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	<title>Contemporary Canadian Glass</title>
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		<title>Note from the Editor-Education Issue 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello readership! I wanted to make a personal comment on our current issue of Contemporary Canadian Glass. This quarter&#8217;s magazine is timetabled to highlight our students and recent grads within our Canadian and global glass community. By this time of year they have settled into their new &#8216;post education&#8217; lifestyles and we at GAAC want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/editorsnote/education-issue-nov-2011/</link>
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		<title>March 11th &#8211; Then and Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rika Kuroki     Japan is a country sitting on numerous faults, where 10% of all the earthquakes in the world occur, shaking up one place or another constantly.  We have had devastating earthquakes periodically; the last massive one, still fresh in our memory, in Kobe on January 17, 1995, which claimed 6000 precious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/beyond/march-11th-then-and-now/</link>
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		<title>ACAD Grads 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Brianna Strong The Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD) is celebrating their most recent graduates from the glass program.  These recognized creative producers carry out a range of investigations that are as diverse and layered as their respective methodologies.  The breadth and scope of their practices begin to ask fundamental questions about material [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/students/acad-grads-2011/</link>
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		<title>Three years gone by:A look back on learning at Espace VERRE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Valérie Paquin     People often refer to the pleasant atmosphere that reigns at Espace VERRE, a place to share ideas and knowledge, where seasoned professionals meet tomorrow’s glass artists. In 1989, François Houdé, Ronald Labelle, and their team welcomed the first glass artists-to-be enrolled in the fine craft technical program, glass option, leading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/students/three-years-gone-bya-look-back-on-learning-at-espace-verre/</link>
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		<title>Canada Month at the Jam Factory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Julia Reimer     November has been declared Canada Month in the Glass Studio at the Jam Factory.  During this month there will be several well-known Canadian glass artists either creating work at the Jam Factory or doing presentations about their work.  Some of the artists that will be infusing the Jam with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/whatshappeningandreviews/canada-month-at-the-jam-factory/</link>
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		<title>Networking in Glass: Pilchuck and GAS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Gray   I’ve lived in the small town of Merrickville, Ontario for the majority of my life. I’ve been surrounded by glass, both hot and cold, since I was a young boy. My dad, who owned a glass blowing shop in town, introduced me to the fascinating, manipulative material. Glass blowing and sculpting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/students/networking-in-glass-pilchuck-and-gas/</link>
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		<title>Sheridan Abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claire Anderson     Dear fellow GAAC members, I would like to take another moment of your time, if you don&#8217;t mind, to once again tell you about how great Sheridan was. Yes, my fellow classmates and the faculty were great, I learned a lot, blah blah blah, but I would like to speak specifically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/students/sheridan-abroad-2/</link>
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		<title>Residing in Canberra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jaan Poldaas   The Canberra Glassworks, with assistance from the Thomas Foundation in Canberra, offers residencies to emerging artists nearly all year round.  Upon finishing the two-year program at the Jam Factory in Adelaide, I applied to the Thomas Foundation Artist-in-Residence program and was accepted to complete a six-week residency which took place through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/featurearticles/residing-in-canberra/</link>
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		<title>3/11 Earthquake in Japan – Glass and Ceramics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tomoko Doi, translated by Ryoko Sato   I greatly appreciate the worldwide support we received for the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011.  The great tsunami took many lives and displaced many who survived.  In terms of glass and ceramics, big museums had measures for the earthquake and the damages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/beyond/311-earthquake-in-japan-%e2%80%93-glass-and-ceramics/</link>
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		<title>Cherry Blossom Live Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jocelyne Prince &#160; This video documentation is of a live event held at K-Arts in Seoul, Korea. A makeshift tree construction is covered with hot glass “clouds”. Four teams of Korean women glass blowers work to the sounds of French musette music. They are producing mold blown glass that is then placed, while still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/whatshappeningandreviews/cherry-blossom-live-event/</link>
