A huge thank you to all the instructors, exhibitors, students, attendees, sponsors, friends, family, and helpers for an amazing Glass Craft and Bead Expo 2018. We are already looking forward to seeing you all back again next year for the 25th Anniversary of the GCBE! You will not want to miss this!
In case you missed the show this year, or if you just feel like reliving the experience, we have compiled a few awesome videos from this years' show for you below. Also, please make sure to stay tuned for future announcements on the 2018 Gallery of Excellence Winner's and details on next years' show.
Class submission for GCBE 2019 is now open!. Instructors and prospective instructors please login/signup in the Glass Craft & Bead Expo Instructor Portal to start submitting class proposals.
Deadline for submitting classes is July 24, 2018
If anyone knows of any new instructors that they want to see at GCBE 2019, feel free to send them to GlassCraftExpoTeachers.com to sign up!
We look forward to seeing all the new and innovative classes proposed for the 2019 show. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to call us @ 1-800-217-4527.
We look forward to seeing you at the 2019 Glass Craft & Bead Expo!
2019 Class Registration will open in the Fall of 2018.
More details coming soon...
Each year, we produce a beautifully illustrated 100+ page, full-color, high-quality show guide detailing each class. The domestic (USA/CANADA) mailing fee: $5.00. The international mailing fee: $12.00. You are credited this amount back with the successful signup of any class for that year's guide.
If you would like to order the 2019 Glass Craft & Bead Expo Show Guide,
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Details on the classes for the 2019 Glass Craft & Bead Expo will be released soon!
2019 Exhibitor Info Coming Soon!
2019 Wholesale Buyers Info Coming Soon.
2019 Instructor List coming soon!
2019 Money Saving Coupons coming soon!
Sponsors play a huge role in the success of our annual show. Many of our sponsors have continuously returned to support the show in a variety of ways.
This year we want to recognize our Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsorship levels and also recognize each and everyone business or group that helps us deliver America's favorite and largest glass and bead expo in the USA!
Please check back often.
Paragon Industries is the leading manufacturer of electronic kilns and furnaces. Our focus on quality and innovation assures our customers that we will continue to deliver innovative products that produce reliable and consistent results. Because we manufacture small tabletop kilns for first time buyers to large production kilns for commercial users, we can fill all your kiln product needs.
Glass Patterns Quarterly is the leading international glass publication. We've been providing inspiration and information since 1985 to glass hobbyists and professional artists. This has been accomplished by developing relationships with the finest artists & sharing their techniques with you through in-depth, step-by-step tutorials. In every issue you can enjoy great content with popular artists and instructors and cutting edge techniques using the latest industry products. New Books, Products, Industry News, and What's Hot keep you abreast of the latest happenings in glass. We feature inspiring gallery showcases, dynamic general interest articles, as well as tips and techniques and health and safety information These features along with our 16-page, pullout pattern section, (most of which are full-size) make Glass Patterns Quarterly magazine the number #1 glass publication.
Since its inception, the focus of The Flow has been to provide a bond among members of the lampworking community. This has been accomplished by developing relationships with the finest artists & sharing their techniques with you through in-depth, step-by-step tutorials. In every issue you can enjoy great content with the hottest artists and cutting edge techniques using the latest industry products. These features along with the continuation of our Women in Glass edition, Glasscraft Emerging Artist Awards, inspiring gallery showcases, dynamic general interest articles, as well as health and safety information make The Flow the leading international lampworking journal.
Glass Art is the magazine for the art glass industry. Independent artists, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, educators, galleries, and professional glass studios all look to Glass Art as their definitive source for the best information available in hot, warm, and cold glass. Everything from etching, painting, engraving, and stained glass to fusing, kilnworking, glassblowing, and flameworking is included in its pages as world-renowned artists share aesthetic and technical information, how they are adapting to current shifts in global business, and what they have learned from their successes and failures. In addition to these in-depth artist profiles, Glass Art provides information for improving business, marketing, and trade show strategies plus the latest in organizational news and new products that are designed to enhance the glass art experience. Cutting-edge glass art, professionally photographed in full color, combines with the insights and experiences of contemporaries around the globe to inspire and inform, making Glass Art the premiere source for anyone working in the glass art industry.
Slumpy's is a leading supplier of glass slumping and fusing molds. As a designer and producer of ceramic warm glass forms, Slumpy's has the experience and expertise to bring unique artistic kiln forming shapes to the glass art industry. Slumpy's is on a mission to enhance the warm glass experience. Slumpy's provides tools, know-how and innovation to help Glass Artists around the world increase artistic expression and make the world a better place.
A full service machine shop/job shop (no job is too small) that serves not only the local community, but world wide support for burner and combustion applications pertaining to the flame treatment of plastics and glass.
