General Meeting: Annual Meeting and Torchwork: Not Just Beads

Glass Guild Vendor Fair This Sunday
September 21, 2025 @ 2:00 – 6:00 pm Pacific Time.

The Guild’s much-anticipated vendor fair is this coming weekend from 2:00 – 6:00 pm in Wilsonville, OR (20 mi. south of Portland). Vendors from around the region will be showcasing their latest and greatest glass-related goodies. Anyone is welcome to attend this potluck event (yes, bring food to share) but only Guild members can enter a drawing to win one of many prizes donated by vendors and sponsors. Read the full event listing for more information.

General Meeting
September 28, 2025 @ 3:30-5:00pm. Pacific Time : Via Zoom

“Sharing and Sherlocking” is a phrase used to describe a meeting where participants can present their work, seek feedback, and brainstorm new ideas.

• Sharing: This part of the meeting is a platform for participants to showcase projects they’ve been working on, share their accomplishments, or demonstrate a new technique they’ve learned.
• Sherlocking: This term refers to the process of solving a problem or a challenge. In this context, it’s an interactive session where members can present a problem they’re trying to solve and receive input, advice, and creative solutions from the group. The name is a playful nod to Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective.
• You can email photos in advance to Barb to share if you’re not able to present it yourself.

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Here are some events to get you started:

CHANGED: Jan. 21, 2:00 pm: Open house for Guild Members in Fairview OR (east of Portland)

Jan. 15, 7:00 pm: Board meeting via Zoom (it was rescheduled from last week)

Jan. 28, 3:30 pm: General meeting via Zoom, “Working With Enamels“

Feb. 4, 11:00 am: Glass etc. Potluck Brunch in Seattle

April 19-21: Gathering of the Guilds in Portland
Registration and other info will be available soon.

Increase your skills this year. See the “Find a Teacher” list for links to see member-teachers’ new classes.
For more skill building tips members can log in and view videos of past General Meetings under Glass>Education

February 23 @ 3:30-5:00pm. Pacific Time : Via Zoom

Kick off the new year by getting your studio in tip-top shape! Join us as Mitzi Kugler unveils her custom-designed frit organizer and shares her best studio organization tips. Plus, come prepared to share your own brilliant organization hacks, ideas and challenges for taming that glass, tools, scraps, molds, and more! Let’s inspire each other to create the ultimate creative space. together!

Zoom Link

June 23,2024 @ 3:30PM-4:30PM Pacific Time Via Zoom

What is it?  Creating imagery with finely powdered black glass on a sheet glass substrate. Sgraffito is a subtractive technique; light areas are created by scraping away the powdered glass, while dark areas are made by adding piles of powder.  The finished drawing is very vulnerable until the piece is fired in a kiln so don’t sneeze!  We will be working to complete 30 fused glass powder sgraffito sketches in 30 days. Getting started may be difficult and you may not have experience using glass powders in this way. I hope though that you accept  the challenge feet-first and I promise you will improve by leaps and bounds over the next 30 days! We will begin on July 1st after learning how to do do it, so get your black powder ready…

We will also review the 2024 Gathering of the Guilds.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89848794864?pwd=4a5bBH83UQqqbKXqr4cfBsxkCqUdLE.1

Saturday, May 6th, 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Beaverton YMCA located at 9685 SW Harvest Ct, Beaverton OR (just south of Portland)
(about ½ mile off 217 and Allen, in a separate building with kitchen, bathrooms and plenty of parking).

Our last Vendor Fair was in 2019, so let’s make this a good one!  This is a member-only event, so make sure you have renewed your membership beforehand.  If you have friends interested in glass, bring them. But remember to have them join the Guild right away.  You can renew or join at the door, but it will delay entry into the Fair.

So far, we have 7 tables reserved, and we’re still working to see if more Sponsors can participate.

I’ve already started receiving the donations (over $1,500 in prizes committed so far).

• See the latest in glass art and supplies
• Get in on special pricing or other offers from Sponsors
• Potluck dinner begins at 6:00 – sit and eat or keep shopping, it’s up to you

Watch your Classifieds for more details about the Vendor Fair!

The Vendor Fair is always a great time, so I hope you’ll come out to support our Sponsors and find some awesome glass, supplies, advice and just have fun!

Just so we have an idea of how much food we’ll need, please let me know if you plan to attend the Vendor Fair: Linda Gerrard

May 16-18th, 10 am – 5 pm

Visit 33 artists in 11 studios throughout the Damascus, OR area, southeast of Portland this weekend. PNW Glass Guild member Kathy Kollenburn of Wildflower Fusing will be among those showing their work. See the event listing for an interactive map and more details.