GLASS ART SOCIETY TAG Grant
GLASS ART SOCIETY Technology Advancing Glass (TAG) Grant! Technology Advancing Glass (TAG) provides an annual research grant to an artist or group of artists exploring new materials, techniques, making methods, or applications of technology that will generally advance...
FULBRIGHT AWARDS 2017-2018
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching and research awards in over 125 countries for the 2017-2018 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty, administrators as well as for professionals,...
C.G.S. – NEW GRADUATE REVIEW 2016
C.G.S. - NEW GRADUATE REVIEW 2016 Deadline for submission From Friday 1st. May – Tuesday 5th July 2016 The CGS “New Graduate Review” will be a 16 page publication, with a print run of 3,000, which will be circulated to all C.G.S. Members & Associates, plus via...
Editorial NG 2 / 2016
“Ornament and Crime” is the title—often falsely quoted as the polemic “Ornament is Crime”—of a famous article written by the architectural critic and cultural publicist Adolf Loos in 1908. We must bring to mind the spirit of the times to better understand and decode...
6° Biennale du Verre in Strasbourg
It has clocked up one thousand years, the venerable Strasbourg Cathedral, an age that truly deserves veneration. That’s what the European Studio Glass Art Association (ESGAA) thought and adopted the motto Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light) for its big art event this year,...
Glass Guide to La Biennale di Venezia 2015
Once more art lovers of the world are crossing the blue lagunas between the little islands of Venice to see the 56th version of the Biennale which offers a cornucopia of contemporary international art. The curator, Nigerian-born Okwui Enwezor, chose the title: ”All...
Jutta-Cuny Franz Memorial Award 2015
The Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation has been awarding the Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award every other year since 1987. Dr. Ruth Maria Franz (1910-2008) established a Foundation and the prize to commemorate her daughter, the sculptor Jutta Cuny (1940-1983) who lost her...
International Glass Prize 2015 in Lommel
The subject of the first International Glass Prize of GlazenHuis in Lommel, Belgium was The Object — its identity and characteristics such as beauty and quality. But what happens on the way from idea to reality? Which path does the artist take — consciously or...
2015 – International Year of Light
Ghana proposed and UNESCO proclaimed the year 2015 to “International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies.” It is “meant to remind of light’s significance as an elementary necessity of life for people, animals, and plants and thus also as a central component of...
The Cafesjian Centre for Arts in Armenien
Gerard Leon Cafesjian was born to Armenian immigrants in Brooklyn, New York in 1925. As a young man he served in the Marines in the Second World War and married Cleo Thomas, a nurse in 1947, whom he had met during the war. They had three children. As a successful...