<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Friends of the MIT Glass Lab,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We invite you to attend this year’s Page Hazlegrove Lecture
in Glass Art, featuring artist <b>Ginny
Ruffner</b>. The lecture will be in room 10-250, in the center of MIT’s campus,
on Wednesday, November 13<sup>th</sup> at 6:00PM. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ruffner’s long, illustrious and prolific career has covered
a wide amount of territory, from the pioneering torch-worked and painted glass
works that first brought her notoriety, to multimedia public art, to - more
recently - installation work that combines glass and other objects with
Augmented Reality.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This year the lecture will be different in a couple of ways.
First of all, Ruffner will deliver the lecture and slide presentation from her
home studio in Seattle via Zoom. As a way of making the lecture special for
in-person attendees, she has sent us various printed materials that will serve
as targets for her work in Augmented Reality (AR). Printed postcard-sized
renderings of Ruffner’s paintings (there are about a dozen different designs),
will be given to attendees at the door for use with her AR application. Viewing
the postcard through your phone or tablet will generate a secondary image to
surprise and delight you. <b>I recommend
that everyone attending the in-person lecture use the QR code on the attached
invitation to download the Ginny Ruffner AR app before coming to the lecture.</b>
The app is also available via Ginny’s website. In addition to the printed paper
souvenirs we’ll have some large posters from her newest AR-related project, <i>The Bounty of Unpolluting</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In-person or virtually, we hope you can make it to the
lecture this year! Unlike the last several pandemic-afflicted years, this year
attendees will be able to walk right in the front door at 77 Massachusetts
Avenue without needing any special pass. For those of you who are new to MIT,
the lecture will be in Building 10, room 250, which is just off the Infinite
Corridor on the second floor of building 10. You can access a campus map at <a href="https://whereis.mit.edu/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://whereis.mit.edu/</a> to locate building
10.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">And for those of you who will not be able to make it to the
lecture in person, here is a Zoom link to the lecture. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/92160479829" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://mit.zoom.us/j/92160479829</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After the lecture there will be a Q&A period that will
include questions from both the in-person and virtual populations.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cheers,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Peter</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><img src="cid:ii_m2nsrs690" alt="2024 Hazlegrove invite web FINAL.jpg" width="521" height="337"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Peter Houk<br>Artistic Director, MIT Glass Lab<br>Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div></div></div></div>