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Czech glass artist and designer Jitka Kamencova Skuhrava is currently exhibiting her work at the DBK, a major shopping center in Prague. The center’s fifth floor is a gallery space devoted to showcasing up and coming work by young Czech … Continue reading →

The votes are in. Glass Art Society has announced its 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Joel Philip Myers and Bertil Vallien. The wnners will accept their awards at the 42nd annual conferenc , which will be held at … Continue reading →

On February 6th, German architectural glass artist Ludwig Schaffrath died of a stroke at the age of 87. A memorial service was held last Saturday at a cathedral in Würselen, Germany, followed by a reception at the late artist’s studio … Continue reading →

The same challenging economic environment that pressures artists to seek new venues to sell their work also impacts art dealers when work doesn’t sell. With both parties under stress in the current art market, a bitter tug-of-war can sometimes break … Continue reading →

For the sixth time, Vetri Glass has opened its doors to artists from the Hilltop Artists in Residence program for an exhibition of student work. Hilltop uses the intensity and focus glass requires to teach valuable lessons to at-risk youth, … Continue reading →

Alfred University’s glass program, headed by Steven Dee Edwards and staffed by Fred Tschida and Angus Powers, is looking to add a full-time faculty member to its ranks. Though the position will not begin until August 2011, the December 3rd, … Continue reading →

As the calendar clicks from 2010 to 2011, the furnace flames will go out, hopefully temporarily, at the Reading, Pennsylvania-based open-access glass studio of GoggleWorks. Despite the overwhelming popularity of the regular glassblowing demonstrations, the hot shop has proven to … Continue reading →

Of all the artists participating in the second edition of the European Triennial for Ceramics and Glass, two British artists caught the eyes of the jury. Ceramicist Katharine Morling was awarded the Triennial’s highest honor, the Wallonia-Brussels French Community Prize … Continue reading →

For the first full day of the biggest annual art fair for work in glass, Chicago lived up to its “Windy City” nickname with frigid blasts battering those brave enough to walk the long pathway along Navy Pier to get … Continue reading →

Girls like to play with fire, too. To see for yourself, just attend one of the annual Female Flame-Offs, an event that started in Chicago in 2006, and has been held in Philadelphia; Berkeley, California; and Texas in the years … Continue reading →

At the 2010 International Festival of Glass, which ran from August 27th – 30th in Stourbridge, England, there was the announcement of the participants in the  British Glass Biennale, which continues on exhibit through September 11th. A total of 82 … Continue reading →

Freely splicing together Mexican folk art, corporate logos, religious icons, and masked wrestlers, the brothers de la Torre use the extraordinary ability of glass to take on almost any color or shape to populate their cross-cultural artistic universe of characters … Continue reading →