The gold standard for glass art in virginia.
VGG's Annual Juried Exhibition for the past 34 years. It is a chance for the glass artists of Virginia to showcase their skills, as well as an opportunity for awards and recognition from respected Jurors. The Guild awards split between the Award of Excellence, Third, Second, and Best in Show. We encourage and invite you to join us for this year's Exhibition. The opening reception will include the award ceremony, as well as our annual Silent Auction featuring beautiful local glass art and other goodies.
29th Annual juried Exhibition Award Winners
Past jurors include:
 Jutta-Annette Page
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Jutta-Annette Page is the Executive Director of the Barry Art Museum, in Norfolk, VA. She holds a Ph.D and MA in the history of art and architecture from Brown University, an MAE in jewelry, metal smithing, and industrial design from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MA and BA in visual communication and art from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Germany. She was the Curator of European Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass from 1993 to 2003, and served as the Curator of Glass and Curator of the Decorative Arts at the Toledo Museum of Art from 2003-2016. A respected author in her field, Dr. Page has completed numerous publications and lectured extensively on a broad range of topics. During the 45th Annual Glass Art Society Conference, she was presented with the Honorary Lifetime Membership Award. She served for ten years on the GAS Board, including as president.
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Douglas Heller has been the co-owner and director of the Heller Gallery since 1973. He has organized hundreds of group and solo exhibitions, including the landmark show Glass America 1978 at Lever House in New York City. In the 1990s, he organized Glass Japan, the first major documented exhibition of Japanese Studio Glass presented in the United States. He also organized The Prague Glass Prize, the first major exhibition of Czech Studio Glass produced after the “Velvet Revolution” in the Czech Republic. Heller is a founding board member of the Creative Glass Center of America and is on the Advisory Board of UrbanGlass. He is a former vice president of the Associates of the American Craft Museum and a Fellow of The Corning Museum of Glass.
Katya Heller worked at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington in Seattle, WA from 1991 to 1994. In 1996, she became associate director at the Elliott Brown Gallery in Seattle, and in 1998 moved on to spend a year working in the planning and development of the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. In 1999, she relocated to New York City and began work as associate director of Heller Gallery. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of UrbanGlass, and in 2006 was co-chair of the organization’s major fundraising event, the Glassblowers Ball and Auction. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Czech Center - New York. |
Doug and Katya Heller
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Diane C. Wright
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Diane C. Wright has been appointed as curator of glass at The Toledo Museum of Art. Since 2014 Wright has served as the Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a recognized scholar of the windows and mosaics of Louis Comfort Tiffany and his studio. Wright received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Utah and a Master of Arts in the history of decorative arts from Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York. Prior to her position at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Wright was marketing and communications manager at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Marcia Brady Tucker Senior Curatorial Fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery and museum educator at the Corning Museum of Glass. She also completed graduate internships at the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Smithsonian’s Freer/Sackler Museums and Blair House in Washington D.C.
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