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Meeting of ÇEKÜL at The Glass Furnace
 ÇEKÜL (The Foundation for the Promotion and Protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage), held their training with their students and instructors on campus of The Glass Furnace between November 12-17. The participants also stayed on campus and enjoyed the green environment for three days. They were busy with their trainings but had fun by playing games in the evenings. Before leaving the campus, all participants promised to continue this organization very soon. PUM Volunteer Advisor Cees van Olst at the Glass Furnace
 Cees van Olst, working as the volunteer advisor of PUM visited The Glass Furnace again to give advices on operations and activities of the school. During his stay on November 5-13, Olst shared his experiences with masters and also gave advices on improving the operations of The Glass Furnace. We all were pleased to host Olst and evaluate his advices. Beadmaking Class by Gaye Döşer
 The Glass Furnace hosted beadmaking artist Gaye Döşer for her two days workshop on intermediate and advanced beadmaking techniques. The participants not only enjoyed focusing on unique techniques but had great friendships with all participants coming from all over Turkey. The participants at kilncasting class by Ebru Susamcıoğlu, this time discovered the secretcs of working with glass and were fascinated by their works. At the end of the two day workshop, all participants decided on meeting again in another workshop at The Glass Furnace. Children Love Glass
 The Glass Furnace enjoys hosting students, children, schools to introduce the birth of glass. The students first watch the beadmaking glass demonstration and see how colored glass rods turn to glass beads. They then visit the hotshop and watch how masters blow the glass like a baloon and shape it. Students also join the fusing workshop and create their own designs as a plate or panel. The Glass Furnace invites young glass lovers to introduce this magical material during the school season. 2008 Two Week Intensive Courses Ended
 Two week intensive courses of 2008 successfuly ended at The Glass Furnace. During all sessions of two week intensive courses, we hosted world renowned artists and participants from all over Turkey and the world. The participants had the opportunity of having new friendships and enjoyed their two weeks with fun and great memories as well as making their own designs in glass techniques they selected.
Turkish Glass Artist Feleksan Onar at New Glass Art Program
Turkish Glass Artist Feleksan onar will have her exhibition of "Through a Hole" at New Glass Art & Photography, Berlin from October 4 - November 29. Primarily, she started off in a private studio and later received her formal education at The Glass Furnace in Istanbul. Felesan Onar started her own atelier, Fy-Shan Glass Studio, in 2003 in Kemerburgaz, Istanbul, and has since become one of the pioneering studio glass artists in Turkey. Opportunity of Being The Representative of The Glass Furnace
The Glass Furnace invites you to be the representative of the school. Interested candidates are requested to contact us at ccanga@glassfurnace.org for details. Extraordinary Olympic Games of Vodafone
 Vodafone Back Office was at The Glass Furnace on last Saturday to join extraordinary olympic games organized by Triton Organization (www.tritonorganizasyon.com). Fun olympic games included canyon path, spider net, trolley, hulahoop, flag pole, sack competition and navigation. All the partcipants enjoyed their breakfast and lunch by Riva river and total 10 groups raced against each other. The champion of the olympic games was group 9 and they left the campus at the end of such active day. Students from Israel Enjoy The Glass Furnace
The Glass Furnace has the pleasure of hosting students from Israel during two week workshops. Just like the previous years, Israelite students continue to join classes including glassblowing, fusing, kilncasting and beadmaking. It is so nice to see students again at The Glass Furnace and their friends in new classes. Just like all Israelite students, Sidor Kohen in hotcasting and metal class in session 3 aggrees that The Glass Furnace is a great school to learn glass, have frienships and live the experience of Istanbul, and adds that he will continue to be at the school in coming years to continue his passion in glass. Letter of Thanks by Consul General of The United States of America
"I would like to thank you for your kind present at the celebration of The Two Hundred Thirty-Second Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America. I really liked the piece of 'Hand for Help' by Mitchell Gaudet. Once more, on behalf of Istanbul Consulate of the United States of America, I would like to thank you for your courtesy."
The Glass Furnace Met Glass Friends at GAS Conference
Glass Art Society (GAS) held its annual conference at Portland between June 19 - 21. We, as The Glass Furnace, came together with all our glass friends at the Conference where international glass artists, students, glass suppliers meet every year in different locations all around the world. All the participants and glass artists stated that The Glass Furnace is a great school with all its facilities. At the school presentations, we met with glass schools all around the world and had the chance of introducing our school through our presentation. We now look forward to coming together again at the GAS Conference in 2009.
A Glass Day for Schott Orim
 The employees of Schott Orim Company from Bolu and Çerkezköy factories joined the day trip organized for them. They all enjoyed meeting with glass and making their own works in fusing and beadmaking workshops and then they witnessed the birth of glass at the hotshop. Some of the employees also tried glassblowing and made their own glass vases. They were all pleased to have such a great day on campus and they already planned to come back again. Mass Art Group with James McLeod at The Glass Furnace
 The Glass Furnace hosted James McLeod and 17 students from Massachusetts College of Art from May 26 to June 7 for a dynamic program including hot glass studio workshops and Istanbul city trips. At The Glass Furnace, they spent time in the hot glass studio collaborating with some of Turkey's most accomplished glass masters and engaged in learning, applying, and experimenting with various hot and cold glass techniques. As for their time in Istanbul, they spent visiting artists’ studios, museums, historical sites as well as immersing themselves in the life that makes Istanbul one of the most vibrant cities on Earth. At the end of the class, James McLeod and all his students agreed that their two week program had been the best glass and Istanbul experience of ever!
THE GLASS HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH MAGICAL
 Between May 19-23, we all not only witnessed the glass art of Lino Tagliapietra but all rediscovered the magnificience of glass during five days. Lino Tagliapietra, during his five days demosntrations, underlined that the glass has no limit as far as cretaivity concerns. All audience including glass artists from all over the world, glass students, college students and glass lovers moved one step over their imagination in glass. Tagliapietra stated that the facilities are great and The Glass Furnace is the best glass school in this region.
Please click to view the images of the demonstations.
A Glass Day for Alarko Istikbal Club
  Alarko Holding Istikbal Club spent a day full of glass at The Glass Furnace on Sunday, January 20. The members of the club in other words employees of Turkey's leading holding, firstly joined beadmaking and fusing workshops and made their own glass beads and panels/plates. They watched how the glass is shaped in hands of our masters and then they tried glassblowing: they blew their own vases at the hotshop! At the end of the day they all enjoyed working with glass and they were looking forward to coming again. The Unique Object of The Glass Furnace: The Whirling Glass Dervishes
The Glass Furnace since 2003 has been dedicated to unite the philosophy of Mevlana with the transparency feature of glass through the whirling glass dervishes designed by American glass artist James Minson. The great interest by artists, glass lovers and leading firms, prove how unique this glass object is. The Glass Furnace invites everyone to see the magical dance of the whirling glass dervishes in fire and how Mevlana’s philosophy exposes. The whirling glass dervishes are under the legal protection of Turkish Patent Institution. Evil Eye Bead Making Tradition at The Glass Furnace
 Traditional Evil Eye Furnace was opened on November 21, 2007 by Beykoz Lieutenant Aydın Ergün and Beykoz Mayor Muharrem Ergul. The tradition now proceeds at The Glass Furnace along with İzmir Gorece and Bead Village (Kurudere). At the Traditional Evil Eye Furnace established by valuable contributions of Altan Sungar, the bead master Ibrahim Yildirim will give one week intensive course on traditional evil eye beadmaking. The details of this workshop will be announced with our 2008 program. Julie Anne Denton’s newsletter on GBUK Newsletter
Beadmaking artist Julie Anne Denton wrote about her expressions on her teaching experience at The Glass Furnace on GBUK Newsletter. July 2007 will be my fourth year of teaching at The Glass Furnace. (Cam Ocagi) I teach a beadmaking/sculptural course there, as a rule. The Turkish ladies and gents cannot get enough of beads, and it is also my job to teach the other skills associated with flameworking such as sculpture off the mandrel, blown forms, filigree vessels etc... The flameworking studio (Boncuk) boasts twelve work stations, a plentiful supply of effetre/clear borosilicate and a limited amount of Northstar colour. In the summer I generally have a multicultural class filled with half Turkish, Israeli, South Africans, Brits, Austrians etc… and in the latter part of the year the class (which is always full) has about three quarter Turkish....Please click to read her article. A Message from Edward T. Schmid "LET'S TALK TURKEY!"
AMAZING! OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME! Dale Chihuly, world's leading glass artist visited The Glass Furnace on June 24, 2006
Dale Chihuly, one of the world's leading glass artists and founders of Pilchuck Glass School visited The Glass Furnace on June 24, 2006 and participated in the cocktail party held on behalf of him. Before the cocktail party, Dale Chihuly came together with Beykoz Mayor Muharrem Ergul and masters/artists and students from session 3 of The Glass Furnace. He presented a slide show of his work and installations in all over the world to all guests. Old News:
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