The 2010 American Glass Guild Conference
July 23-25, 2010, Greektown Hotel, Detroit, Michigan
Make room on your calendar to attend the American Glass Guild’s fifth annual meeting, to be held July 23-25, 2010, in Detroit, Michigan. The following is a brief description of the courses, workshops and conference sessions. Detailed schedule and registration form forthcoming.
Pre-Conference
Workshops - July 18-22, 2010
Five Day
Restoration Seminar
Sunday, July 18th through Thursday, July 22nd
Consultant/Conservator Arthur Femenella
A
first for the AGG Conference, this will be a 5 day hands-on seminar in
which attendees will remove, restore and reinstall windows from a local
Detroit Church. It can be audited and AIA/CES learning credits can be
earned by those who qualify. Attendees will learn to assess existing
conditions, use sound conservation practices, and determine appropriate
levels of intervention when a window needs work. Methods of broken
glass repair, partial releading, and appropriate means of support and
installation techniques will be demonstrated and employed; when and
when not to relead will be clarified.
Silver-Stain
Workshop
Thursday July 22nd, 2010, morning, Greektown Hotel
J. Kenneth Leap, Instructor
This
will be a four-hour silver-stain workshop, demonstrating and discussing
the myriad uses of silver stain. Attendees will paint hands-on and take
away a set of fired and unfired samples of the various stains.
Traditional
Painting Workshop
Thursday July 22nd, 2010, afternoon, Greektown Hotel
Nick Parrendo, Instructor
Last
year’s Joseph Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
Nick
Parrendo, assisted by his daughter and fellow painter, Celeste, will
give a four-hour traditional painting workshop. They will discuss
iconography and demonstrate a variety of trace and matte techniques;
this is a hands-on seminar with constructive criticism provided to
attendees work.
Photo Transfer
Techniques Workshop
Thursday July 22nd, 2010, 3 ½ hours AM, 3 hours
PM,
Greektown Hotel AM, Michigan Hot Glass Workshop PM
Tom Krepcio and Dan Maher, Instructors
6
½ hour workshop manipulating and transferring photographs
and
digital designs onto glass via sandblasting, and screenprinting.
Various
techniques will be discussed and tried. Each attendee will have a
take-away project.
Glassblowing
Workshop
Thursday July 22nd, 2010,
All day workshop, Michigan Hot Glass Workshop
Albert Young, Instructor
In
another first, there will be a six-hour glassblowing workshop, taught
by Albert Young of the Michigan Hot Glass Workshop. Students will make
two hand-cast roundels that can be used in a stained glass project.
Open Drawing Class
Thursday July 22nd, Evening, Greektown Hotel
Organized by Ken Leap
On
Thursday evening we will have our first Open Drawing Class, organized
by Ken Leap with the assistance of various instructors. Attendees will
be participants and models; still life setups will be available. The
three-hour class is FREE and the AGG encourages participation by all.
Please indicate on your registration form if you plan to take this
class. Attendees must bring their own drawing materials.
Walking
Tour - Friday, July 23, 2010
On
Friday morning, there will be walking tours of local installations
including work by Tiffany Studios, John La Farge, Samuel Hodge, and
Paris and Wiley, culminating at the magnificent Detroit Institute of
Arts, which has a very important stained-glass collection. The tour
will be preceded by a variety of brief talks by conservators and
historians, among them Jim Tottis, Mary Clerkin Higgins, and Art
Femenella. Lunch is included at the Cathedral of St. Paul, also a stop
on the tour. That evening the Detroit Tigers will be in town,
so
there will be a chance to attend a ball game, if you so choose.
Conference Sessions - Saturday/Sunday, July 24-25, 2010
We have a wonderful group of presenters this year. Here are some highlights –
Sarah
Brown on Ervin Bossyanyi
We
are honored to have Sarah Brown discussing the work of Ervin Bossanyi,
a post WWII stained-glass artist from Hungary with an important, but
largely overlooked, body of work. Brown is Course Director of
the
MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management at the
University of York, England. She has published extensively on
ecclesiastical architecture and is Chairman of the British Corpus
Vitrearum Medii Aevi and Director of York Glaziers Trust.
Rona Moody on
Scottish Stained Glass
Rona
Moody will present 100 years of Scottish stained glass. Scotland may be
a small country, but it has made a profound contribution to the history
of stained glass.
Gail Bardhan of the
Corning Museum of Glass
Gail
Bardhan, the Reference and Research Librarian of the Rakow Research
Library of the Corning Museum of Glass will discuss the collections and
services offered by the library. Many of these services can be accessed
over the web. Rakow is the world's foremost library on the art and
history of glass and glassmaking. Its mission is to acquire everything
published on the subject of glass, in every format and in every
language.
We’ll hear about two memorable road trips:
David Wilde and
Hallie Monroe will discuss windows visited on
their recent journey through the French countryside.
Rebecca
Hartman-Baker and Judy Killian will
present highlights from their adventure visiting studios and looking at
stained glass across the northeast of the US in the summer of 2009.
Herb Babcock will
introduce us to modern stained-glass installations in metro-Detroit.
Crosby
Willet, Chair of the AGG Senior Advisors, will speak on
Willet commissions in the Detroit area, spanning the past ten decades.
Kathy Jordan
will discuss conservation of the 19th century English windows from All
Saints Episcopal Church in Barbados, focusing on the difficulty of
removing deposits of dissolved coral blocks from the windows and
conserving the extensive paint damage.
Jon Rarick of
Reusche & Co will provide an overview of vitreous
paints and be available to answer technical questions on the use of his
products.
Scott
Ouderkirk will talk about the unanticipated benefits a
promotional
piece of stained glass he created for his brother’s bar in
Syracuse, NY, ended up providing.
Panel Discussion on
Stained Glass Design
Moderated by Tom Krepcio, the panel will focus on the impact of
Photoshop in contemporary stained glass design.
Panel Discussion on
Conservation
Moderated
by Arthur Femenella, with Drew Andersen, of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, local preservation architects and other notable conservation
experts discussing issues confronting conservators, architects and
stewards of stained glass .
Stained
Glass Bus Tour - Monday July 26, 2010
Sites in the Greater Detroit area include -
Sacred Heart Major Seminary, with windows by Margaret Cavanaugh
Congregation Shaary Zedek, with windows by Robert Pinart,
Akiva Hebrew Day School, with windows by Vera Sattler,
Temple Beth El, with work by Artist/Sculptor: W. Gordon Hipp
Cross of Christ Lutheran Church,
with work by Andy
Young, Karen Sepanski, Ron Rae w/Jeff Warmuth
Temple Shir Shalom, with windows by Mordechai
Rosenstein w/ Mark Liebowitz
Congregation Beth Ahm, with windows by Yigael Meyer of
Israel (ca 1984)
