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Event category: Family Activity

Price: £3 per child
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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Come and join our toddler group on the first Wednesday of the month for informal fun in our beautiful setting. Enjoy crafts, rhymes and stories linked to the theme. Explore our light box and interactive toys and meet new friends, all whilst relaxing with a drink and a biscuit.
Story time will be under one of our beautiful stained glass windows.
Suitable for babies and children up to 5 years old
Suitable for ages: Under 5's
Contact: learning@stainedglassmuseum.com
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Event category: Adult Workshop

Price: £120 per person including all materials, equipment and tuition
Location: The Stained Glass Museum, South Triforium, Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4DL
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The art of painting on glass was mastered in the medieval period. Over the following centuries, stained glass artists have used painting techniques to draw with line and light, to create depth and detail, and to control the atmospheric quality of light’s transmission through glass.
In this practical workshop, glass artist Derek Hunt will teach traditional painting techniques. Using vitreous pigment and silver stain on clear glass, students learn to work with a variety of brushes, sticks, quills and sponges to create different effects and shading in both wet and dry matts. Glass work will be fired at intervals throughout the workshop, and ready to take home at the end of the day.



Suitable for ages: 18+
Contact: 01353 660347
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Event category: Adult Workshop

Price: £120 per person including materials, equipment and tuition
Location: The Lighthouse, 13 Lynn Road, Ely, CB7 4EG
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The copper foiling technique, popularised by Tiffany in the 1890s, is ideal for making decorative panels, sun catchers, mirrors and ornaments. A choice of patterns will be provided along with a selection of coloured and textured glass. You will learn how to cut glass, and use copper tape and solder to create a seam with which to join your pieces of glass. At the end of the day, you will have made a finished piece of glass art to take home.
Suitable for ages: 18+
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Event category: Talk /Tour

Price: £6.50 (Friends: £5)
Location: Online
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The UK was home to thriving glass industries in the 19th and 20th centuries. Join us for the first of our online spring talks series to learn more about some of the museums and centres devoted to keeping this heritage alive through permanent glass collections and live demonstrations.

Speakers include Julia Stephenson, Head of Art, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, Harrison Davies, Curator, Stourbridge Glass Museum and Peter Frost, Executive Director, St Helen’s World of Glass. These institutions are all founded in areas which were important centres of glassmaking – Sunderland, Stourbridge and St Helens.

This is the first in our spring talks series, which celebrates the fascinating material of glass, its industrial heritage, the skills and ingenuity of contemporary glass artists, and its place in our built environment. This series of talks coincides with The Glass Heart exhibition at Two Temple Place, London, for which The Stained Glass Museum is a lending partner.
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Event category: Talk /Tour

Price: £6.50 (Friends: £5)
Location: Online
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Join us for a fascinating discussion with two leading contemporary glass artists who will discuss the exceptional material of glass, and the art of glassblowing in contemporary practice.

Ayako Tani is a highly accomplished and internationally renowned glass artist who specialises in lampworking, a type of glasswork in which a torch or lamp is used to melt the glass before being blown and shaped with tools. Dr Ayako Tani works with borosilicate glass, and developed a practice of ‘calligraphic lampworking’, which embraces the amorphous character of glass.

Tani began working in glass in her native Japan. She moved to the UK to study at the University of Sunderland, where her passion for her work and subject blossomed further and she successfully completed an MA and PhD in Glass Art and Ceramics. As well as making her own glass artworks, Tani is a scientific glassblower at the University of Glasgow.

Chris Day is a glass and ceramic artist whose works reflect multiple dimensions of identity and experience. His artwork is powerful and thought provoking. Day’s work is created in response to his own conflicting feelings of belonging as a man of mixed-race, which are compounded by the limited representation of diverse narratives by and of people of colour in art history and popular culture.

After working for more than two decades as a self-employed plumber, Day discovered glass and it changed his life. Since graduating in 2019 with an MA in Design and Applied Arts from Wolverhampton University, he has exhibited widely and has work in the V&A and National Museum of Scotland collections.

Work by both Ayako Tani and Christopher Day is currently on display as part of The Glass Heart Exhibition at Two Temple Place.
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Event category: Talk /Tour

Price: £6.50 (Friends: £5)
Location: Online
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Since 1984, Andrew Moor has been involved with commissioning, project managing and designing works of art in glass. In this talk he will give an overview of Contemporary Stained Glass, showing how it has evolved over the last forty years. Moor will show more than 100 images of works from Matisse and Chagall through to very recent projects – often large-scale. At a time when traditional stained glass has joined the Heritage Crafts list of endangered crafts in the UK, the extraordinary potential of coloured glass in contemporary architecture offers exciting opportunities.

Andrew Moor is a Glass Art Consultant, Project Manager and Glass Designer. Since 1984 he has been involved with designing, commissioning, directing, project managing and designing architectural glass art through his consultancy Andrew Moor Associates. Between 1985 and 1993 Moor worked as the international agent for Derix Glass Studios, Wiesbaden, Germany, project managing some of the largest stained glass art projects of this time. Major Projects span religious, retail, office, airport, hotel, leisure, restaurant, and private sectors, and include: Hong Kong Airport, Patrick Heron window, Tate Gallery, St. Ives. Henry Moore window, Much Hadham. Corporate projects for Smith Klein Beecham, Morgan Stanley, Linklaters, MEPC, Baker McKenzie, etc.

He has written three books about architectural glass art: ‘Contemporary Stained Glass (1989), ‘Architectural Glass Art’ (1997) and ‘The Colours of Architecture’ (2006). In 2018 Moor received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Stained Glass Association of the US for his contribution to Architectural Glass Art.

This is the last talk in our series coincides with The Glass Heart exhibition at Two Temple Place, London, for which The Stained Glass Museum is a lending partner.
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