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Be sure and visit our website to learn more about us!
You will find a list of our members who have websites
and teach art glass.
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Letter from the President
Hope your summer is staying cool and your glass hot.
The AGASC's annual group exhibition is coming up soon. We hope most of our glass artists will want to be in the show. All member artists are welcomed to show their art in the show. Go to our website (agasc.org) to register. We are also having the Glass Boutique again this year. The show's reception is on Sunday, September 16, 4-7pm, so please make sure to attend and check out all of your fellow artists' wonderful works.
We would like to welcome and thank Oceanside Glass and Tile, a new sponsor of our annual members' exhibition. They are going to continue the support that Uroboros Glass gave us for many years. We would also like to thank Coatings by Sandberg, Inc. for their continued support of our exhibition.
AGASC is on the go. The AGASC had another trip to the Palm Springs Museum, this time for the "Narratives In Glass" show. In spite of the heat, everyone who attended the show was very impressed and glad they made the trip. Check the write up in the newsletter for details and photos.
Hope to see you all at the show,
Jack Wade,
President AGASC
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It's Showtime!
AGASC 37th Annual Members' Exhibition
Entry deadline: Friday, Aug 31st by Midnight.
Novices are welcome, there is a category just for you!
Show dates: Friday, Sept 14th,
through Sunday, Sept 30th.
Art intake: Tuesday, September 11th 4 to 7PM
Patio is open to drive on at 5:30 PM
Painting and gallery prep: Tuesday, September 11th at 11AM
Show setup: Wednesday, September 12th
Boutique setup: Thursday, September 13th
Judging: Friday, September 14th
Gallery will open after the judges are finished, (usually 12 Noon)
Artists' reception:
Sunday, September 16
th
, 4 to 7PM
Art Pick up and clean up is Monday,
October 1st , 11AM to 4PM
Exhibit Location:
Gallery 21
1770 Village Place
Spanish Village Art Center - Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101
You must be a member to participate in this show.
All entrants will be required to sit for the show for one day and volunteer for one spot to help with the production of the show.
Please feel
free to call me with questions or let
me know what you would like to volunteer for.
I am looking forward to organizing the show again this year and seeing all
the amazing art you are producing!
Gayle Tunney Richardson, Show Chair
This past year we featured items for immediate sale in the small extension to the main gallery.
It was very successful and hope you will consider submitting items to the boutique this year.
To participate you must sit in the boutique one day (separate from your gallery sit day)
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October 19-21, 2018
We are very excited to offer our members the opportunity to visit the studios of three very important and accomplished artists working in glass. The annual tour for Ojai Studio Artists falls on the same date as our Glass Guild Patio Sale. To make it work for us, the artists described here have graciously agreed to host a private tour of their studios for us on the following weekend. I hope you will be able to join us.
These are the artists with whom you will be able to meet and talk with on this journey:
Susan served as the first woman President of the Glass Art Society from 1984-1986, and is an Honorary Life Member.
She started working in glass in 1973
in Austin, TX and has been working
in California for 30 years now. She
has taught at Pilchuck Glass School,
Tyler School of Art, CA College of the
Arts, Pittsburg Glass Center,
NorthLands Creative Glass in
Scotland, and other universities.
She is a Trustee Emeritus of The
American Craft Council, We will also
be able to meet and visit the studios
of her husband Richard Amend, a
painter, and their son Wyatt, a ceramicist with a glass edge. See
As a bonus, Susan will be meeting us at the Jewish Temple in Ojai to see the stained glass windows that she made for the Jewish Museum in NYC in 1990's that were gifted to the temple in Ojai. She is also offering us a tour of The Collection Riverpark in Oxnard: another site with her work: a porcelain tile mural "The Shopping List", and a metal sculpture/fountain with large resin globes: "Coastal Conversion". Stinsmuehlen-Amend is the only woman artist in a group of 12 artists with site specific work here. Details will follow. See videos at
http://thecollectionrp.com/see/susan-stinsmuehlen-amend .
Stephen Dee Edwards
Stephen moved his family to Ojai
a few years ago from their home in
Alfred, NY where he is Professor of
Glass Emeritus at Alfred University.
He is also a past president of
Glass Art Society (1990-91), and
his work is collected in museums
and galleries around the world.
Please visit his website at
full picture of his amazing works.
