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Call to Artists! 2018 CGCA Fellowship

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cgcaThe Creative Glass Center of America (CGCA) at WheatonArts offers fellowships to artists working in glass and has serviced glass artists and the arts community for over thirty years. Over 300 professional and emerging artists have been recipients of a CGCA fellowship, from the U.S. and over 26 foreign countries. Artists are encouraged to use their fellowships to develop and refine their work, while experimenting with both traditional and innovative glassmaking processes.

The 2018 CGCA Fellowship Application for the three-month and project-based residencies at WheatonArts and Cultural Center are now available online. Artists are welcome to send in proposals, due December 2, 2017.

For Project Based Application – click HERE

For Three Month Fellowship Application – click HERE

The CGCA Fellowship Program provides 24-hour studio facilities, technical resources, housing and a stipend; allowing artists the opportunity to spend a concentrated period of time devoted exclusively to their work. Many emerging artists have used the Fellowships as a stepping-stone to a successful career. For mid-career artists, it offers an opportunity to redefine direction and renew creative energy. The collaboration and exchange of ideas among the Fellows enhances a productive climate, supporting the discovery of new vision and resources for each.

For more information about the CGCA Fellowship, visit their website

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GlassWeekend ’17 @ WheatonArts Opens Friday!

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GW17-Web-Banner-1-1024x424New Jersey’s WheatonArts opens GlassWeekend – an International Symposium and Exhibition of Contemporary Glass. Begun in 1985, GlassWeekend brings together the world’s leading glass artists, collectors, galleries, and museum curators at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center for a three-day weekend. Proceeds of the event support the fellowship program of the Creative Glass Center of America and the educational programs of the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, both of which are not-for-profit organizations. GlassWeekend takes place every other summer in odd years. GlassWeekend ’17 will take place June 9, 10, and 11, 2017.

Tim Tate "The Secret Garden"; 36 x 36 x 2; Cast poly-vitro, video

Tim Tate “The Secret Garden”; 36 x 36 x 2; Cast poly-vitro, video, at Habatat Galleries

In addition to the featured artists, other artists, collectors, curators, and galleries are present for a program of exhibitions, lectures, gallery sales, artists’ demonstrations, and social events. Some of the world’s leading galleries in the field of contemporary studio glass exhibit works from dozens of the field’s premier artists. The Creative Glass Center of America, a division of Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Inc., was formed in 1983 to provide fellowships to emerging artists working in glass. Since the beginning, over 150 fellowships have been awarded to both emerging and mid-career artists.

Michael Janis "Spirit Animal" Kilnformed glass, glass powder imagery, steel 35”W x 19”H x 3”D

Michael Janis “Spirit Animal”, Kilnformed glass, glass powder imagery, steel; 35”W x 19”H x 3”D at Maurine Littleton Gallery.

For this GlassWeekend, demonstrating artists will be Matthew Szosz, Rik Allen, and Shelley Muzylowski Allen. The keynote speaker will be Susie Silbert, the new Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass. WGS artist Michael Janis will also be presenting a talk on his works on Saturday June 10 from 1:00pm-1:40pm and again from 2:30pm-3:10pm.

Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center
1501 Glasstown Road
Millville, NJ 08332

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GlassWeekend 2011 Biennial Features WGS Artists

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>GlassWeekend is a major contemporary glass event that runs from June 10 to 12 at WheatonArts in Millville, New Jersey. The three-day biennial weekend, first organized in 1985, brings together an international community of leading collectors, museum curators, gallery dealers, and artists for lectures, demonstrations and exhibitions. The event is organized by The Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts (CGCA) and the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (AACG). Over the course of three days, Millville, New Jersey, will be ground-zero for glass art auctions, workshops, and lectures.

Glass art legend Dan Dailey will speak Saturday. Other highlights of Saturday’s lectures include a round-table of museum curators discussing their approach to exhibition planning moderated by Newark Museum decorative arts curator Ulysses Dietz and including Elizabeth Agro, Philadelphia Museum of Art associate curator of American modern and contemporary crafts and decorative arts; Renwick curator Nicholas Bell; and the fast-rising Ron Labaco, recently appointed curator of decorative arts and design at the Museum of Arts and Design.

Washington Glass School will be represented at the Biennial by Tim Tate, Allegra Marquart and Michael Janis – Michael will also be named “Rising Star” by The Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts and the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass.

Millville, New Jersey has long been associated with glass. In 1739 when Casper Wistar founded America’s first successful glass factory near Alloway Creek, glassmaking and South Jersey became inextricably fused. From humble entrepreneurial beginnings, glass manufacturing ultimately became the region’s major innovative industry by the late 19th century.

In 1904, the celebrated poet, Carl Sandburg, proclaimed:

“Down in southern New Jersey, they make glass. By day and by night, the fires burn on in Millville . . . Big, black flames shooting out smoke and sparks; bottles, bottles, bottles, of every tint and hue . . . that marks the death of sand and the birth of glass.”

Although the production of window and bottle glass may have left Cumberland, Salem and Gloucester counties, the studio glass movement has been flourishing. WheatonArts and the Creative Glass Center of America (CGCA) in Millville have nurtured a growing number of talented individuals to use glass as their primary medium by offering its facilities to artists from around the world.

Click HERE to jump to GlassWeekend’s program.

GlassWeekend 2011

June 10th – 12th, 2011

WheatonArts

1501 Glasstown Road
Millville, New Jersey 08332
Tel: 800 998 4552
Website: http://www.glassweekend.com/

for some photos of GlassWeekend 2009 – click HERE.

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