2 0 1 0 p r o g r a m B o o k - Glass Art Society

t a b l e o f c o n t e n t s 

2 Glass Art Society Board and Staff 

3 From the Conference Co-Chairs 

4 GAS President’s Letter 

5 Letter from the Mayor 

6 Conference Schedule 

14 Presentation Abstracts 

25 Special Conference Events: 

Lino Tagliapietra at Centre College 

GAS Collectors Tour 

Day of Glass 

Pre-Conference Reception 

Opening Ceremony, Awards, and Keynote Speech 

Posters Project Exhibition 

16th Annual Goblet Grab 

Artist Portfolio Review 

Education Resource Center 

International Student Exhibition and Sales 

Gallery Hop 

Glassworks Black Out Bash 

GAS Annual Business Meeting and 2011 Preview 

School Presentations Forum 

GAS Auction 

Closing Night Party 

31 Technical Display Booth Layout 

32 Technical Display Exhibitors 

35 Around the Conference: Gallery Hop and More 

41 Pre- and Post-Conference Workshops 

42 2010 GAS Lifetime Achievement Award: Mark Peiser 

42 2010 GAS Honorary Lifetime Membership Award: 

Tom Philabaum 

43 Conference Presenters’ Biographical Information 

56 Board of Directors’ Biographical Information 

60 Conference Co-Chairs’ Biographical Information 

61 Glass Art Society Acknowledgments 

64 GAS Conference Sponsors 

67 Travel Tips and Transportation 

70 20 Things to Do in Kentucky 

72 Maps: Marriott Hotel, Louisville, New Albany 

76 Useful Phone Numbers 

77 Index 

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g l a s s a r t s o c i e t y b o a r d & s ta f f 

Glass Art Society 

6512 23rd Avenue NW, Suite 329, Seattle, WA 98117 USA 

Tel: 206.382.1305 Fax: 206.382.2630 

info@glassart.org www.glassart.org 

The Glass Art Society is a 501c3 non-profit, professional, international organization 

whose purpose is to encourage excellence, to advance education, to promote the 

appreciation and development of the glass arts, and to support the worldwide 

community of artists who work with glass. 

Board of Directors 

2009 - 2010 

President 

Shane Fero 

Vice President 

Jeremy Lepisto 

Secretary 

Jutta-Annette Page 

Treasurer 

Pamina Traylor 

Rik Allen 

Eddie Bernard 

Robin Cass 

F.G. “Rick” Heath 

Geoff Isles 

Tracy Kirchmann 

(student representative) 

Jiyong Lee 

Caroline Madden 

Tommie Rush 

Wayne Strattman 

Elizabeth Swinburne 

Louisville Conference Committee 

Merrily Orsini, Co-Chair 

Ché Rhodes, Co-Chair 

J. Page von Roenn, Co-Chair 

Brook Forrest White, Jr., Co-Chair 

Dave Pender, Louisville Conference Logo Designer 

Audrey Petty, Event Coordinator 

Staff 

Pamela Figenshow Koss, Executive Director 

Patty Cokus, Executive Assistant 

Kate Dávila, Communications Manager 

Rosie Gaynor, Interim Communications Manager 

Katrina Ernst, Administrative Assistant/Registrar 

Karen Skrinde, Database Manager* 

Sarah Bak, Consultant* 

Susan Rossi-Wilcox, Journal Editor* 

Ted Cotrotsos, Graphic Designer* 

* Part-time 

Please hold onto this program book! 

There is a limited supply and we may not be able to replace a lost or forgotten book. 

Please hold onto your name badge! 

Your name badge is given to you at conference registration, and it is your ticket to 

all events included in the conference fee. If your badge is lost, another will be 

issued to you at the registration desk for $10 USD. 

Back cover photos (L - R, top - bottom): Fritz Dreisbach, Rosy Violet; Mark Peiser, Sanctuary; 

Lino Tagliapietra, Mandara; Carmen Vetter, Hot or Cold; Tom Philabaum, Sunset; Boyd Sugiki, Nightfall; 

Tom Moore, Hammergirl and The Weasel (Goes Pop); Shelley Muzylowski-Allen, Tangerine Jester; 

Stephen Rolfe Powell, Lurid Screaming Whipper; Ché Rhodes, Untitled; Judith Schaechter, Joan of Arc. 

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f r o m t h e c o n f e r e n c e c o - c h a i r s 

Welcome to Louisville… 

Possibility City! 

We hope you are as excited to be here as we 

are to be hosting the 40th annual Glass Art 

Society conference. This year’s theme, Ingenious 

Possibilities, is a reflection on Louisville’s status 

as one of the country’s newest destinations for 

contemporary glass. 

Though the region quietly boasts a deep 

historical tradition of glass manufacturing dating 

back to the 19th century, it has only been in the 

last decade that Louisville has begun to showcase 

the art of glassmaking as one of the city’s 

main attractions. Three highly visible downtown 

glass facilities offer a variety of ways to delve 

into the art of glass. Here you’ll have the chance to experience the making of glass in 

every form and approach, from architectural and stained glass to production glassmaking, 

from professional practice to public access to academic endeavors. Whether you choose 

a trolley, bicycle, or sneakers as a means of conveyance, as you make the short trip 

between Louisville’s three downtown glass facilities, you will also find numerous galleries, 

museums, and artist studios featuring glass art and other offerings. Additionally, there 

are plenty of opportunities to taste Louisville’s unique food and libations and to enjoy 

shopping and social life – and that’s all within 10 blocks of the official conference hotel 

downtown, without straying from Market and Main Streets! 

While the core of the conference will be in the lively and manageable downtown 

district, conference programming also highlights the attractions of the Leonard and Adele 

Leight Glass Collection at the Speed Art Museum, as well as the historic riverfront district 

in New Albany, Indiana. New Albany offers a gallery and shopping destination that rivals 

that of downtown Louisville; it also provides scenic views of the Ohio River and the downtown 

Louisville skyline. For a change of pace, taste the nightlife and sample bourbon, our 

official state beverage, on Frankfort Avenue or Bardstown Road, both just a few minutes’ 

ride from the conference hotel. 

And if that’s not enough for you, by now you’ve no doubt become familiar with this 

year’s exceptional conference lineup. From the locals to the internationals, this conference 

features many of the best and the brightest with several obvious highlights. As GAS closes 

its fourth decade and we blaze through our first, we would like to thank the organization 

and its membership for allowing us to host this exciting event. Contagious enthusiasm has 

fueled Louisville’s sense of ingenious possibility; it is with the utmost sincerity that we invite 

you to become infected and participate in our growing glass community. 

Sincerely, 

Merrily Orsini Ché Rhodes J. Page von Roenn Brook Forrest White, Jr. 

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G A S p r e s i d e n t ’ s l e t t e r 

The Glass Art Society’s 

Board of Directors and its staff 

welcome you to Louisville. 

It gives me the greatest pleasure to be the 

incumbent President for GAS’s 40th anniversary 

conference in Louisville. I believe that GAS has 

been instrumental in the growth of the glass arts 

worldwide, especially as a vehicle for networking, 

information exchange, education, and the 

promotion of excellence in the glass arts. As it 

was initially conceived, it hasn’t changed that 

much, except in the context of encompassing a 

wider range of techniques and the inclusivity of 

membership of all of those individuals and institutions who have been or are our present 

membership. That one of our founders and a friend of mine, Mark Peiser, is receiving the 

Lifetime Achievement Award and that another friend, Tom Philabaum, is receiving the 

Lifetime Membership Award is very heartwarming to me. 

The City of Louisville, its citizens, and the glass community here have all been 

working hard to bring you a taste of what the city has to offer. In conjunction with GAS, 

we have brought together interesting lectures, demonstrations, panel discussions, 

exhibitions, tours, and other events to enhance your experience here. Ingenious 

Possibilities, the theme of this conference, is evidenced by the growth of this city’s vibrant 

glass community in a relatively short amount of time. Every time I visit, I find more growth 

in the glass arts community and more to explore within this city. Enjoy the wonderful 

restaurants, bars, art, music, and local color. We appreciate this city’s industriousness 

and I am sure you will too. 

Stephen Rolfe Powell at Centre College in Danville, KY, is the father of the movement 

here, which in turn has spun off all these programs and studios. Without him and his 

tireless ingenuity, promotion, visiting artists program, and student mentorship, 

I think the Louisville glass scene would not be what it is today. Thanks, Stephen! Having a 

lot of incredible artists who happen to reside in the southeastern U.S. is no coincidence. 

The relative proximity of Penland School and other institutions, plus a great network of 

people operating studios, creates vibrancy within our community. There is a lot happening 

in our region and I am glad that you are all joining us for this conference. 

Thanks, 

Shane Fero 

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l e t t e r f r o m t h e m ay o r 

Dear Friends, 

It is my pleasure to welcome the 2010 international 

Glass Art Society conference to my hometown. 

I am delighted Louisville will play host to this 

intemational association of glass sculptors, 

educators, and collectors for their 40th anniversary. 

Louisville’s burgeoning glass scene has 

achieved international recognition for the creation 

of glass art through local studios and hot shops, 

including GlassWorks, Flame Run Glass Studio & 

Gallery, and the University of Louisville’s Cressman 

Center and Fine Art Program in Glass. 

While you are here, I hope you will have a 

chance to sample some of what our 

community has to offer: experience over 50 exhibits of glass art, stroll along our awardwinning 

Waterfront Park, and visit the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory, the 

Muhammad Ali Center, or the eclectic Speed Art Museum. Theatre, music, and dining 

opportunities abound. Near-downtown neighborhoods offer shopping for everything from 

art to antiques. And always, you’ll feel the friendliness and hospitality of our people. 

Whatever you do, I hope you will enjoy our great city and make plans to come 

back and visit again soon. 

Sincerely, 

Jerry E. Abramson 

Mayor, City of Louisville 

Churchill Downs 

Photo: Louisville CVB 

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conference schedule as of May 5, 2010 

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Wednesday, June 9 

Time event Location 

Events and Ongoing Activities 

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12 pm - 5 pm Registration/Information Table/ Marriott Ballroom Foyer 

T-Shirt Sales 

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12 pm - 5 pm Auction Piece Drop-Off marriott Ballroom VII 

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12 pm - 5 pm Goblet Grab Piece Drop-Off/Preview Marriott Rose 

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12 pm - 5 pm Student Exhibition Piece Drop-Off Marriott Win-Place-Show 

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2 pm - 3 pm Kyle Citrynell marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lecture: Intellectual Property Rights 

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6 pm - 9:30 pm Pre-Conference Reception Speed Art Museum 

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All day Day of Glass Various – see flyer in bag 

Thursday, June 10 

Events, Ongoing Activities, and Opening Ceremonies 

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7 am - 4 pm Registration marriott Ballroom Foyer 

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8 am - 4 pm T-Shirt Sales/Information Table Marriott Ballroom Foyer 

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9 am - 12 pm Auction Piece Drop-Off marriott Ballroom VII 

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9 am - 12 pm Goblet Grab Piece Drop-Off/Preview Marriott Rose 

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9 am - 12 pm Student Exhibition Piece Drop-Off Marriott Win-Place-Show 

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11:30 am - 4 pm Technical Display marriott Kentucky Ballroom 

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1:30 pm - 2:15 pm Opening Ceremony & marriott Ballroom V & VI 

Awards Presentation 

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2:15 pm - 2:50 pm Tom Philabaum marriott Ballroom V & VI 

Lifetime Membership Lecture 

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3 pm - 3:45 pm Mark Peiser Marriott Ballroom V & VI 

Lifetime Achievement Lecture 

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4 pm - 4:45 pm Bill Samuels – Keynote Lecture Marriott Ballroom V & VI 

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5 pm - 7 pm Opening Reception marriott Ballroom V & VI 

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Demonstrations, Lectures, and Panels 

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8 am - 9:30 am Devyn Baron and Amy Pender Flame Run Hotshop 

Demonstration: Hot Glass 

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8 am - 9:30 am Marc VandenBerg glassworks Flameworking 

Demonstration: Flameworking 

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8 am - 9:30 am Ché Rhodes U of L Cressman Center Hotshop 


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8 am - 9:30 am John Groth glassworks/JazzyBlu 

Lec-Mo: Kilnworking & Hot Glass 

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8:30 am - 10 am Carmen Vetter – Lec-Mo: Kilnforming Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

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8:30 am - 10 am Paul Stankard Flame Run Flameworking 


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8:30 am - 10 am Student Demonstration: Hot Glass Juicy Lucy Mobile Unit 

Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale at Glassworks 

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8:30 am - 10 am Martie Negri and Robert Panepinto Glassworks Hotshop 


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9:45 am - 11:15 am Ralph Carter – Lec-Mo: Casting Glassworks/JazzyBlu 

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10 am - 11:30 am Brook Forrest White, Jr. Flame Run Hotshop 


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10 am - 11:30 am Steve Sizelove glassworks Flameworking 


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10 am - 11:30 am Boyd Sugiki U of L Cressman Center Hotshop 


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10:30 am - 12 pm Emilio Santini Flame Run Flameworking 


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10:30 am - 12 pm Student Demonstration: Hot Glass Juicy Lucy Mobile Unit 

San Jose State University at Glassworks 

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10:30 am - 12 pm Martin Janecky Glassworks Hotshop 


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10:30 am - 12 pm Jeffrey Wallin – Lec-Mo: Kilnforming Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

friday, June 11 


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9 am - 10:30 am Goblet Grab Drop-Off and Preview Marriott Rose 

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9 am - 12 pm Poster Projects Setup marriott Thoroughbred/Filly 

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9 am - 12 pm Auction Piece Drop-Off marriott Ballroom VII 

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11:30 am - 6 pm Technical Display marriott Kentucky Ballroom 

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12 pm - 1:30 pm Goblet Grab marriott Foyer outside Ballroom 

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12 pm - 5 pm Poster Projects marriott Thoroughbred/Filly 

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1 pm - 3 pm Portfolio Review marriott Skybox 

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1 pm - 5 pm Education Resource Center Marriott Rose Foyer 

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4 pm - 8 pm Auction Preview marriott Ballroom VI 

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4 pm - 8 pm International Student Exhibition Marriott Win-Place-Show 

and Sales 

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5 pm - 9 pm Gallery Hop multiple locations – see pg. 35 

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8 am - 9:30 am James Breed Flame Run Hotshop 


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8 am - 9:30 am Mark Payton glassworks Flameworking 


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8 am - 9:30 am Shelley Muzylowski-Allen U of L Cressman Center Hotshop 


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8 am - 9:30 am Mark Hall glassworks/JazzyBlu 

Lec-Mo: Kilnformed and Hot Glass 

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8:30 am - 10 am Student Demonstration: Flame Run Flameworking 

Flameworking 

Salem Community College 

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Bowling Green State University at Glassworks 

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8:30 am - 10 am Amy Rueffert Glassworks Hotshop 


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8:30 am - 10 am Robert Stephan Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lecture 

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10 am - 11:30 am Benjamin Edols Flame Run Hotshop 


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10 am - 11:30 am Eun-suh Choi glassworks Flameworking 


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10 am - 11:30 am Richard Jolley U of L Cressman Center Hotshop 


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10:30 am - 12 pm Mike Shelbo Flame Run Flameworking 


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Rochester Institute of Technology at Glassworks 

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10:30 am - 12 pm Scott Darlington glassworks Hotshop 


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10:30 am - 12 pm Vaz Zastera marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lec-Mo: Coldworking 

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1 pm - 2 pm Peter Morrin marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Strattman Lecture 

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1 pm - 2 pm Max Stewart marriott Ballroom IV 

Lecture 

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1 pm - 2 pm Richard Jolley marriott Ballroom V 

Lecture 

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1 pm - 2 pm Michael T. Bell marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lecture 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Stephen Knapp marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Lecture 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Andy Paiko marriott Ballroom IV 

Lecture 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Corban Walker marriott Ballroom V 

Willson Lecture 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Kenneth von Roenn, Jr. marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lecture 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Fritz Dreisbach marriott Bluegrass 1 & 2 

Lecture 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Lecture: Emerging Artists Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Presentations with Cortney Boyd, 

David Fox, Jessica Lloyd-Jones, Thomas Ryder 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Panel: How Many Skills Do You Marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Need to Survive?, Richard Yelle, 

moderator, with Ruth King, 

Ruth Summers, Durk Valkema 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Panel: Artistic Vision in Industry, Marriott Ballroom IV 

Design and Manufacturing, 

Fred diFrenzi, moderator, with 

Ursula Vourvoulis, Jon Wolfe 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Panel: Glass Studio as Marriott Ballroom V 

Energy Source, Eddie Bernard, 

moderator, with Charles Correll, 

Jim Gosnell, Douglas Ohm 

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5 pm - 6:30 pm David Walters Flame Run Hotshop 


saturday, June 12 


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9 am - 2 pm International Student Exhibition Marriott Win-Place-Show 

and Sales 

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9 am - 3 pm Technical Display marriott Kentucky Ballroom 

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9 am - 4 pm Poster Projects marriott Thoroughbred/Filly 

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9 am - 6 pm Auction & Silent Auction Preview Marriott Ballroom VI 

(First Silent Table closes at 5:15 pm) 

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12 pm - 1 pm GAS Business Meeting/ Marriott Rose 

2011 Conference Preview 

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1 pm - 5 pm Education Resource Center Marriott Rose Foyer 

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2 pm - 4 pm School Presentations Forum 

Degree: 

marriott Skybox 

Non-Degree: 

marriott Rose Foyer 

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2 pm - 4 pm International Student Exhibition Marriott Win-Place-Show 

Piece Pick-Up 

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6 pm - 7 pm Live Auction marriott Ballroom VI 

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8 pm - 12 am Closing Night Party muhammad Ali Center 

(International Student Exhibition 

awards announced at 9:30 pm) 

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8 am - 9:30 am Michael Schunke Flame Run Hotshop 


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8 am - 9:30 am Roger Parramore glassworks Flameworking 


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8 am - 9:30 am Lino Tagliapietra U of L Cressman Center Hotshop 


See page 21 for details 

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8:30 am - 10 am Loren Stump Flame Run Flameworking 


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Sheridan College 

at Glassworks 

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8:30 am - 10 am Casey Hyland glassworks Hotshop 


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8:30 am - 10 am Benjamin Edols marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lec-Mo: Coldworking 

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9:45 am - 11:15 am Kenneth von Roenn, Jr. glassworks/JazzyBlu 

Lec-Mo: Kilncasting and Slumping 

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10 am - 11:30 am Matthew Cummings Flame Run Hotshop 


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10 am - 11:30 am David Willis glassworks Flameworking 


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10 am - 11:30 am Lino Tagliapietra U of L Cressman Center Hotshop 


See page 21 for details 

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10:30 am - 12 pm Kaori Koike Flame Run Flameworking 


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Tulane University 

at Glassworks 

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10:30 am - 12 pm Oben Abright and McKinley Moore Glassworks Hotshop 


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10:30 am - 12 pm Rene Culler marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lec-Mo: Fusing 

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1 pm - 2 pm Chris Bird-Jones marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Lecture 

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1 pm - 2 pm Patrick Martin marriott Ballroom IV 

Lecture 

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1 pm - 2 pm Judith Schaechter marriott Ballroom V 

Lecture 

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1 pm - 2 pm Arlon Bayliss Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lecture 

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1 pm - 2:30 pm Stephen Rolfe Powell U of L Cressman Center Hotshop 


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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Stephen Tucker Marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Labino Lecture 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm John Drury Marriott Ballroom IV 

Lecture 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Tom Moore Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lecture 

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2:30 pm - 4 pm Panel: Similar Passions/Different Marriott Ballroom V 

Approaches: The Collector’s 

Perspective, Ché Rhodes, moderator, 

with Scott Erbes, Adele and 

Leonard Leight, Julien Robson, 

Steve Wilson 

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3 pm - 4 pm Lindsay Capps and Christina Ryan Marriott Bluegrass 1 & 2 

Lecture 

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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Deborah Dohne marriott Ballroom IV 

Lecture 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Panel: Sustaining a Studio: Marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Hot Shop, Jeremy Lepisto, 

moderator, with Benjamin Edols, 

Lynn Read, Tommie Rush 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Panel: Should the Term Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

“Glass Artist” Be Abolished?, 

Andrew Page, moderator, with 

Jim Butler, Judith Schaechter, 

Walter Zimmerman 

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presentation abstracts as of May 1, 2010 


8 am - 9:30 am Flame Run Hotshop 

Devyn Baron and Amy Pender, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Get Out of My Head: The Art 

of Collaboration” 

The pieces that these two artists have developed are, in every sense, true collaborations. 

Being able to put egos aside and give each other equal credit in a piece of artwork is not 

always easy, but they have developed a way to make it work by keeping a good sense of 

humor in their toolbox. Their demonstration will include some interesting techniques and 

tricks they have developed to make it easier for them to work as a team. Sponsored by 

Stock Yards Bank and Trust. 

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8 am - 9:30 am Glassworks Flameworking 

Marc VandenBerg, Demonstration: Flameworking – “The Breakfast Club” 

Hot Glass and tasty bacon will guide this sculptural lampworking demonstration. 

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8 am - 9:30 am U of L Cressman Center Hotshop 

Ché Rhodes, Demonstration: Hot Glass 

Watch Ché Rhodes create minimalist, sculptural forms from hot glass. The approach in 

making this work is usually very direct and often includes graal work, molded impressions, 

casting, and/or free-formed glass. Venue sponsor: Glenview Trust Company. Demo sponsor: 

Merrily Orsini and Rick Heath. 

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8 am - 9:30 am Glassworks/JazzyBlu 

John Groth, Lec-Mo: Kilnworking and Hot Glass – “Glass-Compatible Clay” 

An overview of the Compatible Clay discovery and how glass and clay can be used together 

in fused glass and roll-ups. 

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8:30 am - 10 am Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Carmen Vetter, Lec-Mo: Kilnforming – “Finding My Depth: Bas Relief with Frits & Powders” 

This presentation explores 3-D sculptural effects that can be achieved with frits and powders, 

and presents the artist’s viewpoint on finding a personal voice with the medium. 

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8:30 am - 10 am Flame Run Flameworking 

Paul Stankard, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Encasing Colored Glass Flowers in a Cube 

- The Basic Building Block for My Career” 

Flameworking colored glasses to be encased in clear glass. Sponsored by Glass Brokers. 

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8:30 am - 10 am Juicy Lucy Mobile Unit at Glassworks 

Student Demonstration: Hot Glass – Southern Illinois University Carbondale 

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8:30 am - 10 am Glassworks Hotshop 

Martie Negri and Robert Panepinto, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “A Thousand Flowers: 

Contemporary Millefiori Pulling Cane” 

This hot shop technique was developed to pull large complex millefiori canes. Each cane is 

composed of 100 or more pieces of sheet glass that have been shaped in a kiln and then 

wired together as a cold bundle. The canes contain as much as 20–30 pounds of glass that 

are organized to form a flower-like pattern. This contemporary millefiori is inspired by an ageold 

method of creating surface pattern with depth. The assembled cane will be picked up 

from an annealing kiln and heated until the liquid hot glass may be dropped from a ladder 

and pulled into a cane of various thicknesses. The finished cane will be 12-30 feet long, 

depending on the diameter. 

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9:45 am - 11:15 am Glassworks/JazzyBlu 

Ralph Carter, Lec-Mo: Casting – “Tips for Working with Plaster-Based Investments” 

For glass casters, this PowerPoint presentation will provide investing and burnout tips learned 

from the aerospace metal-casting industry. The presentation will last 30 minutes and then 

allow for about 30 minutes of dialogue for questions. Broad and basic tips will be given for 

working with plaster, such as physical properties of plaster, plaster/silica, and other plasterbased 

investments; thermal expansion curves of plaster and plaster-based investments; 

material transition points; the dependence of the investment’s physical properties on process 

variables such as water-to-powder ratio; mixing time and intensity; and vacuuming. 

