, Ronald Labelle, Catherine Labonté, Nancy Landreville, Catherine Lapointe, Stéphanie Métivier, Julien Mongeau, Carole Pilon, Stephen Pon, Donald Robertson and Akiko Sasaki.
Passing from an anvil to the human figure, abstraction and humour, one will see how these Québec glass artists use this medium to uniquely express themselves.
September 21st- January 12th , 2007
Contact :
Espace VERRE
1200, Mill Street Montréal, H3K 2B3
Catherine Piazzon, Communications & marketing
Tel : (514) 933-6849
Email : communication@espaceverre.qc.ca
www.espaceverre.qc.ca

Re-crafting tradition
an exhibition reuniting more than 30 artists in fine contemporary craft.
This exhibition will explore the various approaches to tradition found in all practice of contemporary crafts, including among other, in glass. This domaine will be represented with the works of Michèle Lapointe, Elizabeth Marier, Jean-Marie Giguère, Bruno Andrus, John Cosgrove and Patrice Potvin. Among the ideas that will be covered in this exhibition, we find, the complete break with tradition, the traditional technique combine to a contemporary concept, the contemporary technical approach and a traditional form and function, as well as the creation of "new" traditions.
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)

A Glass Menagerie
Visitors to Broadfield House Glass Museum in Kingswinford, West Midlands, will be enchanted by a glass menagerie this summer.
A collection of rare pâte de verre glass by French glass artist Amalric Walter will be on show to the public for the first time in A Glass Menagerie, an exhibition which opens at the Glass Museum on 19 August. Born in 1870 in Nancy, France, Amalric Walter created beautiful glass dishes, bowls, plates and paperweights, adorned with naturalistic creatures. Beetles, bees, birds, fish, lizards, crabs, frogs, mice and other animals feature in rich enamel colours and wonderful detail. Walter began his career at the Daum glassworks, famous for their Art Nouveau glass, but after the First World War he set up his own studio.
The exhibition will run from 19 August 2006 until 4 February 2007.
Broadfield House Glass Museum, run by Dudley MBC, is situated on Compton Drive, Kingswinford, near Stourbridge in the West Midlands. For more information, contact Broadfield House Glass Museum on 01384 812745 or
www.glassmuseum.org.uk.

Strasbourg, glass capital
November, 3 to 27, 2006
More then 12 glass events taking place in the city
www.esgaa.org

press review

- Colours of Architecture
A new book about coloured glass in contempory buildings which includes Tomasz Urbanowicz works and much more others glass artists's works in architecture.
Contact : Beata Urbanowicz
Archiglass
tel/fax 0048713729436

- Glasmuseet Ebeltoft - the new wing
New Glass Review, n° 2/06, 06/2006, p. 42-45
The pieces to be shown in the opening exhibition in the museum's new wing all have a common feature in international tendencies and at the same emphasise the artist's individual expression. Twenty different artists representing ten different countries have been invited. Some of their works were made especially for the show.

- Wearing Glass
New Glass Reviewn° 2/06, 06/2006, p. 36-41
The Wearing Glass exhibition explores the growing use of this material with a far-reaching selection of necklace, bracelets, earrings, brooches and body pieces.

- Kazushi Nakada and the shape of light
New Glass Reviewn° 3/06, 09/2006, p. 12-19

- Vladimir Zbynovsky between earth and heaven
New Glass Review n°3/06, 09/2006, p. 20-25
Educated in Bratislava, Vladimir Zbynovsky first learned to cut and chisel stones before he discovered and began to work on glass at the local Fine Arts Academy. He thus associates these two materials in his oeuvre.

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