Our Automation and Engineering Divisions manufacture Flaming Conveyors for the pharmaceutical, glass, and plastics industry that are custom designed to fit their required footprint and can include Vision Systems, Leak Check Systems, Metal Detection, and Flame Treating of the product prior to arriving at a custom designed packaging system.
We are ready willing and able to work with you, the customer, from design through implementation. To the Scientific and Glass Art communities we are the manufacturers of the workhorse of the glass industry, the CC Burner, as well as a full line of glass working torches. And last but not least the Carlisle School of Glass Art that not only gives back to the community, but provides a path for aspiring artists to achieve their dreams.
Oceanside Glasstile announced its acquisition of Spectrum Glass equipment, formulas and IP in September 2016. Oceanside Glasstile has been a customer of Spectrum Glass for over twenty years, leveraging Spectrum´s art glass to produce the Devotion collection. This ongoing relationship between Spectrum Glass and Oceanside Glasstile made the acquisition decision a rewarding experience for both companies. Together, they will work to unite the legacy of Spectrum Glass with Oceanside Glasstile´s global network to provide existing Spectrum customers the same standard of product excellence and customer service that has existed within the Spectrum family for over 40 years.
Production of the Spectrum Glass and System 96 brand products in Oceanside Glasstile´s custom built facility in Tijuana, Mexico will commence in early 2017 and will use the same production techniques and bag-house emission control practices that Spectrum has used for over 20 years.
Oceanside Glasstile´s team of flip-flop wearing, lunch-time surfing, beach designers welcomes the northwest hiking boot toting, nugget loving, premium coffee drinking Spectrum Glass spirit and is excited to stand alongside artists, designers and builders as we enjoy the view of what we can create together.
We make quality surfaced-mixed torches for our awesome glass art creators in the lampworking community! Reengineered for better performance and higher safety, Bethlehem Burners low-pressure torches are constructed entirely of stainless steel and feature the brand's signature wrap-around flame.
In 1953 father/son team, Ralph and Neil Skutt, manufactured the industry’s first multi-sided hobby kiln in Olympia, Washington under the name “Skutt & Sons”.
The introduction of this new lightweight design revolutionized, not just the ceramic kiln business but the whole ceramic industry by bringing ceramics to the home.
A lot has changed over the last 60 + years. Kiln companies have come and gone, new clay bodies and glazes are constantly being developed that demand greater firing precision, and automatic controllers are quickly replacing the once cutting edge KilnSitter.
Throughout the years we at Skutt have worked hard to meet the changing needs of our customers, but one thing that has remained constant is our fierce dedication to manufacturing quality products and providing outstanding customer service.
We realize that every object placed in a Skutt kiln has value. It could be a child’s horse that looks more like a dog or a master potters $20,000 commissioned sculpture. Both of these artists are counting on our kiln to do it’s job ..and we don’t want to let them down.
Thank you for visiting our home page. Whether you are looking to buy a kiln or you already own a Skutt kiln and are looking for more information, we sincerely hope that you will find it to be a useful tool.
We will continue to add more useful information to our site so please visit us again in the future. (source Skutt.com)
Go Fusing has been providing innovated glass fusing products and internet web services for glass artists since 2000. We are a green company and also make and manufacture most of our products here in the USA.
D&L was built one customer at a time. Started in 1974 by our current owner and president, Leslie L. Silverman, D&L has grown from a single item vendor to a full-service art glass supply distributor with a warehouse packed full of art glass and glass supplies.
Now entering its 113th year of production in Paden City, West Virginia Wissmach Glass has been producing the widest variety of opalescent and cathdedral art glass in the world since 1904. In addition to stained glass, Wissmach also manufactures a wide variety of 90 and 96 coe colors for all of your fusing needs.
Thank you to everyone listed below for your contributions to the classrooms. We couldn't do it without your help.
ABR Imagery
Amaco
Art Clay World USA
Austin Thin Films
Bullseye Glass
Canfield Technologies
Coatings by Sandberg
Covington Engineering
Cress Manufacturing
Delphi Glass
D&L Art Glass Supply
Ed Hoy's International
Evenheat Kilns
Frantz Art Glass & Supply
Gemini Saw
Glastar Corporation
His Glassworks
Hoevel Manufacturing
Inland Craft Products
Jen Ken Kilns
Kokomo Opalescent Glass
Millefiori Magic
Morton Glass Works
Olympic Kilns
Pacific Art Glass
Paragon Kilns
Skutt Kilns
Spectrum Glass
Stellar Technical
Streuter Technologies
The Glass Resort LLC
Unique Glass Colors
Uroboros Glass
Venture Tape
Wissmach Glass Company
If you have contributed to the classrooms and your company name is not listed above, please contact Jen at 800-217-4527 so that she may list your company name and give you the proper recognition that you deserve.