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Brook Forrest White, Jr., Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Fusion: Putting the Parts Together” 

This hot shop demonstration will highlight blending and fusing several different influences 

and techniques to create a vessel grander than the sum of its parts. Sponsored by Marlene 

and David Grissom. 

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Steve Sizelove, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Working Beyond History” 

Using borosilicate glass, Steve Sizelove will blow a large-scale vessel that builds on forms 

recurring through antiquity. Though borrowing from the past, his interest in minimalist design 

and subtle color choice will create a definitively contemporary piece. 

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Boyd Sugiki, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Architectural Forms in Glass” 

During this demonstration, Boyd Sugiki will create a bottle form inspired by the Turkish skyline. 

Venue sponsor: Glenview Trust. 

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10:30 am - 12 pm Flame Run Flameworking 

Emilio Santini, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Goblet with Mythical Figure” 

Emilio Santini will create a mythical figure with soft glass — the body of a woman with a 

head of a scorpion. He will then assemble it together with the cup and the foot to obtain 

an artistic goblet. 

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10:30 am - 12 pm Juicy Lucy Mobile Unit at Glassworks 

Student Demonstration: Hot Glass – San Jose University 

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10:30 am - 12 pm Glassworks Hotshop 

Martin Janecky, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Inside Sculpting” 

This demonstration will focus on unique techniques and approaches to blown sculpting, 

emphasizing the freedom to explore both process and the material’s potential. 

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10:30 am - 12 pm Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Jeffrey Wallin, Lec-Mo: Kilnforming – “The Glass Canvas” 

Jeff Wallin’s painterly, figurative investigations are comprised of multiple layers of sheet glass 

fused with glass powders, manipulated and heated several times to achieve the desired result. 

After a brief slide show overview of previous work, Wallin will demonstrate how his initial 

“glass sketch” is achieved with a set of simple tools and a live portrait model volunteer. 

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2:15 pm - 2:50 pm Marriott Ballroom V & VI 

Tom Philabaum, Lifetime Membership Lecture – “Against All Odds” 

In the year the Glass Art Society was formed – 1970 – against all odds, Tom Philabaum 

moved with his new bride to Madison, WI, to be a part of the Studio Glass Movement, 

starring Harvey Littleton. What has happened in the ensuing 40 years is nothing short of a 

cultural revolution. Sponsored by “A couple of Tom’s many friends.” 

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3 pm - 3:45 pm Marriott Ballroom V & VI 

Mark Peiser, Lifetime Achievement Lecture – “Then I Had Another Idea...” 

Mark Peiser took a class at Penland School in 1967 and with its help established the first 

self-supporting shop of the Studio Glass Movement. His work, then and now, necessitated 

many “ingenious possibilities” in his pursuit of unique approaches and visions for glass, 

such as the Paperweight Vases, the Inner Space series, the Forms of Conscious-ness, the 

Cold Stream Cast Baskets, and, currently, the Palomar pieces. His talk will relate various 

probable and improbable experiences, thoughts, questions, and answers that informed 

and gave direction to his journey. 

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4 pm - 4:45 pm Marriott Ballroom V & VI 

Bill Samuels, Keynote Lecture 

Nothing says Kentucky like bourbon, and no one can welcome you to Louisville like Maker’s 

Mark Bourbon President and C.E.O., Bill Samuels. The c.v. of this two-time Kentucky 

Entrepreneur of the Year gives a sense of Samuels’ own special recipe: engineer, physicist, 

and lawyer; involved in the community; recipient of Louisville’s Citizen of the Year one year 

and of Harvard Lampoon’s Man of the Year the next. And he’s got stories to tell, like this 

one: “When Dad burned the family bourbon formula in 1954, it flamed out of control, 

catching my sister’s hair on fire...” Join Samuels at the keynote lecture for a smooth start to 

your weekend in Louisville. Sponsored by Dr. John and Bonnie Roth. 

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James Breed, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Transporting Ingenuity: Hot Sculpted Demonstration” 

Come watch young artists work as a team, choreographed by lead gaffer James A. Breed. 

They will blow, sculpt, and hot-assemble a vehicle. The demonstration will explore innovative 

techniques as well as traditional sculpting and bit work. 

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Mark Payton, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Flamework Sculpture Using Tubing” 

Mark Payton will blow a horse head or figure or free-sculpt a female figure from solid. 

Size will be determined by time frame. Sponsored by Judy and Bob Ayotte. 

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Shelley Muzylowski-Allen, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Hot Glass Sculpting: Get Set” 

Demonstrating hot sculpture with use of inside/outside sculpting techniques, HOT assembly 

from the garage, and, possibly, rocket technology: creating, merging, stacking, and 

combining forms to create something out of this world. Venue sponsor: Glenview Trust. 

Demo sponsor: “A couple of Shelley’s many friends.” 

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8 am - 9:30 am Glassworks/JazzyBlu 

Mark Hall, Lec-Mo: Kilnformed and Hot Glass – “Modifying the Roll-up; a Fresh Approach to 

Bring Kiln-Formed Glass to the Glory Hole” 

Transform compatible solid color patterns into kilnformed, thick-walled cylinders made to 

pick up warm glass and blown into shapes using the glory hole. Yes, we can blow glass 

without a crucible furnace! 

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Student Demonstration: Flameworking – Salem Community College 

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Student Demonstration: Hot Glass – Bowling Green State University 

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Amy Rueffert, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Decalomania” 

The combination of hot glass and commercially produced ceramic decals will be at the 

heart of this demonstration. 

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8:30 am - 10 am Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Robert Stephan, Lecture – “Coldworking Techniques, Tips, and Myths” 

This lecture will present a brief overview of typical coldworking techniques with illustrations 

in PowerPoint. Topics covered: Grinding and polishing by hand, various machines and 

equipment suitable for coldworking, various abrasives and their applications, and polishing 

materials and techniques. Surface design application, such as Batuto and chemical etching 

can be addressed if time permits. Also, surface preparation for bonding, along with some 

discussion regarding adhesive options. 

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Benjamin Edols, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Double Ender” 

Making a double-ended piece from the Husk series. 

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Eun-suh Choi, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Seemingly Simplistic Form, but Complex 

Interworking” 

In this presentation, Eun-suh Choi will show how to assemble multiple pieces into a cube 

that is structured internally by many, many individual glass rods in a complex arrangement, 

yet still composed within a perfect hexahedron. 

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Richard Jolley, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Thinking About the Figure” 

The core of Richard Jolley’s work is based on the human narrative. He will share construction 

techniques that he uses to complete his work. Venue sponsor: Glenview Trust. Demo sponsor: 

Merrily Orsini and Rick Heath. 

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Mike Shelbo, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Microwave Fused Borosilicate” 

Ancient Future History tells us that robots enjoyed many activities without the need for 

television or the reliance on pre-programmed television messages. Recently, scientists 

have announced that robots have discovered how to imagine and even, possibly, dream. 

To my surprise, I found that in the Ancient Future robotic beings had been programmed to 

investigate art – its creation and processes. Even more surprising was the coincidence that 

the robots seemed inspired by the same content that has encapsulated my thoughts for 

many years. So it is with this demonstration that I will do my best to re-enact that which 

takes place in our distant Ancient Future, where robots create goblins using microwave 

fusion of borosilicate glass and a torch flame mostly but not entirely fueled by ice cream. 

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Student Demonstration: Hot Glass – Rochester Institute of Technology 

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Scott Darlington, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Shining Light on Ideas Through the Lightbulb” 

An “aha!” moment causes a light bulb to turn on over your head. Scott Darlington will make 

a giant light bulb to celebrate Louisville as the first public-viewing place of Thomas Edison’s 

first commercially practical incandescent light. Edison is the epitome of American ingenuity 

and inventiveness. Darlington will use the encalmo technique to join a large, bulb-shaped 

bubble to a socket and include a surprise inside. Big ideas = big light bulb. 

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Vaz Zastera, Lec-Mo: Coldworking – “The Perfect Bonding of Art & Science” 

Optical contacting glass is a process that Vaz Zastera employs daily in his “day job,” and he 

has begun to incorporate this technique into his cold glass sculptures. This “black art” is centuries 

old, but it has not been utilized as a mainstream technique in the glass art world. Zastera 

discusses the history and processes of the technique and gives a detailed demonstration, 

optically contacting pieces of glass together. He will explain how to coldwork the glass so it can 

be optically contacted, and discuss possible applications of this technique for the glass artist. 

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1 pm - 2 pm Marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Peter Morrin, Strattman Lecture – “Finding a Place for Contemporary Glass” 

The recent flowering of craft theory has brought rigor to the discussion of all craft fields. In a 

wide-ranging discussion, Morrin will depart from this literature to explore how consideration 

of color, opticality, ornament, and craft processes, among other qualities and attributes, can 

be seen as key for an appreciation of contemporary glass, and its provocative importance in 

the broader realms of recent art. 

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1 pm - 2 pm Marriott Ballroom IV 

Max Stewart, Lecture – “When Light Congeals into Matter: The Alchemy of Making Colours” 

Max Stewart has been investigating the technical secrets of Amalric Walter, the French 

pâtes-de-verre artist (1870–1959). When Walter died, his secrets died with him. Stewart’s 

doctoral inquiry has unraveled the way in which Walter created color with metallic salts and 

applied it to his glass. Using a survey of Walter’s work, plus his own personal pâtes-de-verre 

works, Stewart presents his research, including the techniques that Walter used to create 

color in the kiln. Stewart shows how it can be adapted to suit the modern pâtes-de-verre 

studio artist, allowing a freedom to manipulate color in ways never considered achievable 

by the post-war Studio Glass Movement. 

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1 pm - 2 pm Marriott Ballroom V 

Richard Jolley, Lecture – “Surviving, Then Thriving While Trying Not to Be Compromising or 

How Did This Happen: 35 Years of Being Out of the Loop” 

The human condition, glass as a non-traditional material for sculpture, finding and defining 

a sense of place while standing on unstable ground, and the conundrum of “technique 

and does it enhance or encumber the creative process?”… Consider these topics through 

the prism of Richard Jolley’s mind; his thoughts on these topics have changed often since 

he started his studio in 1975. “There are few absolutes,” says Jolley, “other than to keep 

working, and to make what you believe in no matter what else happens, and to always sleep 

on the left side of the bed.” 

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1 pm - 2 pm Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Michael T. Bell, Lecture – “Health and Safety Aspects Within an Art Glass Studio” 

This informative lecture will highlight some of the potential stressors to health within the 

forming of art glassworks. It will focus on a few of the contaminants that can affect indoor 

air quality within a studio and describe the evaluative and engineering measures used to 

address them. 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Stephen Knapp, Lecture – “Glass is Not the Object” 

For Stephen Knapp, glass is not an object but a tool with which he can manipulate and 

control light. Formed at the intersection of paintings, sculpture, and architecture, his 

“lightpaintings” have been called the first new art form of the 21st century. 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Marriott Ballroom IV 

Andy Paiko, Lecture – “Thinking in Parts: The Engineered Glass Object” 

The discussion will involve an explanation and elaboration of Andy Paiko’s method of working, 

whereby many hot-sculpted and blown forms are fused cold, away from the furnace, with a 

variety of techniques, to form a cohesive and functional whole. Topics will include overall 

design, collage, hot and coldworking techniques, and an in-depth look at current installations/ 

pieces-in-progress. 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Marriott Ballroom V 

Corban Walker, Willson Lecture – “Scaling Perception Through a Glass Object” 

Corban Walker will address the significance of scale in art when creating glass sculpture. 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Kenneth von Roenn, Jr., Lecture – “Issues with Large-Scale Kiln Cast & Slumped Glass” 

The issues pertaining to the execution of architectural glass projects will be presented in 

lecture format accompanied with slides of projects. The discussion will examine specific 

concerns relating to the design, fabrication, administration, and installation of architectural 

glass projects. Specific examples of projects will be used to illustrate these issues. 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Marriott Bluegrass 1 & 2 

Fritz Dreisbach, Lecture – “Roots of the Glass Art Society” 

Fritz Dreisbach discusses (with slides) the “roots” of GAS: how, when, where, who, and why 

we started it. 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Lecture: Emerging Artists Presentations 

Cortney Boyd: Re-Collecting 

David Fox: Domestic Phenomena 

Jessica Lloyd-Jones: Energy Encapsulated 

Thomas Ryder: Interactive Ambiance 

Each year, the Glass Art Society selects emerging artists to present lectures at its annual 

conference. Educators and museum curators are asked to nominate individuals, and those 

nominees are then contacted and invited to submit applications. Selection is by a jury of 

professionals; John Drury, Elizabeth McClure, and Amy Morgan served on the 2010 jury. 

Juror comments can be found on the GAS website. 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Panel: How Many Skills Do You Need to Survive?, Richard Yelle, moderator, with Ruth King, 

Ruth Summers, Durk Valkema 

The world is going through uncertain times. Is it time to review how we educate glass artists 

and designers? Are there any lessons to be learned by taking a good look at the curricula 

used in industrial design education? The purpose of this panel is to discuss options 

available for glass programs in the future by taking into consideration today’s economic 

conditions, curricula which probably should be more encompassing, and lessons learned in 

real-life situations. 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Marriott Ballroom IV 

Panel: Artistic Vision in Industry, Design, and Manufacturing, Fred diFrenzi, moderator, with 

Ursula Vourvoulis, Jon Wolfe 

This visual presentation features three studio artists who have found sustainable careers 

working outside the studio environment by integrating their experiences, talents, and vision 

into the arena of commerce and industry. The panelists will share a collection of experiences 

encountered by creative professionals in a production environment. The discussion will 

illuminate the challenges, rewards, and important, specific issues unique to these artists’ 

situations. 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Marriott Ballroom V 

Panel: Glass Studio as Energy Source, Eddie Bernard, moderator, with Charles Correll, 

Jim Gosnell, Douglas Ohm 

This panel will discuss methods of reducing energy used by glass studios as well as methods 

of using waste heat and by-products for other processes. Some ideas include space heating, 

water heating, bio-diesel production, beer brewing, and exhaust condensation for water 

collection. 

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5 pm - 6:30 pm Flame Run Hotshop 

David Walters, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “A Marriage of the Blown Form and the Narrative” 

David Walters will demonstrate some of the bubble manipulating techniques he uses to 

sculpt the objects on which he paints. The forms he creates serve as both reference and 

canvas for the stories he illustrates on them. Sponsored by Profitable Glass Quarterly, 

Glass Patterns Quarterly, and The Flow magazines. 

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Michael Schunke, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Confessions of a Goblet Maker” 

Goblet Making: It’s What’s for Dinner…. Michael Schunke hopes to make a variety of goblets 

that show the importance of working quickly and with conviction. “He who hesitates is lost” 

– and this definitely applies to slapping together the stemware. Questions during the demo 

are more than welcome. 

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Roger Parramore, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Handling Large-Scale Glass Bubbles” 

This demonstration will focus in on the inherent difficulties of large-scale bubbles blown at 

the torch. Set-up, heating, and design considerations will all be covered through the creation 

of an incalmo vessel. 

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Lino Tagliapietra, Demonstration: Hot Glass 

Watch the maestro create! Lino Tagliapietra uses traditional Venetian glass blowing 

techniques to express his present-day design ethos. Observe the process and consider the 

inspiration as he makes the new work. 

ATTENTION: SPECIAL TICKETING FOR LINO’S DEMOS ONLY 

Numbered tickets for this event are available to conference attendees starting at 7 am on 

Saturday at the Cressman Center. Room capacity is limited by fire codes. You must stay in 

line to keep your place – anyone waiting past the maximum number of places will be alerted 

that they need to choose another demo. Once the first demo ends, the room will be cleared 

so the second group may enter. First group: 8-9:15 am; second group: 10-11:30 am. 

Venue sponsor: Glenview Trust. Demo sponsor: Sutherland Foundation. 

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Loren Stump, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Louisville Commemorative Paperweight” 

Vacuum-encased procedure with a Stumpsucker. Kentucky Derby thoroughbred and jockey 

with floral wreath. Sponsored by Glass Brokers. 

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Student Demonstration: Hot Glass – Sheridan College (Canada) 

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Casey Hyland, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “4,600 Rays of Light” 

Anything but pedestrian, art glass streetlamps are an attempt to shine a new light on the 

streetscape. Theses new streetlamps will serve as markers, totems, and signage. Whether 

benches or bike racks, the application of art on street furniture is an effort to create a 

unique civic experience. 

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8:30 am - 10 am Marriott Ballroom IX, X 

Benjamin Edols, Lec-Mo: Coldworking – “No Friends Madness” 

Using an air-driven angle grinder to rough-grind a large glass Leaf piece. 

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9:45 am - 11:15 am Glassworks/JazzyBlu 

Kenneth von Roenn, Jr., Lec-Mo: Kilncasting and Slumping – “Executing Large-Scale Kiln 

Cast and Slumped Glass” 

The considerations and issues relating to casting large sheets of glass will be discussed 

and illustrated with slides and samples in a studio location. Issues of temperature control, 

mold materials, mold-production techniques, kiln construction, digital controllers, and glassbending 

techniques will be discussed. Several craftspeople who work at Architectural Glass 

Art will make the presentation. 

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Matthew Cummings, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “The Handmade Mark” 

Matthew Cummings demonstrates the findings of his latest explorations into using glass as 

a medium for three-dimensional drawings, focusing on the figure as a gestural line in space. 

The form will be decorated with cane work inspired by hand-drawn markings. 

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David Willis, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Breaking It Down: Lampworking Botanicals” 

When fabricating elements from nature, David Willis deconstructs, constructs, and reconstructs. 

He breaks down what has become “the object,” and builds it back up. This will be 

a demonstration of some of the techniques and tools he uses for this process. 

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Lino Tagliapietra, Demonstration: Hot Glass 

Please see the information listed for Tagliapietra’s 8 am demonstration on page 21. 

Venue sponsor: Glenview Trust. Demo sponsor: Sutherland Foundation. 

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Kaori Koike, Demonstration: Flameworking – “Bit by Bit” 

Insight into the tedious process of flameworked glass construction sculptures. Hand-pulled 

cane will be assembled into three-dimensional live drawings and functional objects. 

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Student Demonstration: Hot Glass – Tulane University 

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Oben Abright and McKinley Moore, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “The Glass Portrait” 

A glass figure conveys fragility and communicates through light like no other medium. 

A desire to reveal more of the interior of a figure has led these two artists to pursue portraits 

utilizing the transparency of glass. 

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Rene Culler, Lec-Mo: Fusing – “Ingenious Imagery: Possibilities in Glass with Ceramic 

Materials” 

Ceramic materials may be used to create imagery within fused and blown glass, providing 

the artist with yet additional methods of making visual lyrical statements. This presentation 

will include an update on high-fire enamels for fused glass applications, as well as an 

overview of water-based mediums for enamels, ceramic lustres, ceramic on-glaze colors, 

crayons, and pencils, and products developed for the enamel-on-metal process. 

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1 pm - 2 pm Marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Chris Bird-Jones, Lecture – “The Worldwide Influence - Swansea Celebrates 75 Years of 

Architectural Glass Education” 

The Welsh School of Architectural Glass in Swansea, U.K., is unique in that it is the only 

purely architecture-based glass course in the world. Many of today’s leading practitioners 

have learned their design and craft skills at the School. This presentation will demonstrate 

the evolving influences through a richly illustrated introductory overview. 

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1 pm - 2 pm Marriott Ballroom IV 

Patrick Martin, Lecture – “Substitution of Variables” 

This presentation will focus on the influences on Patrick Martin’s art and his development as 

a sculptor. 

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1 pm - 2 pm Marriott Ballroom V 

Judith Schaechter, Lecture – “Beauty and the Beef” 

Judith Schaechter will discuss her current work in stained glass. 

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1 pm - 2 pm Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Arlon Bayliss, Lecture – “The Death of a Dodo, the End of an Era, or the Start of Something New?” 

200+ glassmakers protested the closing of the 226-year-old Waterford Crystal on 1/30/09. 

Companies organized under “Waterford Wedgewood” since 1986 recently filed for bankruptcy 

and have been sold to an undisclosed buyer: their futures are uncertain. Eerily co-incidental, 

the 156-year-old Blenko Glass announced on 1/30/09, that it was shutting down. This news 

threatened to mark the end of the road for factory handmade glass in the U.S. Like Fenton 

Glass, which announced its closing in 2007, the company restructured and re-opened with 

limited production. What impact have Waterford, Blenko, and similar companies had on glass 

art and artists in the 20th and 21st centuries? What does the decline of factory handmade 

glass mean to artists, designers, collectors, and the public? What are the causes of their 

struggle and demise? Most importantly, what can be learned from all this? 

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1 pm - 2:30 pm U of L Cressman Center Hotshop 

Stephen Rolfe Powell, Demonstration: Hot Glass – “Main Screaming” 

Stephen Rolfe Powell, with his trademark pointillistic, murrini-coated surfaces, will be using 

his very untraditional glass techniques to make one of his large-scale “screamer” pieces. 

Employing gravity and a bit of acrobatics, Powell and his team will create this asymmetrical 

crane-like form, working in a variety of positions, including upside down. Venue sponsor: 

Glenview Trust. Demo sponsor: Judy and Bob Ayotte. 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Stephen Tucker: Labino Lecture – “Glass Furnace Design - From Industry to the Studio” 

Stephen Tucker talks about adapting industrial furnace-building technology to the art-glass 

studio. Find out how artists can partner with industry to make it happen. 

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John Drury, Lecture – “Glass Outside: Works Including Glass by Untrained Artists” 

John Drury reminds us to be diligent in our search for and support of important works of art 

that use glass – art outside the commercial gallery system, art by the previously excluded 

“other,” the forgotten, and the possibly ignored. This lecture looks at non-traditional use of 

the material, through the eyes of the untrained artist, to acquire a broader picture of this 

versatile material’s power to inspire. 

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2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Tom Moore, Lecture – “More is More” 

Tom Moore presents an unusually engaging and theatrical slideshow. In 50 minutes, he 

will show 20 short films, view 223 slides, and undergo two costume changes to produce a 

strange and highly entertaining spectacle. This will be an explanation of his evolving artistic 

practice and his role as trainer and production glassblower at JamFactory Craft Centre in 

Adelaide, Australia. 

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2:30 pm - 4 pm Marriott Ballroom V 

Panel: Similar Passions/Different Approaches: The Collector’s Perspective, Ché Rhodes, 

moderator, with Scott Erbes, Adele and Leonard Leight, Julien Robson, Steve Wilson 

Avant-garde, traditional, eccentric, exemplary – All words that could be used to describe 

the collections of Adele and Leonard Leight, Steve Wilson, and Laura Lee Brown. With the 

support of a curatorial perspective provided by Julien Robson and Scott Erbes, this panel 

will investigate how these collectors, who live in the same community, have developed such 

dramatically different sensibilities and strategies pertaining to the collection of modern art. 

While the owners of these collections discuss how personal preferences have determined 

their collecting habits, the curators who are familiar with these collections will discuss 

how each one of these collected bodies of work is a tangible representation of individual 

personalities. 

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3 pm - 4 pm Marriott Bluegrass 1 & 2 

Lindsay Capps and Christina Ryan, Lecture – “Law & Glass: What Rights Do You Have?” 

A hands-on discussion of copyright law, contracts implicating artists’ rights, and the Visual 

Artists Rights Act. 

