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Summer 2010 / Issue 119
departments

Editor's Letter
by Andrew Page

Hourglass
The Price Collection at the Bellevue Arts Museum; a glass public-art project in Helsinki wins Finnish environmental art award; Joe Cariati's students raise funds to keep his university course from being canceled.

Reviews
Jen Elek at William Traver Gallery, Seattle; Elias Hansen at Lawrimore Project, Seattle; the Heineman Collection at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; group exhibition at the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington; Therman Statom at the Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin.

UrbanGlass News
The 2010 Fete de Verre was a festive evening of fabulous glass, fine cuisine, Fellinesque fantasy, and "fun"d raising.

Reflection
Reading Harvey Littleton's 1971 book reminds us that making glass from art means taking risks.
by Kim Harty

features

Flights of Favrile
Rescued fragments of Louis Comfort Tiffany glass soar into the contemporary moment in John D'Agostino's photographs.
by James Yood

Shift Dress
Among a new wave of artists using glass, Mielle Riggie explores the nature of transformation in a range of materials.
by William Ganis

Second Life
High design meets eco-friendly in Artecnica's TranSglass line.
by Analisa Coats Bacall

Re-Seed
Five years after Katrina, the New Orleans glass scene regroups in a city redefined.
by Andrew Page

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