[Glass-mit] general call for volunteers for 2013 GAS conference, first meeting

[Peter Houk]

Hello glass friends,
We are looking for volunteers!
As some of you may know by now, the annual Glass Art Society conference is
going to be in Boston this coming year, from Wednesday, June 12 to Sunday,
June 17. The Glass Art Society (http://www.glassart.org/) is America's
largest association of independent glass artists with a membership of over
2500 people from 46 countries. We anticipate attendance of about 1000
people at the Boston conference.
The conference will be jointly hosted by MIT and the Massachusetts College
of Art and Design (MassArt), and will also include other area resources
such as Andy Magdanz's studio in North Cambridge, the glass flower
collection at Harvard, and various galleries. An opening day of exciting
talks, tours and demonstrations at MIT will be followed by two days of
activities at MassArt. A full summary of events will be published in a
pre-conference brochure that will be published this September.
Between now and next June there is a tremendous amount of planning and
organizing to do so that the conference will run smoothly. We will need
MANY volunteers to help with everything from helping staff information
tables for a couple of hours to coordinating tours, setting up for a
reception party in the Media Lab, etc, etc. If you are interested in being
part of the GAS conference, either as a volunteer, and attendee, or both,
we will be having a meeting to build a base of volunteers this coming
Monday, August 20th at 6:00 PM. The meeting will be at MIT in the Chipman
Room in building 6 (room 6-104). A map showing directions to the Chipman
Room from the Kendall/MIT red line stop is attached. Parking can usually be
found at this time of day on Main Street or Massachusetts Avenue between
Vassar Street and Central Square, or on Vassar Street.
We hope you'll want to be involved with GAS in some way.
Please be in touch if you have any questions.
See you soon!
Peter


-- 
Peter Houk
Director, Glass Lab
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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