He is willing to meet with us on
Saturday morning, because he has a gig for his musical talents in the evening that date!
Brian Berman
Brian has been working with glass since 1990, and casts sculptures in
glass, bronze and other materials.
His website will give you a complete
picture of his work and the nature of
spiritual insights and nature play
into his work beautifully.
"Sculpture embraces our perceptions
and empowers our dreams" -Brian
Berman We will be visiting Brian on
our last day in the morning followed
by a lunch with the artists should that work out.
Logistics are in the works and you can contact Marti Blair at
[email protected] to receive information regarding transportation and lodging. (Several rooms are reserved for the 2 nights pending interest.) There are no fees other than your personal care for the journey. All lodging arrangements must be secured by October 10, 2018. Space is limited, so please sign up early!
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Palm Springs Art Museum Tour
Exhibition Narratives in Glass
By Jon Simpson
We picked a cool day to go tour the Narratives in Glass Exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum. It was only 103 degrees that day. We got through with lunch at Spencer's restaurant about an hour early, so we went to the museum to walk around and see the other exhibits.
We went to the front desk at the prearranged time to meet out docent,
Denise Finch. She was very knowledgeable about glass and the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection particularly. We started the tour at David Willis's Mood 2. It was a life size figure of a woman done in glass and frit. Then we went on to the others pieces, talking about the artist and how the piece was made. We were fortunate to have Stephanie Close on the tour with us to discuss her work with Clifford Rainy on several pieces.
There were almost thirty pieces in the exhibit, so the docent couldn't talk about every one, but she did manage to cover about 20 or so. It was an afternoon well spent, immersed in glass.
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The Glass Art Society's (GAS)
2018 Conference
by Ty Creighton
In May the Glass Art Society (GAS) took the big step to Murano, Italy after years of hosting their annual conference around the US, from GAS 2010 in Louisville to GAS 2017 in Norfolk, VA. The glass community on Murano was ready to show GAS members from around the world "Il Percorso di Vetro - The Glass Path." From the pageantry of the Glass Fashion Show to the technical demonstrations in centuries-old factories, Murano reminded participants of glass history and presented perspectives into where we are today. Panel discussion were held to discuss the future of glass; and events around the island brought together maestros, students, collectors and gallery owners.
Arriving in Venice and taking a Vaporetto (water taxi) to Murano set the scene for the coming days of celebrating glass artists. Starting at the Vaporetto docks, the pathways, bridges and the canal all lead towards the GAS 2018 main meeting space at the San Pietro Church, built in 1348. The Church courtyard served as the registration area, and the church's field was the central place where participants could eat, get a cold drink (Spritz anyone!?!), and sit in bleachers to watch artists on the main stage. Throughout Murano other venues included red-brick factories, modern galleries and studios which held concurrent presentations. Attending a GAS conference means selecting which events to attend and which you wish you could attend at the same time. May 16th started off with 19 tours between 830am and 1PM, covering lamp working, historic sites, glass blowing, studio tours and the Murano Glass Museum.
GAS Awards were presented including the Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award to Livio Seguso and the GAS Visionary Award to Benjamin Moore. Durk Valkema received the Lifetime Membership Award. Durk designs and executes his own sculptural work and engineers glass systems and equipment for studio artists in Europe and the U.S.
Following a busy first day of tours, May 17th had a more somber and celebratory start. Family members of Maestro Pino Signoretto gathered on the main stage for the posthumous award of the GAS Lifetime Technical Achievement. Pino passed away suddenly in December, 2017 after a long career that touched many glass artists. The family's tribute by his brothers and their families was a collaborative demonstration piece, with each blown and sculpted part being assembled by Martino Naia Signoretto. Simultaneously, six other venues around Murano hosted technical demonstrations including a hybrid demonstration by Nadege Desgenetez using sculpting and stamping to "merge references to body and place in a large abstracted body fragment" as described in the conference pamphlet.
Murano concentrates visitors on it's pathways along the canal, creating many opportunities to meet old friends as well as get a picture with many artists and maestros. Maestro Davide Salvadore seemed to be everywhere, assisting artists on the Main Stage, greeting visitors in front of MaMa Salvadore Murano gallery and celebrating at the closing party. One minute you could be taking a picture with Lino Tagliapietra, Kathy Gray, Nancy Callan or Martin Janecky, then watching them an hour later give technically challenging demonstrations on the Main Stage.
