Category: Issue 71
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The Stained Glass Museum, Ely
This month we bring you updates from the Stained Glass Museum in Ely, the first in an occasional series on notable British institutions or organizations involved in stained glass. Geoffrey Clarke Stained Glass Appeal The Stained Glass Museum is raising money to purchase four stained-glass panels by the significant twentieth-century British stained-glass artist Geoffrey Clarke (b.…
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BSMGP Conference 2013
The British Society of Master Glass Painters’ conference will be held 29 August – 1 September 2013 and will focus on Worcester and Gloucester [Fig. 1]. Subjects will include the Great East Window at Gloucester, the Tewkesbury choir, and Fladbury (all early/mid-fourteenth century), as well as the east window of the Lady Chapel at Gloucester…
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In praise of… Mary A. Green (1873–1941)
This is the second in an occasional series of articles that profile pioneering scholars of stained glass in the United Kingdom. The series began with a study of the Revd Dr Christopher Woodforde. This instalment by our Features Editor, Roger Rosewell, focuses on the life of Mary A. Green, who can rightly be called the…
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BSMGP Autumn lecture
As mentioned in Vidimus 66, the BSMGP Autumn Lecture will take place on Friday 11 October. The lecture, given by Michael Peover and Elise Learner, is entitled ‘The renewal of the painted glass at Strawberry Hill’ and opens at 6.15pm for a 6.45pm start. When Horace Walpole created his gothic extravaganza of Strawberry Hill, his…
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Glass-Painting Workshops
The Architectural Glass Centre, the commercial arm of the Swansea School of Architectural Glass, has been running glass-painting workshops/masterclasses with Jonathan Cooke for the past twelve years. The next workshop, which runs over three and a half days, is planned for 27–30 September 2013. The workshop is suitable for beginners or for those with previous…
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ICOM-CC Interim Meeting, Amsterdam
The ICOM-CC interim meeting will take place this year in Amsterdam, 7–10 October 2013. For the first time, the interim meeting of the ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group and the Forum of the International Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Stained Glass (Corpus Vitrearum-ICOMOS) will be organized as a joint conference. These organizations have a great…
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Appeal for Help
A stained-glass student is appealing for information on two panels. Together the two panels make up a standing figure of St Paul, probably of late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century date. The upper panel measures 390mm x 730mm. The panels are of unknown origin. They may have been created by Powell & Sons, although there is…
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The Corning Museum Calls for Submissions for the New Glass Review
The Corning Museum of Glass is inviting artists, craftspeople, designers and architects to submit images of new works that use glass for possible publication in their annual New Glass Review. The New Glass Review is published by the Corning Museum of Glass, and is an annual survey of glass across contemporary art, architecture, craft and…