GASnews
GASnews provides an ongoing exchange of ideas and information and a place for regular communication between glass artists around the world. Four free issues of GASnews are published online per year. A year after publication, each issue of GASnews becomes Member-only, but you can see tables of content below for past issues.
Members can access past issues of GASnews by logging into the Member Portal. Archival issues of GASnews are coming soon.
Write for GASnews
We welcome articles and ideas from the glass community! Writing for GASnews is a great way to build your resume and make connections with fellow artists and writers. Each issue of GASnews has a theme, ranging from all-encompassing ideas like color to glass-specific questions around glass education. Articles can be interviews with artists or designers, technical how-to information, or book/exhibition reviews.To submit a pitch for an upcoming issue of GASnews, please email [email protected] the following information:
- Which issue of GASnews you’re submitting an idea for
- A writing sample
- A brief synopsis of the story you want to write
Writers whose articles are accepted for publication will receive a $50 honorarium.
Summer 2024 | Expansion
The theme for our Summer 2024 is “Expansion”—a nod to the fact that the Glass Art Society itself is expanding our organization this year. With that in mind, we’re seeking stories about glass going global; about the expanding networks of glass artists, designers, craftspeople, and educators; and about any other interpretations of that theme you can come up with. Want to write a scientific deep dive on the way molten glass expands? We want that story. Or a story on the expansion of glass into other disciplines of art and craft—we want that one, too. GASnews stories are typically 1000-1500 words.
We are also looking for submissions for our “GAS Member Spotlight” column, where we feature a GAS member who is doing remarkable work in the glass art world—whether they’re an artist, a gallery owner, a teacher, or any other type of mover and shaker. These stories are a little shorter, clocking in at 800-1000 words.
Advertise in GASnews
Let your business shine with ads in GASnews! This quarterly publication is sent to our entire membership and is collected by museums and libraries across the world. In addition to GASnews ads, GAS has a variety of advertising options to fit your business needs.
2024 Publication Schedule
Spring 2024 | Theme: Where Art + Design Meet
Article pitches due by January 26
Article + images due by February 26
Reserve ads by February 26
Ad artwork due by March 8
Fall 2024 | Theme: Coming soon!
Article pitches due by July 8
Article + images due by August 16
Reserve ads by August 16
Ad artwork due by August 23
Summer 2024 | Theme: Expansion
Article pitches due by April 26
Article + images due by May 24
Reserve ads by May 24
Ad artwork due by June 1
Winter 2024 | Theme: Coming soon!
Article pitches due by October 11
Article + images due by November 18
Reserve ads by November 18
Ad artwork due by December 2
Publicly Available Issues
Archival Issues' Tables of Contents
A focus on artists who use glass in concert with other media and how mixed media can be used to address identity.
- “Ben Beres: Multilingual Multifaceted Art Evangelist” by Debra Ruzinsky
- “Takano Sano: A Portrait” by Debra Ruzinsky
- “Ordinary Miracle” by Vanessa German
- “Welcome Into the Room: An Account of Disclosure” by Pearl Dick
- “Spotlight On: Layo Bright” by Robin Babb
The second in a two-part series addressing the theme of the Tacoma 2022 conference, Between Here and There, with a focus on location, technique, and approach.
- Of it, But Without by David Schnuckel
- Interview with Silvia Levenson by María Díaz de Vivar
- The Future of Finnish Glass by Sara Hulkkonen
- Success and Its Impact on the Future of Functional Glass by Kim Thomas
- The Rise of Contemporary Turkish Art Glass by Fatma Ciftci
- Glass in Latin America: Strengthen Our Own, Crossing Limits, and Building Bridges by María Díaz de Vivar (published in English and Spanish)
Addressing the Tacoma 2022 conference theme, Between Here and There, through the lens of GAS’s 50th anniversary.
- Taking Shape: The Evolution of the Glass Art Society by Shane Fero
- Paradigm Shifts and Placemaking in Scandinavian Glass: Revaluation and Redefinition at a Time of Change by Maja Heuer
- Interview with Audrey Handler by Jennifer Hand
- For Us, By Us: A Snapshot in Time of the Impact/Influence of both Technological Developments and Environmental Footprint of the Glass Art Society by Eddie Bernard
- Emerging Voices: Female Artists Working in Glass in East Asian Context by Dr. Sunny Wang
How glass artists adapt to the changing world through the lens of COVID 19 and calls for social justice.
