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special conference events 8 Pre-Conference Reception Kick-Off Dinner and Private Tour Corning Incorporated Headquarters Wednesday, June 10, 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm LIMIT: 160 guests - Reservations will be made by the date received. Price: $150/person Please join us for this special fundraising event! An elegant, private dinner and exclusive tour of eleven large-scale glass installations that were commissioned for the atria of the East and West wings of the Corning Incorporated World Headquarters Building. Featured artists are Peter Aldridge, Dale Chihuly, Erwin Eisch, Rury Iwata, Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova, Donald Lipski, William Morris, Therman Statom, Bertil Vallien, Harumi Yukutake, and Dana Zamecnikova. These works are not normally offered for public view. The dinner will be hosted by James B. Flaws and Marie McKee. The Pre-Conference Reception is a fundraiser that supports low conference registration fees for student members of GAS. You must be registered in advance for the Pre-Conference Reception in order to attend as space is limited. Sign up for this event on page 18. Opening Ceremony CMOG Auditorium, Thursday, June 11, 1 - 5 pm Join GAS at the Opening Ceremony to kick off the conference events! The events will begin with a blessing from a member of the Haudenosaunee/ Iroquois Federation, a tribe native to New York State. The ceremony will continue with a welcome Tim MacFarlane from Shane Fero, GAS President, and the Corning conference co-chairs, presentation of the Lifetime Membership Award to John Leighton and the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award to Marvin Lipofsky. The event will conclude with lectures from the award winners and Keynote Speaker Tim MacFarlane, who is a Design Partner at Dewhurst MacFarlane and Partners. He works with leading architects on challenging structures, where the structural engineering is essential to the aesthetic. Since 1991, he has headed the innovation of the use of structural glass. He has taught architectural students for 20 years. He has been appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and is on the council of the Architectural Association in London, as well as a Visiting Professor at Yale University. Opening Reception Rockwell Museum of Western Art Thursday, June 11, 5 - 6:30 pm Kick off the GAS conference with a Western-themed evening at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art. Enjoy live music and food and explore the Museum’s amazing collection of American Western and Native American art, as well as its special exhibitions of glass by Tammy Garcia and traditional Iroquois raised glass beadwork. A shuttle will run beginning at 6:30 pm to the Woodburning Furnace at Corning Community College. An Evening In The Gaffer District Friday, June 12, 6 pm - 11 pm 6 - 9 pm Wine & Beer Tastings on Market Street 9 - 11 pm Party in the Park, Neon on the Bridge - Centennial Park Surprise, spectacle and a great social event - in Corning’s beautiful downtown. Finger Lakes wine and beer tastings fill Corning’s Historic Downtown Gaffer District shops, galleries and restaurants, and surprise guest artists demonstrate glassmaking in the town square with a great beer and pizza party. Join a community celebration of GAS in Corning as you spend a night out with fellow GAS participants. As the sun goes down, view “Neon on the Bridge,” sculpture installations organized by Alfred University. Closing Night Party CMOG Auditorium 2300° for GAS Attendees Saturday, June 13, 8 pm - 12 am The Corning Museum’s 2300° events are legendary for great music, great glassmaking and great food. The evening kicks off with the Student Awards ceremony at 8:30 pm, followed by the infamous Glass Fashion Show produced by Laura Donefer at 8:45 pm. Live music by Entrain: “Groove-heavy music, Entrain merges funk, rock, reggae, swamp, and worldbeat rhythm into a sweaty good time...” says The Boston Herald. Jazz music by local band, SuperNatural. Glassmaking demonstrations by Corning Museum staff and special guests. Free food, cash bar. Glass Fashion Show CMOG Auditorium Saturday, June 13, 8:45 pm Event will take place during the Closing Night Party When Laura Donefer put on the very first Glass Fashion Show at the GAS conference in Toronto in 1989, she had no clue that it would become one of the most anticipated events in the glass world. After organizing over 10 Glass Fashion Shows in a number of different venues, Laura is back at Corning with what will be one of the most spectacular Glass Fashion Shows ever! Over 50 artists from all over the world will participate, creating costumes made with every kind of glass imaginable. Come early for a front row seat, and watch the artists strut their glassy stuff!
