President’s Message

September 2025

Hi everyone,

I hope you have had a wonderful summer wherever you are located. September heralds the beginning of fall and as the weather begins to change, we have lined up several things to stay busy learning about glass and doing projects in glass.

Starting right away in September, we have the Portland/Vancouver area Open Studios event on the weekend of September 13th and 14th. There will be several guild artists around the area who will have their studios open to the public and will be putting on presentations and making projects in their studios to introduce glass to anyone interested. The studios will be open from 10am to 5 pm both Saturday and Sunday, so please see the flyer on the website as to who is participating and please join your fellow members at their studios. On September 21st, we will have a Portland/Vancouver area Vendor Fair event for all members with demonstrations and displays from vendors who support the guild in all our efforts – check out the information on the website and the newsletter.

President Lesley Kelly

There will be two major events in Seattle in early October with a glass artist brunch on October 5th at Karen Seymour’s house and Refract Seattle on October 16-19th. And with all this going on, please do not forget the General Meetings that will have presentations and learning opportunities on September 28th and October 26th

The October 28th General Meeting is a very important meeting for all guild members in that it is our annual meeting of all our members and election of Guild Officers. We will be holding elections for several of our Board positions, so it is important for all members to attend if possible. It starts at 3:30 pm on the 28th and we try and have the elections right away so we can move on to hearing about the topic for the month, which is Torchwork: Not Just Beads. I hope to see you at the meeting

Thanks,
Lesley