Posted by IslaOsborne on March 24, 2012
TGK competition “All you need is glass”
We are looking forward to welcome glass artists and glass designers from all over the world, who set no limits to work with glass in their own particular way, and who can finally join us in saying: “All you need is glass!
As always all participants and winners can benefit from lucrative prizes and good PR.
Further information and registration: www.tgk.de/competition
Deadline 2.04.2012
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Posted by IslaOsborne on January 12, 2012
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
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Posted by IslaOsborne on January 12, 2012
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
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Posted by IslaOsborne on December 22, 2011
Hugs all-round
I want to give a huge thank-you to all the amazing people who have donated their work to Beads of Courage this year.
In the six months since NZSAG have been working with The Child Cancer Foundation, we have donated over 1200 unique glass beads to Beads of Courage! That’s an amazing total, especially considering only 25 artists are currently partners in the program.
Donated beads range from traditionally lamp-worked, to fused and kiln-formed as well as beads created in the hot-shop. It is truly inspiring to receive donated packages and I feel privileged every time I open one.
For those of you who are not aware, Beads of Courage is a treatment program administered in New Zealand by the Child Cancer Foundation. Beads of Courage helps children through a very challenging experience. Each child with cancer is given a necklace with their name spelt in beads. They then add to their strand with specific coloured beads to represent every procedure they undergo. The beads document each child’s journey in a positive way. They help give a child the courage to take each difficult new step. Sadly, by the end of a treatment journey, children often have strands of beads longer than they are.
The program has recently been rolled out nationwide, and we need to find 75 glass artists willing to donate 75 handmade ‘milestone’ beads each year, that’s over 5,500 beads.
If you are interested in being a partner in this amazing program, contact me: Isla Osborne on isla.osborne@gmail.com. If you don’t regularly make beads, but have a few lying around the studio that you want to donate, just send them to me and I will make sure they reach their destination.
Isla Osborne 2 Wellpark Avenue, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021.
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Posted by IslaOsborne on November 24, 2011
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.
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Posted by IslaOsborne on November 1, 2011
We are proud to present the INTERNATIONAL GLASS PRIZE 2012, a triennial international glass competition for arts, design and crafts. This project is an initiative of the Private Foundation Charlotte van der Seijs and is organized by the glass museum GlazenHuis in Lommel, Belgium.
This first edition is focusing on THE OBJECT.
EUR 20.000 prize money and two residency periods in the studios of the GlazenHuis will be awarded by the jury: T. Oldknow, R. Meitner, J. Boelen and J. Maes.
Applications are free and can be easily submitted online until February 1, 2012.
Info and applications on WWW.INTERNATIONALGLASSPRIZE.BE
We would greatly appreciate it if you can promote the competition by forwarding this message to all glass related institutes, organizations, artists and students within your network.
Most kind regards
Jeroen MAES
Artistic coordinator GLAZENHUIS & Curator INTERNATIONAL GLASS PRIZE 2012
“The Object is that tangible thing consisting of lifeless matter, limited in size and autonomously standing, lying or hanging in the space. It is the materialization which serves a purpose or transforms a concept, but where – above all – we can find the essence in the intrinsic quality.” (JM)
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Posted by IslaOsborne on October 13, 2011
Let the exchange begin
A huge thank-you to the artists who have sent me their beads to exchange. I feel privileged to be able to see everyone’s lovely beads, then send them back out into the world. For those of you who haven’t taken part in the Bead Exchange before, it’s like a lolly-scramble with glass. The process is very simple; every participant makes 10 beautiful beads and sends them to me with a self-addressed postage bag. I package up a random selection for each person, pop them back in the post. It’s exchange excitement when the beads arrive!
If you want to be involved, you still have a few more days to send in your beads. I am not going to divide the spoils until the end of October, so you should get your package by the end of the month.
Just post them to me before the 20th of October: Isla Osborne, 2 Wellpark Avenue, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021.
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Posted by IslaOsborne on October 13, 2011
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
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Posted by IslaOsborne on July 7, 2011
THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!
Welcome…We are less than two and a half months away from kick off to the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
This week our committee secured a prime exhibition venue in Auckland within the precinctof Eden Park for members to showcase New Zealand glasswork that will also be for sale on a split commission basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to have your work appreciated by an international audience looking for a piece of New Zealand to take home with them.
Thank you to those of you who have already responded to our previous request sending your intentions to exhibit to Jo Tricker our editor who has diligently been compiling a participants list. It is really important we gauge at an early stage how many people wish to participate in this event so we can plan accordingly and as you can imagine there is a lot to co-ordinate in our spare time.
