Now you can learn the same techniques taught in Bullseye classes, in the comfort of your own home or studio. Bullseye’s online video lessons are designed by staff instructors to provide foundational skills, inspiration, and new leading-edge approaches to kiln-glass. Downloadable firing schedules, product lists, and helpful links are included.

View sample lessons or enroll now at www.bullseyeglass.com/education/online.

How the program works
Annual membership is just $39. As a member, you’ll enjoy immediate access to our complete library of online lessons to date. A new lesson will be added each month. Lessons last about 10-15 minutes. View them as often as you like, from any location with Internet access.

Free Lesson: Kiln-glass in Architectural Settings
Kiln-glass can be used as lighting fixtures, furniture, staircases, room dividers, public art and other architectural features. Bullseye Glass Company partners with design professionals to develop and install architectural-scale kiln-glass works. This video introduces some of those collaborations.

Member Lesson: On-edge Strip Construction
The on-edge construction technique involves placing strips of sheet glass on edge and fusing them together to create finished work. In this lesson you will learn tips for cutting and composing with glass strips, how to fire and finish a piece, and some special effects you can achieve with on-edge construction.

In case you missed them, we've also recently added the following new videos:

Free Lesson: How to Choose a Glass for Kilnforming
Member Lesson: Vitrigraph Kiln: Basic Use
Member Lesson: Kilnformed Container

To learn about Bullseye Kiln-glass Education Online, view more free lessons, or subscribe, click here . If you have questions about the program, please email sales@bullseyeglass.com .

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Jay Macdonell

Monday March 5th

9am to 1pm: Demonstration in the hotshop

2pm: artist talk

more info on Jay’s work:

http://www.jaymacdonellsuperposition.com/
http://www.travergallery.com/gallery_artist_details/Jay-Macdonell.aspx

Please note that nonmembers of GAAC are also encouraged to submit proposals.

Conference Theme:  Breaking Boundaries: 30 Smashing Years

This is a call to come celebrate the pioneering spirit that drives us as artists, makers, and innovators.  Innovation in our art, process, and thought sustains us as a society and as artists.  Bring us your stories, your histories, your ideas concerning innovation.  Share your thoughts, technologies, and processes with fellow artists.

All types of glass art media subject matter are encouraged: blown glass, kiln formed, lampwork, stained glass, coldwork, architectural, public, etc.

Types of Presentations Requested:

• Lectures: 1 hour presentation
• Demonstration: varying lengths of demonstration dependent on processes and techniques
• Panel discussion: a moderator and 1 to 3 panelists to discuss a topic

Each presentation will receive an honorarium of a single full conference pass.  If there are multiple presenters for a presentation, it is up to the presenters to determine how to allocate the single pass.

Presentation materials will be published in Contemporary Canadian Glass – Magazine of the Glass Art Association of Canada, and presenters retain all other copyright.  Presentations may be recorded, and the recordings made available to GAAC members at a later date.

Proposal requirements:

For each presentation proposal, please submit a single electronic document (Word .doc or .docx format preferred, with the proposal submitter’s name in the file name) that contains:

• Presentation Title
• Topic (one to two paragraph summary of content)
• Name, website, business name (all that may be appropriate) for each presenter/panelist
• Contact information including email address(es)
• Brief resume, for each presenter/panelist, that demonstrates credentials or experience for the proposed presentation.
• Supporting images (if applicable) included in the document

Submissions:

Email your proposal, with a subject heading of “Conference Presentation Proposal”, to gaacpresident@gmail.com no later than May 1, 2012.  Proposals will be reviewed by GAAC conference chairs by June 1, 2012, and accepted presenters will be contacted by June 30, 2012.

GAAC reserves the right to deny presentation proposals from any individual for any reason.

Beyond Boundaries: 30 Smashing Years!

Come celebrate 30 years of the Glass Art Association of Canada next year in Calgary at the Alberta College of Art + Design where we are pleased to host the most exciting conference in GAAC history.

The theme this year... Innovation! We can’t wait to share this experience with you. Stay tuned for registration information and event details.

An excerpt from my statement for the show:

This exhibition at the Harbinger Gallery marks a significant shift in my working process. Until now, I have worked with blown glass components and assembled sculptures (Saffron Aurora, Scarlet Blossom, Pale Orb) in a very controlled and pre-determined way. I have been searching for a way to create finished work more intuitively. While I have been using the flameworking technique of manipulating rods and tubes of glass in a bench-mounted torch to make jewellery for several years, I’ve realized the endless possibilities for sculpture as well. Begin, Glow and Burst are the first pieces in this new series.

Using a different type of glass (called borosilicate) than with glassblowing, it is possible with flameworking to create complex constructions of multiple elements with hot connections. Blown or solid parts can be added, changed or removed, glass to glass, without keeping the entire piece at the same temperature. Scale can range from minute detail to quite large, or both. Pioneering glass artist Ginny Ruffner describes the process as “additive”, akin to painting. Working towards a finished piece in this more visceral way is very new to me and I’m excited to find out where it continues to take my work.

