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Why Join
The Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass?
How often in your life are you able to pursue a passion and do some
good at the same time? If you love glass as an art form, want to teach
others to love it also, and wish to make it more accessible, read on
- and then join us.
 Jenny
Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles
The Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass is a not-for-profit organization
whose mission is to further the development and appreciation of art
made from glass. The Art Alliance (a) informs collectors, critics and
curators of current happenings in the world of contemporary art glass,
(b) encourages and supports museum exhibitions, university glass departments,
specialized teaching programs, regional collector groups and public
seminars and (c) provides access to private collections. And it does
it all for as little as $65 per year!
Over the past ten years, through our grants
program, we have helped to fund more than fifty museum exhibitions
of contemporary art glass, catalogs and panel discussions in connection
with exhibitions, and traveling exhibitions. Museums with which we
have been involved include the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cleveland
Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum,
the Orange County Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Tampa
Museum
of Art and the Toledo Museum of Art. We have funded museum curators'
attendance to events involving contemporary art glass so that they
may
learn to appreciate glass as art and to have their museums begin acquisition
programs. We are currently underwriting the publication of a book
that
will chronicle the entry of glass into museum collections and the growing
understanding of curators that sculpture made of glass can and does
stand on its own two feet as art. With grants and annual
awards, we have made contributions to glass programs at schools
including Centre College, Illinois State University, Ohio State University,
Philadelphia College of Arts, Pilchuck Glass School, Rochester Institute
of Technology and the University of Illinois. In addition, the Alliance
encourages and supports regional
collectors' groups in California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts,
Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.
These are some of the things the Art Alliance has been giving. But
what do its members get in return?
Through the Collectors' Travel Network
of the Alliance, members get to visit some of the finest private
collections of contemporary art glass in North America. Members are
invited to attend relevant programs, including S.O.F.A.
in Chicago and New York where they meet and socialize with artists,
collectors and critics, attend lectures on varied subjects of interest
to glass collectors and see the best examples of current art glass
exhibited
by many of the best glass galleries in the world. (You might also pick
up a bauble or two because the contemporary jewelry being exhibited
at S.O.F.A. is of the same high quality as the glass.) You will also
be invited to GlassWeekend,
a three-day exhibition by twenty glass galleries of contemporary art
glass, that includes a day-long educational program by artists, museum
curators and collectors regarding matters of current interest to glass
collectors and continuous demonstrations by major glass artists. And
you will also receive a subscription to the AACG Newsletter. Between
complimentary
S.O.F.A. admissions to Art Alliance members and the free subscription
to the newsletter, the cost of membership is
virtually
free.
If you're not a member of the Art Alliance, now is the time to join.
You'll be helping to promote contemporary glass, learn a lot about the
art we love, get to meet some really interesting people and have a lot
of fun as well.
Click here for a
membership application.
last update on 25 Aug 2006
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