May/June 2020 **Digital**

May/June 2020

Volume 35
Number 3

Warm Glass Studio Profile
Ian Chadwick
Social Media Fuels a Leap to Art
by Colleen Bryan
Photography by Julie Jones Photography and Ian Chadwick
Ian Chadwick trained as a fine artist, but when he left the university, the work he undertook was decidedly craft. He began to create densely patterned objects, but his fine art training nagged at him to pull his work toward emphasizing ideas and feelings, and social media became the catalyst for making that leap.

Independent Artist
Erica Rosenfeld
Exploring Glass Art That Conveys History
by Sara Sally LaGrand
Photography by Andrew Smenos, Echard Wheeler, Jason Bauer, Romina Gonzales, and Erica Rosenfeld
Since childhood, Erica Rosenfeld has found that piecing together and bringing her own order to smaller parts has been calming and therapeutic. This multimedia artist is very inspired by labor-intensive artwork that expresses time and conveys a history as she expresses that through everything from jewelry to tapestries.

SGAA News
The Stained Glass Association of America
Settling In to New Headquarters
by The SGAA Headquarters Staff
The board of the Stained Glass Association of America (SGAA) shuffled off to Buffalo, New York, in January 2020 for the organization’s first annual winter board meetings since the SGAA relocated to Buffalo. The gathering offered an opportunity to get to know the city and to meet with the group’s local financial sponsors.

Glass Talk
The Path to Paradise
Judith Schaechter’s Stained Glass Art
by The Memorial Art Gallery Staff
Photography by Dominic Episcopo
The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained Glass Art is the first survey and major scholarly assessment of this groundbreaking artist’s 37-year career. The exhibition will be on view at the Memorial Art Gallery of the university of Rochester, after which it will travel to two additional venues in the United States.

AGG News
American Glass Guild Conference
by Troy Moody
The assorted far-flung members of the American Glass Guild (AGG) are planning to come together in 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland, for AGG’s 15th Annual Conference. Once again, this lively gathering will be chock-full of engaging speakers, enlightening tours, demos, and other educational opportunities for its diverse membership from around the United States.

Marketing
What Sells?
by Dennis Brady
Photography by Richard Bruck, Jon Erickson, and James A. Veenstra
Artists who hope to sell their glass art can’t assume that just because they like it, others will buy it. One of the best ways to sell work instead of trying to make it cheaper or better is to create something different that no one else makes.

GAS News
Illuminating Glass Art® in Sweden
by The Glass Art Society Staff
The 49th Annual Glass Art Society (GAS) Conference was set to bring the international community of glass enthusiasts together in Sweden for a look at the neon glass art so prevalent there. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, however, the conference had to be cancelled. GAS will be plans for its 2021 conference later.

Personal Development
Creativity—Failure
Finding the Good in the Unexpected
by Milon Townsend
Artists should train themselves to recognize the good in the unexpected. Sometimes what seems like a failure because the results don’t turn out as expected can actually become the beginning of a novel technique, a new series of work, or a piece that is even better than the one that was originally planned.

CGS News
Life Forms
CGS at the Pyramid Gallery, York
by Pam Reekie
The exhibition of glass art by 34 juried members of the Contemporary Glass Society inspired by structure, form, and evolution in the natural world planned for 2020 in York, England, has been rescheduled for 2021. In the meantime, however, there will be an online showing of the exhibit.

Hot Glass Studio Profile
David Graeber
Masterful Paperweights
by Vicki Schneider
In 1989, with no experience in flameworking, David Graeber left a secure job at a sign company to become assistant to master flameworking artist, Paul Stankard. That change brought the world one of its best contemporary paperweight makers due to David’s work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to do fine work with his hands.

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