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Description
The applicant’s aim is to organise a one-week art glass workshop in Železný Brod. The workshop is a traditional art event, the 13th year of which is planned for the spring of 2024. The Norwegian glass artists have participated in the last three years of the glass workshop. These workshops have been organised as part of the Project Connected by Glass! (Culture Programme) funded by EEA Grants 2014–2021. Three glass artists from Lofoten and three glass artists from the Czech Republic will participate in the planned event. Three days in the hot shop and two days in the cold shop are planned
Summary of the results
The initiative consisted in the support to a glass symposium (the summer glass workshop), which took place from June 17 – 21 , 2024 in Železný Brod along with the annual "Glass Town" event when many visitors came to see local glass exhibitions. The project partners were Heidi Kristiansen, Mette Paalgard and Lofoten Glass. All of them are glass artists from the Norwegian Lofoten Islands.
In the symposium acknowledged artists (the 3 mentioned from NO, and 4 from the CR) took part and worked in the glass hot shop for 3 days. After the created glass objects had cooled, they were further processed over the following days. Experts from the glass school helped the artists with grinding in the cold shop. Mutual inspiration took place, artists adopted new technologies and procedures. The participants also gave a public lecture to the school auditorium. Thanks to the presentations (lectures), the public, students and glassmakers could learn more about their work. A part of the artworks from the symposium was included into the collection of the Municipal Museum in Železný Brod and the exhibition will last for a year. The joint effort is documented in the catalog of the symposium full of excellent photos. Before the symposium a poster campaigne was undertaken in the region and during /after the event the media covered the symposium by hot interviews, documents and broadcast (radio Český rozhlas, Hitradio Liberec).