- Tribute to Benjamin Moore by Various community members
- Radical Beauty Part Two: Community Comes First by Jennifer Hand
- GASnews Interview with Davin K. Ebanks
- Moving Past Mud and Masks: Advancing Through Crises byRegan Brumagen
- Metamorphosis: From Discarded Glass to Beautiful Pieces of Portable Art by María Eugenia Díaz de Vivar
- Screen Time: Glass Cinema Emerges Online by David Schnuckel
- An(other) Artist at the Table by Kayla Cantu
- From “Niche” to Netflix: How Blown Away Has Changed the Perception of Glass by Kim Thompson
- Student Center Spotlight: Post Graduate Preparedness by Paige Morris
Focusing on green and sustainable practices across the glass community.
- Material Made Over by David Schnuckel
- Shedding Light: The Looming Impact of LED Signage on the Neon Community by Victoria Amadizadeh Melendez
- Rombachs Recycles Everything! by Timm Muth
- Trials, Tribulations, and Solutions for Flameworking Green Borosilicate by Eric Goldschmidt
(Re)Purpose Kayla Cantu - Interview: Xaquixe Glass Innovation Studio, Pioneers in Sustainable Glass by María Eugenia Díaz de Vivar
- Made at Home: Words of Isolation | Words of Connection by Laura Quinn
- Student Center Spotlight: Glass Educator and Student Environmental Survey by Paige Lizbeth Morris & Mike Saroka
Addressing racial equity and social justice within the glass community.
- Delicate Matter(s) by David Schnuckel
- Make Something Better: GASnews Interview with Victoria Amadizadeh Melendez
- Supporting the Work of the Glass Coalition Project: The Corning Museum of Glass’s Archive-It Project by Joe Schill
- One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Acknowledging Academia’s Role in Perpetuating Homogeneity in the Glass Community by Paige Lizbeth Brooks
- Radical Departure- New Models for Gallery Practice in a Changing World by Jennifer Hand
An issue largely focused on women working in glass.
- An Important Message by Nate Watson
- Wondrous Strange: Women Redefining Scandivanian Glass by Jennifer Hand
- In Praise of Sublety by Phoebe Stubbs
- The Women of Tiffany Glass Company: A Struggle for Permanence by Maia Stern
- The Product of Higher Education by Lieselotte Elliehausen
- Women’s Work: Women at the Lamp by Beth Hylen
- Bocci Design Methodology by Jay Macdonell
A nuanced and multilayered approach to language from cataloguing to self-identity.
- (In)Coherence – Glass Process and Experimental Practice as Language Systems of Making by David Schnuckel
- FagSigns: GASnews Interview with Matthew Day Perez
- Who We EAIR: Language and Self-Identification by Jennifer Hand
- One Subject, Many Languages by Peter Bambo-Kozce
- The Place Between Life and Death – The Magic of Glass by Maia Stern
The ways glass artists can be subversive with the material.
- Guerilla Visual Tactics: StreetKraft Features Glass at the Intersection of the Gallery and the Street by David Schnuckel
- Interview with Benjamin Wright
- Political Repression and Glass Design in Czechoslovakia: Czech Drawings at the Rakow Library by Beth Hylen
- Subverting the Sanctimonious: Performance Groups in Glass by Jamie Marie Rose
An issue that discusses control over the material and perfectly replicating nature in glass.
- Au Naturel: Interview with David Willis
- More Rainbows…More Stress by David Fox
- If The Lorax Was a Chainsaw Artist…Would He Still Speak for The Trees? by Rebecca Chernow
- Hot Air: Blown Away Has Come and Gone and Everything is Totally Fine by David Schnuckel
How glassmakers address place in their work and how the site of the studio functions for artists.
