The Glass Association of North America’s (GANA) Decorative Division has launched a new website featuring decorative glass products at www.decorativeglazing.com. The site offers both educational and informative information to architects, designers and others in the industry. It includes a comprehensive glossary of terms and product types, a gallery illustrating the aesthetically pleasing nature of decorative [...]

Colfax’s newly restored library hasn’t forgotten its roots, figuratively or literally. Along with a replaced tin ceiling and restored tile flooring that honor the 93-year-old building’s original architecture, the Colfax branch was recently fitted with a six-by-seven-foot stained glass window featuring an oak tree with arching limbs and roots spread in the shape of an [...]

East Bend, NC – What started as a hobby in the 70′s has blossomed into a profession for Al Priest. At that time Priest and his wife had taken up stained glass classes. In 1985 he along with partner Brad Brown formed Salem Stained Glass. Their work can be seen in churches up and down [...]

North Carolina glass artist Jon Kuhn and his representative, Al Priest, president of Salem Stained Glass, have been granted a September 29 audience with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome to present the gift of a radiant Kuhn cross to the Pontiff. The 32 1/2 x 19-inch work of art contains 15,000 facets of clear optical [...]

Ferro Corporation announced it closed its transaction with Heraeus of Hanau, Germany. The two companies have acquired from each other certain business lines concerning decoration materials for ceramic and glass products. Terms of the transaction, first announced April 19, were not disclosed. CLICK HERE to read more.

Fast Company favorite Tokujin Yoshioka has sent along another piece he’ll be exhibiting next month in a tantalizing exhibition in Seoul, titled MUSEUM. beyond museum. If the Rainbow Church wasn’t enough to draw crowds, Yoshioka will also show Waterfall, the world’s largest table made of optical-quality glass. Almost 15 feet long, this is the first [...]

A tower crafted from hundreds of twisting, hand-blown yellow, red and chartreuse glass tubes that appears to burst from the earth in western Michigan stands in stark contrast to the stately English Perennial Garden. The displays are creations of world renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly, whose exhibition opens Friday at the gardens and sculpture park [...]

Heraeus and Ferro Corporation today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire from each other certain business lines concerning decoration materials for ceramic and glass products. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions; the companies expect the transactions to close by May 1, 2010. CLICK HERE to read more.

Over spring break artist John Rogers installed a color changing glass art sculpture in the lower winter garden of the new Rainier building. The piece is built in a spiral fashion with curved metal pipes suspended from the ceiling that span 90 feet and support slats of dichroic glass. CLICK HERE to read more.

Glistening glass art makes the grayest of days in Tacoma glow. Once Washington’s hardscrabble port city on Commencement Bay, the City of Destiny has taken on a new sheen in recent years. Tacoma’s embrace of the glass arts culture, from the hip Hotel Murano to the decorous Chihuly Bridge of Glass, makes the city of [...]