Call for 2025 GAAC Conference Presentation Proposals
About the Conference
The Glass Art Association of Canada (GAAC) requests your proposals for lecture presentations, demonstrations, lecmos, or panel discussions for our 2025 GAAC conference, Confluence: A Shared Path. Hosted at Kwanlin Dun Cultural Center and Lumel Studio from June 5 to 8, 2025, in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.
Please note that non-members of GAAC are also encouraged to submit proposals.
Conference Theme: Confluence: A Shared Path
Are you combining glass with other materials or ways of working? Are you bridging the path between traditional and contemporary techniques? Are you using glass in an innovative way? Are you communicating new ideas or cutting-edge issues with glass? Have you changed how you work due to Climate Change? Do you power your studio with sustainable resources? Are you creating functional works that are innovative? Do you reuse or recycle glass in a unique way? If you have a topic or area of interest that you wish to share with our colleagues, please submit a proposal to share with us. We want to learn about your thoughts, technologies, and processes. Let us join our resources, combine our skills, and come together on a shared path to celebrate glass as a material and a community.
All types of glass art media subject matter are encouraged: blown glass, kiln formed, lampworked, stained glass, coldworked, architectural, public art, mixed media with glass, new technologies about glass, etc.
Types of Presentations Requested:
- Lectures: 45 min- 1 hour presentation
- Demonstration: varying lengths of demonstration dependent on processes and techniques
- Lecmos: starting at 1 hour, varying lengths of demonstration dependent on processes and techniques
- Panel discussion: a moderator and 2 to 3 panelists to discuss a topic, varying lengths
Each presenter will receive a complementary 1-year GAAC membership and 50% off their conference pass.
Presentation materials may be published in the archive section of our GAAC website. Presenters retain all other copyrights. Presentations may be recorded, and the recordings may be made available to GAAC members at a later date.
Proposal requirements:
For each presentation proposal, please submit a single document containing the following information:
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PDF format is preferred, with the presenter's name and proposed presentation title or theme
- e.g. DianaFox_PresentaionName
- Name, website, and business name (all that may be appropriate) for each presenter/panelist
- Contact information including email address(es)
- Topic - one to two paragraph summary of content
- Brief resume for each presenter/panelist demonstrating credentials or experience for the proposed presentation
- Supporting images of work or relevance (if applicable) embedded in the document
Submissions:
Email your proposal, with the subject heading Conference Presentation Proposal, to gaacanada@gmail.com no later than Friday, December 6, 2024. The GAAC conference chairs will review proposals, and accepted presenters will be contacted by January 17, 2025.
Please note that GAAC reserves the right to select or reject proposals.
