GLASS Arts Festival

2023 GLASS Arts Festival Awards

We are grateful to the 43 artists who participated in our second annual GLASS Arts Festival on August 12^th, 2023.

The GLASS Arts Festival juror was Shawn Waggoner, Glass Arts writer and creator of the Talking Out Your Glass podcast.

After a brief juror remarks, the following awards were presented at 4:00 pm on Saturday, August 12th by Festival Juror Shawn Waggoner, Walt Koskinen, Board of Directors President , Kathy Brost, Board of Directors Vice President, and Amy Moorefield, Executive Director. Rosann Baum Milius, sponsor of the 1^st Place Award presented this year’s award.

1^st Place: Sharon Fujimoto, Amherst Junction, WI 

Sponsored by Rosann Baum Milius

$1,500, free booth fee in 2024, and a solo exhibition at the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass

https://www.fujimotoglass.com/

2^nd Place:  Connor O’Brien, Bensenville, IL

Sponsored by the Royal Hound and Mallet Club

$1,000 and free booth fee in 2024

https://connorobrienglass.com/

3^rd Place:  J. David Norton, Akron, OH

Sponsored by the Lilian Noble Fund

$500 and free booth fee in 2024

https://www.jdavidnorton.com/

Honorable Mentions:

Receives a Victorian Level NARM Museum Membership

Valued at $150.

Jim Braun, Oswego, IL |  https://www.facebook.com/jimbraundesigns/

Cecile Derel, Chicago, IL | https://cecilederel.com/home.html

Monica Harris, Evergreen Park, IL | https://womanmade.org/artwork/monica-harris/

Thomas Nye, Minneapolis, MN | http://www.nyeglass.com

Art DePesa, Downers Grove, IL | https://www.instagram.com/art_work2.11/