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Host
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Alberta Craft Council
Partner
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Canadian Crafts Federation
Location
- Alberta College of Art and Design
Sponsors - American Craft Council,
The Crafts Report
Scroll down for other events and exhibition
information.
Sunday Post-Conference Tour to Banff
National Park
$100 per person - Price includes brunch and park entry fee
Sightseeing in the majestic Rocky Mountains, tour museums, galleries and
historic log homes, including a fabulous ($45) brunch overlooking Lake
Louise
 Tour
Details:
8:45 - Bus Departs International Hotel
11am -
Arrive Lake Louise
1pm - Bus loads for Banff (the town)
1:30 - Arrive in Banff for tour of Historic homes with
lots of craft and arts.
Walking tour
of galleries, Banff Ave, Banff Springs Hotel (the
castle), river edge etc.
6:00 Bus loads for return to Calgary
8pm Arrive back at International Hotel
Lake Louise with a glacier on the mountain in Banff National Park
a beautiful 2 hour drive Northwest of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
New Art
Show:
"Lucent: A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Glass"
 will
be on display during the conference.
The Glass Art Association of Canada (GAAC), as part of
Canada’s National Craft Year 2007 events juried by three
well recognized glass professionals: Tina Oldknow,
curator for the prestigious Corning Museum of Glass;
Calgary’s own Norman Faulkner, who started the glass
program and continues to teach at the Alberta College of
Art and Design; and Carole Pilon, an internationally
known glass artist from Montreal who is affiliated with
Espace Verre, a Montreal school devoted entirely to art
glass.
“This is a significant event for glass artists. For the
first time in Calgary and in Canada, internationally
renowned artists and curators will select some of what
represents the best of Contemporary Canadian Glass,”
says Julia Reimer, Copresident of the GAAC.
“This national exhibition will showcase the distinctive
and diverse works that comprise Canadian glass.” Their
selection will be a showcase for some of the very best
glass work in Canada and open to the public from May 30
to June 18 th, at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at ACAD.
This will be a traveling exhibition and be featured in
The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton. The
Lucent exhibition is held in conjunction with the
Alberta College of Art and Design "Invisible Visible
Craft Symposium" (June 10-12) and the "Craft
Organization Development Association (CODA) Conference"
(June 14-17).
Julia Reimer’s has been co-president of the Glass Art
Association of Canada since 2004. Her work has been
recognized through scholarships and awards from the
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Corning Museum of
Glass and the Canada Council for the Arts. As well, her
work is featured in the publication 500 Glass Objects.
She is part owner of Firebrand Glass Studios in Black
Diamond, Alberta.
Tyler Rock is the co-president of the Glass Art
Association of Canada and one of Canada’s premier glass
artists. His work has received recognition from the
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Alberta College of
Art and Design and the Canada Council for the Arts. He
has also been selected as “Artist in Residence” at the
Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New
York. In addition to his studio practice, Tyler is
program head of glass at the Alberta College of Art and
Design as well as an instructor at Red Deer College and
the Corning Museum of Glass.
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