GAS is excited to announce the call for entries for our three exhibitions:
- Connections: Glass from Every Angle, the GAS Member exhibition
- Evolution: A Showcase of Emerging, International Talent, our student member exhibition
- Trace: An Exploration of Sustainable Glass Art, our exhibition focused on green and sustainable glass
These exhibitions showcase the skills and innovation present in our community and will be on view online and in Wilhelm Hallen during the 2024 Conference in Berlin (May 15–18, 2024). Learn more about each exhibition, this year’s jurors, how to apply below!
Connections: Glass from Every Angle
GAS Member Exhibition
Highlighting the work and achievements of a selection of Glass Art Society members from around the world, this exhibition showcases artists pushing the technical and conceptual limits of the medium.
2024 Jurors
Curator | 📍USA
Carolyn Herrera-Perez is a potter turned curator. Currently, she serves as the inaugural Curator of Glass and Ceramics at the Chazen Museum of Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, she was the contributing editor of Material Intelligence and a curatorial fellow at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Carolyn was born and raised in so-called Peekskill, New York, the traditional land of the Kitchawanks and sister city to Cuenca, Ecuador. Family and locale are central to her practice.
Artist | 📍United Kingdom
Katherine Huskie is a glassblower and neon artist based in Wiltshire, UK. Huskie has worked in glass for over 15 years and specialises in free-blown glass which has aspects of functional beauty mixed with her creative and sculptural aesthetics. Huskie has won numerous awards and scholarships including becoming a QEST Scholar in 2020 to expand her neon practice and was the Wimbledon Championship Artist in 2018. Huskie is a Visiting Enterprise Fellow for The University of Sunderland and in this 3-year position, she takes time to visit and inspire the next generation of glassmakers.
Artist | 📍The Netherlands
Richard Meitner has lectured, conducted workshops, and been an artist-in-residence in the US, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Malta, Portugal, Sweden, the Maldives, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Japan. He has worked as a designer for the glass industry in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Meitner also served on the Dutch National Commission for Endowments for the Arts, the Dutch National Advisory Board for the Arts, and as jury member for the International Glass Prize in Belgium.
Together with Mieke Groot, from 1981 to 2000, he was in charge of the glass department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2006, he was appointed to the faculty for science and technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon), Portugal, and continues there. In 2016, he earned a PhD from the University of Lisbon, Belas Artes. Meitner has taken part in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions all over the world, and his works are now included in more than 60 permanent museum- and public collections in 17 countries.
Evolution: A Showcase of Emerging, International Talent
GAS Student Exhibition
Showcasing the unique perspectives and emerging talent of student artists working primarily in glass.
2024 Jurors
Head of Glass at Gerrit Rieveld Academie | 📍 The Netherlands
Jens Pfeifer is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, advisor, and educator based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Their artistic portfolio encompasses sculptures, drawings, and photography, depicting the paradox and distant relationships we have with our environment and fellow creatures, highlighting the multiple means of expressing cultural identity. Jens’ work has been exhibited on a global scale and is featured in numerous private and public art collections.
Jens currently serves as the Head of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s Large Glass department. As an educator, Jens embraces an inclusive approach to teaching, emphasizing the conceptual dimensions of glass as a sculptural medium within the realm of contemporary art.
In 2013, Pfeifer initiated The Glass Virus, a platform dedicated to fostering innovative educational strategies and perspectives in the field of glass art. Frequently collaborating with fellow educators and institutions, The Glass Virus regularly convenes Think Tanks and symposia, facilitating vibrant dialogues about the future of glass art education, both in Europe and beyond.
Artist | 📍 USA
Alyssa Rose Radtke is a sculptural artist from Toledo, Ohio. She currently holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Bowling Green State University. Through her work she explores the power of storytelling, using her personal experience of mundane life and encouraging viewers to recognize the
shared human experience. Alyssa approaches her work with an “anti-purist” mindset, using a combination of traditional and experimental methods, incorporating found and reappropriated
materials into her artwork. Alyssa’s work also aims to change the narrative of what mixed media can do in the glass community.
Artist | 📍 USA
Born in Albuquerque, NM and raised in Miami, FL, Leo Tecosky works at the intersection of cultural and craft traditions in the pursuit of knowledge of self. With a BA in Fine Arts from Alfred University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, Leo’s work mixes deconstructed elements of hip hop with technical glassmaking processes. Tecosky is the recipient of the 36th
annual Corning Museum Rakow Commission as well as the 2023 Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft. Recent exhibitions include TECO037 at Alma’s RVA and collections by the Chrysler
Museum and the Corning Museum of Glass. Tecosky lives and blows glass in Brooklyn, NY.
Trace: An Exploration of Sustainable Glass Art
GAS Green Exhibition
Exploring ways sustainability shows up in glass practice, this digital exhibition offers individuals an opportunity to showcase their work without the environmental impact of shipping and traveling.
