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The new international glass news website "Glass is more!" posts about the Washington Glass School.

A new e-magazine all about glass is online - "Glass is more!" Based in Holland, Glass is more! promises to bring a new worldwide review of the glass scene with info on conferences, symposiums, exhibits, new techniques, opinions and essays and the latest in awards, competitions and entries. 
Editor Angela van der Burght worked as the general editor of Glasbulletin, Glashelder and This Side Up! and leads an international team of authors including Erica Adams in the US.
Their new website Glass is more! will cover art, craft, design, history, science and architecture for the collector, layman and the professional.

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Kris Coronado interviews Erwin Timmers

The Washington Post Magazine columnist Kris Coronado spent the day in the Washington Glass School this week, interviewing Erwin Timmers for an upcoming article on recycling and environmentally conscious artwork.

Above & Below: Washington Post photographer Benjamin Tankersley photos artwork made from recycled glass components.

Erwin talked wth Kris about his background in sustainable design, and how the growing awareness of the limits to our natural resources has led to a greater appreciation and interest in work made with environmentally responsible materials. Post photographer Benjamin Tankersley set up a full photo backdrop to properly document Erwin's eco-artwork. The Washington Post article is due out in the paper in early June.

Bourgeon On Tim Tate

The online arts magazine Bourgeon has a great article about Tim Tate and the Washington Glass School. The magazine article's highlights include Tim's achievements and plans for the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Washington Glass School and his thoughts about the tremendous changes that are remaking the art world landscape. Tim talks of how the artist's career path has changed, and how he has succeeded - indeed thrives, within the current technological and social interactive changes going on.

"in the late 1980’s, the art world presented a hugely different terrain than it does today. In those days, there was one primary path. An emerging artist would try to be noticed by a local gallery, which, if the artist were lucky, would represent him/her in that geographic region. Ideally, one would find several different galleries in different regions, striving for a New York gallery one day. If a gallery had contacts with a museum curator, perhaps it could get them to notice your work. The art world was full of gate-keepers – gallerists, curators, writers –all dominated by a small number of very knowledgeable people who had their own stable of familiar and talented artists. It was very tough to be noticed from the outside."
"Utilizing Facebook has been a big change, and a big ally, in my work. It started, as all good Facebook stories begin, with [a posting of] a video of a cat playing the piano. ... 24 hours later, I was in a show at the Museum Of Art and Design in NYC called “Dead or Alive” with Damien Hirst and Nick Cave."

For the full article click HERE.