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Deborah Dohne, Lecture – “Deborah Dohne—The Creative Spark” 

Deborah Dohne presents her body of work and discusses the origination of ideas and the 

creative process. 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Marriott Ballroom I, II, III 

Panel: Sustaining a Studio: Hot Shop, Jeremy Lepisto, moderator, with Benjamin Edols, 

Lynn Read, Tommie Rush 

In response to the current economic state of the world and the everyday practical concerns 

of the professional artist, GAS has put together this Sustaining a Studio panel. This panel 

will focus on a few artists who own and operate their own hot glass studios. The aim of the 

panel is to touch on the practical similarities and differences between the studios that help 

each remain successful and (hopefully) solvent. 

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3:30 pm - 5 pm Marriott Ballroom IX & X 

Panel: Should the Term “Glass Artist” Be Abolished?, Andrew Page, moderator, with 

Jim Butler, Judith Schaechter, Walter Zimmerman 

Andrew Page, editor of GLASS Quarterly, leads a panel discussion on whether the term 

“glass artist” is a benefit or a burden for artists working in this medium. In what promises to 

be a lively discussion, artists Jim Butler, Judith Schaechter, and Walter Zimmerman reflect on 

their experiences of having their work labeled by what it’s made from rather than engaged 

with for its content. This discussion will cover issues of bias against certain materials for 

sculpture, hierarchies in the art world, and the responses of individual artists to these issues. 

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s p e c i a l c o n f e r e n c e e v e n t s 

See pp. 67-76 for maps and transportation information. 

Lino Tagliapietra Demonstrations at Centre College, Danville 

Tuesday, June 8, 8 am - 11 am & 12 pm - 3 pm: Open to the public 

Wednesday, June 9, 8:30 am - 11 am & 12 pm - 3 pm: GAS members only 

Thursday, June 10, 8:30 am - 11 am: Open to the public 

(12 pm - 3 pm: GAS Collectors Tour only) 

Friday, June 11, 8 am - 11 am: Open to the public 

Seating is first-come, first-served. Transportation is not provided. Demonstrations made 

possible, in part, by John Schiff and Neusole Glassworks. 

Tagliapietra is also giving two demonstrations on Saturday, June 12, at the U of L 

Cressman Center Hotshop as part of the conference. Venue sponsor: Glenview Trust. 

Demonstration sponsor: Sutherland Foundation. 

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21C Museum Hotel 

Speed Art Museum 

Glass Art Society’s Collectors Tour – SOLD OUT 

Wednesday, June 9 through Saturday, June 12 

Price/person: $1,250 (member), $1,350 (non-member) 

Minimum 20 people. Maximum 35. 

Tour Louisville’s most exclusive glass art locations, including private collections and artist 

studios. Enjoy an exclusive event at the Speed Art Museum. VIP Conference passes allow 

you to take part in specialized GAS Conference events geared toward glass collectors. 

Tour includes: 

• Private Collection Tour and receptions at Louisville’s most prominent private glass 

and fine art collections 

• A private demonstration by Lino Tagliapietra at Centre College 

• A special visit to Stephen Rolfe Powell’s home and studio 

• The Speed Art Museum’s pre-conference reception 

• Private artist-studio events, including a demonstration by Richard Jolley 

• Conference pass with special VIP seating for special events 

• Special luncheons and dinners at Louisville’s top restaurants 

• Private tours of the Three Chimney’s stallion farm (the home of Kentucky Derby winner 

Big Brown) and the Woodford Reserve Distillery 

• Museum and tour admissions 

• Ground transportation during the tour 

• Dinner on June 10 at Proof on Main. Lunches for June 10–12. Private cocktail 

receptions on June 9, 11, and 12. On June 12, there will be a special reception 

with participating artists immediately before the Auction. 

Tour events are subject to change. 

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The Day of Glass: Open to the Public, June 9 

Louisville Opens its Glass Doors to all on Wednesday, June 9, with a celebration of glass 

that spans the downtown and includes hot shops with demonstrations, a mobile hot 

shop in front of the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts, a special Louisville Ballet Youth 

Ensemble production to the sounds of a glass armonica, Louisville’s first public art display 

by Casey Hyland celebrating Thomas Edison’s famous incandescent light bulb at the 

Southern Exposition in 1883, and a lecture by Kyle Citrynell on intellectual property for 

the artist. 

A schedule appears on the Day of Glass flyer in your conference bag. The Day of Glass 

is sponsored by Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass and Schott North America, Inc. 

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Pre-Conference Reception: 

Courtesy of Saint-Gobain SEFPRO/Corhart Refractories 


Wednesday, June 9, 6 pm - 9:30 pm 

Cost: $150. Maximum capacity: 300. 

Established in 1927, the Speed Art Museum is Kentucky’s oldest and largest art museum. 

Its 13,000-piece permanent collection spans 6,000 years, ranging from ancient Egyptian 

to contemporary art. During the 2010 GAS Conference and beyond, a special exhibition of 

studio glass will be featured. 

Enjoy a beautiful dinner with a Kentucky flair, a hosted bar, and, of course, the museum 

itself. The Pre-Conference Reception is a fundraiser that supports low conference registration 

fees for student members of GAS. You must be registered in advance in order to attend. 

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Opening Ceremony, Awards, Reception, 

and Keynote Speaker Bill Samuels 

Marriott Ballroom V & VI 

Thursday, June 10, 1:30 pm - 4:45 pm 

followed by the Opening Reception 5 pm - 7 pm 

Join GAS when we welcome participants and pay tribute to 

our Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Mark Peiser and our 

Lifetime Membership honoree Tom Philabaum. Following their Bill Samuels 

lectures, keynote speaker Bill Samuels, president of Maker’s 

Mark Bourbon, takes the podium. Meet up with old friends and make new ones. Enjoy 

music, light hors d’oeuvres, and cash-bar. Lecture sponsored by Dr. John and Bonnie Roth. 

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Posters Project Exhibit 

Marriott Thoroughbred/Filly 

Set Up: Friday, June 11, 9 am - noon 

Friday, June 11, noon - 5 pm; Saturday, June 12, 9 am - 4 pm 

This is a new event for GAS. Faculty and students display informational poster presentations 

describing the highlights of their recent research findings. 

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Scenes from the 

2009 Annual Goblet Grab 

16th Annual Goblet Grab 

Marriott Foyer outside Ballroom 

Friday, June 11, noon – 1:30 pm (begins promptly at noon) 

The Goblet Grab is a fundraiser for the Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF), which offers 

aid to GAS artist members in times of need. The fast-paced, spontaneous Goblet Grab is 

an event full of excitement and fun! 

Donors: It is not too late to contribute a drinking glass to the Goblet Grab. Price a 

goblet, mug, tumbler, or some kind of drinking glass that you have created at $50, $100, 

$150, or $200. Drop it off at the Goblet Grab receiving and preview area at: Marriott 

Rose, Wednesday, June 9, noon - 5 pm; Thursday, June 10, 9 am - noon; Friday, June 11, 

9 - 10:30 am. GAS promises to handle your piece with the utmost respect and care, and 

to update you on the status and sale of your donations, but we are not responsible for 

breakage, theft, or loss. If your Goblet Grab donation does not sell, GAS will keep it to 

place in the next fundraiser or event to benefit GAS. 

Buyers: All purchases are final and must be paid for and removed from the premises 

immediately after the Goblet Grab. Professional packers and shippers will be onsite 

after the Auction on Saturday evening. Items that are not removed will be shipped at the 

purchaser’s expense. No exchanges or refunds are allowed. GAS assumes no responsibility 

for the shipping of purchases or for those items not picked up immediately after Goblet 

Grab. Once you have made arrangements with a shipping vendor, GAS cannot, by shipping 

regulations, intervene on your behalf with the shipper. You must resolve any concerns 

regarding artwork damaged or lost during shipping by contacting the shipping vendor 

directly. 

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Artist Portfolio Review 

Marriott Skybox 

Friday, June 11, 1 pm - 3 pm 

Gallery owners, curators, educators, and artists review portfolios. Sign-ups for these 10- to 

15-minute reviews have already taken place online. You may check at Registration to see if 

there are any available slots. 

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Education Resource Center 

Marriott Rose Foyer 

Friday, June 11, 1 pm - 5 pm; Saturday, June 12, 1 pm - 5 pm 

Students and those interested in continuing their pursuit of glass education are invited to 

visit the Education Resource Center, where they’ll find materials and information provided 

by universities, colleges, public-access studios, summer programs, studios, etc. Some 

schools may have a representative present to answer questions during the conference. 

Educators: Please drop off your handouts in the Marriott Rose Foyer by Friday at noon. 

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International Student Exhibition and Sales 

Marriott Win-Place-Show 

Friday, June 11, 4 pm - 8 pm; Saturday, June 12, 9 am - 2 pm 

The International Student Exhibition features work by Glass Art Society members who are 

currently enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program. Awards are given 

at the Closing Night Party at 9:30 pm. This year, 13 companies have donated more than 

$5,000 in awards. The first-prize winner will receive a $1,000 cash award from the 

Corning Museum of Glass. All award winners will be acknowledged in the Glass Art Society 

2010 Journal. 

We encourage sales at this event. Artists will receive 80%. (Cash or check made 

directly to GAS are preferable; Visa/MasterCard are also accepted.) Buyers must make 

their own arrangements for shipping work. Payments must be received by Saturday, 

June 12, at 4 pm. 

Students: Please deliver your work to Win-Place-Show on Wednesday, June 9, noon - 

5 pm, or Thursday, June 10, 9 am - noon. Clear installation instructions must accompany 

each work. No work will be hung on the walls or from the ceiling. Please ensure that your 

work is delivered in reusable packaging. Neither GAS nor the Marriott are responsible for 

theft or damage to artwork. All unsold artwork must be picked up on Saturday, June 12, 

between 2 pm and 4 pm at Win-Place-Show. Pieces left after 4 pm, June 12, will become 

the property of GAS. 

Sponsored by Adele & Leonard Leight, EON-US, and PNC Bank. 

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Gallery Hop 

Downtown Louisville and surrounding areas 

Friday, June 11, 5 pm - 9 pm 

Downtown Louisville, Southern Indiana, Mellwood Art Center, Frankfort Avenue, and South 

of Broadway – all are open for the Gallery Hop. Catch a GAS shuttle (see page 69) or ride 

the trolley or traverse by foot the East, Central, and West sections of Market and Main 

Streets during the Gallery Hop. In acknowledgement of the GAS conference and Louisville’s 

burgeoning glass scene, many of the area’s galleries will host exhibitions that feature glass 

art or have glass as a theme (See page 35.) Check out the beautiful Waterfront Park at 

night and be sure to take note of the plentiful diverse architectural features showcased by 

the downtown streetscape. Of particular interest is the area’s record number of cast-iron 

building facades. Don’t forget to stop for food, drink, and a little nightlife or music along 

the way. Finish off the evening at the Louisville Glassworks Black Out Bash rooftop party! 

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Glassworks 

Black Out Bash 


Friday, June 11, 9 pm - 2 am 

Cost: $10. A ticketed event 

through Glassworks. 

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of 

the Glass Art Society conference. 

Glassworks will turn the lights out 

and let the libations flow heavily 

through this multi-level Black Out 

Bash. This event features live jazz music in the basement nightclub, JazzyBlu; deejays, disco 

balls, and hot glass performances in the Hyland Glass/Glassworks Hot Shop; Kentucky 

beer & bourbon tastings on the first floor; the premiere screening of the Glass Performance 

Film Festival (curated by Rik Allen, Kim Harty, and Andrew Page) on the second floor; 

and live music rockin’ on the rooftop of Glassworks. This event costs $10 at the door and 

includes a complimentary Kentucky bourbon and beer tasting as well as access to all levels 

of entertainment. Come ready to Black Out in your most fashionable black attire for a 

discounted entry of $7. 

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GAS Annual Business Meeting & 2011 Preview 

Marriott Rose Room 

Saturday, June 12, 12 pm - 1 pm 

• Raffle: a chance to win a free conference pass for the 2011 conference. 

Must be present at entire meeting to win. 

• Introduction of 2010 Board of Directors and Student Representative 

• The state of GAS report 

• Quorum on articles of incorporation and bylaw revisions 

• Questions, comments, and concerns from membership 

• Preview of 2011 conference 

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School Presentations Forum 

Degree Programs - Marriott Skybox 

Non-Degree Programs - Marriott Rose Foyer 

Saturday, June 12, 2 pm - 4 pm 

GAS provides space for degree-granting organizations and non-degree organizations to 

give presentations about their programs. Like at a college recruitment event or job fair, 

potential students can walk around, hear presentations of interest to them, and ask 

questions. Degree programs will be in the Skybox Room: Ball State Univ., Bowling Green 

State Univ., Hocking College, Ohio State Univ., Salem Community College, San Jose State 

Univ., Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale, Tulane Univ., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Univ. 

of Wisconsin at Stevens Pt, VICARTE, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Virginia Commonwealth 

Univ. Non-degree programs will be in the Education Resource Center area: The Glass 

Furnace, JamFactory, O-AT-KA School of Glass, Penland School of Crafts, Pittsburgh Glass 

Center, Snow Farm, New England Craft School, UrbanGlass. As of May 5, 2010. 

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See pp. 69-75 for maps and directions to conference venues. 

GAS Auction 

Marriott Ballroom VI 

Live and Silent Auctions Previews: 

Friday, June 11, 4 - 8 pm and Saturday, June 12, 9 am - 6 pm 

Silent Auction: first tables close Saturday, June 12, at 5:15 pm 

Live Auction: Saturday, June 12, 6 - 7 pm 

The GAS Auction has become one of the highlights of the annual conference. Donations – 

and purchases – help subsidize low student conference fees and keep all registration fees 

affordable. The Live Auction features 25 pieces created by the 2010 Louisville Conference 

presenters and GAS Board members, plus five surprise pieces donated by other member 

artists. There is also a Silent Auction component – bid during preview times; the first silent 

auction tables close for bidding at 5:15 pm. 

This year, donating artists have the choice to give 100% to GAS, or to receive 10%, 

25%, or 40% of the selling price. Auction items are on exhibit throughout the conference 

and are acknowledged in the 2010 Glass Art Society Journal. 

Donors: Please drop off your work at Marriott Ballroom VII, on Wednesday, June 9, 

noon - 5 pm; Thursday, June 10, 9 am - noon; or Friday, June 11, 9 am - noon. 

Buyers: Professional packers and shippers will be on site after the auction on 

Saturday evening. All purchases are final and must be paid for and removed from the 

premises at the end of the auction. Items that are not removed will be shipped at the 

purchaser’s expense. No exchanges or refunds are allowed. GAS assumes no responsibility 

for the shipping of purchases or for those items not picked up immediately after the 

Auction. Once you have made arrangements with a shipping vendor, GAS cannot, by 

shipping regulations, intervene on your behalf with the shipper. You must resolve any 

concerns regarding artwork damaged or lost during shipping by contacting the shipping 

vendor directly. 

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Closing Night Party 

Muhammad Ali Center 

Saturday, June 12 

8 pm - Midnight 

Complimentary for those with 

full-conference passes 

Located five blocks from the 

Marriott Louisville Downtown Hotel, 

the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) 

is truly a special place and will 

be a treat for all GAS partygoers. 

Join your friends here after the GAS Auction. Louisville is the birthplace of Muhammad Ali. 

This $41 million cultural center features exhibitions regarding Ali’s core values of respect, 

confidence, conviction, dedication, charity, and spirituality. MAC presents Ali’s life from 

birth to the present; exhibits include his boxing memorabilia and a mock-boxing ring based 

on his Deer Lake Training Camp. During this private Closing Night Party, GAS participants 

are free to roam the museum and discover the many wonders the museum has to offer. 

Light food and cash bar. Food and drink are not allowed in exhibit areas. 

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t e c h n i c a l d i s p l ay e x h i b i t o r s 

Numbers by company names refer to the map below. 

Loading Dock Access 

Loading Dock Access 

56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 

56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 

60 

60 

Entrance Entrance Entrance 

T-7 EntranceT-6 T-5 T-4 Entrance T-3 T-2 T-1 Entrance 

T-7 T-6 T-5 T-4 T-3 T-2 T-1 

International Student Exhibition 

show pLAcE 

International Student Exhibition 

win 

show pLAcE win 

Exhibitors listed by booth number: 

11 & 12. Olympic Color Rods 

13. Palmer Tools 

14. Jackson County Green Energy Park 

15. Aim Manufacturing 

16. Master of Glass Art & Science 

17. Origin Glass (Elan Technology) 

18. Weaver Industries, Inc. 

19. Correll Glass Studio 

20. Spruce Pine Batch, Inc 

21 & 38. Artist’s Reliable Tool Company 

(ARTCO) 

22. International Society of Glass 

Beadmakers (ISGB) 

23 & 24. Spiral Arts/Carlo Donà 

25 & 26. Steinert Industries, Inc. 

27 & 28. His Glassworks, Inc. 

29. Ohm Equipment, LLC 

30. Emhart Glass Inc. 

31 & 32. Wale Apparatus Co. 

33. Jim Moore Tools for Glass 

34. UrbanGlass 

35. Euclid Kilns 

36. System 96® 

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37. ABR Imagery 

39. Hub Consolidated Inc. 

40. The Studio of The Corning 

Museum of Glass 

41. Red Hot Metal Inc. 

42. Neusole Glassworks 

43. National Torch 

44. East Bay Batch + Color 

45 & 46. Glastar Corporation 

47. Pittsburgh Glass Center 

48. Wet Dog Glass, LLC 

49. Uroboros Glass 

50. Pacific ArtGlass 

51. Electroglass® 

52. Bullseye Glass Co. 

53. SCHOTT North America, Inc. 

54. Hot Glass Color 

55. Paragon Industries, LP 

56. Glasscraft, Inc. 

57. Sweetwater Glass 

58. R&R® Glass-Cast TM 

59. Denver Glass Machinery 

60. Gaffer Glass USA LTD 


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Numbers by company names refer to map on pg. 31 

Exhibitors listed alphabetically: 

ABR Imagery #37 

Ross Thackery 

3808 W Vernal Pike 

Bloomington, IN 47404 

T: 812-339-0147; F: 812-339-8947 

Rossglass@ABRImagery.com 

ABRImagery.com 

Aim Manufacturing #15 

Grady Gannam 

2516 Business Parkway Suite E 

Minden, NV 89423 

T: 775-267-2607; F: 775-267-2002 

aimkilns@yahoo.com 

Aimkilns.com 

Artist’s Reliable Tool Company 

(ARTCO) #21 & 38 

Malcolm Spann 

348 N 15th Street 

San Jose, CA 95112 

T: 408-288-7978; F: 408-288-7832 

sales@artcoinc.com 

artcoinc.com 

Bullseye Glass Co. #52 

Jim Jones, Director of Sales 

3610 SE 21 Avenue 

Portland, OR 97202 

T: 503-232-8887; F: 503-238-9963 

sales@bullseyeglass.com 

bullseyeglass.com 

Correll Glass Studio #19 

Charlie Correll 

66 Hidden Ledge Dr 

Conway, MA 01341 

T: 413-369-4283 

ccorrell@comcast.net 

correllglassstudio.com 

Denver Glass Machinery #59 

Holly Morrison 

2800 S Shoshone St 

Englewood, CO 80110 

T: 303-781-0980; F: 303-781-9067 

info@denverglass.com 

denverglass.com 

East Bay Batch + Color #44 

James Meyer 

169 S First St. 

Richmond, CA 94804 

T: 510-233-0708 

ebbatch@aol.com 

eastbaycolor.com 

Electroglass ® #51 

Steve Sinotte 

P.O. Box 908 

Portage, MI 49081 

T: 269-668-2855; F: 269-668-7778 

info@electroglass.com 

electroglass.com 

Emhart Glass Inc. #30 

Roger Smith 

405 E Peach St, PO Box 580 

Owensville, MO 65066 

T: 573-437-2132; F: 573-437-3146 

roger.smith@emhartglass.com 

emhartglass.com 

Euclid Kilns #35 

Geoff Farrow 

1120 Speers rd 

Oakville, ON, L6L 2X4 

Canada 

T: 1-800-296-5456; F: 905-849-0001 

gfarrow@euclids.com 

euclids.com 

Gaffer Glass USA LTD #60 

Hallynd Hall 

19622 70th Ave S Bay #4 

Kent, WA 98032 

T: 253-395-3361; F: 253-395-3363 

manager@gafferglassusa.com 

gafferglassusa.com 

Glasscraft, Inc. #56 

David Winship 

3844 Janisse St 

Eugene, OR 97402 

T: 541-684-6807; F: 541-684-6808 

davew@winshipdesigns.com 

glasscraftinc.com 

Glastar Corporation #45 & 46 

Lori Mitchell 

20721 Marilla Street 

Chatsworth, CA 91311 

T: 818 341-0301; F: 818 998-2078 

Info@glastar.com 

glastar.com 

His Glassworks, Inc. #27 & 28 

Robert Stephan 

91 Webb Cove Rd 

Asheville, NC 28804 

T: 828-254-2559; F: 828-254-2581 

info@hisglassworks.com 

hisglassworks.com 

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Hot Glass Color & Supply #54 

Cyrena Stefano 

2227 5th Ave 

Seattle, WA 98121 

T: 206-448-1199; F: 206-448-0464 

cyrena@hotglasscolor.com 

hotglasscolor.com 

Hub Consolidated Inc. #39 

John Chiles 

690 RT 73 

Orwell, VT 05760 

T: 802-948-2209; F: 802-948-2215 

john @hubglass.com 

hubglass.com 

International Society of 

Glass Beadmakers (ISGB) #22 

Sarah Riggle / Terry Hale 

85 E. Gay St. Suite 707 

Columbus, OH 43215 

T: 614-222-2243; F: 614-222-2427 

membership@isgb.org 

isgb.org 

Jackson County 

Green Energy Park #14 

Carrie Blaskowski 

401 Grindstaff Cove Rd 

Sylva, NC 28779 

T: 828-631-0271; F: 828-631-0271 

info@jcgep.org 

jcgep.org 

Jim Moore Tools for Glass #33 

Jim & Liz Moore 

PO Box 1151 

Port Townsend, WA 98368 

T: 360-379-2936; F: 360-379-2936 

toolsforglass.com 

Master of Glass Art & Science #16 

Robert Wiley 

Universidade Nova De Lisboa 

Campus de Caparica 

Caparica 2829-516, Portugal 

T: 011 351 911 960 490; 

F: 011 351 212 948 322 

wileyart@yahoo.com 

vicarte.org 

National Torch #43 

Craig Hamernik 

3061 103rd Ln NE Ste 200 

Blaine, MN 55449 

T: 763-786-4020; F: 763-786-5424 

c.hamernik@premierind.us 

nationaltorch.com 

Neusole Glassworks #42 

Debbie Bradley 

656 East McMillan 

Cincinnati, OH 45206 

T: 513-751-3292; F: 513-751-1593 

info@neusoleglassworks.com 

neusoleglassworks.com 

Ohm Equipment, LLC #29 

Doug Ohm 

PO Box 538 

Millville, NJ 08332 

T: 856-765-0808; F: 856-765-3011 

info@ohmequipment.com 

ohmequipment.com 

Olympic Color Rods #11 & 12 

Mark Hood 

818 John St 


T: 800-445-7742; F: 206-343-2292 

mark@glasscolor.com 

glasscolor.com 

Origin Glass (Elan Technology) #17 

Claudia Hernandez Tablas 

169 Elan Ct 

Midway, GA 31320 

T: 912-880-3066; F: 912-880-3000 

claudia@elantechnology.com 

originglass.com 

Pacific ArtGlass #50 

John Williams 

125 W 157th St 

Gardena, CA 90248 

T: 310-516-7828 

john@pacificartglass.com 

pacificartglass.com 

Palmer Tools #13 

Steve Palmer 

10506 Crestridge Dr. 

Minnetonka, MN 55305 

T: 952-546-6025 

starglassworks@comcast.net 

palmertools.com 

Paragon Industries, LP #55 

John Hohenshelt / Arnold Howard 

2011 S. Town East Blvd 

Mesquite, TX 75149 

T: 1-800-876-4328; F: 972-222-0646 

info@paragonweb.com 

paragonweb.com 

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Numbers by company names refer to map on pg. 31 

