GLASS EVENTS CALENDAR

• June 16 - August 10
  Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts - Jeremy Sinkus and David Olsen: "Lampwork Sculpture" Exhibit.

• June 25-August 25
  Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York. Sarah Michalik, MCGG Fellowship Winner. Robert Lehman Gallery, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York, www.urbanglass.com

• July 3 - September 20
  Pittsburgh Glass Center Seventh-Inning Stretch, An exhibition by Nancy Callan . 5472 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA. pittsburghglasscenter.org

• July 10
  Estate Auction , Friday, July 10, 2009
  The highlights of our July 10, 2009 Estate Auction have now been posted on our website. Also, be sure to check out the photo page which contains color photos. The direct link to the July 10th highlight page is www.greenvalleyauctions.com/Auctions/Upcoming/2009July10.asp
  Please note the times for this auction: Doors open at 11:00 a.m. for preview Start at 12:30 p.m. in Gallery #2 Start at 2:00 p.m. in Gallery #3 Start in Gallery #1 at 7:00 p.m. on smalls, furniture at 7:30 p.m.
  Green Valley Auctions & Moving, Inc. 2259 Green Valley Lane Mt. Crawford, VA 22841 USA Phone: 540-434-4260 E-mail: info@greenvalleyauctions.com Web: http://www.greenvalleyauctions.com

• July 10-12
  Fortieth National Insulator Insulator Association Convention. Coralville Marriot Convention Center, Coralville, Iowa. nia2009ia@q.com

• July 11-12
  Danbury, CT. National Depression Glass Association - 35th Annual Convention Glass Show, O'Neill Center, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT. Off I-84, Exit 4. Glass Seminars, Glass Displays, convention@ndga.net, 516.476.0155, www.NDGA.NET

• July 11 - September 2010
  Museum of Glass, 1801 Dock Street, Tacoma, Washington. Preston Singletary: Echoes: Fire and Shadows An exhibition of a Native American glass artist drawn from private and museum collections.

• July 17-19
  Glass Weekend '09. Wheaton Arts Center, Millville, NJ. An International Symposium of Contemporary Glass. 800.998.4552, wheatonarts.org

• July 18 - 19
  Nashville, TN. Annual Elegant & Depression Glass Show, Tennessee State Fairgrounds, 615-223-0816, Bob Fuller, www.fostoria-tennessee.com, SH: Sat. 10am-5pm, Sun. 11am-3pm

• July 24-25
  ANTIQUES, AMERICANA & DECORATIVE ARTS Featuring a fine selection of Virginia and Southern material along with other outstanding Americana. We will be accepting quality additions to the July auction until June 1st. Interested consignors should contact Karen Reed immediately by phone (540.434.3939, extension 143) or by email (karen@jeffreysevans.com). Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Inc. Auctioneers, Appraisers, Brokers, Consultants, & Collections Management (formerly the specialty/cataloged auction division of Green Valley Auctions). 2177 Green Valley Lane Mt. Crawford, VA 22841

• July 31 - Aug. 2
  The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. 2009 Annual National Show, Pomona Fairplex. 1104 W. McKinley Avenue, Pomona, California. www.fohbc.com/FOHBC_nationalShow_pomona2009.html

• August 1-2
  Pensacola, Florida. Depression Glass Show & Sale, Interstate Fairgrounds, 972-672-6213, Pam & Fred Myers, meyerlookingglass@hotmail.com, Sat. 10am-5pm, Sun. 11am-4pm

• August 8
  Ninth Annual Shenandoah Valley Insulator Show and Sale - Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club. Calvary United Methodist Church, 220 West Burke St., Martinsburg, WV, wvacampfire@verizon.net

• August 8
  9th Annual Shenandoah Valley Insulator Show and Sale. Chesapeake Bay Insulator Club. Calvary United Methodist Church, 220 West Burke St., Martinsburg, West Virginia. wvacampfire@verizon.net

• Aug 8 - 9
  Slidell. LA. Depression Glass Show & Sale, Northshore Harbor Center, 100 Harbor Center, 972-672-6213, Pam & Fred Myers, meyerlookingglass@hotmail.com, SH: Sat. 10am-5pm, Sun. 11am-3pm

• August 11-October 31
  Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts. Fritz Glass, "Marble Maker."

