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Walls and doors emerge onsite!
Phase Two of our Redevelopment is going excellently, and all to schedule. We are starting to see the skeletons of the new spaces emerge, take a look at what will be the space to host Dan Klein, Alan J. Poole Private Collection: And here is the Long Gallery space, which is along the balcony leading up to the Pod meeting room: Our Learning Spaces…
Read our blogThe Glass Music Programme
The Glass Music Programme Tuesday 15 June, 7-8.30pm at National Glass Centre The Glass Music Programme is an extraordinary concert taking place at the National Glass Centre, featuring a unique instrument; the Glass Harmonica (also known as the Glass Armonica). The concert is produced by National Glass Centre, introduced and curated by Richard Bernas…
The Glass Delusion
The Glass Delusion 21 May - 3 October 2010 ‘The Glass Delusion’ was the name given in the late Middle Ages and Baroque times to a form of depression. Sufferers were obsessive, compulsive, driven by irrational fears, and imagined themselves to be made of glass, hence brittle and fragile. So pervasive was the condition that it entered world…
Visiting Artist to NGC: Tim Shaw
Tim Shaw has been confirmed as a Visiting Artist with National Glass Centre glass studio this summer. Tim is internationally recognised for his talent and his work has been described as ‘seductive and alluring’. He has an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, which is where he further refined and honed his glass making skills. Since…
Public art project bears fruit!
A public art project will transform Hartley Wood Estate in Sunderland into an orchard with glass apples. In the next few months, the residents of Sunderland’s Hartley Wood Estate will start to notice a small orchard of apple trees appearing in the communal landscaped area at the centre of the Estate. Each tree will bear a different variety of…
- Arts Council England
- Sunderland City Council
- University of Sunderland
- Positive About Disabled People
- Lottery Funded
- Northern Rock Foundation
- VAQUAS