- Mending the Blue Marble by Caitlin Vitalo
- Material Matters: Sand and Ash, Silica and Flux by Phoebe Stubbs
- Put Your Hands Together: GASnews Interview with CUD
- Building with Fire by Jennifer Hand
- The Denizli 5th International Glass Biennale by Shane Fero
- Venetian Influence – Rakow Interview: Crawford Alexander Mann III by Mikki Smith
- Gillian Preston: The Power of Process by Jennifer Hand
- 2019 Strattman Conjecture: Hyperopia Projects Collaborates with Educational Programming In an Effort to Re-Examine Process in Glass Flux by David Schnuckel
- Light In Hand: The Art of Plasma and Neon by Jamie Marie Rose
- Matter Over Mind: The Power of Making and Made Things by Regan Brumagen
- The Unseen Installation by Tyler Kimball
- Why Don’t They Want It? How Glass Works of Art Reach Museum Collections by Jan Mirenda Smith
- In Memory of Maestro Pino Signoretto, Legendary Glass Artist (1944-2017)
- Murano’s Rich Past by Regan Brumagen
- Toffolo and Zecchin: Historical Flameworking by Emily Kuchenbecker
- 2018 Conference Spotlight: Pre-Thinking the Glass Path with Master Simone Cenedese by David Schnuckel
- A Snapshot of the Early History of Venini Factory by Max Grossman
- No Animals Were Harmed in the Writing of This Article: Batch Books at the Rakow Library by Regan Brumagen and Lori Fuller
- GASnews Interview with Claire Kelly
- New Conversations on Color in Glass by Caitlin Vitalo
- Spectrum of Approach: Adversarial Tendencies in Teaching, Learning, and Thinking About Color Within Glass Education by David Schnuckel
- Color Explorations by Jay McDonnell
- Minnesotan Hues: A Brief Look at the Colorful Glass Community in Minneapolis and St. Paul by Jon Rees
- Early American Glass History and the Legacy of Tools and Techniques by Max Grossman
- Interview with Shane Fero about the GAS History Project
- Finding the Final Sum of a Legacy by Tess McShane
- Leaving a Legacy: The Current Phenomena in Studio Glass Collections by Jan Smith
- Pebbles in the Pond–Using Personal Experience to Examine the Fringes of What Legacy is in Service to by David Schnuckel
- Keyed Up for Keynote: Glass, Learning Curves, and Community by Suzanne Peck
- Aggressive Excess by Ian Messenger Schmidt
- Articulated Air: Some Thoughts on Movement, Breath, and Imagination in Glass Performances by Stine Bidstrup
- Making Things with Words by Anna Riley
- Virginia is For Glass Lovers by Michael Hernandez
- Wonderful Mechanisms: Engaging Audiences with Glass Engines by Rebecca Hopman
- The Interlayer: Perspectives of Graal Glass | Symposium with Master Classes Bild-Werk Frauenau October 2016 by Shane Fero
- The Glass Arts and Scientific Exploration: Centuries of Innovation by Marvin Bolt and James Galbraith
- Interview: Nanda Soderberg
- Panel Conjecture: “Performance Anxiety: A Critical Lens on Glass Performance Art” by David Schnuckel
- Museum of Neon Art: The Art of Plasma and First Plasma Artist Symposium by Karen Woodward Garcia
- Student Profile: Lok Kwan Tse by Ian Messenger Schmidt
- Wayne Strattman: Glass, Light, and Technology by Jon Rees
Book Review: Paul Stankard’s “Studio Craft as Career: A Guide to Achieving Excellence in Art-Making” Michael Hernandez
- Boyd Sugiki: Technology in Teaching by Grace Meils
- Interview: Justin Ginsberg by GASnews
- A New Vernacular: Young Glass 2017 Speaks to the Trajectory of Contemporary Glass by David Schnuckel
- We Thought the Microwave Would Change How We Cook by Ian Messenger Schmidt
- Digital Visualization by Jon Rees
- The Shiny New Era of Education by Tyler Kimball
- The Original Approach to Rapid Production: Fenton Glass Company and the Potential of Pressed Glass by Jennifer Halverson
- Making the Cut: Max Erlacher’s Journey to Master Engraver by Sandra Glasscock
- Pursuing a Ph.D: A Recollection of Relevant and At Times Random Research by Erin Dickson
- Skimming the Surface: A Brief and Incomplete Survey on Teaching Beginners How to Blow Glass by Suzanne Peck
- The Slippery Slope of Extension Deadlines by David Schnuckel
- Student Profile: Noelle Weigand by Emily Kuchenbecker
- School Profile: California State University, San Bernandino by Emily Kuchenbecker
