Northwest Ohio Glass Interest Newsletter, Issue 287

Bowling Green Ohio 1/23/2020 – Welcome to the 287th edition of the Northwest Ohio Glass Interest Newsletter.

Headlines

• Toledo Museum of Art Reopens Hot Shop – New!
• Date Change for SOFA Chicago
• AACG Announces 2020 Member Trip – New!
• Open Call Deadline Extended
• Toledo Museum of Art GAPP Artists – New!
• Chihuly Exhibition in Columbus, Ohio – New!
• Ken Saunders’ New Gallery is Now Open
• Montague Gallery Showing Wilfried Grootens
• Cathryn Shilling at Bender Gallery – New!
• GAS 2020 will be in Sweden – New!
• FOCI to Feature Andy Rock
• Cleveland Museum Exhibits “Tiffany in Bloom”
• Center for Craft Announces Inauagural Fellows – New!

 

Toledo Museum of Art Reopens Hot Shop – New!

• The maintenance work is complete and the Hot Shop is now open.

 

Date Change for SOFA Chicago 

• 2020 date is November 5 –  8
• Originally it was scheduled for Halloween weekend

 

AACG Announces 2020 Member Trip – New!

• To Montreal, Canada, August 12 – 16, 2020
• Home collections, museums, artists’ studios, fantastic restaurants and more.
• Membership is required
• contempglass.org

 

Open Call Deadline Extended 

• To showcase artwork in the Urban Glass Window Gallery during 2020-2021
• Deadline now is January 22, 2020
• org

 

Toledo Museum of Art GAPP Artists – New!

• Artists Helen Lee and Joyce Scott will be the 47th and 48th artists to participate in the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP) program.
• GAPP invites contemporary artists from around the world to create new work in glass and share their process with the public.
• Lee will be in residence from March 23 to March 27 and give a free lecture Friday, March 27 in the GlasSalon.
• Scott will be in residence May 6 to May 15 and give a free artist talk May 14 at 7 p.m. in the Glas Salon.
• [email protected]

 

Chihuly Exhibition in Columbus, Ohio – New!

• Chihuly: Celebrating Nature
• Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
• Now through March 29, 2020
• https://www.columbusmakesart.com/organization/154-franklin-park-conservatory-and-botanical-gardens

 

Ken Saunders’ New Gallery is Now Open 

• 2041 West Carroll Avenue, Ste C-320, Chicago Illinois
• “We are thrilled with our new location in the Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago’s MakeCity, a building filled with artists, artisans, innovators and makers.”
• Visitors may park in the ICNC Client Parking area just west of Damen on Carroll. Street parking is free
• [email protected]

 

Montague Gallery Showing Wilfried Grootens

• First solo show in United States
• Tuesday, January 14 through Saturday, February 2, 2020
• 445A Sutter St, San Francisco
• com

 

Cathryn Shilling at Bender Gallery – New!

• Shilling’s Cloaked series are free blown glass vessels with the kiln formed glass cane fabric applied hot. The series is inspired by mythical tragic figures. Blown forms are wrapped in glass cane ‘cloaks’ which mimic cloth, following the contours of the form below.
• Featured now
• Ashville, NC
• [email protected]

 

GAS 2020 Will be in Sweden – New!

• The GAS Annual Conference will be May 20 – 23 in Smaland Sweden at Kosta
• RE: Regeneration–Innovation Through Tradition
• Registration is now open
• Milt and Lee Hakel have visited Smaland, and you won’t be disappointed.
• org/conference/confhome

 

FOCI to Feature Andy Rock

• Solo Exhibition
• February 7 through April 5, 2020
• [email protected]

Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibits Tiffany 

• Tiffany in Bloom: Stained Glass Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany
• Runs through June 14, 2020
• Most of the pieces in the enhibit were recently donated to the museum by Charles Maurer, a collector of Tiffany’s work.
• https://www.clevelandart.org/

 

Center for Craft Announces Inauagural Fellows – New!

• The Inaugural Craft Research Fund Artist Fellows are BA Harrington and Connupa Hanska Lugar
• This new Fellowship advances, expands, and supports the creation of new research and knowledge through craft process.
• [email protected]