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The Annual Glass Art Society conference features approximately 80 presentations (lectures, lecmo's, panels and demonstrations) by leading masters in the field as well as emerging artists. Learn about the most recent conference Creative Crossroads, Seattle, WA June 1-5, 2011

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2011 Presenters for the Seattle, WA Conference
2010 Presenters from the Louisville, KY Conference

Student scholarships are available to provide financial support to assist eligible full-time student members of GAS in attending the Annual Glass Art Society conference. The application process is juried.

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2010 Student Scholarship Recipients
Past Student Scholarship Recipients

Each year the Glass Art Society selects a few emerging artists to make short presentations at its annual conference.  Through these lectures, artists with promising talent are afforded the opportunity to introduce their work to a large audience of established artists, educators, peers, collectors, art historians, and critics. Educators and Museum Curators are asked to nominate individuals who meet certain criteria and those nominees are contacted and requested to submit applications. A jury of professionals review all the applicants and determine the presenters for that conference.

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2010 Emerging Artist Presenters - Louisville, KY Conference
Past Emerging Artist Presentation Award Recipients

Organized by Laura Donefer, an honorary Glass Art Society Lifetime Member, participants in the Glass Fashion Show are artists from around the world who played around with the idea and created wearable and wildly imaginitive fashionable art. 

View a photo gallery from the Glass Fashion show at the 2009 Corning, NY Conference

The International Student Exhibition occurs at the Annual Glass Art Society conference. All Glass Art Society student members who are currently enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program (or just graduated that year) are invited to participate. The exhibition is then juried and awards given.

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2011 International Student Exhibition

GAS members have been meeting and sharing ideas with each other since 1971, when Fritz Dreisbach and Mark Peiser organized the first GAS conference (at Penland School of Crafts). Some of the special conference moments have been captured in photos, like the one at right showing Stephen Rolfe Powell, Lino Tagliapietra, and Dave Walters during Tagliapietra's demo at GAS 2010 Louisville.

View images of past conferences
GAS 2011 Seattle: Creative Crossroads
GAS 2010 Louisville: Ingenious Possibilities