Congratulations to all the winners of the Gallery of Excellence 2018 Annual Art Competition sponsored by Glass Patterns Quarterly, Glass Art, and The Flow magazines. There are winners in Professional, Amateur, High School, and Jr. High School divisions in the following categories:
Fused/Cast/Kiln Worked
From the South (California): Head North on Interstate 15 to Exit 31 (Silverado Ranch Boulevard). As you exit, stay right and make your first right into the parking area for South Point. The South Point is located at 9777 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
From the North (Utah, the Las Vegas Strip and downtown): Head South on Interstate 15 to Exit 31 (Silverado Ranch Boulevard). As you exit, stay in the middle exit lane and turn left, make your first right into the parking area for South Point.
From the East (Arizona): Exit Interstate 40 at US 93 and proceed North. Cross bridge into Nevada and remain on US 93 North until exiting at Interstate 215 West. Take Exit 7 and turn left onto Eastern Avenue South. Turn right onto Silverado Ranch Blvd. Proceed to Las Vegas Boulevard South.
From the West (Northern Nevada/CA): Head South on US 95 and exit onto Interstate 15 South. Exit 31 (Silverado Ranch Boulevard). As you exit, stay in the middle exit lane and turn left, make your first right into the parking area for South Point
From the Rental Car Terminal at McCarran Airport: Head South on Gilespie St. toward E. Warm Springs Rd. Turn right on E. Warm Springs Rd. Then turn Left on Las Vegas Blvd. South Point Hotel & Conference Center is on the right hand side of the road at 9777 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
From the Rental Car Terminal at McCarran Airport: Head South on Gilespie St. toward E. Warm Springs Rd. Turn right on E. Warm Springs Rd. Then turn Left on Las Vegas Blvd. South Point Hotel & Conference Center is on the right hand side of the road at 9777 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
Uber and Lyft: These companies operate in the Las Vegas Valley.
2019 Details coming soon.
The South Point Hotel & Conference Center offers numerous dining and entertainment options and attendees may find many other restaurants, shops and recreational opportunities all within a short taxi ride of the property. Of course, the sights and sounds of the famed Las Vegas Strip are just a few miles north on Las Vegas Boulevard. But if you prefer to venture out from "home," then consider some of these alternatives:
ENTERTAINMENT: There's a good reason why Las Vegas is called the "Entertainment Capital of the World." Since its Rat Pack days, Las Vegas has been inextricably associated with legendary shows and entertainers.
Say "Las Vegas" and it's likely that showgirls in elaborate headdresses and Elvis impersonators will come to mind. Today, the Las Vegas entertainment scene still has plenty of its classic glamour, but it has evolved to include so much more. In addition to the iconic Las Vegas entertainment staples, the destination offers a lineup of award-winning magicians, Broadway-caliber productions, world-renowned concert headliners and unique-to-Las Vegas production shows. For more information please visit visitlasvegas.com.
SHOPPING: If you want it, Vegas has it. From designer splurges to bargain deals, Las Vegas has become a one-stop shopping Mecca. Everything from colorful souvenir shops to haute couture boutiques can be found in retail centers along the Las Vegas Strip and surrounding areas.
You won't be alone in your shopping endeavors. More than half of the nearly 39 million visitors who visit Las Vegas each year spent time shopping, according to the 2006 Las Vegas Visitor Profile Study. Las Vegas shoppers spent an average of $140.86 per trip, the study reports, more than twice as much as on sightseeing and show tickets combined. For more information please visit visitlasvegas.com.
NIGHTLIFE: In 1930, Frank Detra took a chance and opened Pair O' Dice, Las Vegas' first nightclub. Located on what was then known as the new highway to Los Angeles (today, we call it the Las Vegas Strip), the club was open only at night.
In addition to bands and jazz performers, the Pair O' Dice served Italian food. Most notably, the establishment had a history of closing and re-opening because it sported gaming tables before the city had legalized gaming and served alcohol during Prohibition.
Nine years later, the Pair O' Dice was sold to police captain and commander of the vice squad Guy McAfee who renamed it the 91 Club. The nightlife scene changes frequently so please visit visitlasvegas.com for more information.
GOLF: Las Vegas is no longer golf's best-kept secret. In fact, Las Vegas recently was named the top emerging golf destination in the world by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators.
From exquisite championship courses designed by legends of the sport to lush fairways and breathtaking views - golf is just another reason the destination attracted 39.2 million visitors in 2007.
Today, more than 60 golf courses are available for play in Las Vegas throughout the year thanks to the area's inviting climate. Las Vegas offers challenging, yet beautifully sculpted courses developed by world-renowned designers including Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf, Billy Casper, Arnold Palmer and Pete Dye. For more information about golfing in Las Vegas, please visit visitlasvegas.com.
Phone: 1-800-217-4527
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