The Heineman Family has donated their entire collection of glass, considered one of the finest in the nation to the Corning Museum of Glass.
Over the course of 30 years, American collector and former Chairman and CEO of Northwest Industries, Ben W. Heineman Sr., and his wife Natalie G. Heineman, thoughtfully assembled one of the largest...
The windswept Scottish Village of Lybster is the unlikely home to an internationally-known glass center, Northlands Creative Glass. A handful of tiny shops sell only grocery items and there is no museum. The closest airport is in Inverness, a nearly-three hour drive
on a winding two-lane highway. Its isolation is part of the reason...
by Andrew Page
Sybren Valkema, blew the ceremonial first bubble at the Gerrit Reitveld Academy, Amsterdam, on December 11, 1965, to inaugurate an academic program that would help the development of European studio glass. Forty-years to the day, his son, Durk Valkema, was one of three glass artists that blew the first bubble at...
Swedish filmmakers won two prizes for a film on glass at the film festival in Montpellier, France. The award-winning film, began as a project at the VIDA Museum in Sweden, as part of the glass exhibition, Global Art Glass, which then developed into a 30-minute documentary for television and movie houses...
In May 2007, "one of the best equipped university glass programs in the United States." will extinguish its furnace fires. After the last glass major graduates , The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will close its hotshop, glasscasting studio, and neon and lampworking shops, because of what the administration says is "flagging student interest."