Pittsburgh Glass Center #47 

Heather McElwee 

5472 Penn Avenue 

Pittsburgh, PA 15206 

T: 412-365-2145; F: 412-365-2140 

heather@pittsburghglasscenter.org 

pittsburghglasscenter.org 

R&R ® Glass-Cast TM #58 

Daniel Nixon 

3535 Briarfield Blvd 

Maumee, OH 43537 

T: 419-865-9497; F: 419-865-9997 

dan.nixon@dentsply.com 

glass-cast.com 

Red Hot Metal Inc. #41 

Jeff Lindsay 

24 Bellarmine Ct Suite 1 

Chico, CA 95928 

T: 530-342-1970; F: 530-342-0771 

info@redhotmetal.net 

redhotmetal.net 

SCHOTT North America, Inc. #53 

Marlene Deily 

400 York Avenue 

Duryea, PA 18642 

T: 570-457-7485 x485; F: 570-457-6960 

marlene.deily@us.schott.com 

us.schott.com 

Spiral Arts / Carlo Donà #23 & 24 

Fred Metz / Linda Berlage-Metz 

2940 Westlake Ave N Suite 100 


T: 206-768-9765; F: 206-768-9766 

orders@spiralarts.com 

spiralarts.com 

Spruce Pine Batch, Inc. #20 

Brenda Wilson / Tom Littleton 

PO Box 159 

Spruce Pine, NC 28777 

T: 828-765-9876; F: 828-765-9888 

spbatch@yahoo.com 

sprucepinebatch.com 

Steinert Industries, Inc. #25 & 26 

John J. Steinert 

1507 Franklin Ave 

Kent, OH 44240 

T: 330-678-0028; F: 330-678-8238 

glasstools@steinertindustries.com 

steinertindustries.com 

Sweetwater Glass #57 

Art Reed 

6411 Fall Clove Road 

DeLancey, NY 13752 

T: 845-676-4622 

artlindareed@catskill.net 

sweetwaterglass.com 

System 96 ® #36 

Randy Gray 

PO Box 464 

Woodinville, WA 98072 

T: 800-426-3120; F: 425-483-9007 

hotglass@system96.com 

system96.com 

The Studio of The Corning 

Museum of Glass #40 

Amy Schwartz 

One Museum Way 

Corning, NY 14830 

T: 607-974-6467; F: 607-974-6370 

thestudio@cmog.org 

Cmog.org 

UrbanGlass #34 

Dawn Bennett 

647 Fulton Street 

Brooklyn, NY 11217 

T: 718-625-3685; F: 718-625-3889 

info@urbanglass.org 

urbanglass.org 

Uroboros Glass #49 

Eric Lovell 

2139 N. Kerby Ave 

Portland,OR 97227 

T: 503-284-4900; F: 503-284-7584 

eric@uroboros.com 

uroboros.com 

Wale Apparatus Co. #31 & 32 

Dan Brucker 

400 Front St 

Hellertown, PA 18055 

T: 610-838-7047; F: 610-838-7440 

waleapparatus.com 

Weaver Industries, Inc. #18 

Leon Good 

PO Box 326 - 425 South 4th Street 

Denver, PA 17517 

T: 717-336-7507; F: 717-336-4182 

glasstools@weaverind.com 

weaverind.com 

Wet Dog Glass, LLC #48 

100 C Russell Dr 

Star, NC 27356 

T: 910-428-4111; F: 910-428-4123 

hotstuff@wetdogglass.com 

wetdogglass.com 

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a r o u n d t h e c o n f e r e n c e 

Gallery Hop 

June 11, 2010, 5 pm - 9 pm 

Venues are listed geographically for easy use during the Hop. 

The following downtown galleries have glass art shows running during the GAS conference. 

Louisville’s trolleys circulate through the downtown loop from Glassworks to Flame Run, with 

a stop at Cressman Center in between. Conference shuttles from the Marriott Hotel make a 

similar loop. Conference shuttles from the Marriott Hotel also travel to New Albany, Frankfort 

Avenue, and Mellwood Art Center. (Shuttle information on page 69; maps on pages 74-76.) 

KY Museum of Art and Craft 

715 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202 

www.kentuckyarts.org 

Mark Peiser: A Life with Glass – A miniretrospective 

exhibit, drawn from Mark Peiser’s 

personal collection, private collections, and 

his most recent body of work. Peiser has been 

investigating the expressive implications of 

glass properties and processes since 1967, 

creating distinctive bodies of work. 

Tom Philabaum - Glass Pioneer – Tom Philabaum is an icon in the contemporary glass art 

world as the creator of the ever-popular Reptilian Series. He spearheads his Tucson studio 

of blown glass (opened in 1982) with sculptural and site-specific art, using a broad array of 

techniques, including kilncasting, fusing, and slumping. He is the recipient of the GAS 2010 

Honorary Lifetime Membership Award. 

Glass Jewelry: An International Passion – An international invitational exhibition featuring 

blown, flameworked, cast, fabricated, and appropriated glass by Sydney Cash, Dan Clayman, 

Joyce Roessler, Michaela Maria, Linda McNeil, James Minson, Richard Meitner, Amy Rueffert, 

Kathleen Elliot, Rob Snyder, Karen Wilenbrink-Johnson, Sari Liimatta, Don Friedlich, Simsa 

Cho, Giselle Courtney, and Laura Donefer. 

21c Museum Hotel 


www.21cmuseum.org 

Wheel of Fortune – Anne Peabody’s site-specific installation Wheel of Fortune consists 

of a monumental funnel cloud constructed of silvered glass and gilt wooden figurines. 

It is a physical record of the tornado that leveled much of Louisville on April 3, 1974. 

Mink coats and candelabras mingle in the sky as equals with cigarette butts and broken 

bits of glass. 

Louisville Science Center 


www.louisvillescience.org 

Fractured Physics – Created by Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, this high-impact 

science show demonstrates the amazing properties of glass, including how glass is made, 

what makes it strong, and how it is adapted for car windshields, airplane glass, fiber-optic 

communications, and more. Brace yourself for an action-packed show that includes standing 

on light bulbs, meeting real scientists involved in cutting-edge glass research, and more! 

Accompanying the show is a series of hands-on activities. Sponsored locally by PPG 

Industries Foundation and PPG Porter Paints. 

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Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory 

800 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202, www.sluggermuseum.com 

Beyond Broken Windows: Baseball in Glass – Don’t miss this double play by two old 

glass-blowing buddies who want to take you out to the ballgame. John Miller’s outrageously 

large versions of ballpark food include french fries you could swat a home run with. Scott 

Darlington’s playful takes on the iconic elements of America’s pastime offer a fresh, fun 

perspective on the sport. 

PYRO Gallery 

624 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202, www.pyrogallery.com 

Concerns about Cognition – An exhibition of figurative abstractions that externalize and 

visualize internal affairs. Artists: Matthew Cummings and Pike Powers. Curators: Chapman/ 

Friedman Gallery. 

Element 14 – Three local glass artists, Laura Mentor, Fred diFrenzi, and Mary Dennis 

Kannapell, explore dimensions of glass in images, surface techniques, and sculptural forms. 


815 W. Market St., Louisville, KY 40202, www.louisvilleglassworks.com 

Melting the Cultural Fringe: An Exploration in Glass of Contemporary (Sub)Culture – 

From graffiti to hot rods, urban subculture will be examined through glass objects and 

installations at Glassworks’ VONFIRE Gallery. Artists include John Miller, Nanda Soderberg, 

Leo Tecosky, Jamie Randall, Amy Pender and Devyn Baron, Jon Capps, Joe Stanaway, Einar 

and Jamex de la Torre, Carrie Battista, Slinger, Matt Eskuche, and Slate Grove (curator). 

Regeneration: A Tribute to Growth – This exhibition honors the varied styles and unique 

creativity of featured Glassworks Gallery artists, including Amy Pender, Casey Hyland, Chad 

Balster, Chris Chappell, Devin French, Elizabeth Johnson, Jonathan Swanz, Jen Walters, 

Mark Payton, Paul Stone, and Sydney Cash. 

Sneakers and I-beams: Illuminations – Glassworks Hotshop’s lighting installation features 

current works of Deborah Czeresko. All works will be made at Glassworks. 

The Gallery at Actor’s Theatre 

316 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202, www.actorstheatre.org/visit_gallery.htm 

Giggle – Life is serious; glass doesn’t have to be – A collection of artists making work 

with a sense of humor. Devyn Baron, Carrie Battista, Johnny Gordon, J.W. May, Amanda 

Patenaude, Amy Pender, Amy Ritter, Dorie Guthrie, and others… 

Bishop’s Hall, Christ Church Cathedral 

421 South 2nd Street, Louisville, KY 40202, www.christchurchlouky.org 

Stained Glass Designs from the Archives of Blum Ornamental Glass Company – 

Precisely drawn designs from the company’s archives. Included are religious themes, 

as well as decorative designs in Beaux-Arts, Art Nouveau, and Modern formats. 

University of Louisville’s Cressman Center 

100 E. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202 

http://louisville.edu/a-s/finearts/cressman_center.html 

Intersection: Work from the Sutherland Artists-in-Residence Series – This exhibition 

showcases the work of a number of former Sutherland artists-in-residence, including Kana 

Tanaka, Einar de la Torre, Jamex de la Torre, Daisuke Shintani, Atsuko Tajima, Densaburo 

Oku, Jon Clark, Therman Statom, Shane Fero, Nancy Callan, Jessica Julius, Erica Rosenfeld, 

Richard Jolley, John Miller, and Ed Hamilton. 

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University of Louisville’s Rouge Noir Gallery 

333 E. Market St., Louisville, KY 40202, http://louisville.edu/a-s/finearts/SAL.html 

Hot Talent: Recent Students and Alumni of the Hite Art Institute Glass Program – 

Current students and recent alumni of Hite Art Institute’s glass program. 

Swanson Reed Contemporary & Zephyr Gallery 

638 & 610 E. Market St., Louisville, KY 40202 

www.swansonreedgallery.com, www.zephyrgallery.org 

Glass Uprising – This show at two galleries features glass art that pushes the boundaries 

and explores possibilities. Works by Oben Abright, Alex Bernstein, Christina Bothwell, Nancy 

Callan, Nicole Chesney, Deanna Clayton, Keith Clayton, Stephen Paul Day, Susan Taylor 

Glasgow, Jeremy Lepisto, Lucy Lyon, Sibylle Peretti, Pike Powers, Preston Singletary, Ethan 

Stern, C. Matthew Szosz, Timothy Tate, and Michael Taylor. Exhibition advised and assisted 

by Leonard and Adele Leight. 

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640 E. Market Street, Louisville, KY 40202 

Love N’ Kentucky – Amy Ritter and Doreen Garner’s works for this show speak about the 

sexual tension that exists between the glass artist and their relationship to the material. 

The combination of three-dimensional and two-dimensional glass will explore the sexual 

qualities that reside within the process of glass making. 

Paul Paletti Gallery 

713 E. Market St., Louisville, KY 40202, www.paulpalettigallery.com 

Wet Plate – Collodion prints by Paul Taylor and ambrotypes and tintypes by Bill Schwab. 

The ambrotype process is a photographic process that creates a positive photographic 

image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion process. 

The Green Building Gallery 

732 E. Market St., Louisville, KY 40202, www.thegreenbuilding.net/gallery 

complacent [kuhm-pley-suhnt] – Matthew Eskuche and McKinley Moore use glass and 

other mixed media to serve as a commentary on the overwhelming consumerist complacency 

of the American people and the general sense of apathy towards what is going on in the 

world around them. 

Scout 

742 E. Market St., Louisville, KY 40206, www.scoutonmarket.com 

New Works by Brook Forrest White, Jr. – Who says fine art has to match your sofa? 

Sculptural and blown-glass vessels worked into your everyday living environment. 

Jonathan Capps Studio 

808 E. Market St., Louisville, KY 40206 

New Works by Jonathan Capps – An informal open studio of glass artist Jonathan Capps, 

where work and works-in-progress can be viewed. 

Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery 

828 E. Market St., Louisville, KY 40206, www.flamerun.com 

Benjamin Edols & Kathy Elliott – Works by these Australian artists in the main gallery 

include signature blown and cold-worked vessels and sculptures. 

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Centre College & Friends – This show presents Centre College alumni and friends: Stephen 

Rolfe Powell, Brook Forrest White, Jr., Patrick Martin, Jonathan Capps, Adam Kenney, Anne 

Rushing, Chris Bohach, Marcus Waldner, Nathan Watson, Ronnie Phillips, Sungsoo Kim, Ted 

Jeckering, Thomas Spake, John Stokes, Ché Rhodes, Paul Nelson, Paul Hugues, Matthew 

Cummings, Naomi Stuecker, D.H. McNabb, Jonathan Swanz, and Brent Sommerhauser. 

Felice Vineyards 

829 East Market Street, Louisville KY 40206 

An Irishman and an Indian Walk into a Bar – Artists Eóin Breadon, an Irishman, and Jason 

Chakravarty, an Indian, create a site-specific installation based on an NEA grant given to 

Tom Marioni in the ’70s. In honor of Tom’s particular project, Breadon and Chakravarty 

collaborated to build a bar/restaurant scene out of glass, filled with cultural aspects from 

the area using a unique neon process. 

Galleries Open in New Albany, Indiana 

(accessible via shuttles) 

Carnegie Center for Art & History 

201 E. Spring St., New Albany, IN 47150, www.carnegiecenter.org 

Phase Change: Works in Glass by C. Matthew Szösz – In celebration of New Albany’s history 

as the site of the first plate glass to be manufactured in the U.S., the Carnegie Center for Art 

& History presents Phase Change, an exhibition of works in glass by C. Matthew Szösz. 

Indiana University Southeast 

4201 Grant Line Rd., New Albany, IN 47150, www.ius.edu/finearts 

Barr Gallery: Southern Manic Drawl by Stephen Rolfe Powell 

Library Gallery: The Light of Serendipity – Works by John Guenther, Professor Emeritus of 

Fine Arts. Kiln-formed glass with patterned color and freeform designs 

Library Gallery Display Case: Works from the Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN – 

This exhibit will highlight the diverse works of Professor Curtiss Brock, head of the glass 

program at Tennessee Technological University, and his students. 

Ogle Center Gallery: Progression: 1996–2010 by Brook Forrest White. Jr. 

Ogle Center Lobby: Contrast by Laurel Streible – Kilnformed objects inspired by opposing 

earth elements. Laurel is a graduate of the B.F.A. program at IU Southeast. 

Gallery on Pearl 

222 Pearl St., New Albany, IN 47150, www.thegalleryonpearl.com 

Fire, Color, and Light – This exhibit will feature kilnformed glass (slumped, cast, and fused), 

hot glass (blown), lampworked glass, and cameo glass techniques coupled with hot glass 

and pâte de verre – by Marilee Burnside, Shane Caswell, John Guenther, Ann Klem, Phillip 

Nolley, and Kerry Zimmerman. 

City of New Albany 

River City Winery building, New Albany, IN 47150, www.nabpublicart.org 

New Albany Bicentennial Public Art Project Installation by John King – Louisville artist 

John King’s recycled-glass sculptures appear across the street from a historic site: the site of 

the installation of the first plate-glass made in the U.S. This work is part of the New Albany 

Bicentennial Public Art Project. 

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Galleries Open on Gallery Hop Night 

Frankfort Avenue and Mellwood Art Center (accessible via shuttles) 

Kaviar Forge & Gallery 

1718 Frankfort Ave., Louisville, KY 40206, www.craigkaviar.com 

Dual Lampworking Exhibition – Andrew Jackson Pollack and Jennifer Umphress both 

specialize in lampworking and share a love of aquatic themes. Pollack’s work has been 

described as “Venetian, with a little New Orleans funk” and Umphress focuses on capturing 

oceanic movement. 

Gallery Janjobe 

1860 Mellwood Ave., Louisville, KY 40206, www.galleryjanjobe.com 

Flameworking: Some Like It Hot! – The focus for this exhibit will be on flameworked 

sculptural pieces, both soft and hard glass. Among the featured artists will be Kim Fields. 

Gallery M at Mellwood 

1860 Mellwood Ave., Louisville, KY 40206, www.mellwoodcenter.com 

Divergence: Glass Artists Working at Mellwood – Features the work of Mike Clark, 

Clair Raabe, and Johnny Gordon. The show offers works of lamp, blown, and stained glass. 

Slate Grove: Portrait of the Artist – This series includes three life-size, blown-glass torsos 

and two large, framed, flat-glass pieces. 

Galleries Open on Gallery Hop Night – South of Broadway (no shuttles) 

Galerie Hertz 

1253 S. Preston St., Louisville, KY 40201, http://billyhertzgallery.com 

Watershed – Collaborative work with Jonathan Swanz and Rebecca Norton. 

Weber Gallery 

The Council on Developmental Disabilities 

1151 S. Fourth St., Louisville, KY 40203, www.councilondd.org 

Shine! – Possibilities in Glass – A unique collaborative project bringing together the talent 

of professional artists and the insightful creativity of artists affiliated with the Council 

on Developmental Disabilities in creating a series of meaningful and inspiring artworks in 

glass. Participating artists include Jonathan Swanz, Chad Balster, Casey Hyland, Lori Beck, 

Rebekah Davis, and Jacqueline Back as well as Al Gorman and the artists of StudioWorks. 

Exhibitions/Galleries (Non-Hop Night) 

Showcasing Glass as Art during GAS 2010 


2035 S. Third St., Louisville, KY 40208, www.speedmuseum.org 

Fifty Years of Contemporary Glass: Art, Craft, or Otherwise? – Created around 1960, 

the international studio glass movement moves past the half-century mark in 2010. 

This exhibition draws heavily from the Leonard and Adele Leight collection and looks at 

the movement’s development from both a historical and a critical perspective. 

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Frazier International History Museum 

829 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202, www.fraziermuseum.org 

American Bottles: Then and Now – Glass has long been the choice material for bottling 

spirits. Historical bottles (1815 to post-Civil War) selected from the Robinson Brown collection 

at the Speed Art Museum join contemporary bottle artworks of Robbie Miller, Nadege 

Desgenetez, Casey Hyland, and others for this exhibition. 

Louisville Visual Arts Association 

3005 River Rd., Louisville, KY 40207, www.louisvillevisualart.org 

Ne10 Louisville: Ten Luminous Works – An exhibition of contemporary luminescent glass 

art, featuring ten works by national artists. Curated by Wayne Strattman, Ph.D 

Muhammad Ali Center 

144 N. Sixth St., Louisville, KY 40202, www.alicenter.org 

Confidence, Conviction, Dedication, Giving, Respect & Spirituality – A ringside-inspired 

installation by Scott Darlington. 

Yew Dell Gardens 

6220 Old LaGrange Rd., Crestwood, KY 40014, www.yewdellgardens.org 

Yew Dell’s 3rd Annual Garden Sculpture Show – Approximately 70 pieces in a wide range 

of materials and styles – including the work of a strong contingent of talented glass artists 

– will be displayed throughout the gardens and grounds in venues chosen specifically by 

the artists. 

Owensboro Museum of Fine Art 

901 Frederica St., Owensboro, KY 42301, www.omfa.us 

Art of the Glassmaker – A survey of regional glassmakers presented in celebration of 

GAS 2010. 

Glass-Related Events During GAS 2010 

Downtown New Albany 

Glass by the Block – Take a 5-minute drive from downtown Louisville to New Albany, where 

artists have come together to present glass exhibitions and temporary installations in 

alternative sites – all within easy walking distance of each other. (Some are listed above.) 

The Glass Performance Art Film Festival 

Glassworks, 815 W. Market St., Louisville, KY 40202 

In an hour-long video presentation, the Glass Performance Art Film Festival (co-curated 

by Rik Allen, Kim Harty, and Andrew Page) will present 12 five-minute excerpts of the 

most significant work that brings together hot glass and performance art. Premieres 

Friday, June 11, at Glassworks’ Black Out Bash. 

Glass Armonica Ballet Performance 

New Albany Riverfront Amphitheater 

Foot of Pearl Street at the Ohio River, New Albany, IN 47150 

Friday, June 11, 7:30 pm 

In conjunction with the special Gallery Hop on June 11, the Louisville Ballet Youth Ensemble 

will perform a dance choreographed by Kim Nygen Cox to the music of the glass armonica. 

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pre- + post-conference workshops 

Breaking Symmetry 

Instructor: Slate Grove 

June 4 - 8 

Glassworks, 815 West Market St, 

Louisville, KY 40202 

502-584-4510, info@LouisvilleGlassworks.com 

Want to break out of the functional mode and start 

seeing glass in three dimensions? This class deals 

with everything from closed forms and blow punties 

to inside sculpting with oxy/propane torches. 

Issues of heating, turning, carrying more glass, and 

preparing the properly shaped bubble for the final 

outcome will be discussed throughout the class. 

Slate Grove, Maori 

Vessels and Form Consciousness 

Instructor: Matthew Eskuche 

June 8 - 9 

Glassworks, 815 West Market St, Louisville, KY 40202 


This class is designed to provide a solid base from which a student’s work can progress. 

With points, jacks, and diamond shears, students of all levels will experiment with 

borosilicate tubing. The main focus will be our approach to the material. Shape, scale, 

and proportion will pass through a technical “strainer” in an effort to create work of varied 

scale and difficulty. 

Illustrate Your Life in Glass 

Instructor: Scott Darlington 

Post conference, June 13 - 17 

5-day class, Intermediate - Advanced Level, 9 am - 5 pm. Cost: $1000 ($200/day) 

Glassworks, 815 West Market St, Louisville, KY 40202 


Technically, this class will explore the logic and physics of glassmaking. Participants will 

not be making vessels, but will use the bubble sculpturally. This class also covers solid and 

core sculpting, bit work, common and special-situation punties, and garage work. Learn 

how to draw and dissect objects in order to be able to make parts and assemble pieces 

into the final object. “Glass can be anything,” says Scott Darlington, “and that is just what 

we will make.” 

Defining New Boundaries 

Instructor: Benjamin Edols 

Post conference, June 14 - 18 

5-day class, Intermediate Level. Cost: $700. Lunch included. 6 students max. 

Flame Run Hotshop, 828 E. Market St., Louisville, KY 

502-584-5353, brook@flamerun.com 

Australian Benjamin Edols is a highly accomplished glassblower who has worked with 

Dante Marioni and Lino Tagliapietra over the years. Edol’s personal practice tries to marry 

his interest in nature with a 20+ year fascination with process. Cane work such as filigrana, 

murrini, reticello, and zanfirico continue to challenge and excite. Demonstrations will focus 

on this type of pattern-making and at the same time push to take them somewhere new. 

Students will have the afternoons to create and discover new boundaries for their work. 

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2 0 1 0 g a s awa r d r e c i p i e n t s 

2010 GAS Lifetime Achievement Award: 

Mark Peiser 

Mark Peiser took five weeks of glass classes in 1967 

and has maintained a small, self-supporting private 

studio, producing one-of-a-kind pieces ever since. 

His early blown work culminated in the Paperweight 

Vase series (1975-1981), which brought torch-worked 

imagery to the blowing process. This series approached 

vessels as transparent, three-dimensional canvases 

whose scenes were chosen as puns of vessel forms 

and were conceived to be experienced from both within 

and without. 

The Inner Space series (1983-1994), using solid castings, also sought to draw 

perception within and to reconcile the external and the internal form. They aspired to 

see colored glasses as light and to compose them into monolithic masses by compound 

casting in graphite molds. 

