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Lifetime Achievement and Honorary Lifetime Membership Award
The Lifetime Achievement is awarded to an individual for exceptional achievement in the field of glass art. The Honorary Lifetime Membership is awarded for outstanding service to the Glass Art Society.

Special Lectures

2016 - Dr. Peter Bocko, Enabling and Expressive Medium of the Information Age: Art & Technology of Glass

2015 - Amy Schwartz (moderator), Rob Cassetti, Glen B. Cook Ph.D., Eric Meek, Tina Oldknow, Albert Paley Exploring New Possibilities with Science and Art: Corning Museum of Glass/Corning Incorporated Specialty Glass Residency

2014  - Sophie Kahn and Norwood Viviano Digital Playground: The Power of CAD and 3D Printing

2012  - John Parker Seeing Glass in its True Colors

2011  - Pamela Vandiver Original Sins, Glass Origins: Glass Durability & Other Technological Problems

2010  - Stephen Tucker Glass Furnace Design—From Industry to the Studio

2009  - Dr. Adam Ellison The Art of Glass Science

2008  - Dr. Roger Ely Sustainable Energy for Tomorrow: The Natural Beauty of Light

2007  - Michael Greenman Glass Art & Science – Moving Forward Together

2006  - Dr. Delbert E. Day Glass – From Outer Space to Inner Space

2005  - Chris Sorrell How Science, Art, and History Come Together Through New Techniques in Glass Analysis

2004  - Dr. William LaCourse Sol-Gel and Other Curiosities

2003  - Dr. Carlo Pantano Glass Surfaces: Old, New and Engineered

2002  - Mick Eekhout Limits of the Material

2001  - Frank Woolley & William Gudenrath Technology Helping Art: Making Glass the Way It Wants to Be Made

2000  - Henry E. Hagy Glass Seals and Thermal Expansion Compatibility

1999   - Vladimir A Rakov Lightning Makes Glass (How lightning makes Fulgurites and information on Fulgurites)

1998  - Junji Tanahashi Technical Advancements and Glass Production during the Edo Period

1997   - Dan Watson The Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory Lecture

1996  - A Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Introduction by Thomas Eager
            Solid Free-Form Fabrication: Computer Renderings to Solid Artifacts by Michael Cima
            Glass in Architecture: Intentions and Innovations by Ken Kao
            Holography: The Last Stop Before Cyberspace by Betsy Connors
            A Feast of Sounds by Walter Lewin

1995  - Dr. L. David Pye A History of Color in Glass

1994  - Dr Carlo G Pantano The Surface of Glass (The relationship between glass composition and molecular structure, and the way molecular structure controls properties)

1993  - Dr. Robert H. Brill Glass and Glassmaking in Ancient China, and Some Other Things from Other Places

2014  - James Yood W(h)ither Glass? The Next 50 Years

2012  - Glenn Adamson The Attack of the Blob: Glass Art and the Will to Form

2011  - Stefano Catalani Memory : Identity :: Signs : Craft

2010  - Peter Morrin A Place For Contemporary Glass

2009  - Bruce Metcalf The Art Glass Conundrum

2008  - Mark L. Johnson Aesthetics of Human Meaning

2007  - Maria Porges A Critique on Criticism

2006  - Janet Koplos Reconsidering Glass

2005  - Kevin D. Murray Painterliness in Contemporary Glass Art

2016 - Buster Simpson Shards of Anthropocene

2015 - Mildred Howard Waiting for Humble Objects to Speak

2014  - Albert Paley Glass & Steel: The Sympathy of Opposites

2012  - Fred Wilson Speak of Me as I Am: Glass Works Made in Venice and Seattle

2011  - Gay Outlaw Coming to Glass From Someplace Else

2010  - Corban Walker Scaling Perception Through a Glass Object

2009  - Pat Oleszko Highlights from a Hi! Life: The Pats to Suckcess

2008  - Ed Carpenter Ed Carpenter: New Work

2007  - Keith Sonnier Coloras Volume

2006  - Nick Cave "Soundsuits" The Beginning, The Middle, and The...

2004  - Bertil Vallien There Must Be a Reason-Traces of the Past, Memories of the Future

2003  - Matthew Kangas Robert Willson: American in Venice

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