Issues In Glass Pedagogy
Demos, Lectures, Panels, Symposium
A unique opportunity for glass department heads, faculty members, instructors, and students to discuss with their peers the changing fine-art landscape in academia, best practices in the lecture hall and studio, as well as practical issues. Designed for professors at degree-granting institutions but open to all glass educators, two days of provocative presentations and formal and informal idea exchange will take place at the center of the New York City art world, with frequent opportunities to network and visit downtown galleries.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Loud, Hyperbolic, and Self-Branding: How glass departments can redefine and reposition themselves in university art curricula
SPEAKER
Jack Wax, Craft/Material Studies Dept at The Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts

FEATURED PRESENTATION
You Have to Get Out of It to Get Into It: Balancing glass craft with issues in contemporary art
SPEAKER
Ruth King, Artistic Director Emeritus, Pilchuck

DUAL PRESENTATION
Case Studies in Change: How two glass department heads overhauled their programs, and lived to tell about it

SPEAKERS
Dawson Kellogg, Head of Glass Program, Columbus College of Art and Design
Koen Vanderstukken, Glass Department Head, Sheridan College

PRESENTATION
Understanding "Handedness" and its Implications in the Hot Shop
SPEAKER
Helen Lee, Head of Glassworking, University of Wisconsin, Madison

PRESENTATION
The Extroverted Glass Program: The MIT GlassLab and its relationship with the larger culture of MIT
SPEAKER
Peter Houk, Director of MIT GlassLab

PRESENTATION
Learning to Juggle While Playing The Banjo: Finding harmony in an academic career and a successful artist practice
SPEAKER
Michael Rogers, Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology

PRESENTATION
Working with Complexity: Drawing pedagogy in the glass studio
SPEAKER
Jennie Spiers Grant, Practicing Artist

PRESENTATION
Developing the Student’s Voice Within the Academic Environment
SPEAKER
Richard Whiteley, Head of the Glass Workshop at the School of Art, Australian National University

PANEL DISCUSSION
Does the inherently complex nature of glass process work for or against the development of a conceptual framework?
PANELISTS
Dan Clayman, Practicing Artist
Sharyn O'Mara, Head of Glass, Tyler School of Art
Jack Wax, Craft/Material Studies Dept at VCU School of the Arts
ANDREW PAGE, EDITOR OF GLASS: THE URBANGLASS ART QUARTERLY AND DIRECTOR OF THE ROBERT M. MINKOFF FOUNDATION, WILL MODERATE

STUDIO LECTURE
The Glass Virus: A call for a cooperative effort by institutions, universities, and schools all over the world to investigate the future of glass art education
SPEAKER
Jens Pfeifer, Head of Glass Program, Gerrit Rietveld Academie

DUAL STUDIO LECTURE
VIDEO+GLASS: Bridging Studio Glass and New Media through the study of optical devices
SPEAKERS

Kim Harty, Lecturer, Practicing Artist
Charlotte Potter, Glass Studio Manager, Chrysler Museum of Art

PANEL DISCUSSION
Your Students, Our Students: Exploring the relationship between non-accredited glass programs and their degree-granting academic counterparts

PANELISTS
James Baker, Executive Director, The Pilchuck Glass School
Jane Bruce, Educational Program Consultant, UrbanGlass
Leslie Walker Noel, Program DIrector, The Penland School of Crafts
ANDREW PAGE, EDITOR OF GLASS: THE URBANGLASS ART QUARTERLY AND DIRECTOR OF THE ROBERT M. MINKOFF FOUNDATION, WILL MODERATE

STUDIO LECTURE
Advancing the Notion of “Advanced”: Can the convention of the hot-shop demonstration be used to teach more than how to make something?
SPEAKER
Alexander Rosenberg, Glass Program Head, University of the Arts

SCHEDULE
Thursday, December 5, Arrival, hotel check-in, and optional gallery tour in Manhattan (6 PM). Cocktail reception at art collector's downtown loft apartment (8 PM)(sponsored by the Glass Art Society)
Friday, December 6, Academic presentations (9 AM - 7 PM) in an auditorium setting with audio-visual resources. Box lunch (12:30 PM); Vendor tables, breakout sessions, and coffee station open all day. Reception at the UrbanGlass studio (7 - 9 PM).
Saturday, December 7, Breakfast at UrbanGlass (8:30 AM - 9:30 AM).Technical demonstrations of pedagogical issues in a studio setting with access to working hot-shop, cold-shop, flameworking and kiln facilities (9:30 AM - 1:30 PM). Closing remarks (1:30 PM - 2:00 PM).

UrbanGlass Studio
647 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
http://www.urbanglass.org