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 The Art Glass Association (AGA) can help you find the best ways to promote your glass art business. Whether you’re looking to develop promotions and give-aways, have your business included in trade magazines, or receive coverage from your local radio and TV stations, AGA can provide you with the information you need to get you started. Just e-mail your name, business name, and state or time zone along with the name of your local newspaper, radio station, or magazine and what you would like to do. AGA will call you and give you all the information you need.
bbird@artglassassociation.com
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 The Creative Glass Center of America and the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass present GlassWeekend ’07 at WheatonArts. This international symposium and exhibition of contemporary glass features twenty galleries from the U.S., Australia, England, and Italy. You can register for the entire three-day event or come for the day. This biennial conference has brought together the world’s leading artists, collectors, galleries, and museum curators for a three-day weekend of exhibitions, lectures, hands-on glassmaking, artists’ demonstrations, and social events. Guest artists are Laura Donefer, Sabrina Knowles, and Jenny Pohlman, and the guest speaker is Dan Klein. To register for the event or for more information, visit the WheatonArts website.
800-998-4552
856-825-6800
www.wheatonarts.org
 Pittsburgh Celebrates Glass 2007!, a year-long celebration created to honor the significant role that glass and glass art play in the vibrancy of the Pittsburgh region, will be hosting a one-of-a-kind press tour. It will feature Dale Chihuly’s spectacular Gardens and Glass at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens through November 11, 2007. The Allure of Japanese Glass exhibition at the Pittsburgh Glass Center features seventeen international and emerging artists who work in a full range of glass art methods and techniques and runs through October 21. Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America appearing through September 16 at the Carnegie Museum of Art, is the largest and broadest exhibition to examine the links between Venice and American glassmaking. Metamorphosis: The Life Cycle of a Glass Bead at the Senator John Heinz History Center highlights the exquisite creations of international artists and focuses on the single glass bead and its transformation into a complete piece of jewelry.
412-325-2785
Pittsburgh Glass Center - Industry News
 Flame Run Contemporary Art Glass Studio in Louisville, Kentucky, presents Life and Beyond, an exhibition of the works of well-established metal artist, Bryan Holden. This showcase of his work with other artists can be viewed at the studio through September 21, 2007. Holden’s work reflects the influence of his Catholicism and includes an eight-foot, stainless steel, crucifix-like figure with glass spikes and depicting Jesus freed from the cross as he ascends into heaven. There is also a father figure holding a tiny baby made from ladled glass that represents Holden’s father holding Holden’s son. Flame Run is owned by glass artists Brook Forrest White, Jr., and Susie Slabaugh and includes a working glassblowing hot shop with class offerings for beginners.
502-584-5353
Flame Run Studios - Industry News
 Rayer’s Stained Glass has won the First Annual National Stained Glass and Gift Gallery Retail Store of the Year award from the Art Glass Association. Randall and Pamela Rayer are owners of what has become the Midwest’s largest stained glass supplier. The business is well-known for its excellent staff and customer service as well as a vast availability of products to hobbyists and fellow retailers. Over thirty different artists who are experts in their particular fields combine their knowledge and experience to make up the staff for the store, and Rayer has designed and installed windows in over 300 churches in the area as well as hundreds of commercial and residential sites. Rayer’s stained glass gift gallery offers unique decor for the home and includes authentic Tiffany replica lamps, home lighting, solid wood entry doors, custom bevel sidelights and transoms, and handblown ornaments and paperweights.
800-228-4101
316-942-2929
Rayers Stained Glass - Industry News
  The Corning Museum of Glass will be holding the 46th Annual Seminar on Glass October 11–13, 2007, to explore the wonders of nature reflected in glass. Experts including curators from the Museum will present lectures on a variety of topics. The Blaschkas’ incredibly delicate and realistic botanical and sea creature models exhibited in the Museum’s major summer exhibition, Botanical Wonders, will be a special focus. Lectures will also include naturalism and Art Nouveau with reflections on nature in contemporary glass. Participants will have the opportunity to make their own glass art. Contact Louise Maio at the Museum for more details regarding the event.
607-974-4084
Corning Museum of Glass - Industry News GPQ
 D&L Stained Glass Supply, Inc., has moved to Denver Colorado, to its new 3,800-square-foot facility. The new location, which is less than thirty minutes away from the previous site, still has the same friendly staff to meet all of your glass needs. The company will continue to provide same-day UPS shipping and next-day glass shipping. D&L invites you to stop by this easy-to-reach location. Check the company’s website for directions.
800-525-0940
303-449-8737
 Paragon Industries, producer of one of the first electric kilns in America, regrets to announce the passing of its founder Frances Darby on June 17, 2007. She was known to be a person of integrity and respect for the truth according to John Hohenshelt, who purchased the company in 1985. Most of the stories told regarding the life of Ms. Darby, who founded the company in 1948, reflect her positive outlook that inspired women and made them feel that they could accomplish anything. Arnold Howard, who worked with her for seven years, recalled her as a rare and powerful presence. Services for Ms. Darby were held on June 23 in Richardson, Texas.
800-876-4328
972-288-7557
www.paragonweb.com
 Wexler Gallery, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is proud to host a joint show of new and past work by two pioneers of the contemporary glass movement, Joel Philip Myers and Mark Peiser. This marks the first time in history that these master glass artists have shared an exhibition. The show will run from October 25 through November 24, 2007. The Wexler Gallery is an internationally recognized gallery that showcases the finest in contemporary glass, studio furniture, ceramics, jewelry, and decorative arts. It represents some of the world’s most esteemed artists working today including Wendell Castle, William Harper, and Dale Chihuly.
215-923-7030
Wexler Gallery - Industry News
 Damian Priour, juror for Texas Juried Glass 2, was formally and officially designated Texas Three-Dimensional Artist 2008 on April 19, 2007, in a ceremony held at the state capitol. The 2008 award follows the naming of David Keens, master glassblower and professor at the University of Texas-Arlington as the 2007 recipient. The legislature received assistance from the Texas Commission on the Arts in making their selections for the coming two years. For more information regarding these events, contact the Galveston Arts Center.
409-763-2403
Galveston Arts Center - Industry News
Lincoln Distributors, a leading importer and nationwide wholesale distributor of glass and glass supplies, announces the appointment of David Daniels as general manager. He will lead the company operation in Tempe, Arizona. Daniels received his MBA from the University of Michigan and CPA license in Georgia and comes to Lincoln with extensive operational strategy and finance experience gained while working at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in Bentonville, Arkansas.
800-528-1419
480-968-9297
www.lincolnglass.com
The Corning Museum of Glass will be hosting Masters of Studio Glass: Joel Philip Myers and Steven I. Weinberg on November 2, 2007. This is the first in a new series of focus exhibitions celebrating the work of contemporary studio glass artists. Inspired by an unprecedented gift of art in 2006 from Chicago collectors Ben W. And Natalie Heineman, the series provides a platform for in-depth surveys of individual artists represented in the Museum’s collection. The exhibitions are designed to show the evolution of the artists’ accomplishments and also reveal the versatility of the medium of glass and honor the material’s remarkable capability to assume a wide range of expressions. The focused exhibition format will provide a platform to experience the direction of the artists’ careers while deepening the appreciation and understanding of their contribution to the studio glass community.
800-732-6845
607-937-5371
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