Conferences

The Association for the History of Glass Limited
Glass for vessels, glass for windows: Medieval glass 1066-1550

Study Day to be held at The Wallace Collection Hertford House, Manchester Square, LONDON W1U 3BN

23rd March 2010

If you would like to attend, please send your full contact details, a stamped, addressed envelope and a cheque for £30.00 (non members), £20 (AHG members), or £10.00 (students- proof required) payable to The Association for the History of Glass Ltd to: Sandra Davison (Hon. Sec), 68 East Street, Thame, Oxon OX9 3JS. Email: sandbill@gotadsl.co.uk. Receipts with SAE, by email or on the day. Participants who normally live outside the UK may pay upon arrival at the venue in UK sterling.

Program Schedule

GAAC: Glass Art Association of Canada Conference

As part of Montreal, City of Glass 2010, or in French Montréal, Ville de Verre 2010, Espace VERRE will host the Glass Art Association of Canada Conference from May 26-30, 2010. The conference will present ideas around 6 major themes for contemporary glass artists; environmental studios and new technologies, architectural glass, design in glass, farming out work, new directions for educational institutions and graduates, and Canadian glass art as seen by museums. More than 20 lectures and 15 demonstrations will take place during the four days of the conference. Most of the activities will take place at Cegep du Vieux Montreal, and most demonstrations will take place at Espace VERRE.

International artists like Lucio Bubacco (Italy), Sylvia Levenson (Italy), Anthony Schafermeyer (USA), and internationally reknown Canadian glass artists like Susan Edgerley, Sarah Hall, Peter Powning, Tyler Rock, and Donald Robertson, are participating. The Corning Museum’s Curator of Modern Glass, Tina Oldknow (USA) will also be speaking.

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ICON Stained Glass Conference

The Icon Stained Glass Group is pleased to announce that the 2010 conference sponsored by Chapel Studio; “Colleges, Parishes & Villas, Stained Glass Conservation in the South of England” will take place at Cripps Auditorium Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 0AG on Wednesday 15th September 2010.

Speakers confirmed include Art Historians Carola Hicks (Author, The Kings Glass) and Martin Harrison (Victorian Stained Glass) international conservators, Prof. Joost Caen (Belgium), Prof. Sebastian Strobl (Germany) and Elise Learner (France). This stunning array of the foremost in our profession will provide an excellent day for knowledge gathering, debate and professional development in one of Historic Cambridge’s famous halls of learning.

Lunch is included in the delegate fee of £78 (Icon members & students) or £88 (non members).

Please contact Peter Campling for booking form on 01603 891505 or email peter@mcleadglaziers.co.uk.

Invitation and Call for Papers:
Arts and politics in houses and interiors of the 20th century

Brno/Czech Republic, 21-24 April 2010
The Moravian Gallery in Brno - Conference Hall of the Museum of Applied Arts

International Conference organised by the Moravska galerie in Brno (Czech Republic) in cooperation with ICOM International Committees for Decorative Arts (ICDAD) and for Historic House Museums (DEMHIST)

The Moravian Gallery in Brno, the second largest art museum in the Czech Republic, is exceptional for the wide range of artistic disciplines it covers. It is the only institution in the country collecting visual art that is concerned with painting, drawing, graphic art and sculptore - from the past and the present - as well as photography, applied art, graphic design and architecture.

We invite you to join us at an international conference dealing with the national and international significance of houses and interiors. It will be held in Brno, a historical city priding on examples of international and national culture, the city where Adolf Loos was born, where Josef Hoffmann studied and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built one of his most famous buildings.

The conference is intended for museum professionals, academic teachers and students, free-lance curators, historians, designers, art managers, art and design theoreticians and publicists, journalists, etc.

More detailed information and the application form will be available as of January 2010 at www.moravska-galerie.cz and www.icom-icdad.com

Contact address:

National - International - Conference
Katerina Tlachova
Moravian Gallery in Brno
Husova 18
CZ-662 26 Brno
Czech Republic

Tel.: +420 532 169 128
Fax: +420 532 169 181
E-mail: katerina.tlachova@moravska-galerie.cz

www.moravska-galerie.cz/en

GLASS AND CERAMICS CONSERVATION 2010

Corning, NY, October 3-7, 2010

This is an interim meeting for the group, but will have 27 oral presentations and 10 posters during the 3 full days in Corning. This is sponsored by ICOM-GLASS AND CERAMIC CONSERVATION Committee and hosted by Stephen Koob and The Corning Museum of Glass.

GLASS CONFERENCE IN EDINBURGH

An international conference to celebrate 400 years of glassmaking in Scotland is being held at Edinburgh College of Art from the 1 - 4 October 2010.

Part of a year-long celebration of glass making in Scotland, the following speakers have already been confirmed for this event.

Additional speakers are in contact with the committee but we are eager to hear from others to cover the widest spectrum of interesting subjects relating to glass in Scotland.

For further details contact The Committee for the 400th Anniversary of Scottish Glass Making. Reply to this email.

Website for information on the events scotlandsglass400.co.uk