The International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB) is calling for submissions to it’s Gathering exhibition. Indelible will be a collection of Personal Narratives Expressed in Art Glass Beads.

This is an opportunity for ISGB members to participate in a special exhibition that will open in conjunction with the twentieth anniversary Gathering in Bellevue/Seattle, Washington.

Entry deadline is March 16, 2012. The entry fee is $35 for your first submission; additional entries are $25 each.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.isgb.org/isgb-exhibitions/152-indeliblecall.html

To present the variety and power of glass beads, Glass Line Magazine is dedicating its June/July 2012 issue to celebrating significant works of art in this medium.

The competition is international in scope and will identify excellence in glass beadmaking. Publisher Jim Thingwold has invited three internationally respected artists—Sara Sally LaGrand, Barbara Becker Simon, and Paul Stankard—and a historian/scholar, Robert K. Liu, PhD, to select 40 artists/makers representing the best of the best to be documented in a single issue.

Submissions may include single beads or a collection of beads. We are looking to publish a body of work that showcases the wide variety of creative talent in the art and design world as it applies to the creation of beads in glass.

Entries must be postmarked by April 1, 2012. Entry is free.

For more information, please visit: http://www.glassline.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=46

The dates of the fifth International Festival of Glass are now confirmed

We will be celebrating 400 years of glassmaking in Stourbridge and the 50th anniversary of studio glassmaking worldwide.

The Public Festival will take place across the Stourbridge Glass Quarter from Friday 24 August to Monday 27 August 2012. Planning has started and we can promise you 4 fun-packed days of exhibitions, performances, demonstrations, have-a-go sessions and lectures.

Check out http://www.ifg.org.uk/ for more details.

Congratulations to Karen Mitchell, the winner of the Monthly Bead Challenge. Karen took her inspiration from the Silver Fern with her Fern Pendant. Karen will receive a $50 store voucher from Kerry at Affordable Inspiration.

For next month’s challenge, please draw your inspiration from Spring. Email an image of your entry (no larger than 1mb) to isla.osborne@gmail.com before the 20th of October to be in the random draw for a $50 voucher from Kerry at Affordable Inspiration.
www.affordableinspiration.com.au

Congratulations to Shirlee Wilton who has won the May Challenge.

A big thanks again to Kerry @ Affordable Inspiration for donating a $50 store voucher.

Flowers – any colour they still look bright. These are my flowers on a stick for potplants

Hi guys,

My entry for the May challenge… It’s called Brown Infection and is a collection of lampworked glass viruses on acrylic. The piece is from my current body of work called “The winter of my discontent”.

I know that we don’t generally think of viruses as beautiful, viewed objectively however, they can be seen as objects of splendid complexity. Beautiful nature.

x isla

Welcome to the May Monthly Challenge….  This month the challenge is: “Nature”

Anything goes… flowers, beaches, animals, sky, mud pools, grass, lightening, trees, snow, rivers, sun, bla bla bla

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world.  “Nature” refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.

The May prize is a A$50 store gift voucher from Affordable Inspiration.  Thank you Kerry!