If all this history and the heady events were not enough, there was more to see and do. Many artists made their pilgrimage to Carlo Dona's shop to buy tools while others attended the student glass exhibition. Walk a little past the main venues and you would find the Goblet Grab. While smaller than some previous years, the vendor booths presented materials, tools, and other glass essentials. And a short Vaporetto ride from Murano took you to islands to explore, like Burano where every building is a colorful part of island life. All of Venice awaited GAS attendees with food, shopping, museums and galleries - walking shoes required. And after GAS 2018 many headed by train and plane across the continent to see more art, culture and even to teach a few classes.
Walking along the canal and visiting the small shops on Murano highlighted a theme in the larger world of art today. Murano like many places has an increasing tourist population and many visitors want to take home something from their trip. They don't want to pay much, trinkets are preferred over an artist's work. Shop owners face the question of importing cheap glass items from China or competing with the galleries of the established maestros as they try to sell more affordable handmade cups, glasses or small sculptures. Pop culture meets great art, often in adjoining store fronts.
Moving from the main paths along the canal, back into the factories, showed the world of Murano glass today to be very much like it has always been, dominated by men of the family-owned factories. A few women are working in the factories as artists or students, but they are the few. Change in Murano seems to be at a much slower rate than at glass centers in many other areas. This is in contrast to the artists attending GAS, with woman working in all aspects of glass; pioneering new techniques and demonstrating their voices through this material that continues to find new expression.
One additional field note from this year's conference. There were panel discussions and demonstrations that hint at future directions of glass. The breath of glass from hot shops to kiln and lamp work was exciting to see in Murano. Lucio Bubacco, world-renowned for his lamp work, is developing hybrid techniques that combine lamp working with fusing to achieve new levels of color application and detail. Patrick Collentine demonstrated techniques for the hot glass studio that address building plasma neon illuminated sculptures.
Shane Fero demonstrated flame worked Graal. His demo started by decorating a tube with powders and cane drawing that he applied stained glass paints to. The tube was formed in a cup, picked up in a pre-warmed oven and blown into a Graal piece at the furnace. In another demo, Kimberly Thomas made moving parts and assembled a flame worked marionette. Simone Crestani demonstrated his exploration of borosilicate tubing work that uses both hot glass techniques and torches. There were other lectures and demonstrations that show glass is being used in many new ways while taking advantage of the classic methods developed on Murano and other glass centers.
2019 will see the GAS conference return to the US, where St. Petersburg, Florida will host the creative, artistic and academic sessions that make each GAS conference the place to appreciate time-honored ways and learn about new tools, techniques and perspectives. GAS conferences are where emerging artists and maestros get together to share the love for glass and enjoy the camaraderie in our community. Grazie Murano, Ciao Florida!
"I was overwhelmed with emotion reconnecting with glass friends from all over the world. Beloved friends from New Zealand, Turkey, Sweden, France and Italy all welcomed me with hugs and tears. It truly reminded me that glass artists all speak the same language." Kathleen Mitchell
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Welcome New Members!
Michelle Hatfield
Carla Koehler
Catherine Lane
Rich Lane
Denise Lenox
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Sept 8
Galaxy of Glass Artist Reception
Fallbrook Center for the Arts
5:00pm - 7:00pm
103 Main Street Fallbrook, CA
Sept 9 - Galaxy of Glass
Oct 21 Fallbrook Center for the Arts
Monday through Friday 10-4, Sunday Noon-3
103 Main Street
Fallbrook, CA
Sept 14 - AGASC Annual Members' Exhibition
Sept 30 and Glass Boutique
Gallery 21
Spanish Village Art Center
1770 Village Place
San Diego, CA 92101
Oct 13 -14 Art Glass Guild's Fall Patio Show and Sale
10:00am - 5:00pm both days
Spanish Village Art Center
1770 Village Place
San Diego, CA 92101
Oct 19-21 AGASC Artists Studio Tours in Ojai, CA
For information and details on transportation and
To submit events that may be of interest to our members contact us!
[email protected]
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Deadline for Articles and Events for Fall Edition is Nov 1st
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Susan Hirsch Newsletter Designer
Art Glass Association of Southern California
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