We have chosen these words to frame this year's exhibition. How do they resonate with you? We challenge you to exemplify the various angles of this premise in the glass medium.
This members' exhibition focuses on showcasing Canadian glass art in all forms.
2025 GAAC Conference - June 5 - 9, 2025
Our conference will be taking place in Whitehorse, Yukon, at Lumel Studios and Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.
Stay tuned to GAAC communications for information on our theme and more!
The Glass Art Association of Canada is a professional not-for-profit association which serves to connect a geographically-diverse community of artists, designers, craftspeople, educators, curators, collectors, gallerists and students passionate about work made with glass.
Our aim is to highlight excellence in Canadian studio glass through activities that are pertinent and accessible, and which promote communication, public education and appreciation, both in Canada and internationally. GAAC is a volunteer and member-run organization.
Gilles Désaulniers lived in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. He studied at the Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.) and the Prague University of Industrial Arts before completing several glassmaking internships in Canada and France. In the late 1960s, he successfully introduced a course in glass art at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. In addition to participating in numerous exhibitions, he created works for the integration of art into architecture in the province of Québec at the Shawinigan courthouse (1982), the CLSC Suzor-Coté in Victoriaville (1985), and the École Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel in Ottawa (1990). He was also the originator and director of the Canadian Mosaic Symposium, held in 1985 and 1993. This pioneer of glass art shared his expertise continuously to advance arts and culture for over 50 years in the Mauricie region, where he played an important role. For several years, he collaborated regularly with the glass art workshop he helped establish at the École des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (France). He was a founding member of the Glass Art Association of Canada and a member of the Glass Art Society and the International Association for the History of Glass. Gilles passed away on May 22, 2022, and GAAC salutes him.
