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As the holidays approach, our November/December issue of Glass Art® really gives you something to celebrate! Nadine Saylor explores everyday objects from days gone by, adding her own social commentary as she expresses them in glass. The Glass Art Society previews their 2025 conference in Everything’s Bigger in Texas. Artists Aya Oki, Rita Shimelfarb, Karin Mørch and Simone Crestani share their financial strategies in Kathleen Elliot’s feature, Artist to Artist. Belger Glass and the Kansas City Museum bring nine artists together, who meet, design, and install a stunning collaborative chandelier, all in under one week! The Corning Museum of Glass will display a prototype glass bridge illustrating how glass can be used as a revolutionary construction material that even reduces carbon emissions! Milon Townsend takes hammer in hand to show how creativity and happy accidents can yield surprising and valuable results. The International Society of Glass Beadmakers invites you to their upcoming Creators and Makers events airing on the second Sunday of each month. And you don’t want to miss the Glass Craft and Bead Expo Gallery of Excellence, displaying many of the winning pieces from their most recent competition. Interested in paperweights? The Paperweight Collectors Association shares the highlights of their 2024 convention in Rhode Island. And congratulations are in order for the Pittsburgh Glass Center, which recently completed a $15,000,000 expansion, a major transformation that advances their ability to serve the international glass community. Subscribe today at www.GlassArtMagazine.com or Subscribe today at www.https://simplecirc.com/subscribe/glass-art
The September/October issue of Glass Art® is a bountiful harvest of beauty, artistry and technique. Kathleen Elliot enlightens us with Peter Bremers adventures in kiln cast glass, where the magic of light and texture interact in a playful and compelling dance. Marcie Davis’ Flower Power follows the blossoming artistic journey of Jason Gamrath, whose enormous blown glass orchids are often larger than the artist himself! The Stained Glass Association of America invites us all to their upcoming annual conference, Sand to Sash, packed with classes, workshops and excitement in Kansas City, October 2-6, 2024. And you’ll want to savor (and save!) Glass Art’s annual Directory of Industry Supplies, an essential resource for all that you do! Sara Sally LaGrand shares the work of flameworker Emma Bourke, who’s diminutive clear blown vessels often mimic human organs and contain dainty sculpted flowers representing medicinal plants which support the health of those very organs! The Staff of the Corning Museum of Glass wants you to breathe in the scent of past and present with their upcoming exhibit, Sensorium: Stories of Glass and Fragrance, where the history of perfume bottles across and globe and through the ages will be displayed. Melissa Thomson challenges you to Channel Your Inner Blaschka and take advantage of the opportunity to enter a piece in Pittsburgh Glass Center’s upcoming Glass Lifeform exhibit. (Deadline November 1st, 2024.) The American Glass Guild’s Amy Valuck discusses the impact their organization has had on restoration & conservation techniques in stained glass, and how their annual conference is instrumental in making this happen. ISGB member Karen Sweezy presents a recap of the fourth virtual Gathering of beadmakers worldwide, where presenters, demonstrators, and even a Flame Off brought artists together online. Subscribe today at www.GlassArtMagazine.com. Subscribe today at www.https://simplecirc.com/subscribe/glass-art