History

Award Recipients History

Honorary Lifetime Membership Award
For outstanding service to the Glass Art Society

Penny Berk
William H. Blenko, Jr.
William Brown (1923-1992)
Thomas S. Buechner
Robert Carlson
Andries Dirk Copier (1901-1991)
Daniel Crichton
Dan Dailey
Laura Donefer
Fritz Dreisbach
Erwin Eisch
Frank Fenton
Susanne K. Frantz
O.J. Gabbert (1918 - 1992)
Paul V. Gardner (1908-1994)
Henry Halem
Audrey Handler
Frances Higgins (1912–2004)
Michael Higgins (1908-1999)
David Jacobs
Robert Kehlmann
Dominick Labino (1910 - 1987)
John Leighton
Marvin Lipofsky
Harvey K. Littleton
Lani McGregor
Joel Philip Myers
Mark Peiser
Michael Rogers
Ginny Ruffner
Takako Sano (1939-2006)
Jack A. Schmidt
Daniel Schwoerer
Josh Simpson
Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend
Sylvia Vigiletti   


Lifetime Achievement Awards
For exceptional achievement in the field of glass art

Jaroslava Brychtová
Thomas S. Buechner
Dale Chihuly
Fritz Dreisbach
Erwin Eisch
Kyohei Fujita
Henry Halem
Jiri Harcuba
Itoko Iwata
Dominick Labino (1910-1987)
Marvin Lipofsky
Stanislav Libensky (1921-2002)
Harvey K. Littleton
Finn Lynggaard
Paul Marioni
Richard Marquis
Klaus Moje
Ann Robinson
Alice Rooney
Ludwig Schaffrath
Lino Tagliapietra
Sybren Valkema (1994)

Labino Lecturer History

1993 
Dr. Robert H. Brill
Glass and Glassmaking in Ancient China, and Some Other Things from Other Places

1994
Dr Carlo G Pantano
The Surface of Glass
(The relationship between glass composition and molecular structure, and the way molecular structure controls properties)

1995
Dr. L. David Pye
A History of Color in Glass

1996
A Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduction by Thomas Eager
Solid Free-Form Fabrication: Computer Renderings to Solid Artifacts by Michael Cima
Glass in Architecture: Intentions and Innovations by Ken Kao
Holography: The Last Stop Before Cyberspace by Betsy Connors
A Feast of Sounds by Walter Lewin

1997
Dan Watson
The Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory Lecture

1998
Junji Tanahashi
Technical Advancements and Glass Production during the Edo Period

1999
Vladimir A Rakov
Lightning Makes Glass
(How lightning makes Fulgurites and information on Fulgurites)

2000
Henry E. Hagy
Glass Seals and Thermal Expansion Compatibility

2001
Frank Woolley and William Gudenrath
Technology Helping Art: Making Glass the Way It Wants to Be Made

2002
Mick Eekhout
Limits of the Material

2003
Dr. Carlo Pantano
Glass Surfaces: Old, New and Engineered

2004
Dr. William LaCourse
Sol-Gel and Other Curiosities

2005
Chris Sorrell
How Science, Art, and History Come Together Through New Techniques in Glass Analysis

2006
Dr. Delbert E. Day
Glass – From Outer Space to Inner Space

2007
Michael Greenman
Glass Art & Science – Moving Forward Together

2008
Dr. Roger Ely
Sustainable Energy for Tomorrow: The Natural Beauty of Light

2009
Dr. Adam Ellison
The Art of Glass Science