• August 22-October 24
  The new Pauly Friedman Art Gallery at Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania, is holding its grand opening exhibit, “Guiding Light,” featuring a stellar exhibition of large and extraordinary pieces by legendary artist Christopher Ries. Mr. Rier sculpts large blocks of high quality glass into simple, elegant, abstract shapes. The much-anticipated installation will run from Aug. 22 through Oct. 25.
  “It is with well-thought planning Christopher Ries is the opening artist for this historic occasion at Misericordia University’s new art gallery,” said Brian J. Benedetti, gallery director. “The art of Mr. Ries is like that of no other and shall leave a lasting impression on individuals that experience it.” A meet-the-artist champagne reception is Saturday, Aug. 22 from 5-7 p.m. with a speech by Ries immediately following in the new 2700-square-foot art gallery in Sandy and Marlene Insalaco Hall on campus. The two month event, which is free to the public, will feature a myriad of original pieces ranging in size, scope and color, and a talk with the artist.
  For more details about Ries and his work, please log on to www.christopherries.com. For more information about the grand opening of the Pauly Friedman Art Gallery at Misericordia University, please call Dona Posatko, gallery curator, at (570) 674-6250 or log on to www.misericordia.edu. Beginning Aug. 22 gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday; closed Friday; and Saturday and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
  Misericordia University’s Pauly Friedman Art Gallery occupies over 2700 square feet of space on the second floor of Insalaco Hall. The multipurpose gallery will be used for performing and visual arts, and will have a portable stage that can be used for small musical performances and poetry readings. The gallery also features a surround sound system, motorized blackout shades, three types of track lighting and a bamboo floor. A custom-designed storage area will double as a small theater for short, creative films produced and directed by Misericordia students.

• August 23
  Tri-State Glass and Porcelain Insulator Show (including lightning rod balls, bottles and go-withs).1476 Hine Road, Ross, Ohio.

• August 28-30
  Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland.
  As part of the national “Homecoming Scotland 2009” initiative the historic village of Fyvie, in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, will host its own “Fyvie Homecoming Festival” from 28-30 August 2009.
  Our festival is one of many events taking place in Scotland next year as part of "Homecoming Scotland 2009" and during our festival Fyvie Church, which has a magnificant Tiffany stained glass window, will be open to the public. (Normally it is only worshippers at the church who get to see it!)
  A warm invitation is extended to everybody who has links with the village, (no matter how tenuous!) as well as those who might be visiting the area on business or on holiday at this time and would like to sample some genuine Scottish hospitality, to come and join in the celebrations.
  The Festival will incorporate the annual Fyvie Folk Festival and the FHF Organising Committee is currently finalising a programme of events throughout the week-end aimed at people of all ages, including a folk concert, tea-dance, ceilidh and community garden party at Fyvie Castle. Click here to see the current draft programme. Please check this website for future programme updates.
  A number of local organisations and residents are working together to ensure that this will be a memorable event for all who attend or take part. However, if you are unable to join us on this special week-end, but would like to contribute in some way by sending us your memories of Fyvie, stories or photographs, then please contact the event organiser, Anne Iravani, at bpscotland@btopenworld.com

• August 29
  Lone Star Insulator Club, Houston, Texas. 18th Annual Insulator and Collectibles Show, Plaza Hotel, 7611 Katy Freeway, Houston, TX. E-mail - keithbooking@sbcglobal.net

• August 31 - September 3
  A Glass Tour that Will Blow You Away - Pittsburgh, Pa., and Toledo, Ohio
  FOUR-DAY TOUR: Mon., Aug. 31 to Thurs., Sept. 3, 2009
  Please call us at (202) 633-3030 to register for this Overnight Tour, so we may confirm your room arrangements.
  PROGRAM DETAILS Two museums, two factories, a stained glass studio, a chapel, and a school of glass all contribute to tell a tale of glassmaking in two cities. Pittsburgh, well known for its steel mills, used to be called the Glass City when it was the hub of glass manufacturing from the 1840s until roughly the 1930s. Three decades later, Toledo gave birth to the studio glass movement. This tour takes us back more than 3,500 years to the origin of glassmaking, through the history of the craft, and to demonstrations of glassmaking as practiced today.
  First, at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, we’ll hear a talk by museum division director Anne Madarasz, tour the large collection of premier glass, plus special collections, and go behind the scenes. Then we’ll go to Hunt Stained Glass Studios, a 109-year-old Pittsburgh institution, where artist Nicholas Parrendo will tell us about his 59 years of design work. The studio creates, installs, repairs, and restores stained glass windows. Even dinner includes a touch of glass: The Grand Concourse Restaurant, a former train station, retains its original vaulted stained glass ceiling. Day two highlights the Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art. The postmodern transparent structure houses more than 5,000 works of art in glass. We’ll get to see a demonstration at one of the studios there. On day three, we tour the Libbey factory, which generally isn’t open to the public. Formerly known for its brilliant cut glass, Libbey has taken an innovative approach to glassmaking and is a leading producer of glass tableware today. Later that day, we’ll see a more traditional use of glass at the neo-Gothic-style Heinz Memorial Chapel in Pittsburgh. Its 23 stained glass windows—several of them more than 70 feet tall—portray traditional subjects as well as unusual ones such as King Francois I with Da Vinci holding the Mona Lisa, several Founding Fathers, and Florence Nightingale. Century-old stained glass windows are also a part of the dinner scene that evening at the Church BrewWorks, formerly St. John the Baptist church. Remaining in Pittsburgh for the fourth and final morning, we tour an exhibit of mouth-blown glass by Nancy Callan, a member of master glass artist Lino Tagliapietra’s team, and see the creation of a sculptural piece and a demonstration of glass weaving at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. On the way home, we stop in to visit another factory, which contrasts with Libbey’s: Youghiogheny Opalescent Glass Co. makes stained glass in the Tiffany tradition.
  The tour is led by museum education consultant Sheila Pinsker. QUICK TIX CODE: 1NN-GGG
  • Mon., Aug. 31, 7 a.m., to Thurs., Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m., by bus from the Mayflower Hotel, Connecticut Ave. and DeSales St., N.W., with a pickup stop at the I-270 Exit 26 Urbana carpool parking lot at about 7:55 a.m.
  • Single-room supplement $190. All fees inclusive except as noted below.
  • Singles registering at the double-room rate are paired (on a nonsmoking basis) if possible, but must pay the single-room supplement if not.
  • Participants purchase their own Tuesday lunch and dinner. All other meals are included. Detailed information is mailed to participants approximately four weeks prior to departure.
  • Those taking overnight tours may wish to purchase travel insurance.
  COST:
  • Smithsonian Member $625.00
  • Gen. Admission $830.00
  LOCATION Detailed information for overnight tours is mailed approximately FOUR WEEKS prior to departure. For immediate questions
  Smithsonian Resident Associate Program 202-633-3030 Copyright 1995-2009 The Smithsonian Associates and Smithsonian Institution