A big thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for supporting this project.

- Casting with Recycled Glass by Michelle Prosek
- Glass Embellishment with Jamie Gray
- From Powders to Form with Jayne Cornelis
- Ultimate Pattern Bars & Strip Construction Designs in Kiln-Formed Glass with Jerre Davidson

Call:  519-672-2787

Email: firedupglassarts@gmail.com

Images Left to right :

Copping - Level Conversation, Rankin - 'Winter Grove' and Haldane - "Lift Lock"

jhockey@btconnect.com

Information: 403.356.4900
Registration: 403.357.3663
continuingeducation@rdc.ab.ca

http://www.rdc.ab.ca/continuing_education/Pages/a-to-z-listing.aspx

Image: Char Vessels, Darren Petersen

IMPORTANT PROGRAM DATES
May 31st: Application Deadline
Mid July: Winners are announced
October 4: Inaugural Awards & Scholarships Gala Ceremony and Award Winners 2012 exhibition opening (watch for more details)
October 4 - November 4: Award Winners 2012 exhibition on display at the OCC Gallery

The Glass Art Association of Canada is pleased to announce an exhibition of contemporary Canadian glass, which is planned to be more than your typical survey exhibition. From our members we are looking for innovative work involving glass. The theme and overall scope of the exhibition will be determined by the works submitted and could even involve a collaborative effort between the curator and participating artists.

Submissions Deadline

January 30, 2012

Program Description

The exhibition, curated by a guest curator, will showcase contemporary glass practices in Canada. It will be held in the fall/winter of 2012 at the Ontario Craft Council Gallery in Toronto, Ontario with the possibility of additional venues. The exhibition will include work concerning glass in any form, deriving experimental, contemporary practices. Once the work has been selected and a theme for the exhibition is decided a curatorial statement will be released and will be made available on the GAAC website.

Eligibility:

This call for submissions is open to current GAAC Members.

Please visit http://www.glassartcanada.ca/membership.php#about for membership information. Please direct any questions about membership to Christy Haldane at gaacanada@gmail.com

Submissions:

Submissions will be juried digitally. Members may submit up to 3 artworks for consideration, with up to 2 images OR one video per artwork. As additional artworks will not be considered please follow the submission guidelines exactly. Please note the submission requirements that follow, as any submissions not following them will not be accepted. Submissions should be sent by email to gaac.submissions@gmail.com.

Digital Images:

All images must be in jpg format, maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels at 72 dpi, and titled: lastname_firstname_image#.jpg. For example: Smith_John1.jpg would be the first image submitted by an artist named John Smith.

Identical images at print quality (300 dpi) must be made available for promotional purposes for work accepted into the exhibition.

Video:

Video documentation will be accepted in the form of a video no more than two minutes in length. Each video should be uploaded to a website of your choice (similar to youtube.com). Include the URL of that website with your submission. If you have any other ideas or if your work does not fit the given submission requirements please contact gaac.submissions@gmail.com for further submission details.

Image List:

Make a Word document, which is a list of each image in your submission. The following information must be included for each image: title, medium, dimensions, and date of digital images and/or videos. This document should be sent, titled: lastname_firstname_list.doc.

Artist Statement:

Send an artist statement in the form of a Word document, no longer than 1 page. The document should be sent titled: lastname_firstname_statement.doc.

Biography:

Send a biography in the form of a Word document, no longer than 250 words. The document should be sent titled: lastname_firstname_bio.doc.

Curriculum Vitae:

Send a CV in the form of a Word document, no longer than two pages. The document should be sent titled: lastname_firstname_cv.doc.

Application fee:

Each applicant must provide a submission fee of $30 CDN made payable through the GAAC Paypal account OR via regular mail, by cheque made out to the Glass Art Association of Canada and sent to 9840 Porlier Pass Drive, Galiano Island, BC V0N1P0

Display Requirements:

If applicable, send as a Word document any display or mounting requirements (example: wall or ceiling mountings with weight requirements, approximate pedestal size, power outlets, etc.). The document should be sent titled: lastname_firstname_display.doc.

Contact Information:

Please include your email address, mailing address, and telephone number in the e-mail to which you attach your submission documents. When your submission has been received in good order, you will be notified by email. If you have not received notification by March 1, 2012 and you submitted your application before the deadline, please contact Rachael Wong at gaac.submissions@gmail.com.

Assessment

Work will be selected by the curator according to the curator’s criteria and with the aid of an advisory panel of two other professionals. This group will collaborate to create a cohesive and poignant exhibition.

Further Information

Please direct any questions or comments about the exhibition to Rachael Wong at gaac.submissions@gmail.com.

Please see attached PDF for a printable version of the application form.

Application fee: $30 CDN