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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 blogChanges to Our Building
Building work is under way on the lower ground floor level of our building. The hot glass studio has closed and daily live glassblowing with commentary resumes in September. The rest of the National Glass Centre is open for business as usual, however there is some disruption with noise from certain building work that is taking place. We apologise for any…
2nd International Symposium on Architectural Glass
2nd International Symposium on Architectural Glass: 'Working with light as a means of interaction between space and mind' Thursday 17 & Friday 18 May 2012 In 1999, the IIRG hosted a one-day symposium on “The Extended Use of Glass in Architecture” with the aim of encouraging debate and research in the UK, which generated a high level…
New exhibition is all fired up:Mirror Neurons
As part of the 'AV Festival 2012: As Slow As Possible' the National Glass Centre and curator, Sarah Cook present 'Mirror Neurons'. ‘Mirror Neurons’ brings together artworks that linger within transient moments, slow down our sense of perception, and make us aware of our experience of time. The exhibition includes works in a…
Garth Clark Lecture: Weds 14 March, 11am
CARCuos Lecture: Garth Clark - Mind Mud: Ai Weiwei Ceramics Wednesday 14 March 2012, 11am, Riverside Room CARCuos, the Ceramic Arts Research Centre at the University of Sunderland, is delighted to announce that world renowned ceramics scholar Garth Clark will be giving a lecture titled 'Mind Mud: Ai Weiwei Ceramics' on 14 March at 11am. As…
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