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		<title>Pilchuck Auction 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By K. Leah Duperreault     Friday October 14, 2011 marked Pilchuck’s 33rd annual auction and I was lucky enough to be able to attend.   &#160; &#160;   A big part of the auction are the centerpieces which are created by the Poleturners Union, Local 1201.  Poleturners are an international group of volunteer glass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/hotstuff/pilchuck-auction-2011/</link>
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		<title>Pilchuck:  One Way to Get Over the Post-Secondary Hangover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Larissa Blokhuis   At the beginning of the summer, I went to Pilchuck, where I took a class with a guy named John Miller.  I’d never heard of any of the teachers, so I just put my name down for the advanced or sculptural glassblowing classes and got him.  He is a proponent of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/students/pilchuck-one-way-to-get-over-the-post-secondary-hangover/</link>
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		<title>A Season for Glass &#8211; Glass Artists in Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Brad Copping I have recently come to understand that there is a season for glassware use in Japan and that season is summer.  With the onset of warm weather many Japanese homes will put away the ceramics and bring out the glassware with its transparent, light-catching qualities, providing a suggestion of refreshing coolness, revealing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/cover/a-season-for-glass-glass-artists-in-japan/</link>
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		<title>Neon Vancouver &#124; Ugly Vancouver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Museum of Vancouver     Neon Vancouver/Ugly Vancouver is an exhibition about Vancouver’s love/hate relationship with neon signs, which explores Vancouver’s gritty, urban past at the Museum of Vancouver (MOV). Opening October 13, 2011, Neon Vancouver/Ugly Vancouver presents a fascinating look at the rapid growth of neon signs throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/whatshappeningandreviews/neon-vancouver-ugly-vancouver/</link>
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		<title>Glassblowing at the Haliburton School of The Arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Elisha Barlow Glassblowing continues to be in high demand at the Haliburton School of The Arts (HSTA)!  HSTA is renowned for its outstanding programming with its fully equipped, state-of-the-art glassblowing studio overlooking Glebe Forest in Haliburton, Ontario.  Certificate programs, week-long courses and one-day workshops have opened the doors to students from all over Canada [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/students/glassblowing-at-the-haliburton-school-of-the-arts/</link>
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		<title>Recent Moments at ACAD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Brianna Strong     The Alberta College of Art + Design is a place of creative engagement and active discourse.   What is cultured inside the walls of the school propagates in the greater dialogue of contemporary art and culture.  Keeping pace with this perpetual growth and conceptual variation is ACAD’s glass program with Natali [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/featurearticles/recent-moments-at-acad/</link>
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		<title>Hot Glass at Red Deer College</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jillian Best   As usual, this summer at Red Deer College was hot! We welcomed many talented glassblowing instructors to our campus for Series Summer School of the Arts, which ran from June 10 to August 13. The roster included some old favourites (I don’t really mean “old”…) like Katie Brown, Ilona Lindsay, Jeff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/students/hot-glass-at-red-deer-college/</link>
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		<title>A Glass School for Vancouver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Larissa Blokhuis     If I hadn’t been born in a city with a glass school, I would definitely still be an artist, but I wouldn’t be a glassblower.  Like most people, before I tried glassblowing, I didn’t realise it was something you could do as an art form.  In grade school it seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/issues/a-glass-school-for-vancouver/</link>
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		<title>President’s Message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I’ve been thinking.  I had a formal art education at the Alberta College of Art + Design which culminated in a BFA, but I’ve been pondering if/how my studio practice would be different if I’d never gone to school.  How necessary is art school training to a successful studio practice, I wonder. &#160; &#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/from_the_president/president%e2%80%99s-message-2/</link>
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		<title>Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 1 – August 21, 2011 By Joanne Marion and Tom McFall This dynamic group exhibition of contemporary handmade glasswork ranges from large-scale sculpture to small vessels by 16 Alberta glass artists. It is also the first collaboration between the Alberta Craft Council, the Calgary Glass Initiative and the Esplanade Art Gallery, in bringing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mag.glassartcanada.ca/whatshappeningandreviews/natural-flow-contemporary-alberta-glass/</link>
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