• September 12-13
  Merritt, British Columbia, Canada. Insulator Ranch, 3045 Spanish Creek Place, Merritt, BC. bobscafe@telus.net

• September 13
  Crush Open House - Urban Glass. Wine bottles, bottle stoppers and platters, Free Tours, hands-on workshops (fees), exhibitions of contempory glass, jewelry, objects and art for sale. 647 Fulton Street (Entrance at 57 Rockwell Place), Brooklyn, NY. 716.625.3685, www.urbanglass.org

• September 24-November 8
  Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York. Hiromi Takizawa, 2008 MFA Exhibition Competition Winner. Robert Lehman Gallery, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York, www.urbanglass.com

• September 25-26
  Albuquerque, New Mexico, Enchantment Insulator Club - 22nd Annual Insulator, Bottle, Barbwire, Collectibles Show and Sale.. St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 9500 Constitution NE, Albuquerque, NM.

• September 26
  Third Annual Golden State Insulator Club Show and Sale. Marshall Building, Placerville Fairgrounds, Placerville, California.

• October 1-4
  National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 10th Anniversary Glass Now Auction A Night to Remember. Activities continue through October 4th. 215.925.2800 x117, www.libertymuseum.org

• October 2-3
  2009 Carder Steuben Club Symposium, Co-sponsored by The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY. PO Box 543, Dansville, NY 14437. web: brokenshards.homestead.com

• October 10
  UK Insulator Show, Detling Village Hall, Kent, England. about@speedcom.co.uk

• October 10-11
  Northeast Marble Meet. Marriott Courtyard, Marlborough, MA, I-495 and Route 20. 508.480.0015

• October 15-17
  48th Annual Seminar on Glass, Sources of Inspiration, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Tel. 607.974.4084, maiolm@cmog.org

• October 16-17
  Jefferson State Antique Bottle, Insulator and Collectibles Show. Seven Feathers Hotel and Casino Resort, I-5, Exit 99. Canyonville, Oregon. jsglass@q.com

• October 17
  All Hallow's Eve Open House - Urban Glass. Creepy crawlies, skulls, and pumpkins, , Free Tours, hands-on workshops (fees), exhibitions of contempory glass, jewelry, objects and art for sale. 647 Fulton Street (Entrance at 57 Rockwell Place), Brooklyn, NY. 716.625.3685, www.urbanglass.org

• November 6-8
  SOFA CHICAGO 2009, Navy Pier. sofaexpo.com

• November 6-8
  39th Mid-Ohio ("Springfield") Insulator Show at Clark County Fairgrounds, Springfield, Ohio.

• November 22
  Holiday Open House - Urban Glass. Ornaments, cane and handmade gifts, free Tours, hands-on workshops (fees), exhibitions of contempory glass, jewelry, objects and art for sale. 647 Fulton Street (Entrance at 57 Rockwell Place), Brooklyn, NY. 716.625.3685, www.urbanglass.org

• November 22-December 24
  Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York. Artists of Urban Glass. Art Made in Their Studios by Professional and Emerging Artists. Robert Lehman Gallery, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York, www.urbanglass.com

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