pre-conference tours Please register for these tours by using the registration form on page 18. All tours leave from the Corning Museum of Glass. Exploring Tiffany Windows in Western New York Wednesday, June 10, 8 am (7:45 am - board bus) Tiffany historians Lindsy R. Parrott and Diane C. Wright lead an in-depth exploration of Tiffany Studios ecclesiastic windows and interiors in Corning and Rochester churches. Ornamental, figural and landscape windows dating from the early 1890s through the 1920s are the focus of this day-long tour. Tiffany mosaics and other richly ornamented fittings for ecclesiastic interiors will also be considered. Ms. Parrott is the Director and Curator of the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City. She will discuss the innovative materials and fabrication techniques used by Tiffany to create these windows. Ms. Wright works in the American Decorative Arts Department at the Yale University Art Gallery. She will focus on the designers who worked for Tiffany and the history of the American stained-glass movement. Cost: $140/person. Includes bus transportation and a box lunch. Minimum 20, maximum 50 participants. Sullivan Park Research Center Wednesday, June 10, at 12:30 and 2:30 pm Corning celebrated 100 years of Research & Development in 2008. A tour of the Sullivan Park R&D Center will be offered to Glass Art Society participants. The tour will include an overview of Corning’s R&D programs and facilities followed by demonstrations of three technologies for new products. Cost: $15/person. Maximum capacity of 80 people per tour. Details will be available on the day of the of tour. Finger Lakes Studio Tour Wednesday, June 10, 8 am Take a ride and discover glass art studios nestled amidst the vineyards of the Finger Lakes. Our tour will visit 4 working glass studios along the shores of Canandaigua Lake, each with its own unique story and treasures. We will enjoy wine-tasting and lunch at one of the oldest wineries in the Finger Lakes, Widmer Wine Cellars. Cost: $95/person. Maximum 25 participants. Niagara Falls, NY Day trip Wednesday, June 10, 7:30 am - 8 pm Tour the best of art and nature on our tour to Buffalo-Niagara Falls – we will visit the Darwin Martin House (a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home), the Albright Know Gallery, as well as enjoy a cruise on the famous Maid of the Mist. Tour includes a “traditional” Buffalo lunch! Cost: $130/person*. includes: transportation, English speaking guide, admission to the Maid of the Mist, lunch at Hard Rock Café and guide and driver gratuity. *Pricing is based on 35 passenger minimum and may increase with a lower passenger count. Minimum 35, maximum 50 participants. Technical Display - The Marketplace for Glass Artists Open to the public: Thursday, June 11, 11:30 am - 4 pm; Friday, June 12, 11:30 am - 6 pm; Saturday, June 13, 9 am - 3 pm Visit GAS’ annual Technical Display to see and purchase the newest and best equipment, supplies, services, publications and education materials, located in the lot between the Corning Museum of Glass and The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, in the midst of all of the conference activities. Interested in exhibiting? Technical Display packages will be available at $875 and $1,100 and include one 8 ft. x 10 ft. booth, one half page ad in the newly revamped GAS Directory and Resource Guide (see GAS Directory and Resource Guide Advertising, below) and two conference passes. For information on how to reserve your space or on our display allocation system, please contact the Seattle GAS office or check the web site at www.glassart.org. Deadlines February 15, 2009: Display space reservation and 50% deposit due April 1, 2009: Final Technical Display payment due April 30, 2009: Camera-ready art for Resource Guide ad MUST be at the GAS office in Seattle. GAS Directory and Resource Guide Advertising In 2007, GAS combined the Resource Guide with the Membership and Education Roster, which created a new, consolidated publication where you can find all of the contact information you need to know about members, schools, products and services. The new GAS Directory and Resource Guide is a great opportunity to present your product or program to a target market that members will save and refer to all year. Given to all GAS members and used year-round, the GAS Directory and Resource Guide also features a collection of advertisements from artists, museums, galleries, schools, manufacturers and suppliers of glass-related goods and services from around the world. For ad rates and specifications or to make ad reservations, please contact the GAS office, or check the GAS website at www.glassart.org 9
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