The dates for the rotating exhibition including the grand final of the Rugby World Cup are Friday 30 September to Monday 24th October. We are requesting either one representative work or stock works that can be replenished as sales eventuate from members that wish to participate. We are looking for excellent professional images of work reflecting the type of work that will be for sale. CD’s containing images can be sent c/o New Zealand Glass Exhibition to 28 Nixon Street, Wanganui East, Whanganui asap. If you are sending images you are consenting to NZSAG using them for publicity purposes. Please note, we reserve the right to refuse non-professional images for the promotion of this event. The highest quality images will serve your work better.
We would also like to welcome to this event, any new glass bead makers. Sadly, the New Zealand Glass Bead Artists (NZGBA) group was dissolved this month. NZSAG has been conscientiously working with this group and has offered to continue promoting bead artists and their great work incorporating events they have initiated, particularly with fundraising for organizations such as the Cancer Society. NZGBA have generously donated cabinets to NZSAG for the promotion of glass bead and wearable art as well as gifting $1500 of funds
to our Society. Remaining funds have been gifted to the Cancer Society.
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Posted by IslaOsborne on June 20, 2011
Beads of Courage is organised in New Zealand by the Child Cancer Foundation. The programme supports and strengthens the protective resources in children coping with serious illness.
Each child’s Beads of Courage journey begins when they are given a length of string and beads that spell out their first name. Then, colourful beads, each representing a different treatment milestone, are given to the child to add to their collection throughout their treatment.
The Child Cancer Foundation specifically needs a random assortment of handmade beads for treatment milestones, purple hearts for children celebrating the completion of their treatment and, sadly, butterfly beads for the end-of-life bead program.
It is expected that over the next year, the Child Cancer Foundation will need around 5,000 handmade beads to keep the Beads of Courage program running in New Zealand.
What we need
The Child Cancer Foundation needs to find 75 glass artists, each willing to donate 75 handmade beads a year to Beads of Courage.
If you would like to be a part of this amazing program, please let us know. We will provide you with a welcome pack explaining how Bead of Courage works. Included will be all the packaging you will need for your donations as well as tutorials on how to make Purple Heart beads and Butterfly Beads.
Your name will be listed on the Beads of Courage website as a donating artist and each bead you donate will be packaged with your name attached.
Type of beads
Random assortment
We specifically ask for a random assortment of handmade beads for children to select from for the Act of Courage and Bone Marrow Transplant (recipient and donor) treatment milestones – use your creativity – the sky is the limit! Many beadmakers donate extras from sets, orphans, slightly wonky beads and the beads sitting in bowls around the house. They are all beautiful in their own right and the children love them.
Purple hearts
We appreciate the donation of handmade Purple Heart beads that are given to children who are celebrating the Completion of their Treatment. We prefer hearts with the hole running horizontally through them, but hearts that have a vertical hole are perfectly acceptable – we ask that they be wired with a headpin loop so that they can be strung with the pointed end down.
Butterfly beads
Finally, we appreciate donations to maintain our End-of-Life bead program. Through this program we provide the professional caregivers with a butterfly bead that they may give to a parent who has suffered the loss of a child. Please be sure to make your butterflies very sturdy – these beads are a remembrance for the families and must stand up to normal handling. There is a tutorial for making butterflies in your welcome pack.
Large round or heart shaped dichroic beads
Depending on the particular hospital’s preference, we either provide them with butterfly beads or large round or heart shaped dichroic beads for the Beads of Courage Bereavement Program.
Size of beads
Size is not important; we can use all sizes and variations of beads (round, tubular, odd-shaped) for our treatment milestone beads. The size of the mandrel can range, but 3/32 inch works well and will fit the program stinging material. The cord that is used in the program will fit through 1/16 inch bead holes, but 3/32 inch bead holes would be easier for the kids to string. The inside of the bead should be free of bead release. There should be no sharp corners, cracks or protrusions that would easily break off (such as hearts with long, delicate tails) on the beads that are donated.
Beads should be fully kiln annealed. Please remember that these beads are worn and handled by children and should be sturdy enough to stand up to normal wear and tear.
How to register your interest
Please email Isla Osborne at isla.osborne@gmail.com to register your interest in donating to the Beads of Courage program. She will then send you a welcome pack with everything you need to know.
You don’t need to register to donate beads however. If you have a few beads lying around the studio and want to donate them, just send them to Isla and she will anneal them if necessary and package them before sending them on to the Child Cancer Foundation.
All beads can be mailed directly to:
Isla Osborne
Beads of Courage
2 Wellpark Avenue, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021
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