The Forms of Consciousness (1994-2003) series was an attempt to identify and 

dimensionalize psychic spaces and to question their appropriate skin and substance. 

The Cold Stream Cast pieces (2004-2008) created glass drawings of vessels by 

surrendering aesthetic control to the process and properties of the glass itself. 

The Palomar series (2008-present) are reflections inspired by the failed first casting 

of the huge telescope disk. They are done as a tribute to what it takes to expand the 

boundaries of glass. 

Mark Peiser is a founder and past board member of GAS, and is a fellow of the ACC. 

He has received numerous awards, including the AACG Lifetime Achievement award, the 

Asahi Shinbun Prize, and the 2009 North Carolina Award for Fine Arts. In 1988, Mark 

Peiser was Poet in Residence at Art Park, Lewiston, NY. 

2010 Honorary Lifetime Membership 

Award: Tom Philabaum 

Tom Philabaum likes to say he made art from mud and 

paint at Southern Illinois University, where he earned his 

B.A. in 1970. From 1971 to 1973, he studied glass with 

Harvey Littleton and clay with Don Reitz in Madison, WI, 

earning his M.A. Two years later, he moved to Tucson and 

started a cooperative glassblowing studio. That summer, 

he trained Jack Robertson, the first paraplegic to swim 

the English Channel. 

By 1978, Tom had started a family with his wife, 

Dabney, and was supporting them, in large measure, 

from sales of blown glass. By 1980, he had started 

Philabaum Glass Studios. From 1983 to 1986, Tom and Bob Carlson were partners, 

showing in galleries all across America. 

In 1983, Tom received an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona, the same year he 

helped orchestrate the first Tucson GAS conference. He served on the GAS Board from 

1993 to 1997 and was a GAS Conference Co-Chair in 1997. He served on the American 

Craft Council Board of Trustees from 1997 to 2001, and was the Arizona Governor’s Artist 

of the Year in 1998. He is co-founder of the Sonoran Glass Art Academy (2001). In 25+ 

years as the director of Philabaum Glass Gallery, he has produced over 110 exhibitions. 

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c o n f e r e n c e p r e s e n t e r s 

Biographical Information 

Oben Abright was born in 1980 in San Francisco, CA. The son of artists, Abright spent his 

early years drawing, painting, and making clay sculpture in his parents’ studio. He received 

a B.F.A. in Glass from California College of Arts and Crafts in 2004. For the last five years, 

he has shown with Habatat Gallery Chicago. He maintains a studio in Oakland, CA. 

Devyn Baron is a Louisville, KY, native who has been working in glass for over 12 years. 

She graduated from DuPont Manual High School’s visual arts program and went on to 

earn her B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art, majoring in Glass. Upon her graduation, 

she returned to the Bluegrass State and began working in various glass studios, including 

Louisville Glassworks and Flame Run Studios. Baron is currently working and teaching in 

Normal, IL, as she pursues her M.F.A. degree at Illinois State University. 

Arlon Bayliss. Currently the designer for Blenko Glass, Bayliss also directs the Glass 

Program at Anderson University, IN (1990–present). His work appears in collections 

and exhibitions worldwide; his public art projects include large-scale indoor installations 

such as Flight Wave at the new Indianapolis airport. Bayliss’s many credits include 10 

years with Rosenthal Glass and Porcelain in Germany, work with E.O.S. in Italy and Royal 

Brierley Crystal, and post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He works 

collaboratively, often involving teams of graduates and students in the development and 

construction of his commissions. 

Michael T. Bell has 20 years of experience in evaluating and helping minimize the risks of 

potential injury on the job. A registered Environmental Manager, he provides occupational 

safety services, including development of programs, training, and respirator-fit testing. 

These programs simplify aspects of compliance for prescribed OSHA regulations and help 

clients reach beyond mere conformity into “best practices” within the industry. The training 

programs that Bell develops are delivered effectively to members of the baseline and upper 

rung of organizations alike. 

Eddie Bernard earned a B.F.A. in Glass in 1996 from Rochester Institute of Technology. 

The same year, he founded Wet Dog Glass, LLC, a business that designs and manufactures 

high-end glass-processing equipment. This artist has instructed numerous hot glass 

sculpting workshops at Penland School of Crafts; Glass Furnace in Istanbul; and the Studio 

of the Corning Museum of Glass. He and his wife founded the New Orleans Creative Glass 

Institute, a non-profit, community-access studio. He recently oversaw the creation of a 

second one: GlassLab in Star, NC. Bernard has served on the Board of Directors of the 

Glass Art Society since 2004. 

Chris Bird-Jones, M.A. (R.C.A.). Bird-Jones directs the Masters Programme at the Welsh 

School of Architectural Glass at Swansea Metropolitan University and is leading the 

celebration to commemorate 75 continuous years of glass education in Swansea. 

Previously, Bird-Jones was the Head of Glass at North Wales School of Art and Design 

and senior lecturer in Glass at the University of Wolverhampton. Bird-Jones exhibits 

internationally and produces site-specific architectural glass on commission. In 2008, she 

initiated and organized Gathering Light, the 20th-anniversary exhibition of the Women’s 

International Glass Workshop for Liverpool08. 

Cortney Boyd grew up in Fort Collins, CO, in a family that was actively involved in the arts. 

In 2001, she received her B.A. in Studio Art from Hastings College in Nebraska, and in 

2008 she received her M.F.A. in Glass from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Boyd’s 

sculptural work recalls objects from childhood memories through various glass-forming 

techniques. She is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor in Glass at Southern Illinois 

University Carbondale. 

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James A. Breed was born and raised in Richmond, VA. He attended Virginia Commonwealth 

University, where he began as a Painting major but later received a B.F.A. in Craft/ 

Material Studies. He learned techniques for glass blowing, torch working, and casting glass 

under Rick Schneider, Emilio Santini, and Jack Wax. In 2002, he received the Virginia 

Museum of Fine Arts’ Student Fellowship. He currently resides in Knoxville, TN, where he 

works as a full-time assistant for Richard Jolley. His work ranges from free-form sculpted 

vehicles to hot-sculpted and assembled landscapes. 

Jim Butler. While primarily known as a painter, Butler also makes images through photographs, 

printmaking, drawing, and sculpture using experimental glass fabrication. He 

has shown his work nationally and internationally for over two decades. In 2001, he was 

awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for new work in glass. Butler is one-half of the artist 

team the Civil Hand, whose large-scale public glass/image piece Hieroglyph will be permanently 

installed in UrbanGlass’s renovated Brooklyn facilities. The chair of the Program in 

Studio Art at Middlebury College, Butler also writes and curates. 

Lindsay Yeakel Capps received her law degree from the University of Kentucky and practices 

intellectual property law at Stites & Harbison in Louisville, KY. Capps has a special interest 

in Louisville’s artist community and is currently on the board of the Kentucky Museum of 

Art and Craft. She developed her appreciation for the arts — especially glassblowing — while 

attending Centre College in Danville, KY, where she had the opportunity to observe demonstrations 

by Stephen Rolfe Powell. Her husband, Jonathan Capps, worked for and studied 

under Powell and currently works as a glass artist in Louisville. 

Ralph Carter obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toledo, the 

Glass City. He is relied upon by Ransom & Randolph to be the technical support for their 

Glass-Cast product line of glass-casting investments. During his 12 years with the company, 

Carter has designed dozens of investments. Virtually all the major aerospace lost wax 

foundries around the world use R&R investments designed by Carter. Carter has authored 

and presented several research papers at the Santa Fe Symposium on jewelry manufacturing 

technology and for the World Gold Council’s International Technology Symposium. 

Eun-Suh Choi is a Korean-born glass artist and portrait artist. Her flameworked pieces 

are personal narratives or portraits of her own moments of growth. Choi arrived in the U.S. 

having already completed a master’s degree in Glass but determined to pursue further 

glass education. She chose the Rochester Institute of Technology as a place where she 

could both study English and earn a second M.F.A. degree. 

Charles Correll began working with glass in 1971, when he took a part-time job blowing 

glass at the Jamestown Glasshouse of 1608. Today, he works in his studio in Conway, 

MA, blowing glass and building hot-shop equipment for private studios and educational 

institutions worldwide. He has lived through the history of the Studio Glass Movement. 

He developed furnace designs that have become a standard in the field. He designed and 

built his first recuperative glass furnace in 1981, resulting in better glass, more durable 

furnaces, and a 60% reduction in fuel consumption. 

Rene Culler holds degrees in Glass from the Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent State 

University. Teaching engagements include the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, the 

Glass Furnace in Istanbul, UrbanGlass, and La Ventana Indescrita Studio in Barcelona. Her 

work is in the collection of CMoG and the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Art, the 

Renwick, and the Luce Center. This author of Glass Art from the Kiln recently joined the 

University of South Alabama in Mobile as Assistant Professor of Art, heading up their new 

Glass department. 

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Matthew Cummings. While always compelled to express himself through drawing, this 

Alabama artist’s first formal art training was in college. Glassblowing coursework, coupled 

with a summer sketching the masterpieces of Italian figurative sculpture in Rome and 

Florence, formed the basis for his aesthetics and explorations into sculpture. Cummings 

studied with Stephen Rolfe Powell at Centre College and graduated in 2005 with a B.A. in 

Glass and Painting. Currently, he is pursuing an M.F.A. at Illinois State University. 

Scott Darlington has worked with hot glass for 20 years. After earning his B.F.A. at the 

Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennessee, he moved to Seattle, where he assisted many 

different artists and served as the hot shop coordinator at Pilchuck Glass School for seven 

summers. For four years he was an associate professor at the Toyama City Institute of Glass 

Art in Japan. In 2007, he received his M.F.A. in Glass from Ohio State University. Currently 

a visiting assistant professor at Bowling Green State University, he heads up the Glass 

program’s 3D Studies division. 

Fred diFrenzi has worked with kilnformed glass for 25+ years. He spearheaded three glass 

design programs for manufacturing and industry, and he fostered Kentucky’s first hot glass 

program in 1978 at the Louisville School of Art. He also taught at University of Louisville 

and the Toledo Museum of Art. DiFrenzi’s work appears at the Butler Museum of Art in 

Youngstown and the Huntington Museum of Art. A consultant, his recent clients include 

University of Louisville and Maker’s Mark Distillery. Currently, diFrenzi serves as art director 

for the Hoskin and Muir Corporation. 

Deborah Dohne is a prolific visual artist who works primarily in sculpture. She uses glass, 

wood, motors, neon, etc. to explore myth, intuition, the surreal, and powers we cannot 

touch or see. A professor at Syracuse University, she has exhibited nationally, received artist 

grants and teaching awards, and presently leads the Interdisciplinary Research Group at 

Syracuse University. As an artist in residence, she pioneered the Emerging Artist Residency 

Program at Pilchuck Glass School. Dohne earned her B.F.A. from Alfred University and her 

M.F.A. from Ohio State University. 

Fritz Dreisbach teaches and makes glass as an independent artist, wintering in his cold 

glass studio in Tucson, AZ, and summering at Island Glass Studio on Whidbey Island, WA. 

He is now working on a new series of carved glasses in addition to his singular show pieces: 

the Mongos, playful goblets, tricks, and “toys.” He continues to present workshops 

and short classes all over the world. During the past 43 years, Dreisbach, “the Johnny 

Appleseed of Glass,” has presented hundreds of lectures and demonstrations in more than 

160 institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia. His glass is represented in numerous 

public and private collections. 

John Drury is a NYC-based artist, writer, and teacher. John has taught for the Pilchuck 

Glass School, UrbanGlass, and the Glass Furnace. In 1997, Drury was awarded a Louis 

Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award for the Visual Arts. He has exhibited his mixed-media 

work, including glass, at the Holly Solomon, Willoughby Sharp, and Exit Art galleries in 

New York City. He has also served as a visiting artist at many institutions. Drury contributes 

regularly to GLASS magazine. He and collaborative partner Robbie Miller comprise the art 

duo CUD, formed in 1988. 

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Benjamin Edols studied at Sydney College of the Arts (B.A.) and Canberra School of Art 

(postgraduate diploma, 1992). He has worked with Dante Marioni and Lino Tagliapietra, 

among others, over the years. He has given glassblowing workshops at Pilchuck Glass 

School, the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Toyama Institute of Glass Art, and 

Pittsburgh Glass Center. His work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 

Corning Museum of Glass, Toyama Art Museum, Chrysler Museum of Art, and the National 

Gallery of Australia, among others. 

Scott Erbes has been the Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Speed Art Museum 

in Louisville, KY, since 1999. He is also the curator in charge of the Adele and Leonard 

Leight Collection, working with the Leights as they continue to build their remarkable, fivedecades-old 

collection of studio glass, studio ceramics, and 20th-century design. Erbes 

has curated a number of installations and exhibitions, including The Light Within: Glass 

Sculpture from Louisville Collections (2003), for which he contributed an essay to the 

accompanying catalog, A Celebration of Glass. 

David Fox recently finished his M.F.A. degree in Glass from Rochester Institute of Technology 

and holds a B.A. degree in Studio Fine Art from Anderson University. He has been exhibiting 

his work nationally since 2004 and has been involved with Habatat Galleries Chicago 

as an employee and as a represented artist since 2005. In 2007, Fox had his first solo 

exhibition at Packer/Schopf Gallery in Chicago. He was a finalist for the 2007 Raphael 

Prize exhibition Transformation 6, and in 2008 he was awarded a partial scholarship to 

Pilchuck Glass School. 

Jim Gosnell is a mechanical engineer with 15 years of experience in combustion control 

systems and heat recovery optimization. He has worked with Lean Six Sigma Methodologies 

and Supply Chain Management, optimizing manufacturing processes for small cap 

organizations to large corporations. His previous experiences in process pollution control 

and heat distribution, combined with his experiences in manufacturing oversight, provide 

alternative energy solutions to the smallest of operations. 

John Groth started working in ceramics in 1970. In 1985, he developed a low-expansion, 

thermal-shock-resistant porcelain. In 1986, Groth started fusing glass. He began the 

process of developing a glass-compatible clay. Over a decade and thousands of tests later, 

Groth now holds a U.S. patent for his COE-compatible clay. He fuses clay and glass, using 

kilnforming and hot-glass techniques in his sculptures and public installations. His studio 

and equipment, including two abrasive waterjets, have become a doorway for working with 

many local and international artists. 

Mark Hall has worked professionally in glass since 1976. In 1982, he was hired by master 

craftsman Warren Olson and schooled in the German tradition, focusing on the fabrication 

and installation of ecclesiastical stained-glass windows. In 1988, he followed the studio 

artist movement, founding Hallmark Art Glass with his wife, Leslie Munchhof. His passion 

for kilnformed glass led him to the hot shop, where he independently developed a fused 

glass cylinder pick-up technique. He continues his business of creating site-specific 

commissions, working with churches and bringing fused glass to the glory hole. 

Casey Hyland discovered the art of glassblowing while earning his degree in architecture at 

Washington University in St. Louis. He has studied glassblowing at Pilchuck Glass School, 

the Appalachian Center for Crafts, Penland, Corning, and UrbanGlass. He returned to his 

hometown of Louisville, KY, in 2001 and opened his own studio, Hyland Glass. Hyland 

Glass resides in Glassworks, in the museum district of downtown Louisville. 

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Martin Janecky. By the age of 21, this Czech Republic artist was being employed by top 

designers in South Africa, Sweden, Holland, and New York to help execute their works; 

he had already been blowing and sculpting with glass for eight years. He has served as 

an artist in residence and teacher around the world, at institutions such as the Corning 

Museum of Glass, Penland School of Crafts, the Tacoma Museum of Glass, Public Glass, 

and Pilchuck Glass School. Janecky received the 2006 Kaiser Foundation Award and the 

2008 Salvador Dali World Prize. 

Richard Jolley graduated from Peabody College in 1974. He has lived and worked in 

Knoxville, TN, since 1975 and now, having acquired too much heavy equipment and other 

ephemera, will most likely remain. He has had solo exhibitions both in the U.S. and abroad, 

and was the subject of the monograph Transformations (Sam Hunter/Skira, 2003). He has 

designed a stage set for the opera The Magic Flute, is represented in numerous public and 

private collections, and in 2008 concluded a seven-year traveling exhibition that represented 

a mid-career survey of his work in various media. He most recently was commissioned 

to create a site-specific work by the Knoxville Museum of Art. 

Ruth King has served as artistic director of the Pilchuck Glass School since 2004. 

Previously, she was a professor of art and administered glass programs at the Ohio State 

University, Alfred University, California College of the Arts, and Rhode Island School of 

Design, starting in 1990, just after earning her M.F.A. degree from Rhode Island School 

of Design. King has demonstrated and exhibited internationally; one highlight was an 

exhibition and presentation as featured artist at the Tittot Glass Art Museum in Taiwan. 

King believes glass to be the best teacher. 

Stephen Knapp is best known as the creator of Lightpaintings. He has gained an international 

reputation for large-scale works of art held in museum, public, corporate, and 

private collections, in media as diverse as kilnformed and dichroic glass, metal, stone, 

steel, mosaic, and ceramic. Knapp has written and lectured on architectural art glass, the 

collaborative process, and the integration of art and architecture. His work has appeared 

in many publications, including Art and Antiques, Architectural Record, ARTnews, 

Ceramics Monthly, Honoho Geijutsu, Identity, Interior Design, Interiors, Nikkei Architecture, 

Sculpture, and The New York Times. 

Kaori Koike studied Spatial Art and Design at Joshibi Junior College in Japan. She was 

drawn to how different materials influence the life of human beings, and saw glass as a 

medium that has many faces and plays the role of connecting outside and inside. She 

continued to study glass at the Japanese Glass Art Institute. She came to the U.S. in 2003, 

graduated from Illinois State University with a B.A. in 2008, and continues working with 

glass in the U.S. 

Adele and Leonard Leight have been married for 60 years, during which they have been 

interested in design, craft, and art. Initially, they bought contemporary ceramics and 

ceramics of the early 20th century sporadically. They bought their first piece of contemporary 

glass in 1968 and began slowly purchasing a few other pieces of glass in the 1970s. 

Their interests in the 1970s also included Art Deco and Art Nouveau glass, and their 

collection includes examples of this, from Tiffany, Daum, Lalique, Webb, Hoffman, Moser, 

and more. In the 1980s, they began collecting contemporary glass almost exclusively and 

continue to do so today. 

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Jeremy Lepisto recently relocated to Canberra, Australia, from Portland, OR. His works use 

imagery inspired by his everyday surroundings to explore the complex in the common, and 

to comment on the condition of the spaces that we all share. With his wife, Mel George, 

he co-founded Studio Ramp LLC, a custom, kilnforming fabrication studio that translates 

artists’ and architects’ designs into glass. Lepisto has taught kilnforming classes and workshops 

in the U.S. and internationally. He has worked in several different departments at the 

Bullseye Glass Factory. He received his B.F.A. in Glass and Metals from Alfred University in 

1997. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Glass Art Society. 

Jessica Lloyd-Jones graduated with an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art 

in 2007. She has exhibited in museums, galleries, and art festivals throughout the U.K., 

including the British Glass Biennale, Edinburgh Festival, London OXO Tower Wharf, and 

Solaris Energy Centre. International exhibitions include SOFA NY, 2010. This award-winning 

artist recently won a prestigious architectural commission for the Sherman Cymru Theatre 

in Cardiff and has been selected to exhibit at the European Triennial of Ceramic and Glass 

in Mons later this year. 

Patrick Martin infuses socio-political themes in his mixed-media sculptures. He has 

received numerous awards and grants and maintained a national exhibition record. Martin 

earned his B.A. from Centre College in Danville, KY, and his M.F.A. from Tulane University in 

New Orleans, LA. He has been invited to participate in residency programs at the Pilchuck 

Glass School, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, and the Bullseye Glass Factory in 

Portland, OR, and has taught numerous workshops. He is currently an Associate Professor 

of Art at Emporia State University in Kansas. 

Tom Moore has been working with hot glass since 1990. For several years, Moore has 

been constructing mixed-media landscapes in which glass characters interact to make 

dreamlike stories. The protagonists are hybrid creatures that bridge the gaps between 

plants, animals, and machines. Moore trained through production at JamFactory Contemporary 

Craft and Design. Striving to invigorate the audience’s experience of glass has led 

him to embrace new technologies through collaboration with digital photographers and 

animators. He is optimistic that these combinations will allow him defy gravity and to melt 

the coldest heart. 

McKinley Moore received his B.A. from Centre College, where he spent two years working 

under Stephen Rolfe Powell. After he graduated, Glassworks became his home base, with 

short stints in New Orleans and Chicago. Moore is a founding member of the non-profit 

Ohio Valley Creative Energy. His work is known to incorporate found objects and non-traditional 

media; it tends to be focused on themes of environmentalism, politics, and religion. 

In addition to glass art, McKinley Moore is known for pursuing multiple creative endeavors, 

playing in a band, and running Transpanther. 

Peter Morrin administrates the Arts and Culture Partnerships Initiative at the University 

of Louisville. He also teaches in the U of L’s graduate program in Critical and Curatorial 

Studies. For 21 years, he directed the Speed Art Museum. Previously, he was Curator of 

Modern Art at the High Museum in Atlanta, Director of the Vassar College Art Gallery, and 

an employee of Harvard University art museums and Washington University Gallery of Art. 

He was president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (2003–2004), and he is a 

frequent lecturer and contributor to professional publications. 

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Shelley Muzylowski-Allen holds a B.F.A. from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 

Vancouver, Canada. For five years she worked with William Morris. She has been awarded 

Provincial and Canada Council grants and she has been nominated for the Tiffany award. 

Residencies include the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. She and her husband, Rik Allen, 

have taught at the Pilchuck Glass School and guested in Stourbridge, England, and in 

Toyama, Japan. They work in a hot glass and mixed-media studio located on their property 

in Skagit Valley, north of Seattle. 

Martie Negri worked as a painter and fiber artist before transitioning to glass in 2001. 

She has a B.A. from Salem College in Museum Studies, a Design diploma from New York 

School of Interior Design, and a graduate degree in Art Therapy from the College of New 

Rochelle. She has developed a contemporary millefiori technique and works in Brooklyn’s 

UrbanGlass. Her work has been in Bullseye Glass’ biennial exhibit E-merge and was exhibited 

at SOFA NY and Chicago. She has been included in New Glass Review 30. 

Douglas Ohm began blowing glass in 1984 at San Francisco State University. He received 

his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He has taught at Hartwick 

College, RIT, and Penland School, and conducted workshops specializing in advanced 

casting techniques and figure sculpting. Ohm was also on the staff of Pilchuck Glass 

School from 1991 to 1997. He also owns and operates Ohm Equipment, LLC, a premier 

glass equipment fabrication company. Ohm Equipment specializes in hot shop equipment 

and scientific glass annealing lears. 

Andrew Page was appointed editor-in-chief of UrbanGlass’ GLASS Quarterly. Prior to editing 

GLASS, he was executive editor of AVENUE magazine. Page has also served as the arts 

editor of the Philadelphia Weekly newspaper and been a staff writer at Brooklyn Bridge 

magazine. His articles have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer as well as in New York, 

Details, and Philadelphia magazines. Page’s essay on the history of studio glass appears 

in a new book entitled Contemporary Glass. 

Andy Paiko received his undergraduate degree in Studio Art from California Polytechnic 

State University in San Luis Obispo, CA, in 2002 and has been working as an independent 

studio glass artist ever since. Through several apprenticeships, he has studied color chemistry, 

hot shop fabrication, traditional reproduction, and Venetian technique. His dedication 

to solo glassblowing has allowed him to develop his own method of collage-style assemblage 

that merges his fascination with engineering, science, and visual art. He currently 

lives and works in Portland, OR. 

