European 20th Century Glass

A Two Day Seminar at the Manchester City Art Gallery

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October 2007
And the AGM of The Glass Association

Four Internationally Acclaimed Speakers

Programme

Sculptural glass platter by
Gabriele Kustner.

Saturday 27th October

Thimo de Duits: An art historian, formerly of the National Glass Museum in Leerdam, now curator of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, will talk on “Leerdam Glass 1925 -1932; ‘a thing of beauty is a joy forever’”.

Sylva Petrova: A major authority on Czech glass; author, lecturer and curator over the last twenty five years. Was in charge of the Czech Glass presentation at Expo 2005 in Japan. Her talk is entitled
“Czech and Slovak Glass; integration into other cultural contexts”

Sunday 28th October

Gunnel Holmer: The well known curator of the Smalands museum in Vaxjo, Sweden, since 1978. A specialist researcher and writer on
19th & 20th century Swedish glassmaking.
Her topic is simply “Swedish Glass”.

Rosa Barovier Mentasti: of the renowned Renaissance glassblowing family, course organizer at the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti in Murano – author of works on Venini, Seguso and Fuga, a reference book on the history of glass and a specialist work on Murano, will speak on “Contemporary Venetian Glass”.

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Full accompanying programme on both days, including visits to the Gallery’s Glass Study Collections.

The Glass Association’s AGM will be held on Saturday afternoon.

On Sunday the Glass Association will be running a “Silent Auction” of glass from members’ collections. Sale items will be on display in the lecture theatre from the start of the seminar until Sunday lunchtime, written bids can be entered at any time until the auction closes.

Costs

For both days of the seminar:

GA members £58
Non GA members £78*

Saturday only (lunch included):

GA members £34
Non GA members £54*

Sunday:

GA members £24
Non GA members £44*

(*includes a year’s membership of the Glass Association, entitling you to the latest issues of our full-colour quarterly publication
The Glass Cone and our latest Glass Journal)

Student Discount:

£10 For both days
£5 Sat or Sun

More Information

Saturday Evening Dinner - All four speakers will attend.

Everyone is invited to enjoy this special evening. The cost for dinner will be £25.

Certificates of Attendance will be available at the end of each day.

For more details email: pay@glassassociation.org.uk

For a downloadable booking form Click Here.

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 15 October 2007

Glass Events & Exhibitions

There are a number of glass related events and exhibitions taking place in the Manchester area at the time of our Glass Association Seminar on European 20th Century Glass.

For more information about these events & exhibitions Click Here.

For information about accomodation in the Manchester area visit www.visitmanchester.com/where-to-stay-home.aspx.

Alternatively, you could use Google to search for ' Manchester hotel' or 'Manchester bed and breakfast'.

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