Connections: Glass from Every Angle
GAS Member Exhibition
The Glass Art Society showcases works from current GAS members each year at the Annual Conference. All artwork is submitted via an online application, and then is juried for awards and inclusion in the show. The professional jury evaluates all eligible entries and selects winners based on originality, innovation, and intentionality.
The GAS Member Exhibition is generously sponsored by The Glass Furnace.
2024 Member Exhibition Jurors
Curator | 📍USA
Carolyn Herrera-Perez is a potter turned curator. Currently, she serves as the inaugural Curator of Glass and Ceramics at the Chazen Museum of Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, she was the contributing editor of Material Intelligence and a curatorial fellow at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Carolyn was born and raised in so-called Peekskill, New York, the traditional land of the Kitchawanks and sister city to Cuenca, Ecuador. Family and locale are central to her practice.
Artist | 📍United Kingdom
Katherine Huskie is a glassblower and neon artist based in Wiltshire, UK. Huskie has worked in glass for over 15 years and specialises in free-blown glass which has aspects of functional beauty mixed with her creative and sculptural aesthetics. Huskie has won numerous awards and scholarships including becoming a QEST Scholar in 2020 to expand her neon practice and was the Wimbledon Championship Artist in 2018. Huskie is a Visiting Enterprise Fellow for The University of Sunderland and in this 3-year position, she takes time to visit and inspire the next generation of glassmakers.
Artist | 📍The Netherlands
Richard Meitner has lectured, conducted workshops, and been an artist-in-residence in the US, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Malta, Portugal, Sweden, the Maldives, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Japan. He has worked as a designer for the glass industry in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Meitner also served on the Dutch National Commission for Endowments for the Arts, the Dutch National Advisory Board for the Arts, and as jury member for the International Glass Prize in Belgium.
Together with Mieke Groot, from 1981 to 2000, he was in charge of the glass department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2006, he was appointed to the faculty for science and technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon), Portugal, and continues there. In 2016, he earned a PhD from the University of Lisbon, Belas Artes. Meitner has taken part in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions all over the world, and his works are now included in more than 60 permanent museum- and public collections in 17 countries.