Robert Panepinto has been working at UrbanGlass for over 10 years, learning, assisting, 

teaching, and creating glass. He spends as much time as possible with many different 

artists in the hot shop. When he’s not at UrbanGlass, he can be found at home in New 

Jersey, with his wife, Jennifer, and son, Bobby, his true inspirations. 

Roger Parramore states that glass took him under its spell early when at the age of nine 

he watched traveling lampworkers spin ships and unicorns. From art to manufacturing color 

and teaching, glass has been a near life-long companion. Through the past 37 years, his 

relationship with glass has come to define a good bit of who he is. After an apprenticeship 

in scientific glassblowing, he moved on into the art glass world, teaching and showing his 

work. His fascination with this most universal of materials is ongoing. 

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Mark Payton has been working in glass for 21 years. His studio resides in Glassworks in 

downtown Louisville, KY. He states that most of his figural sculptures express life issues 

such as how we attain knowledge, status, love, losses, balance, and empowerment. He 

says that his family is his greatest influence. His wife trained as a dancer with Louisville 

Ballet: grace, lines, extension, and body positions are key components of his designs. He 

finds other influences in nature’s raw, diverse beauty. 

Amy Pender received her B.A. in Graphic Design from the University of Louisville in 1992. 

After many years of working as a designer at local ad agencies and as a freelance designer, 

she discovered the art of glass. For the past six years, she has worked at local glass 

studios to develop glass and sculpting skills. Pender has also taken several classes in glass 

at Penland School of Craft, Pilchuck Glass School, and Pittsburg Glass Center. She plans to 

continue building a glass career in Louisville. 

Stephen Rolfe Powell is the Stodgill Professor of Art at Centre College, where he has 

taught since 1983. He has earned numerous awards, and his glass vessels are held in 

permanent collections throughout the world, including that of the Hermitage Museum in 

St. Petersburg. He has been a guest teacher or guest artist at glass schools around the 

world. Demo venues include the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. His first full-length 

book Stephen Rolfe Powell Glassmaker was released in 2007. Powell was one of eight 

Americans chosen for Venezia Aperto Vetro 1998. 

Lynn Read has a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He apprenticed 

with Anthony Carradetti and trained at Penland School of Crafts and at Pratt Fine 

Art Center. He founded Vitreluxe Glass Works, a glass-blowing studio offering custom-made 

glass for architects and designers; its production work has been featured in Luxe Magazine, 

Elle Decor Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and Fortune Small Business. Read’s signature 

murrini vessels have been shown in Vetri International, Pismo, OK, and Museum of 

Contemporary Crafts. Teaching and assisting engagements include Pilchuck Glass School, 

Corning, and Penland. 

Ché Rhodes received his B.A. in 1995 from Centre College in Danville, KY, under the 

direction of Stephen Rolfe Powell. He studied at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in 

Philadelphia and subsequently taught there. Formerly head of the Glass Department at 

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1999–2004), he currently leads the Glass Department 

at the University of Louisville. This former member of the Glass Art Society Board of 

Directors is a board member of the Penland School of Crafts. He has taught workshops 

there and at the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass. 

Julien Robson. Formerly Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum and 

adjunct professor at the University of Louisville, Robson is now the Curator of Contemporary 

Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. A native of Scotland, he trained at 

Bath Academy of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He has worked in the 

commercial gallery sector in Vienna and taught at the University of California, Santa 

Barbara. He recently co-curated Philagrafika: The Graphic Unconscious, a five-venue 

project presenting 35 artists’ work, representing 18 countries. 

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Amy Rueffert earned her B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art and her M.F.A. at Mills 

College in Oakland. Her work is included in the collections of the Corning Museum of 

Glass and Tacoma’s Museum of Glass, and will be featured at the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft in 

Denmark. She has taught at the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass 

School, the Glass Lab at MIT, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She ran the glass 

department at San Jose State University (2006–2007) and is currently a visiting scholar at 

Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 

Tommie Rush lives and works in Knoxville, TN. She earned her B.F.A. at the University of 

Tennessee and has studied at the Arrowmont School of Crafts. She shows regularly and her 

work is included in the collections of the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama; the Sheldon 

Art Museum and Sculpture Garden in Lincoln, NE; and the Renwick Gallery in Washington, 

DC, among others. Rush serves on the boards of the Glass Art Society and the American 

Craft Council and recently termed off the Penland School of Crafts board. 

Christina I. Ryan attended college at the University of Notre Dame and law school at 

Indiana University in Bloomington. She practices intellectual property law at Stites & 

Harbison in Louisville, KY. Her practice comprises litigation involving intellectual property 

infringement, prosecuting and managing trademark and copyright portfolios, and negotiating 

and drafting contracts that implicate intellectual property rights. Her artistic family pursued 

music, ballet, jewelry design, and stained glass artwork; her background and experiences 

prompted her respect and admiration for the creativity that generates intellectual property 

and led to her current career supporting intellectual property rights. 

Tom Ryder is interested in and works with glass and light. Ryder has been blowing glass 

for three years and is a recent graduate of Alfred University. He is drawn to glass by the 

limitless possibilities of the material and enjoys pushing the technical boundaries of the 

material and his art. As a sculptor, he creates glass installations and also functional 

design. Ryder hopes to create pieces that are visually dynamic and hold someone’s 

attention long enough for him/her to fully analyze and create a personal meaning. 

Bill Samuels, Jr., is President and C.E.O. of Maker’s Mark Bourbon. He is also an engineer, 

physicist, and lawyer. This two-time Kentucky Entrepreneur of the Year is active in the 

community; he has served as chairman of two colleges, chaired the Louisville Chamber 

of Commerce, the Kentucky Derby Museum, and the Louisville Area Boy Scouts Council, 

among others. He has been awarded Louisville’s Citizen of the Year – and Harvard Lampoon’s 

Man of the Year. In 2006 he was inducted into the Kentucky Business Hall of Fame. 

Emilio Santini was born into a family that had a 500-year tradition of glass blowing. 

He worked summers at the glass factory Cenedese, from age 11 to 16, under different 

masters each year. At 17, he learned lampworking from his father. In 1988, he moved to 

Williamsburg, where he resumed blowing glass at the furnace several years ago. His work 

is featured in numerous private and museum collections. He has taught extensively in the 

U.S. major glass schools, and he is presently finishing up his new teaching studio. 

Judith Schaechter has exhibited widely, including in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. 

She is the recipient of many grants, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Louis 

Comfort Tiffany Award, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Her work is in the collection of 

the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Corning 

Museum of Glass, the Renwick Gallery, and numerous other collections. Schaechter has 

taught at the Pilchuck Glass School, Rhode Island School of Design, and at the University 

of the Arts. Her work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and she is a 2008 USA 

Artists Rockefeller Fellow. 

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Michael Schunke began blowing glass while enrolled at the Tyler School of Art. After 

receiving his degree in 1991, he worked for several small independent studios before starting 

his own line of limited production pieces, Nine Iron Studios, Inc. He taught for three 

years as associate professor at the Toyama Institute of Glass in Japan. Upon returning to 

the U.S., he was awarded a fellowship at Creative Glass Center of America. Schunke lives in 

West Grove, PA, where in his private studio he makes limited production pieces, one-of-akind 

works, and private commissions. 

Al Shands. The Shands’ contemporary art collection initially emphasized American 

ceramics and over the past 30 years has gradually shifted to focus on sculpture. The 

collection now includes major works by national and international artists, including an 

800-foot earthwork sculpture by Maya Lin. Shands was a longtime member of the 

National Committee of the Whitney Museum in New York and is currently a member of the 

International Council at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Circle of the Phillips 

Collection in Washington, and the board of the Speed Art Museum. 

Mike Shelbo states: Once the ice cream was depleted, I found myself chilled and intoxicated 

by the chocolate swirling within me. The only obvious choice was to strike fire and 

torch flames with which goblins would be lured from their hidden realms. That which 

only became clear later was the idea that glass and ice cream melt equally well, just at 

different rates and temperatures. My process with the glass has evolved into a strange 

and beautiful relationship. My relationship with the goblins has led to mischief and the 

accompaniment of joy. 

Steve Sizelove practices the craft of flameworking borosilicate glass in his home studio 

in Richmond, IN. He has studied at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and under 

notable glass artists such as Paul Stankard, Roger Parramore, Robert Mickelsen, and 

the Italian master Lucio Bubacco. His works have been shown at the Museum of Art and 

Design in New York, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and the National Liberty 

Museum in Philadelphia. He has been honored with numerous awards and been featured 

in a growing number of publications. 

Paul J. Stankard is an internationally acclaimed artist and pioneer in the Studio Glass 

Movement. He is known for his paperweights, and his work is represented in over 40 major 

museums around the world. He is a Fellow of the American Craft Council, a recipient of the 

UrbanGlass Award–Innovation in a Glassworking Technique, and a recipient of an Honorary 

Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Rowan University and Muskingum College. Stankard 

recently authored an autobiography titled No Green Berries or Leaves: The Creative Journey 

of an Artist in Glass. For over 35 years, his work has celebrated nature as magical realism. 

Robert Stephan. While in an undergraduate ceramics program, Stephan took glassblowing 

as independent study, building his first furnace out of a 55-gallon steel drum. He earned 

his M.F.A. in Glass at Virginia Commonwealth University and went on to open his own 

glass studio in 1979. Stephan’s glass art has primarily focused on internal iridescent forms 

and sculptural forms with dichroic laminations. His studio — His Glassworks Inc. — is now 

located in Asheville, NC. It includes a division that specializes in providing cold-working 

tools and supplies for glass art studios and beyond. 

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Max Stewart has worked in glass for 10 years. He trained in New Zealand and later, with 

Diane Greenwood, set up Mad Dog Glass Studio, which has attracted new glass artists with 

a passion for experimentation and discovery. In an earlier career, Stewart worked in the 

British animation industry; his work achieved many awards, including a Peabody Award, 

and the Prize de Basle’s award for the Most Significant Contribution to European Culture. 

Stewart recently completed his doctorate at Edinburgh College of Art, and he is currently 

developing a documentary series about the history of glass for the BBC. 

Loren Stump has been self-employed in the glass business for more than 30 years. He 

is a self-taught flameworker, tool inventor, technique developer, and teacher. Stump has 

invested the last 10 years in the study of Franchini-shaded murrine, clear encasement, 

and large-scale, detailed sculpture. His work has been featured in many books, magazines, 

galleries, and museums. He has taught, demonstrated, and lectured at many studios, 

colleges, and conferences throughout the U.S. and abroad. 

Boyd Sugiki began working with glass at Punahou High School in Honolulu, HI. He received 

a B.F.A. from California College of Arts and Crafts and an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island 

School of Design. He has taught glass blowing at many schools throughout the U.S. and 

beyond. His most recent work is inspired by the architecture he has seen while traveling. 

Sugiki has had solo shows recently at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu and at the 

Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, WA. He lives and works in Seattle, WA. 

Ruth T. Summers has been in arts administration for over 35 years. She has been the 

executive director of the Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation since September 2004 and 

she was the executive director of the Southern Highland Craft Guild from 1996 to 2004. 

Summers has served on the boards or advisory boards of American Craft Council; Asheville 

Area Chamber of Commerce; Buncombe County Tourism Advisory Board; Center for Craft, 

Creativity, and Design, UNC-A; and the Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, NJ. 

She has also been a long-time member of the Glass Art Society Board of Directors. 

Lino Tagliapietra, world-renowned glass artist, was born in Murano, Italy. At the age of 

eleven, he began his apprenticeship with Archimede Seguso; he became a maestro at 21. 

Credited with changing the course of glass history by raising the international standards 

of glass craftsmanship, he has had a significant influence on glass artists in the U.S. 

and glassmaking worldwide. Much honored by the world of studio glass, Tagliapietra 

has received numerous awards. Appreciated by audiences worldwide, his work has been 

exhibited by or is in the permanent collections of countless major museums. 

Stephen Tucker graduated from Georgia Southern University in 1985 with a B.S. in 

Mechanical Engineering Technology. He began his career as a Design Engineer with Corning 

Incorporated in Corning, NY. He relocated to Danville, KY, as a Senior Furnace Engineer with 

Philips Lighting Company in 1997. In Danville, he was introduced to Stephen Rolfe Powell 

and the glass art program at Centre College. Tucker has enjoyed opportunities to help 

Powell with furnace rebuilds and furnace design improvements in recent years. He is currently 

an engineer on staff with an independent fiberglass manufacturer in Clarksville, TN. 

Durk Valkema chaired the 2002 GAS conference in Amsterdam. He studied at the Gerrit 

Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam with his father, Sybren, a renowned artist and founder 

of the school’s glass program. In 1974, Valkema studied at the Academy of Applied Arts 

in Prague; he was the first student from a non-Warsaw Pact nation to study there with 

Stanislav Libenský. Today, Valkema designs and fabricates his own sculpture, is the founding 

president of the Vrij Glas Foundation in Amsterdam, and is an engineer of systems and 

equipment for glass studios throughout the world. 

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Marc VandenBerg has worked with glass for 15 years, both as a lampworker and glassblower. 

Currently, he leads the glass team at the Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI. He received 

scholarships to the Pilchuck Glass School and the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass. 

VandenBerg’s work has also been published in several books. He has taught workshops 

nationally and demonstrated internationally. 

Carmen Vetter has been working with glass from her Portland, OR, studio since 1999. 

Her recent work explores the subtleties of surface texture in bas-relief wall panels. Vetter 

attended the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She has participated in workshops at the 

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha and in an artist’s exchange at Bullseye 

Glass. Her artwork has been featured in solo shows at Vetri International Glass and Traver 

Gallery, as well as in Bullseye’s juried E-merge exhibition. 

Kenneth von Roenn, Jr., earned his master’s degree in Architecture from Yale University and 

has been working in glass for over 40 years. He owns and is head designer for Architectural 

Glass Art, Inc. (est. 1875), and he is a co-founder of Louisville Glassworks. VonRoenn has 

executed over 750 commissions, including the world’s largest glass sculpture, which crowns 

the First Union Bank in Charlotte, NC. His work has been published in numerous books and 

design magazines. He recently was named one of the 25 Most Influential People in the Arts 

in the Midwest. 

Ursula Vourvoulis has worked in architectural glass as a designer, a studio co-owner, 

and as a national sales manager since 1992. She currently serves as Director of Project 

Development at Architectural Glass Art, working with clients to develop design solutions 

for their projects and working with production staff to develop new techniques and technologies. 

She earned a degree in Graphic Design from Sheridan College of Art in Canada 

and subsequently art-directed various national magazines. Her extensive knowledge of 

casting, lamination, fusing, printing, carving, and painting greatly expands the range of 

AGA’s capabilities. 

Corban Walker graduated with honors from the National College of Art and Design in 

Dublin, with a degree in Fine Art Sculpture in 1992. Since 1994, he has mounted solo 

exhibitions internationally, gaining recognition for his installations, sculptures, and drawings 

that relate to perceptions of scale and architectural constructs. He has realized eight 

important public commissions. Walker’s work is part of numerous public and private 

collections around the world, including the Irish Museum of Art in Dublin. In 2008, he was 

a visiting artist at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. Walker has lived and worked in 

New York since 2004. 

Jeffrey Wallin has spent his life in the Pacific Northwest. He studied under Professor Keiko 

Hara at Whitman College, graduating in 1995 with a B.A. in Studio Art. His introduction 

to glass came in 1999 at Ray Ahlgren’s Fire Art Glass studio, where Wallin continues to 

work and gain new understandings about how to apply the challenging medium of glass to 

his ongoing exploration of the human form. In 2007, he was awarded the Sybren Valkema 

Award at Young Glass 2007, held in Denmark at the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft. 

David Walters studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (1989–1993) and then 

moved to Seattle to work for Dale Chihuly. In the past 16 years, he has worked most 

closely with Lino Tagliapietra; his work was included in the Lino e Amici show at the Fuller 

Museum of Art in Massachusetts and (Lino Tagliapietra) Living Legacies show at the 

Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. Walters uses the vessel as an integral, sculptural element 

and works primarily with characters from fairy tales. His work has also been included in 

many private collections and museum collections. 

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Brook Forrest White, Jr., owner of Flame Run Hotshop & Gallery, discovered his passion 

for hot glass while under the tutelage of Stephen Rolfe Powell at Centre College. White has 

traveled extensively, working with artists and visiting glass centers around the world. His 

many awards include the 1998 Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship, 2001st Prize 

North American Glass, 2001 Owensboro Mayor’s Award of Excellence, 2003 Centre College 

Distinguished Young Alumnus, 2004 Kentucky Arts Council Grant, 2005 Leadership Kentucky, 

and a 2005 Kentucky Arts Council Individual Artist Professional Development Grant. 

David Willis received a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in Social Science, minoring in Conservation 

and Resources Studies. He began flameworking two years later, in 1994. His glass education 

includes extensive work with Roger Parramore and nine summers at Pilchuck Glass 

School (student, teaching assistant, and flameworking shop coordinator). He continues his 

education, taking Art History at the University of Oregon. Drawing from an intense interest 

in the natural world, Willis’s work addresses the relationships between people and nature 

on an individual, personal, and societal level. Willis lives and works in Eugene, OR. 

Steve Wilson and his wife, Laura Lee Brown, are well known for their community efforts, 

their commitment to sustainable agriculture, land preservation, the arts, healthcare, and 

education. The couple actively pursues community restoration projects aimed at revitalizing 

Louisville’s urban cultural and architectural landscape. They acted as the creative force 

behind the 21c Museum Hotel and Proof on Main restaurant, and much of the art found 

in the 21c Museum is from Wilson and Brown’s acclaimed personal collection. When not 

engaged in various board or committee activities, the couple enjoys collecting art and 

traveling around the world. 

Jon Wolfe is an artist who has been working with glass for 33 years. As an independent 

studio artist, he has exhibited his sculptures internationally and is represented in numerous 

collections — museum, corporate, and private. For the past 12 years, Wolfe has been 

the director of the Hot Glass Studio and vice president of casting operations at Kokomo 

Opalescent Glass Company in Kokomo, IN. 

Richard Yelle received his B.F.A. in Glass at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and 

his M.F.A. in Glass from Rhode Island School of Design. His works are in the collections of 

the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. A professor at Parsons 

School of Design for 19 years, he is now Design Director and Chair of Industrial Design 

at the University of Bridgeport. A founder of UrbanGlass, and founding editor of GLASS 

Quarterly, Yelle has authored Glass Art from UrbanGlass and International Glass Art. 

Vaz Zastera apprenticed for 10 years as a master optician. He continues to work in the 

high tech industry, fabricating precision optical components for research and development 

and for the telecommunication, aerospace, and medical industries. He began his glass art 

career by experimenting with small optical components that didn’t meet spec and using 

these to create jewelry. When demand outgrew supply, he set up his own shop at home 

and started to make his own components. He subsequently began working on sculptures 

influenced by architecture. 

Walter Zimmerman, after a stint in the U.S. Air Force, earned his B.A. at Penn State. Two 

years after his first glass-blowing classes at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop, 

RIT accepted him into their graduate Glass program; he completed his M.F.A. in 1994. 

Zimmerman found crucial early support from Dale Chihuly. For six years, he taught at 

University of the Arts in Philadelphia, heading up Glass Studies when Roland Jahn retired. 

Recent shows include SLAG: Anti-Art Glass, the Prichard Art Gallery at the University of 

Idaho, and the Pierro Gallery, in New Jersey. 

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glass art society board of directors 


Shane Fero, President, has been a flameworker for 40 years. He maintains a studio 

next to Penland School in North Carolina. Fero participates in international symposia and 

conferences by lecturing and demonstrating, and he has taught at many institutions in 

the U.S. and abroad. His work can be found in private collections, public institutions, and 

museums worldwide, including the Museum of Art & Design in New York, the GlasMuseum 

in Denmark, the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the 

Museum fur Glaskunst in Lauscha, Germany, and the Niijima Contemporary Glass Museum 

in Japan. He has participated in 400+ group exhibitions during his career; his 20+ solo 

exhibitions since 1992 include three retrospectives: a 30-year at the Berkowitz Gallery at 

the University of Michigan in 1999, a 40-year at the Huntsville Museum of Art in 2008, and 

one at the Christian Brothers University in 2010. 

Jeremy Lepisto, Vice President, recently relocated to Canberra, Australia, from Portland, 

OR. His works use imagery inspired by his everyday surroundings to explore the complex in 

the common, and to comment on the condition of the spaces that we all share. With his 

wife, Mel George, he co-founded Studio Ramp LLC, a custom, kilnforming fabrication studio 

that translates artists’ and architects’ designs into glass. Lepisto has taught kilnforming 

classes and workshops in the U.S. and internationally. He has worked in several different 

departments at the Bullseye Glass Factory. He received his B.F.A. in Glass and Metals from 

Alfred University in 1997. 

Jutta Annette Page, Secretary, is Curator of Glass and Curator of Decorative Arts at the 

Toledo Museum of Art. She was the Curator of European Glass at the Corning Museum 

of Glass from 1993 to 2003. Page completed the equivalent of an M.A. in Visual Arts in 

Germany, studied jewelry design at San Diego State University, and went on to receive an 

M.A.E. in Jewelry/Metalsmithing at the Rhode Island School of Design. A few years later, 

she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture from Brown University. 

A respected author in her field, she has completed numerous publications and lectured 

extensively. She has served on the Board of the Creative Glass Center of America at 

Wheaton Village and as Secretary and Chair of the International Council of Museums’ 

Glass Committee. 

Pamina Traylor, Treasurer, is currently Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the 

Arts, where she was Interim Chair of the Glass Program from 1999 to 2000. She received 

her M.F.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, 

with additional studies at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, 

and San Francisco State University. Traylor has lectured and demonstrated in Australia 

and Japan, was a visiting professor at the Osaka University of Art in Japan, and has 

taught workshops at schools worldwide, including the Glass Furnace in Istanbul, Haystack 

Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, the Studio of the Corning Museum 

of Glass, and UrbanGlass. Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent 

collections of the Museum of American Glass in New Jersey; the Speed Art Museum; 

Tittot Glass Art Museum, Taiwan; and Cam Ocagi, Istanbul; among others. 

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Rik Allen has had solo exhibitions of his sculptures throughout the country, at venues that 

include the Science Fiction Museum, the Hall of Fame, Traver Gallery, Blue Rain Gallery, 

and Thomas Riley Galleries. His present series of work is in the form of rockets, figurative 

mechanisms, and scientific apparatus. While many of Allen’s pieces reveal his curiosity in 

science, they also convey humor, simple narratives, lightheartedness, and an antiquated 

vision of the future. This year, his work has been featured and reviewed in American Craft 

Magazine, GLASS Quarterly, Glass Art Magazine, and Launch Magazine. He worked on the 

William Morris sculpture team for 12 years. He has taught at Toyama Institute of Glass in 

Japan, the International Glass Festival in Stourbridge, and throughout the U.S. at institutions 

such as Penland School of Crafts, Pittsburgh Glass Center, and Pilchuck Glass School. 

He and his wife, Shelley Muzylowski-Allen, live in Sedro-Woolley, WA. 

Eddie Bernard earned a B.F.A. in Glass in 1996 from Rochester Institute of Technology. 

The same year, he founded Wet Dog Glass, LLC, a business that designs and manufactures 

high-end glass-processing equipment. This artist has instructed numerous hot glass 

sculpting workshops at Penland School of Crafts; Glass Furnace in Istanbul; and the Studio 

of the Corning Museum of Glass. He and his wife founded the New Orleans Creative Glass 

Institute, a non-profit, community-access studio. He recently oversaw the creation of a 

second one: GlassLab in Star, NC. Bernard has served on the Board of Directors of the 

Glass Art Society since 2004. 