- Moving Forward by Jon Rees
- Thesis Done! by Su-Yeon Kim
- Deborah Czeresko: Force of Nature by Michelle Knox
- Glass of the Iconoclasts: John Moran and Jennifer Crescuillo by Michael Hernandez
- Poetic Menagerie: Robin Cass by Jon Rees
- The Fugitive Artist by Gail Bardhan and Regan Brumagen
- A Newly-Launched Online Treasure Trove of Knowledge on Venetian Glass is a Breakthrough by Geoffrey Isles
- School Profile: North Lands by Emily Kuchenbecker
- Student Profile: Maria Renee Morales by Emily Kuchenbecker
In Memoriam: Marvin Lipofsky by Fritz Dreisbach, Henry Halem, Michael Taylor, and Audrey Handler
- LUXUS: Crossing the Bridge by Michael Hernandez
- Careers in Art Panel: 2015 Pilchuck Hauberg Fellows | A Panel Discussion of the Personal and Collaborative Studio Practice of the 2014 Pilchuck Hauberg Fellows by David Schnuckel
- Being a Board Member by Kim Harty
- Just Your Ordinary, Everyday Library of Record for Glass…And It Belongs to You by Mary Anne Hamblen
- Student Profile: Laura Aalto-Setala by Emily Kuchenbecker
- School Profile: University of Madison by Emily Kuchenbecker
- The Critical Vacuum by Hyperopia Projects
- Op-Ed: Is There a Critical Vacuum by William Warmus
- Interview: Beccy Feather Talks About Community and Collaboration in the Pipe World by GASnews
- Illuminating the Whitefriars Stained Glass Cartoons Collection by Rebecca Hopman
- On Community: A Conversation by Michael Hernandez and Suzanne Peck
- Klaus Moje AO 1936-2016 by Richard Whiteley
- Student Profile: Hikari Sasaki by Emily Kuchenbecker
- School Profile: Linneaus University, Sweden by Emily Kuchenbecker
- Congregating in the Elsewhere: Examining the Notion of Community Within a Social Media Context and the Influence of Digital Exchange on Contemporary Glass Practice by David Schnuckel
- Assembled to Give: Sharing Teaching Practices at the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation Academic Symposium by David Schnuckel
- Collecting Images: Wet Plate Collodion Photography Jon Rees
Review: Larry Bell at White Cube in Mason’s Yard by Erin Dickson - Artist Collector: John Drury, Artist and Founder of CUD, on His Collection of Self-Taught Artists by Kim Harty
- Re Collecting: Erica Rosenfeld’s Artwork and Practice by Suzanne Peck
- Op-Ed: Art Collectors: A Field Guide by Grace Meils
- Discovering the Collector by Regan Brumagen
- Student Profile: Kit Paulson by Amanda Wilcox
- Mary White: Line Crosser by Kim Harty
- Daniel Cutrone: Bridging the Gap from Digital to Hand by Michelle Knox
- Putting the Tech in Technique by Michael Hernandez
- Jeff Heath: Exposing Entropy by Tracy Kirchmann
- Petr Novotny: A Life in Glass by Lance Friedman
- A Glass Explorer: Donald Stookey by Regan Brumagen
- Op-Ed: The Venetian Virus by Suzanne Peck
- School Profile: San Jose State University by Amanda Wilcox
- Paul Stankard: A Contagious Sense of Wonder by Grace Meils
- Mildred Howard: Stories as Medicine by Natali Rodrigues
- 2015 Strattman Lecture: The Critical Vacuum by David Schnuckel
- A New Endeavor: The Corning Museum of Glass/Corning Incorporated Specialty Glass Residency by Rebecca Hopman
- Nikolas Weinstein: Flexible Systems by Kim Harty
- Student Profile: Meredith Lopez by Amanda Wilcox
- School Profile: California College of the Arts by Amanda Wilcox
- Op-Ed: The Golden State by Michelle Knox
- GAS Board Changes by Kristin Galioto
- GAS Found Its Way to San Jose For the 44th Annual GAS Conference in June by Pamela Koss
- Today in the Context of Tomorrow: The Contemporary Art + Design Wing and the 2016 GAS Conference by David Schnuckel
- Maria Bang Espersen: Forms of Change by Shelby L. Stuart
- Glasstress Gotika: A Glass Revival by Kim Harty
- Sounds Like Glass: Pilchuck AIRs John Roach, Lili Maya, and James Rouville by Michael Hernandez
- A Multifaceted Artist: Marcel Duchamp and His Use of Glass by Kristal Walker
- Op-Ed: 3 Simple Steps to Rid Yourself of Contemporary Art Anxiety by Suzanne Peck
- School Profile: Expanding Glass Education in Akita: University of Art and Akita City Glass Project by Amanda Wilcox
- Student Profile: Kazumi Ohno by Amanda Wilcox