A poster advertising this year's glass sale at the Tyler School of Art.
This week’s student-organized holiday sale at the Tyler School of Arts in Philadelphia is just one of many similar events taking place across the country as the Christmas season approaches. On November 19th and 20th, the Tyler Glass Guild will be selling glass ornaments and other small gifts, with proceeds benefiting the department’s Visiting Artists Program—a practice many other schools also employ.
As Brent Kee Young, professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art and head of the glass program, puts it, “I think just about every school with a craft program in the country does it.” But, as Young also notes, “there are lots of incarnations of it,” with the most interesting distinctions having to do with the level of involvement from outside the universities themselves.