Robin Cass has been a faculty member in the Glass Program at the Rochester Institute of 

Technology since 1998. Cass earned her B.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design and 

her M.F.A. from Alfred University. She has been invited to teach glassblowing and exhibit 

her sculptural work internationally, and has received fellowships and grants from Wheaton 

Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Glass & Ceramic Center of Seto, Japan. 

Cass has lead workshops at Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 

the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, and elsewhere. While on sabbatical from RIT 

next year, she’ll be teaching and making work at the Osaka University of Arts in Japan. 

F.G. “Rick” Heath is a mechanical engineer who has spent most of his life in the manufacture 

of capital goods. He is currently Principal of Heath and Associates, a consulting group 

that provides litigation support in product liability matters. Heath and his wife, Merrily 

Orsini, are avid collectors of contemporary glass art. They reside in Louisville, KY, where 

glass art is gaining momentum in the creative community. 

Geoff Isles has been involved in the world of glass in many capacities. He graduated from 

Tulane University and continued his studies by taking two concentrations at Penland School 

of Crafts under Fritz Dreisbach. Soon after returning to New York City, he joined the board 

of the New York Experimental Glass Workshop, leading the effort to move the studio to 

Brooklyn and changing its name to UrbanGlass. He taught Product Design at Parson’s 

School of Design throughout the 1990s, starting their glass program within the department. 

Isles is the vice chairman of Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, and the chair of 

MoG’s Collections Committee. He is also on the board of the Newcomb Art Gallery at 

Tulane University in New Orleans. His by-line, the Glass Eye, can be read in each issue of 

GLASS Quarterly, UrbanGlass’s magazine. He is also the editor of GASnews, the Glass Art 

Society newsletter. 

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glass art society board of directors 


Jiyong Lee has headed the glass program of Southern Illinois University Carbondale since 

2005. Born and raised in Korea, he received his B.F.A. in Ceramics Design there from 

Hong-ik University. He graduated from the M.F.A. program at Rochester Institute of Technology 

in 2000. Having his feet in both cultures has broadened his personal aesthetics 

and his appreciation for different ways of thinking. He specializes in cold-working and 

kilnforming processes. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. He has lectured 

and demonstrated at, among others, the 2007 Glass Art Society Conference, Rochester 

Institute of Technology, the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Cleveland Institute 

of Art, Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, Pittsburgh Glass Center, and 

Kook-Min University in Seoul. 

Caroline Madden teaches at the National College of Art and Design in Ireland. She 

received her M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 1992, and taught at at 

Jacksonville University from 1992 to 2007. She directed the Governor’s High School 

Summer Program for Gifted and High Achieving Students in 2001 and 2003, was inducted 

into the Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 2006, and co-founded the Glass Institute of the 

Southeast, where she served as director from 1997 to 2000. She has also taught at the 

School for American Craft, RIT, Pilchuck Glass School, UrbanGlass, Pittsburgh Glass Center, 

and the Fire Station Workshops. Madden’s work is in the collections of the Ulster Museum 

in Belfast and in the National Museum in Ireland; it is exhibited at the Times-Union Center 

for the Performing Arts in Jacksonville and at Sculpture in the Park at Lough Boora. 

Tommie Rush lives and works in Knoxville, TN. She earned her B.F.A. at the University of 

Tennessee and has studied at the Arrowmont School of Crafts. She shows regularly and her 

work is included in the collections of the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama; the Sheldon 

Art Museum and Sculpture Garden in Lincoln, NE; and the Renwick Gallery in Washington, 

DC, among others. Rush serves on the boards of the Glass Art Society and the American 

Craft Council and recently termed off the Penland School of Crafts board. 

Wayne Strattman received his Ph.D. from the University of Sunderland in the U.K. in 2008 

for his many years of work researching, writing, advocating for, and making sculpture with 

neon and other advanced forms of lighted glass. An engineer and a physicist by training, 

Strattman applies his skills to developing innovative practical applications for the technologies 

used in his art, as both an independent developer and as a consultant. He is responsible 

for more than 100 articles, the industry-standard textbook Neon Techniques, and 

numerous lighting patents and products. His Boston-based company, Strattman Design, 

has been a leader for decades in making custom sculpture, architectural installations, 

and lighting. Strattman endowed a continuing lecture series for the Glass Art Society. 

He started and has helped promote an annual neon show at each GAS conference since 

1997. Strattman received the American Business Press Association’s award for technical 

journalism for his monthly column. 

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Elizabeth Swinburne lives in Edinburgh. An artist, educator, and curator working in glass 

and mixed media during her 25-year career, she has exhibited throughout Europe, the U.S., 

South America, and Japan. Her work appears in major international collections, including 

the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, 

the Kunstmuseum in Düsseldorf, the Hokkaido Museum in Japan, and the Museum of 

Applied Arts in Prague. In 2005, she was awarded the Joel Philip Myers prize at the 

International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa. Swinburne plays an active role in other aspects 

of the glass world, her contributions ranging from acting as juror on international competitions 

to providing an international perspective on the board of the Glassmuseet Ebeltoft in 

Denmark. From 1998 to 2003, she was the artistic and technical director of North Lands 

Creative Glass in the north of Scotland. 

Tracy Kirchmann, Student Representative, is a graduate student at Western Carolina 

University, where she is a Sculpture major with an emphasis in Glass, studying under 

Professor Joan Falconer Byrd. She is also the first Glass Resident at the Jackson County 

Green Energy Park in Dillsoboro, NC. She has been invited to speak at numerous conferences 

about using methane as an alternative fuel source; conferences include the 2008 

Portland GAS Conference and the 2008 National Iron Conference at Sloss Furnaces in 

Birmingham, AL. She received her B.F.A. in Glass and Sculpture from Southern Illinois 

University Carbondale, where she also pursued an internship at Do-U-Glass Art School. 

Kirchmann has received numerous scholarships and awards. She is currently teaching the 

first university soft-glass sculpture class using landfill gas, at the Green Energy Park through 

Western Carolina University. 

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conference co-chairs 


Louisville skyline. Photo: Dan Dry 

Merrily Orsini is the managing director and founder of corecubed, a strategic, integrated 

marketing communications company. Orsini’s list of honors is long. She earned the 

prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the in-home geriatric care 

agency she founded and sold prior to starting her current company. Working Woman 

Magazine named corecubed one of the 25 Best Woman-Owned Companies in America 

in 2008. Her MOST SM Program was a finalist for the Stevie Awards Marketing Campaign of 

the Year in 2009, and she was honored as Louisville Magazine’s Digital Age Entrepreneur 

in its 2008 “Best of Louisville Awards.” Orsini and her husband Rick Heath are avid glass 

collectors, active in AACG and the local visual arts in Louisville. 

Ché Rhodes, see Conference Presenter Biographical Information on page 50. 

J. Page von Roenn currently serves as CEO of Glassworks and is vice president of 

Architectural Glass Art, Inc., the oldest American glass studio in continuous operation. 

She was raised with glass, and has worked on and off with the studio in various capacities 

since 1991, doing everything from production to marketing and design. After studying art in 

school, she received her B.S. in Computer Science and worked in the IT industry for several 

years. She returned to her roots in 2002, shortly after Glassworks opened its doors to the 

public, and loves every minute of it. 

Brook Forrest White, Jr., see Conference Presenter Biographical Information on page 55. 

conference co-chairs acknowledgments 

The Louisville Conference Co-Chairs would like to thank the following: 

GAS Board of Directors, Pamela Koss, and GAS staff. 

Laurel Streibel and the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau 

The City of Louisville and its arts and cultural attractions, who have embraced glass 

as art and are participating in the GLASS30 Louisville Visual Arts Festival that wraps 

around the Glass Art Society’s 40th anniversary conference. 

The many volunteers, organizations, and individuals in the Metro Louisville and 

Southern Indiana area who worked so hard to make this a successful conference. 

We appreciate the hours of planning, work, and dedication put into this event by 

so many in our community. 

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Glass Art society acknowledgments 

as of May 1, 2010 

The Glass Art Society expresses its sincere gratitude to the following: 

Conference Co-Chairs 

Merrily Orsini, Ché Rhodes, J. Page von Roenn, and Brook Forrest White, Jr. 

Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau 

Conference In-Kind Contribution Donors 

Spruce Pine Batch, Inc., Carlisle Machine Works, 

National Torch, Red7e, Wale Apparatus 

International Student Exhibition Award Donors: 

Total donation value of as of April 6, 2010: $5,305 from 13 companies 

$1,000 or More: 

Corning Museum of Glass 

$500 - $999: 

• Austin Thin Films, Inc. • Coatings By Sandberg • Emhart Glass Inc. 

• His Glassworks, Inc. • Pittsburgh Glass Center • Steinert Industries, Inc. 

Under $500: 

• Glass Crafters • Hub Consolidated, Inc. • Jim Moore Tools for Glass 

• UrbanGlass • Uroboros Glass • Wale Apparatus Co. 

General Student Scholarship Fund: 

• Herb Babcock - College for Creative Studies • Marilee Burnside - Marilee Glass Design, LLC 

• Bobby Castillo - Seagull Glass Works, Inc. • Rene Culler - Rene Culler Glass LLC 

• Susan Daniel • Deborah Ellington - Dragon Fly Studio • Jane Francescon 

• Bill Gentles • Ann Hollingsworth • Arthur Liu • Eric Lyons 

• Caroline Madden - National College of Art & Design • Suzanne Mears 

• John Miller - Ring of Fire Hot Glass • Roger Moore - Indigo Pacific Group 

• David Myrick - Creekside Glass Studio • Robert Pasquesi 

• Jong-Pil Pyun, Namseoul University • Morton Silverman • Mary Swanson 

• Nancy Tobey - Nancy Tobey Glass Beads • E. Crosby Willet -Willet Stained Glass Studios 

• Stefani Woodams - Greystone Art Glass 

Takako Sano Student Scholarship Fund – established by GAS to support the attendance 

of one non-U.S. student at each annual GAS conference: 

•Bobby Castillo - Seagull Glass Works Inc. • Ann Hollingsworth 

Becky Winship Flameworking Scholarship Fund – established in 2002 by Winship Designs: 

• Aaron Duccini - AD Glass and Design • Joan Eppen • Thomas Eppen 

• Martha Giberson • Doug Harroun - Greymatter Studio • Andrea McKey 

• Helene Safire - Helene Safire Ltd. • David Winship - Glasscraft/Winship 

• Colby Wise - It’s Alll Good • David Wright 

Dominick Labino Lecture Fund – established in 1993 by GAS to continue the legacy of 

Dominick Labino in furthering the technical and aesthetic quality of glass art: 

• Herb Babcock - College for Creative Studies • Bobby Castillo - Seagull Glass Works Inc. 

• Leigh Hayes • Teri Kinnison - Desert Fire Art Glass • Michele MacFarlane - Contemporary 

Studio Glass • Leonard Marty - Toledo Museum of Art, Glass Studio Program 

• Ted Parrot • Jong-Pil Pyun - Namseoul University • Terri Sigler – Chaotic Joy 

• Sylvia Vigiletti - Vigiletti Studios 

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Glass Art society acknowledgments 

as of May 1, 2010 

Robert Willson Lecture Fund – established in 2001 with an initial contribution of 

$30,000 from Mrs. Margaret Pace Willson for an annual GAS conference lecture 

addressing sculpture and glass: 

• Deborah Dohne • Jenny Judge • Carol Nicola • Ed O’Keefe • Barbara Paull 

• Lillian Pitt 

Wayne Strattman Lecture Fund – established in 2004 with an initial contribution of 

$10,000 from Wayne Strattman for a critical dialogue series to bring new knowledge 

and intriguing new controversial viewpoints to GAS conferences: 

• Gloria Badiner - Arts & Artifacts Glass Studio • Cynthia Corio-Poli - Cynthia Corio-Poli Design 

• Ann Hollingsworth • Margareth Troli - National Glass Centre 

Sy Kamens Educational Fund – Proceeds help keep student membership and registration 

fees low: 

• Herb Babcock - College for Creative Studies • Lisa Hilquist - Kimberly Morian Design 

• Ann Hollingsworth • Mary Reidmeyer - Missouri S&T • Silvia Taylor • Beverly Toledo 

• Shannon Trudell • Walter Zimmerman 

Hilbert Sosin Fund for Professionalism in the Glass Arts – established in 1995 

by GAS to support educational endeavors within GAS membership that benefit the 

organization as a whole: 

• Herb Babcock - College for Creative Studies • Raji Olagoke - Nu-image 

• Jean Sosin • Sylvia Vigiletti - Vigiletti Studios 

GAS in CERF: 

• Darin Anderson - DarMa Glass & Boise Glass Blowing Center • Pat Arnold - Dancing 

Light Glass • Dara Atkinson • Wendy Avery - Dockyard Glassworks • Susan Bartlett de 

Limburg • Claire Bateman • James Benson - Omniverrous • Joshua Bernbaum - JMB 

Glass • William Bernstein - Bernstein Glass • Darryl Berry - Darryl Berry Glass Studio 

• Linda Blankenship • Lauretta (Lori) Blessing - d’Verre Kilnformed Glass Art 

• Susan Burkart - Q by Dezine • Molly Cadranell - Glass Roots • Deborah Carlson - 

Shooting Star Glass Studio • Karl Carter - Bucks County Community College 

• Bobby Castillo - Seagull Glass Works, Inc. • Ithiel Catiri - Catiri’s Art Glass 

• Alison Chism - Salisbury University • Bertram Cohen - Great American Marble Co. 

• Stephen Cressey - Stematdan Glass • Miriam Di Fiore • Sue Richers Elgar - Hot Beads 

• Donna Figone • Josephine Geiger - J.A. Geiger Studio • Barbara Grauke - Cuesta Glass 

• Lois Hagerty - L Smith-Hagerty Designs • Mari Harrison - All Things Glassen by Mari 

• Doug Harroun - Greymatter Studio • Charlie Holden - Chaos Glass • Ann Hollingsworth 

• Joan Johnson, JMJ Designs • Charlie Kingsley • Masami Koda • Ellie Lainer 

• Cam Langley • Anita LoMonico - ASL DreamWorks • Susan Longini • Mary Lynn - The 

Glass Smith • Lucy Lyon - American Glass Studio • Morgan Madison - Morgan Madison 

Glass • Andrea Marcus - Fine Art & Design • Elizabeth Mead - Transformations …Anything 

Glass • David Myrick - Creekside Glass Studio • Harumi Nagai - NAGAI U.S.A., Inc. dba 

Trading Post • Carol Nicola • Russell O’Brien - O’Brien Art Glass • Raji Olagoke - 

Nu-image • Sheldon Palley • Amy Pender • Mary Reidmeyer - Missouri S&T 

• Deanne Sabeck - Kuivato Glass Gallery • Helene Safire - Helene Safire Ltd. 

• Nona Sandberg - Coatings by Sandberg, Inc. • Noah Schenk • Donald Schneider - 

The Glassworks • Terri Sigler – Chaotic Joy • Sandra Smith • Gail Snitkoff 

• Carrie Strope – Calyx Glass • Dan Terrible • Colby Wise - It’s Alll Good 

• Yilmaz Yalcinkaya - The Glass Furnace 

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General Donations: 

• Barrick Gold USA Employees PAC • Lindsay Capps – Sites and Harbison, PLLC 

• Robert Carlson • Steve De Martino – Corning Incorporated • Marie and Ray Fontaine 

• Heather McCulloch – Natural Glass • William Neukom – Microsoft Corporation 

• Roger Parramore – Parramore Glass • Christina Ryan – Stites & Harbison, PLLC 

Presenters Who Donated All or Part of Their Honorariums to GAS: Lindsay Capps and 

Christina Ryan, Scott Erbes, Richard Jolley, Martie Negri, Roger Parramore 

Emerging Artist Jurors: John Drury, Elizabeth McClure, Amy Morgan 

International Student Exhibition Jurors: John Drury, Mark Peiser, Tom Philabaum 

Portfolio Reviewers: Scott Erbes, Henry Halem, Richard Harned, Marta Hewett, 

David Keens, Ruth King, Amy Morgan, Roger Parramore, Duane Reed 

Student Scholarship Jurors: Martin Beaver, Duane Reed, Sarah Traver 

GAS apologizes to anyone who may have been inadvertently left off this list. 

Please see the 2010 GAS Journal for a complete list of donors and volunteers. 

Thanks to our major sponsor 

The GAS 2010 Louisville Conference 

is supported in part by an award from 

the National Endowment for the Arts. 

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gas conference sponsors 

40th Anniversary Ruby Sponsorship 

Pre-Conference Reception Sponsor 

Communications Sponsor 

Cressman Center 

Venue Sponsor 

Education Through Art 

Sponsor 

Day of Glass Sponsor 

Leonard & 

Adele Leight 


Sponsor 

Day of Glass 

Sponsor 


Sponsor 

Dr. John & Bonnie Roth 

Bill Samuels Keynote Address 

Sponsor 

A couple of Shelley’s many friends 

Shelley Muzylowski-Allen Demonstration Sponsor 

Judy & Bob Ayotte 

Mark Payton Demonstration Sponsor 

Stephen Rolfe Powell Demonstration Sponsor 

A couple of Tom’s many friends 

Tom Philabaum Lifetime Membership Award 

Lecture Sponsor 

Marlene & David Grissom 

Brook Forrest White, Jr., Demonstration Sponsor 

Rick Heath & Merrily Orsini 

Richard Jolley Demonstration Sponsor 

Ché Rhodes Demonstration Sponsor 

The Flow, 

Glass Pattern Quarterly, 

Profitable Glass Quarterly 

David Walters Demonstration Sponsor 

Stock Yards Bank & Trust 

Devyn Baron & Amy Pender 

Demonstration Sponsor 

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Sutherland Foundation 

Lino Tagliapietra Demonstration Sponsor 

Glass Brokers Inc. 

Paul Stankard Demonstration Sponsor 

Loren Stump Demonstration Sponsor 

Clark-Floyd Counties 

Convention-Tourism Bureau 

Transportation Sponsor 


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Thanks to our major sponsor 

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Thanks to our Pre-Conference Reception sponsor 

Thanks to our Demonstration Venue sponsor 

Thanks to our sponsor 

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t r av e l t i p s + t r a n s p o r t a t i o n 

Driving Directions in and Around Louisville 

From Marriott Hotel to Glassworks 

Head west on W. Jefferson (go .5 mi), turn right onto S. Roy Wilkins Avenue, turn right onto 

W. Market. 815 W. Market is on the left. 

From Marriott Hotel to U of L Cressman Center 

Head west on W. Jefferson, turn left onto 3rd St., turn left onto W. Liberty St. (go .3 mi), turn 

left onto S. Brook St. (go .2 mi), turn left onto E. Main. 100 E. Main is on the left. 

From Marriott Hotel to Flame Run 

Head west on W. Jefferson, turn left onto 3rd St., turn left onto W. Liberty St. (go .6 mi), turn 

left onto S. Jackson St. (go .2 mi), turn right onto E. Market St. (go .4 mi). 828 E. Market is 

on the right. 

From Marriott Hotel to Speed Art Museum 

Head west on W. Jefferson, turn left onto S. 3rd St. (go 2.5 mi). 2035 S. 3rd St. is on the left. 

From Marriott Hotel to Muhammad Ali Center 

Head west on W. Jefferson Street, turn right onto S. 5th Street (go .2 mi), turn left onto 

W. Main Street, turn right onto N. 6th Street. 144 N. 6th Street is on the left. 

From Louisville to Centre College (85 miles) 

Take I-64 East to Hwy 151 S (Lawrenceburg-Graefenburg, Exit 48). Bear right off the exit and 

travel 5 miles. Turn right at the intersection onto US-127 S; travel approximately 36 miles. 

Turn left onto US-127 Business (Maple Ave.) in Danville; go 2.2 miles. Turn left onto Main St. 

Turn right into the Admission Welcome Centre parking lot. Admission Welcome Centre is on 

the first floor of Old Centre. 

Taxi Services 

Checker Cab 502-244-9480 

Yellow Cab 502-636-5511 

Information Centers 

Louisville Visitors Information Center 

301 S. Fourth St., Louisville, KY 40202 

Located downtown, adjacent to the Kentucky International Convention Center and the 

Hyatt Regency, at the corner of 4th and Jefferson Streets. 

Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday, 12 pm - 5 pm 

502-379-6109 

Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Center 

One Court Square, Bardstown, KY 40004 

800-638-4877 

Southern Indiana Convention & Visitors Center 

315 Southern Indiana Ave., Jeffersonville, IN 47130 

812-282-6654 

Visitors Center in Historic Old Louisville 

218 West Oak St., Louisville, KY 40203 

Located near 3rd & Oak 

Monday - Saturday, 9 am - 5 pm 

502-637-2922 

Main Street Association’s Visitor and Information Center 

627 West Main St., Louisville, KY 40202 

502-568-2220 

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t r av e l t i p s + t r a n s p o r t a t i o n 

Downtown Louisville Parking 

Garage at 1st and Main, 

100 E Main Street. Parking for Actors 

Theatre & Main/Market Arts District. 

Second Street Lot, 440 S 2nd Street. 

$3 up to 4 hours. $5 for weekends 

and events. $10 for overnight. 

Third and Ali Lot, 447 S 3rd Street. 

Parking for 3rd Street and 

Muhammad Ali. 

$3 up to 4 hours. $5 for full day 

and events. $3 for weekends. 

$10 for overnight. 

Third and Liberty Lot, 409 S 3rd Street. 

$3 up to 4 hours. $5 for full day, weekends, and events. $10 for overnight. 

Fourth Street Live Garage, 425 S 5th Street, entrance at 5th between Muhammad Ali and 

Liberty. Parking for 4th Street Live, Bank One, Starks Building, Citizens Plaza. 

Fifth Street Garage, 630 S 5th Street, entrance at Fifth between Broadway and Chestnut, or 

Theatre Square Alley, in front of the Palace Theatre. Parking for Cunningham’s Restaurant, 

Brown Theater, Theater Square, Brown Hotel, and Brennan House. 

Sixth and Main Garage, 120 S 6th Street, entrance at 6th between Main and Market. 

Parking for Kentucky Arts and Crafts, Kentucky Center for the Arts, and Court House. 

Eighth and Main Garage, 120 S 8th. Parking for Louisville Slugger and Historic Main. 

Brown Hotel Garage, 658 S 3rd Street. Parking for Brown Hotel, Palace Theater, and 

Theater Square. 

920 West Main Lot. Parking for Frazier Museum, Louisville Science Center, Slugger Museum, 

and the West Main Arts District. 

Jefferson Centre Garage, 115 W Jefferson. Parking for the Convention Center. 

Kentucky Center Garage, 121 N 6th Street. Parking for the Kentucky Center, Historic Main 

Street, and the Belvedere. 

West Washington Street Lot, 901 West Washington. Parking for the Frazier Museum, 

Louisville Science Center, Slugger Museum, and West Main Arts District. 

Louisville Gardens Garage, 415 S 6th Street. Parking for Metro Hall and Louisville Gardens. 

Market Street Garage, 536 W Market. Parking for Metro Government. 

Muhammad Ali Center Garage, 140 N 6th Street. Parking for Muhammad Ali Center, 

Museum of History and Science, and West Main Arts District. 

Riverfront Garage, 141 N 6th Street. Parking for Kentucky Center, Belle of Louisville, 

Historic Main Street, the Belvedere, and the Galt House Hotel. 

Seelbach Garage, 523 S 5th Street. Parking for Fourth Street Live, Seelbach Hotel. 

Wharf Lot, 131 W River Road. Parking for Waterfront Park, Belle of Louisville, Spirit of 

Jefferson, Joe’s Crab Shack, the Belvedere, the Riverwalk. $3. 

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GAS Shuttle Schedule 

Transportation sponsored by Clark-Floyd Counties Convention-Tourism Bureau. 