2024 Jurors
Artist + Designer | 📍 Indonesia
Born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 1982, Ivan Berstari Minar Pradipta has degrees in Visual Communication Design from the Yogyakarta Vision Design Academy and Product Design
from Duta Wacana Christian University. Ivan was taught to process glass using the flameworking method in 2011 by the late Mr. Haji Soenaryo, the founder of CV Glass Blower in Yogyakarta which works on glass equipment for laboratory needs. Armed with this basic knowledge, Ivan experimented with glass waste as the main material for his work. Various references have contributed to Ivan’s work process, from the internet to glass bead craftsmen in Jombang, East Java.
Not wanting to keep his knowledge to himself, Ivan welcomes the public into his active studio space. Ivan hopes that glass as an art medium can be increasingly recognized and developed in Indonesia. Ivan also organised the Indonesian Glass Art Festival 2022, the first Glass Art Festival in Indonesia, for the International Year of Glass. Ivan has been actively involved in various exhibitions, presentations, live demos, and workshops in Indonesia and abroad such as in Singapore, Russia & Turkey.
Artist | 📍 United Kingdom
Hannah Gibson is a glass artist and geologist based near London. Growing up in North Wales, at the foothills of Snowdonia, overlooking the Menai Straits, it was easy for Hannah to fall in love with geology. From there, Hannah went on to study geology at The University of Edinburgh, where she became fascinated by Glass. Hannah took her first course in Glass at Edinburgh Stained Glass House, then followed the well-trodden path of then working with stained glass, fused glass, lampworking, and casting.
Studying for a Masters in Glass, Hannah began working on her current series of work, Recycling Narratives, Whispering Sweet Nothings. The focus of her research is on materiality. Constantly pushing the boundaries of glass, her work sits at the intersection of art and science. Capturing the nostalgic imagery of childhood, exposing hidden narratives through cast sculptural glass stands at the core of her work. Passionate about sustainability and recycling, using predominantly recycled glass and found objects, Sweet Nothings are a series of cast glass figures whispering Sweet Nothings to one another. These figures invite the viewer to question, what are they whispering and why?
Hannah won first prize in the Internationally renowned Glass Art Society’s Trace: An Exploration of Sustainable Glass Art 2023, having been shortlisted in 2022. She was highly commended in The International Glass Prize 2022 and 2021. She received the Judges Award in the Just Glass Exhibition, Recollection: Memories in Glass in 2021. Hannah is also recommended by the Homo Faber Guide. Hannah’s work has been collected and widely exhibited internationally including COLLECT, Gallery Ten, Habatat Detroit Fine Art, Habatat Galleries Florida, Habatat Galleries North Carolina, Kyoto Japan, London Glassblowing, Northlands Creative, Rhodes University, SOFA Chicago, The Chesterfield Gallery, The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass, The Imagine Museum, The National Liberty Museum, The Pyramid Gallery, The Royal Scottish Academy and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. She holds a BSc in Geology and an MA in Glass, MSDC.
Artist, Researcher, + Curator | 📍 Finland
Riikka Latva-Somppi is an artist-researcher, curator, and educator working in various assignments involving expertise in the field. She works at the intersection of fine art and craft and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Her public artwork Satakieli/Nightingale was awarded The Certificate of Environmental Art 2009 by The Foundation of Environmental
Art (Finland). The Tikkurila park and marketplace was awarded The Environmental Structure in 2017 with special recognition for public art by the artist group ART4 (Brinck, Latva-Somppi, Ranki, Turpeinen) commissioned by the Vantaa Art Museum. Latva-Somppi is a member of Artists-O (Ornamo) and The Association of Finnish Sculptors.
She is currently employed by Aalto University as a doctoral researcher in the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Design, EMPIRICA research group. In her practice-led doctoral research, she studies the role of craft in the environmental discourse. She investigates the way in which craft knowledge and making by hand may be utilised to catalyze collective action to engage with environmental questions. Her research context is in the relationship between humans and soil, which she appraoaches through her background in ceramics and glass. Her practice-led research merges scientific and artistic methods, and utilises curating exhibitions as a way of making visible the insights gained through interdisciplinary practice. Her doctoral research is funded by Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation.
Artist + Gallery Owner | 📍 Scotland
Paul Musgrove studied Furniture and Glassmaking at Manchester Metropolitan, graduating in 1980. He went on to join “The Glassworks” in Edinburgh with Jenny Antonio in 1982, subsequently taking over the business and continued as owner/maker until 1990. Paul worked as the organiser for “The Tent Co”, the annual Edinburgh Festival applied arts show in Prince’s Street Gardens from 1982 to 1992. He is still a practising artist, printmaker, and glassmaker.
Musgrove established Gallery TEN in 2012, in partnership with artist and fellow printmaker Gill Tyson, after setting up the SpeKtrum Print Collective in 2011. The gallery was set up primarily to support Scottish printmaking artists, after Tyson’s departure in 2013 the gallery remit broadened to encompass the applied arts sector, specifically internationally studio-made glass. The gallery had a major glass exhibition during the Edinburgh Festival “Glass2015” representing over 35 artists and makers. It has also taken part in “COLLECT” at the Saatchi Gallery the annual Craft Council applied arts show. In the 2016 Festival, the gallery put on “The Cathedral Collection” an extraordinary and acclaimed glass collection from international glass makers Baldwin & Guggisberg in St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh.