the ron desmett award

The Ron Desmett Memorial Award for Imagination with Glass recognizes creative thinking in four categories and celebrates the late PGC cofounder and glass artist Ron Desmett. The award is for artists who think outside the box, practice curiosity, and take risks to create unique, imaginative works that are either entirely glass or that incorporate glass.

Ron Desmett was an artist who eschewed conventions, promoted idea over technique, and ultimately posed the question “Is this work truly ‘me’?”

Through experimentation and innovation, he developed his own autobiography in glass. In order to foster these characteristics in future generations of artists, $6,000 ($3,000 monetary award and $3,000 in studio time) will be awarded annually to an artist (or scholar) in one of the following four categories – Youth, Glass Artist, Nonglass Artist, and Writer.