June 9 – Pre-Conference Reception at the Speed Art Museum 

Pick up: Marriott Hotel 2nd Street Lobby 

Drop off: Speed Art Museum 

Times: 5:30 pm depart from hotel; 9:30 pm depart from museum 

June 10-12 – Conference Lectures, Lec-Mos & Demonstrations at Glass Studios 


Drop off: Uof L Cressman Center, Flame Run, and Glassworks 

Times: 7:30 am to 12:30 pm each day 

June 11 – Gallery Hop - 4 shuttles 


Drop off: Shuttle 1: Carnegie Center and Indiana University Southeast 

Shuttle 2: U of L Cressman Center, Flame Run, and Glassworks 

Shuttle 3: Gallery Janjobe and Gallery M at Mellwood Art Center 

Shuttle 4: Kaviar Forge & Gallery and Crescent Hill Gallery 

Times: Continuous Shuttle from 5 pm - 9 pm (Last shuttle departs at 9 pm) 

June 12 – Closing Night Party 


Drop off: Muhammad Ali Center 

Times: Continuous Shuttle from 7:45 pm - 12 midnight 

TARC Trolley Schedule 

Ride for free during the conference. 

Trolley routes are denoted by dotted 

lines on the map on page 74. 

4th Street Trolley 

Weekdays: 8 am - 7 pm 

(every 7-10 minutes) 

Saturdays: 10 am - 6 pm 

(every 20 minutes) 

Main & Market Street Trolley 

Weekdays: 6 am - 8 pm 

(every 10-15 minutes) 

Saturdays: 6:45 am - 8 pm (every 20-25 minutes) 

Airport Transportation 

The Marriott Louisville Downtown does not provide shuttle services. 

Alternate transportation services to the airport: 

R&R Limousine: Estimated fee $75.25 (one way, reservation required) 

Estimated bus service fee: $2.50 (one way) 

Estimated taxi fare: $16.00 (one way) 

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20 Things to Do in kentucky 

1. Visit the world-renowned Churchill 

Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, 

and view live horse racing with the 

famous Twin Spires towering over 

the track. See the newly renovated 

Kentucky Derby Museum’s fabulous 

exhibits of Derby yesterday and 

today. 

2. The Frazier International History 

Museum brings history to life! Along 

with pieces covering 1,000 years of history, you may see a sword fighting 

demonstration or hear from Buffalo Bill, William Tell, or Joan of Arc. 

3. Located on the banks of the Ohio River across from downtown Louisville is the Falls 

of the Ohio State Park. The 390-million-year-old fossil beds are among the largest, 

naturally exposed, Devonian fossil beds in the world. The park features a spectacular 

Interpretive Center overlooking the fossil beds. 

4. What’s inside the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft? Traditional and functional art in 

four exhibition galleries – plus an award-winning gallery shop. Kentucky, regional, and 

national artists are featured in more than 12 exhibitions per year. 

5. Visit the home of the world’s largest baseball bat at Louisville Slugger Museum & 

Factory. You’ll see the world-famous Louisville Slugger bats being made and a 

multitude of baseball memorabilia (bats used by Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth!), 

plus hands-on exhibits any baseball fan will love. 

6. Watch as each bottle’s neck is hand-dipped into red sealing wax at the Maker’s Mark 

Distillery, located in Loretto, KY, about an hour and half drive from Louisville. Take a 

tour of the grounds, where six generations have produced the famed Kentucky Maker’s 

Mark bourbon. Dip your own bottle! 

7. A visit to the Muhammad Ali Center is not just an experience but a journey into the 

heart of a champion. Learn about Muhammad Ali’s legendary life and reflect on your own 

values, inner strength, character, and what makes you the greatest person you can be. 

8. The Speed Art Museum is Kentucky’s oldest art 

museum. It permanently houses more than 13,000 

pieces, from ancient Egyptian to contemporary art. 

The Speed strives to bring great art and people together. 

9. Since opening in 2002, the Louisville Extreme Park 

has achieved fame as one of the world’s best skate 

parks. Features include a 24-foot full-pipe, 40,000 

square feet of outdoor concrete skating surface, and a 

wooden ramp to test balance of street-style, transition 

style, and vert. 

10. Fourth Street Live! is Louisville’s premier dining, 

entertainment, and retail destination, located on 

4th Street, between Liberty Street and Muhammad Ali 

Boulevard, in the heart of historic downtown Louisville. 

Enjoy it all: bowling, dancing, comedy shows, a piano 

bar, Irish pubs, a country saloon, Borders Books, 

and much, much more! 

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11. Eat, drink, and be merry on Bardstown Road! 

Enjoy some of Louisville’s finest dining 

establishments, best antique shops, and 

people watching in the country: everyone 

from punkers with pink Mohawks and 

skateboarders doing 360-switches, to street 

musicians playing bluegrass on the musical 

saw. Bardstown Road is a place to walk, 

meet people, and experience the sights. 

12. The Louisville Science Center is the largest hands-on science center in Kentucky, with 

approximately 150 interactive exhibits and activity stations, teaching laboratories, and 

a four-story IMAX theater. 

13. Named by Condé Nast Traveler as the #1 Hotel in the United States, 21c Museum 

Hotel is a boutique hotel, contemporary art museum, and home to an award-winning 

restaurant. You can explore work of contemporary artists in America’s only museum 

dedicated solely to art of the 21st century. Don’t forget to check out the penguins! 

14. The Belle of Louisville, a National Historic Landmark, and the Spirit of Jefferson, 

serve as the western anchor of Louisville’s award-winning Waterfront Park in downtown 

Louisville. Take a journey back in time as you enjoy a riverboat cruise down the 

majestic Ohio River! 

15. Don’t forget to visit Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville’s only Tony Award-winning 

theater. Escape the everyday with music, magic, tall tales, and tradition. 

16. The Louisville Zoo sits on 100 acres of exotic 

and natural plants that provide a home to 

a wide array of animals. See some of the 

exciting exhibits, including the award-winning 

Gorilla Forest, the updated Tiger Tundra, 

part of the ongoing Glacier Run project, and 

Lorikeet Landing. 

17. Enjoy a fun and family-friendly atmosphere, 

the World of Swirl gift shop, and a central 

“Louisville – Highlands” location at Lynn’s Paradise Café. This restaurant has received 

extensive local and national media attention, including features on the Oprah Winfrey 

Show and Food Network’s Throwdown with Bobby Flay. 

18. The restored Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill is America’s finest, largest, and most 

completely restored Shaker community. Discover the magic of simplicity – in architecture, 

furniture, and daily activities – as intended by its founders more than a century 

ago. Shaker Village is located in Harrodsburg, about an hour and a half from Louisville. 

19. American composer Stephen Foster is best known for “My Old Kentucky Home,” 

Kentucky’s state song. The supposed inspiration is now the focal point of My Old 

Kentucky Home State Park, where costumed guides in hoop skirts and tailcoats help 

you enjoy period furnishings, formal gardens, a carriage house, and a smoke house. 

Located one hour from Louisville, in Bardstown, KY. Be sure to visit the Bourbon 

Heritage Center and the Heaven Hill Distillery while in Bardstown. 

20. Locust Grove is a National Historic Landmark on 55 acres of a farm established in 

1790 by George Rogers Clark’s brother-in-law, William Croghan. The Georgian mansion 

has been restored and furnished to its original appearance. 

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Marriott Floor Plan - First Level 

Shuttle bus pick-up and drop-off 

Student Exhibitions 

Tech 

Display 

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Marriott Floor Plan - Second Level 

Registration 

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21c Museum Hotel, 700 W. Main St. - 24 

Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. 2th St. - 1 

Felice Vineyards, 829 E. Market St. - 17 

Flame Run, 828 E. Market St. - 23 

Frazier International History Museum, 

829 W. Main St. - 7 

Glassworks, 815 W. Market St. - 9 

Jonathan Capps Studio, 808 E. Market St. - 11 

Kentucky Mirror & Plate Glass, 822 W. Main St. - 14 

Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, 

715 W. Main St. - 19 

Louisville Marriott Downtown, 

280 W. Jefferson St. - 26 

Louisville Science Center, 727 W. Main St. - 20 

Louisville Slugger Museum, 800 W. Main St. - 3 

Muhammad Ali Center, 144 N. 6th St. - 21 

Paul Paletti Gallery, 713 E. Market St. - 16 

PYRO Gallery, 624 W. Main St. - 4 

Rouge Noir Gallery at Uof L, 

333 E. Market St. - 8 

Scout, 742 E. Market St. - 22 

six40, 640 E. Market St. - 18 

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Swanson Reed Contemporary, 

638 E. Market St. - 6 

The Brennan House, 631 S. 5th St. - 13 

The Gallery at Actor’s Theatre, 316 W. Main St. - 10 

The Green Building, 732 E. Market St. - 2 

The Huff Gallery at Spalding University, 

845 S. 3rd St. - 15 

The Kentucky Center for the Arts, 

501 W. Main St. - 25 

The Louisville Ballet, 315 E. Main St. - 12 

UofL Cressman Center, 100 E. Main St. - 5 

Galleries and Museums Not on Map 

Galerie Hertz, 1253 S. Preston St. 

Gallery Janjobe, 1860 Mellwood Ave. 

Gallery M at Mellwood, 1860 Mellwood Ave. 

Kaviar Forge & Gallery, 1718 Frankfort Ave. 

Louisville Visual Arts Association, 3005 River Rd. 

Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. 3rd St. 

Weber Gallery, 1151 S. 4th St. 

Trolley routes denoted by the dotted lines 

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u s e f u l p h o n e n u m b e r s 

Emergency 911 

Jewish Hospital 502-587-4011 

University of Louisville Hospital 502-562-3000 

Louisville Regional Airport Authority 502-368-6524 

CVS (incl. pharmacy dept.) 502-589-1846 

CVS (incl. pharmacy dept./24-hour) 502-459-6563 

Venue Phone Numbers 

21c Museum Hotel 502-217-6300 

Centre College Switchboard 859-238-5200 

Cressman Center for Visual Arts 502-852-0288 

Flame Run Hot Glass Studio & Gallery 502-584-5353 

Glassworks Studio 502-584-4510 

Marriott Louisville Downtown 502-627-5045 

Muhammad Ali Center 502-584-9254 

Speed Art Museum 502-634-2700 

Taxi Services 

Checker Cab 502-244-9480 

Yellow Cab 502-636-5511 

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21c Museum Hotel 25, 35, 55, 71, 74, 76 

ABR Imagery 31, 32 

Abright, Oben 12, 22, 37, 43 (bio) 

Abstracts 14–24 

Acknowledgments & Sponsors 60–66 

Aim Manufacturing 31, 32 

Airport Transportation 69 

Allen, Rik 2, 29, 40, 49, 57 (bio) 

Annual Business Meeting 29 

Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass 26, 64 

Artist’s Reliable Tool Company (ARTCO) 

31, 32 

Auction 30 

Ayotte, Judy and Bob 16, 23, 64 

Baron, Devyn 8, 14, 36, 43 (bio), 64 

Bayliss, Arlon 13, 23, 43 (bio) 

Bell, Michael T 10, 19, 43 (bio) 

Bernard, Eddie 2, 11, 20, 43 (bio), 57 (bio) 

Biographical Information: 

Conference Co-Chairs 60 

Biographical Information: 

Board of Directors 56 

Biographical Information: Presenters 43 

Bird-Jones, Christine 13, 23, 43 (bio) 

Bishop’s Hall, Christ Church Cathedral 

36, 74 

Black Out Bash 29 

Boyd, Cortney 11, 20, 43 (bio) 

Breed, James 10, 16, 44 (bio) 

Bullseye Glass Co. 31, 32, 48, 49, 54, 56 

Butler, Jim 13, 24, 44 (bio) 

Capps, Lindsay 13, 24, 44 (bio), 63 

Carlisle Machine Works 61 

Carnegie Center for Art & History 38, 76 

Carter, Ralph 9, 15, 44 (bio) 

Cass, Robin 2, 57 (bio) 

Choi, Eunsuh 10, 17, 44 (bio) 

Clark-Floyd Counties Convention-Tourism 

Bureau 64, 69 

Closing Night Party 30 

corecubed 60, 64 

Correll Glass Studio 31, 32 

Correll, Charlie 11, 20, 31, 32, 44 (bio) 

Culler, Rene 13, 22, 44 (bio), 61 

Cummings, Matthew 12, 22, 36, 38, 

45 (bio) 

Darlington, Scott 10, 18, 36, 40, 41, 

45 (bio) 

Day of Glass 26 

Denver Glass Machinery 31, 32 

DiFrenzi, Fred 11, 20, 36, 45 (bio) 

Dohne, Deborah 13, 24, 45 (bio), 62 

Dreisbach, Fritz 2, 11, 19, 45 (bio), 57 

Driving Directions 67 

Drury, John 13, 20, 23, 45 (bio), 63 

E.ON U.S. 64 

East Bay Batch + Color 31, 32 

Edols, Benjamin 10, 12, 13, 17, 21, 24, 37, 

41, 46 (bio) 

Education Resource Center 28 

Electroglass 31, 32 

Emergency Phone Numbers 76 

Emhart Glass Inc. 31, 32, 61 

Erbes, Scott 13, 24, 46 (bio), 63 

Euclid Kilns 31, 32 

Felice Vineyards 38, 74 

Fero, Shane 

Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery 

35, 37, 41, 67, 69, 74, 76 

Fox, David 11, 20, 46 (bio) 

Frazier International History Museum 

40, 70, 74 

Fund for the Arts 64, 65 

Gaffer Glass USA LTD 31, 32 

Galerie Hertz 39, 75 

Gallery Hop 28, 35–40 

Gallery Janjobe 39, 69, 75 

Gallery M at Mellwood 39, 69, 75 

Gallery on Pearl 76 

GAS Collectors Tour 25 

Glass Armonica Ballet Performance 26, 40 

Glass Art Society Board and Staff 2 

Glass Brokers Inc. 14, 21, 64 

Glasscraft, Inc. 31, 32, 61 

Glassworks 35, 36, 40, 41,67, 69, 74, 76 

Glastar Corporation 31, 32 

Goblet Grab 27 

Gosnell, Jim 11, 20, 46 (bio) 

Grissom, Marlene and David 15, 64 

Groth, John 8, 14, 46 (bio) 

Hall, Mark 10, 17, 46 (bio) 

Heath, F.G. “Rick” 2, 14, 17, 57 (bio), 

60, 64 

His Glassworks, Inc. 31, 32, 52, 61 

Hospital 76 

Hot Glass Color 31, 33 

Hub Consolidated Inc. 31, 33, 61 

Hyland, Casey 12, 21, 26, 36, 39, 40, 

46 (bio) 

Information Centers 67 

International Society of Glass Beadmakers 

(ISGB) 31, 33 

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International Student Exhibition & Sales 28 

International Student Exhibition Awards 28 

Isles, Geoff 2, 57 (bio) 

Jackson County Green Energy Park 

31, 33, 59, 

Janecky, Martin 9, 15, 47 (bio) 

Jim Moore Tools for Glass 31, 33, 61 

Jolley, Richard 10, 17, 19, 25, 36, 44, 

47 (bio), 63 

Jonathan Capps Studio 37, 74 

Kaviar Forge & Gallery 39, 69, 75 

Keynote Speech 26 

King, Ruth 11, 20, 47 (bio), 63 

Kirchmann, Tracy 2, 59 (bio) 

Knapp, Stephen 11, 19, 47 (bio) 

Koike, Kaori 12, 22, 47 (bio) 

KY Museum of Art and Craft 

35, 44, 52, 70, 74 

Lee, Jiyong 2, 58 (bio) 

Leight, Adele and Leonard 3, 13, 24, 28, 

37, 39, 46, 47 (bio), 64 

Lepisto, Jeremy 2, 13, 24, 37, 48 (bio), 

56 (bio) 

Letter from the Conference Co-Chairs 3 

Letter from the GAS President 4 

Letter from the Mayor 5 

Lifetime Achievement Award 26, 42 

Lifetime Membership Award 26, 42 

Lino Tagliapietra Demo at Centre College 25 

Lloyd-Jones, Jessica 11, 20, 48 (bio) 

Louisville Science Center 35, 71, 74 

Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory 

36, 70, 74 

Louisville Visual Arts Association 40, 75 

Madden, Caroline 2, 58 (bio), 61 

Maps 72 

Martin, Patrick 13, 23, 38, 48 (bio) 

Master of Glass Art & Science 31, 33 

Moore, McKinley 12, 22, 37, 48 (bio) 

Moore, Tom 2, 13, 24, 48 (bio) 

Morrin, Peter 10, 18, 48 (bio) 

Muhammad Ali Center 30, 40, 67, 70, 74 

Muzylowski-Allen, Shelley 2, 10, 16, 

49 (bio), 57, 64 

National Endowment for the Arts 63 

National Torch 31, 33, 61 

Negri, Martie 9, 14, 49 (bio), 63 

Neusole Glassworks 25, 31, 33 

Ohm Equipment, LLC 31, 33, 49 

Ohm, Douglas 11, 20, 33, 49 (bio) 

Olympic Color Rods 31, 33 

Opening Ceremony 26 

Origin Glass (Elan Technology) 31, 33 

Orsini, Merrily 2, 3, 14, 17, 57, 60 (bio), 

61, 64 

Owensboro Museum of Fine Art 40 

Pacific ArtGlass 31, 33 

Page, Andrew 13, 24, 29, 40, 49 (bio) 

Page, Jutta-Annette 2, 56 (bio) 

Paiko, Andy 11, 19, 49 (bio) 

Palmer Tools 31, 33 

Panepinto, Robert 9, 14, 49 (bio) 

Paragon Industries, LP 31, 33 

Parking 68 

Parramore, Roger 12, 21, 49 (bio), 52, 

55, 63 

Paul Paletti Gallery 37, 74 

Payton, Mark 10, 16, 36, 50 (bio), 64 

Peiser, Mark 2, 4, 8, 16, 26, 35, 

42 (bio), 63, 

Pender, Amy 8, 14, 36, 50 (bio), 62, 64 

Pharmacy 76 

Philabaum, Tom 2, 4, 8, 16, 26, 35, 

42 (bio), 63, 64 

Phone Numbers 76 

Pittsburgh Glass Center 29, 34, 46, 57, 

58, 61 

PNC 64 

Portfolio Review 27 

Posters Project Exhibition 26 

Powell, Stephen Rolfe 2, 4, 13, 23, 25, 38, 

44, 45, 48, 50 (bio), 53, 55, 64, 

Pre-Conference Reception 26 

PYRO Gallery 36, 74 

R&R Glass-Cast 31, 34 

Read, Lynn 13, 24, 50 (bio) 

Red Hot Metal Inc. 31, 34 

Red7e 61 

Rhodes, Ché 2, 3, 8, 13, 14, 24, 38, 

50 (bio), 60, 61, 64 

Robson, Julien 13, 24, 50 (bio) 

Roth, John and Bonnie 16, 26, 64 

Rouge Noir Gallery 37, 74 

Rueffert, Amy 10, 17, 35, 51 (bio) 

Rush, Tommie 2, 13, 24, 51 (bio), 58 (bio) 

Ryan, Christina 13, 24, 51 (bio), 63 

Ryder, Thomas 11, 20, 51 (bio) 

Saint-Gobain SEFPRO 26, 64, 66 

Samuels Jr., Bill 8, 16, 26, 51 (bio), 64 

Santini, Emilio 9, 15, 44, 51 (bio) 

Schaechter, Judith 2, 13, 23, 24, 51 (bio) 

Schedule Grid 6–7 

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Schedule Overview 8–13 

School Presentations Forum 29 

SCHOTT North America, Inc. 26, 31, 34, 

64, 66 

Schunke, Michael 12, 21, 52 (bio) 

Scout 37, 74 

Shelbo, Mike 10, 18, 52 (bio) 

Shuttles 69 

six 40 74 

Sizelove, Steve 9, 15, 52 (bio) 

Speed Art Museum 3, 5, 8, 25, 26, 39, 40, 

46, 48, 50, 52, 56, 67, 69, 70, 75, 76 

Spiral Arts/Carlo Donà 31, 34 

Sponsors & Acknowledgments 60–66 

Spruce Pine Batch, Inc 31, 34, 61 

Stankard, Paul 9, 14, 52 (bio), 64 

Steinert Industries, Inc. 31, 34, 61 

Stephan, Robert 10, 17, 32, 52 (bio) 

Stewart, Max 10, 18, 53 (bio) 

Stock Yards Bank & Trust 14, 64 

Strattman,Wayne 2, 10, 18, 40, 

58 (bio), 62 

Student Demo: Bowling Green State 

University 10, 17 

Student Demo: Rochester Institute of 

Technology 10, 18 

Student Demo: Salem Community College 

10, 17 

Student Demo: San Jose State University 

9, 15 

Student Demo: Sheridan College 12, 21 

Student Demo: Southern Illinois University 

Carbondale 9, 14 

Student Demo: Tulane University 12, 22 

Stump, Loren 12, 21, 53 (bio), 64 

Sugiki, Boyd 2, 9, 15, 53 (bio) 

Summers, Ruth 11, 20, 53 (bio) 

Sutherland Foundation 21, 22, 25, 64 

Swanson Reed Contemporary 37, 75 

Sweetwater Glass 31, 34 

Swinburne, Elizabeth 2, 59 (bio) 

System 96 31, 34 

Tagliapietra, Lino 2, 12, 21, 22, 25, 41, 

46, 53 (bio), 54, 64 

Tagliapietra Demo at Centre College 25 

Taxi Services 67 

Technical Display Booth Layout 31 

Technical Display Exhibitors 32–34 

The Flow, Glass Pattern Quarterly, 

Profitable Glass Quarterly 20, 64 

The Gallery at Actor’s Theatre 36, 74 

The Glass Performance Art Film Festival 

29, 40 

The Glenview Trust Company 14–17, 21–23, 

25, 64 

The Green Building Gallery 37, 75 

The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass 

31, 34, 43, 44, 46, 50, 54, 56, 57, 58 

Things to Do in Kentucky 70 

Travel Tips and Transportation 67–69 

Traylor, Pamina 2, 56 (bio) 

Trolley 69 

Tucker, Stephen 13, 23, 53 (bio) 

University of Louisville’s Cressman Center 

35, 36, 64, 67, 69, 75, 76 

University of Louisville’s Rouge Noir Gallery 

37, 74 

UrbanGlass 29, 31, 34, 44, 45, 46, 49, 

52, 55–58, 61 

Uroboros Glass 31, 34, 61 

Valkema, Durk 11, 20, 53 (bio) 

VandenBerg, Marc 8, 14, 54 (bio) 

Vetter, Carmen 2, 8, 14, 54 (bio) 

Von Roenn, J. Page 2, 3, 60 (bio), 61 

Von Roenn, Jr., Kenneth 11, 12, 19, 22, 

54 (bio) 

Vourvoulis, Ursula 11, 20, 54 (bio) 

Wale Apparatus Co. 31, 34, 61 

Walker, Corban 11, 19, 54 (bio) 

Wallin, Jeffrey 9, 15, 54 (bio) 

Walters, David 11, 20, 54 (bio), 64 

Weaver Industries, Inc. 31, 34 

Weber Gallery 39, 75 

Wet Dog Glass, LLC 31, 34, 43, 57 

White, Jr., Brook Forrest 2, 3, 9, 15, 37, 

38, 55 (bio), 60, 61, 64 

Willis, David 12, 22, 55 (bio) 

Wilson, Steve 13, 24, 55 (bio) 

Wolfe, Jon 11, 20, 55 (bio) 

Workshops 41 

Yelle, Richard 11, 20, 55 (bio) 

Yew Dell Gardens 40 

Zastera, Vaz 10, 18, 55 (bio) 

Zephyr Gallery 37, 75 

Zimmerman, Walter 13, 24, 55 (bio), 62 

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