Thursday, June 8

For Early Arrivals

 

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m: Hands-On Glassmaking Beadmaking, Bowl or Vase Making Weekend participants have the option of arriving early to create their own work in glass. Make beads, a paperweight, a bowl or vase, with the assistance of a skilled artist.

12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m: Attendee Registration

7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m: Evening Dessert Reception – Those arriving early are welcome to an informal gathering of artists, gallery directors, and staff in the Glass Studio.

Friday, June 9

8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m: AACG Board Meeting

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m: Hands-on Glassmaking

10:20 a.m. – 11:15 a.m: Special Exhibition Tours – “Emanation 2017” and “The Boroff Collection”; Lucio Bubacco Demonstration; Fellow Tours with Jennifer Crescuillo, Eamon DeFabbia-Kane and Alison Siegel

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m: Lunch on your own – vendors on site

1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m: The Secondary Market and Glass Road Show – Presented by Lewis Wexler and William Warmus

1:30 p.m. – 2:10 p.m: Artist Talks 1, 2 and 3
1. Robert Bender
2. Alison Siegel and Pam Sabroso
3. J. Kenneth Leap

2:15 p.m. – 2:55 p.m: Artist Talks 4, 5 and 6
4. Robert Bender
5. Jen Blazina
6.  Ben Johnson

3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m: The Secondary Market and Glass Road Show – Presented by Lewis Wexler and William Warmus

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m: Expression: Creative Glass Center International – Gallery of Fine Craft Reception

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m: Gallery Exhibition Preview Reception – Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres

                                                Catered by Feast Your Eyes (Philadelphia)

Saturday, June 10

8:15 a.m:  Welcoming Remarks/Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m: Artist Presentations: Shelley Muzylowski Allen,  Rik Allen,  Matthew Szosz

9:40 a.m. – 10:15 a.m: Keynote Address  – Susie Silbert, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass

“Blue Chip Artists, ‘Glassy Thinkers,’ and Boro Boys: Navigating the Landscape of Contemporary Glass.”

Fifty-five years after Harvey Littleton’s Toledo Glass Workshops popularized glass as an artist’s material, contemporary glass incorporates an ever-broadening number of artists.  Blue chip artists with access to skilled craftspeople create elaborate objects that mine the material’s history and the decorative arts to speak to broad audiences. “Glassy thinkers” use their artisanal knowledge of the properties of the material and its composition as fertile territory for works that may, in the end, not even be composed of glass. Under the radar, but perhaps the most influential in culture at large, are marijuana pipe makers. Harnessing phenomenal technical skills to pop culture aesthetics, these “boro boys” (and women) circumvent traditional patronage systems by using Instagram and other social media platforms to reach an ever-growing collector base. This lecture surveys this varied landscape in light of the history of Studio Glass and the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass.

10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m: Curator’s Panel – moderated by Susie Silbert

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m: Special Studio Demonstrations

Featured guest artists: Shelley Muzylowski Allen, Rik Allen, Matthew Szosz, Lucio Bubacco, Michael Joo and other guest artists.

11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m: Gallery Exhibition Open

11:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m: Free Time/Lunch on Own. Vendors on site.

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m: Special Exhibition Tours “Emanation 2017” and “The Boroff Collection”

1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m: Glass Brings Hope – Glass Roots (Newark, NJ), The UrbanGlass Bead Project (Brooklyn, NY), and Project Fire (Chicago, IL)

1:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m: Artist Talks 1, 2 and 3
1. David King
2. Michael Janis
3. Ancient Truth Investigators

1:45 p.m. – 2:25 p.m: Artist Talks 4, 5 and 6
4. Biba Schultz
5. Liesl Schubel
6. Ancient Truth Investigators

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m: Special Exhibition Tours – “Emanation 2017” and “The Boroff Collection”

2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m: Glass Brings Hope – Glass Roots, UrbanGlass, and Project Fire

2:30 p.m. to 3:10 p.m: Artist Talks 1, 2 and 3 (same as above)

3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m: Artist Talks 4, 5 and 6 (same as above)

5:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m: Artist Reception for Emanation 2017

Reception for Emanation 2017

7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m: Dinner and FUNraising Auction – An auction of exciting “experiences” donated by glass artists, collectors, and others

Sunday, June 11

9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m: Studio Demonstrations – Rik Allen, Shelley Muzylowski Allen, and Matthew Szösz

11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m: Gallery Exhibition Open

11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m: Glass Studio Demonstrations

Program is subject to change. Please check back for updates.