Have your decorative glass sales all dried up? Don’t forget to pay attention to water features when looking at your next set of construction documents or visiting architects and interior designers. Water Studio designs and builds contemporary water features, fountains, and fire features for commercial, residential, and public spaces. The Culver City, Calif., business has [...]

The Decorative Division of the Glass Association of North America (GANA) has been busy with a number of projects, from websites to industry presentations and education documents. Many of these activities were discussed when GANA held its annual Fall Conference October 17-20 in Kansas City, Mo. For starters, the Decorative Division’s education committee noted that [...]

An invitation to “be inventive” led designer Chris Murphy to create a colorful, glassy backyard for friend Michele Semin. Her Nebraska backyard now features bands of brightly colored glass that cover about 3,000 square feet, broken up by islands of white river rocks. Read the full Washington Post article here.

The international art competition ArtPrize recently awarded $498,000 in cash prizes to 18 artists. The top prize of $250,000 went to Mia Tavonatti from Santa Ana, Calif., for her large-scale stained glass mosaic, Crucifixion. More than 382,000 votes were cast in ArtPrize 2011 and an estimated 500,000 visitors experienced the third annual competition. Rounding out [...]

The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in Neenah, Wis., is now focusing all of its exhibitions, youth and adult classes and community outreach programming on the art of glass. According to the museum website, leaders there believe the refocus on glass will allow the museum to differentiate itself from other visual arts institutions, distinguish itself in additional expression [...]

For more than 100 years the Paul Wissmach Glass Company Inc. in Paden City, W. Va., has been creating colorful, rolled sheet glass for use in stained glass work. Three years the company decided it was time to take on a new territory. “We have been producing glass for 107 years for the at glass [...]

Wichita State University (WSU) is in the process of deinstalling a 26-by-52-foot glass mosaic on the facade of the Ulrich Museum of Art. The WSU Foundation is launching a $3 million public fundraising campaign to preserve every piece of the campus and community icon and, according to the announcement, the mosaic is a world masterpiece [...]

The Tile Council of North America (TCNA) has developed BSR A138.1-201x, a new specification for sustainable glass and ceramic tiles as well as tile installation materials. It was created as a means to establish a consistent approach to the evaluation and determination of environmentally preferable and sustainable glass and ceramic tiles as well as the [...]

I know a good thing when I see it. A year ago, I was looking at the craft website, Etsy, when I spotted a colorful, well-crafted glass tile for sale. The tile was the creation of Dundas, Ontario, Canada decorative glass designer, Michelle Prosek. Michelle is proving that there’s an opportunity for decorative glass tiles [...]

Innovation was in abundance on the floor of this year’s GlassBuild America, which took place September 12-14 in Atlanta, and in no more eye-catching examples than that of the decorative glass products found throughout the trade show floor. The latest launch from Walker Glass probably had a few attendees thinking “Saturday Night Fever,” as the [...]