As the holidays approach, our November/December 2024 issue of Glass Art® really gives you something to celebrate! Nadine Saylor explores everyday objects from days gone by, adding her own social commentary as she expresses them in glass. The Glass Art Society previews their 2025 conference in Everything’s Bigger in Texas. Artists Aya Oki, Rita Shimelfarb, Karin Mørch and Simone Crestani share their financial strategies in Kathleen Elliot’s feature, Artist to Artist. Belger Glass and the Kansas City Museum bring nine artists together, who meet, design, and install a stunning collaborative chandelier, all in under one week! The Corning Museum of Glass will display a prototype glass bridge illustrating how glass can be used as a revolutionary construction material that even reduces carbon emissions! Milon Townsend takes hammer in hand to show how creativity and happy accidents can yield surprising and valuable results. The International Society of Glass Beadmakers invites you to their upcoming Creators and Makers events airing on the second Sunday of each month. And you don’t want to miss the Glass Craft and Bead Expo Gallery of Excellence, displaying many of the winning pieces from their most recent competition. Interested in paperweights? The Paperweight Collectors Association shares the highlights of their 2024 convention in Rhode Island. And congratulations are in order for the Pittsburgh Glass Center, which recently completed a $15,000,000 expansion, a major transformation that advances their ability to serve the international glass community. Subscribe today at www.GlassArtMagazine.com or www.https://simplecirc.com/subscribe/glass-art