About GEEX

What is GEEX?

Glass Education Exchange (GEEX) is an online platform that serves glass education through community-building programming and resource-sharing.

VIRTUAL CLASSROOM

GEEX facilitates synchronous and asynchronous spaces for communal gathering in the expanded definition of today’s classroom. GEEX programs offer opportunities for sustained engagement throughout the year for all glass learners.

VIRTUAL TEXTBOOK

Online resources play a central role in the rapidly-changing landscape of education. GEEX aims to carefully consolidate resources, relying on users contributing shared material in service of public glass pedagogy. GEEX hopes to function as a common public resource supporting teaching and learning in glass—a virtual textbook for glass education today.

Related: Public Pedagogy Project

Why GEEX?

Equity, diversity and innovation are central and necessary for the present and the unfixed future of glass. GEEX is dedicated to:

Centering BIPOC voices

Modeling greater compensation in the field

Establishing new leadership in the field guided by BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ perspectives

Supporting BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ learners through community-building and representation

The founding principle of GEEX is that making any glass practice sustainable requires both financial and interpersonal support.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

GEEX believes the field of glass needs to reorganize intelligently, promptly, and professionally following the impact of COVID-19, and that new structures for intellectual and cultural value need new funding models.

GEEX aims to nudge the field of glass into its next generation.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT

GEEX fosters accessible programming that respects the changing landscape of material-specific learning.

GEEX disrupts traditional learning hierarchies with expansive and open learning models that prioritize connection, community-building, and resource-sharing.

How does GEEX work?

This chart is a working diagram of how GEEX is employing multiple models of exchange across our platform. We offer this information to be transparent about the labor behind this platform and the monetary, barter, and co-op exchanges that support it.

GEEX strives to re-allocate resources to actively shift the racial and ethnic composition within the fields of craft, art, and design.

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Staff

Portrait of Helen Lee smiling; against brick wall

Helen Lee
Director
helen@geex.glass
she/they

Portrait of Emily Leach smiling through a faceted lens of glass

Emily Leach
Assistant Director
emily@geex.glass
she/her

Portrait of Ben Orozco standing in front of his optical illustration, Blända

Ben Orozco
Graphic Designer and Web Manager
ben@geex.glass
he/him

2023–2024 Facilitators

Black and white portrait of Lydia Boss

Lydia Boss
Writing Center
she/her

A portrait of Ana Matisse Donefer-Donefer-Hickie smiling and looking towards the camera.

Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie
Writing Center
she/they

Photograph of Adeye Jean-Baptiste in a glass studio, making a big smile with her hands raised over her head.

Adeye Jean-Baptiste
BIPOC Co-learner Affinity Group
she/her

Portrait of Amy Lemaire smiling towards the camera
Photo by John Rogers

Amy Lemaire
Flame Affinity Group
she/her

Portrait Amber Mooers

Amber Mooers
Book Club
she/her

Photo of Suzanne Peck smiling

Suzanne Peck
Book Club
she/her

Portrait of Madeline Rile Smith smiling towards the camera

Madeline Rile Smith
Flame Affinity Group
she/her

Portrait of Bre'Annah Stampley smiling, wearing a Firebird Community Arts tshirt.

Bre’Annah Stampley
BIPOC Co-learner Affinity Group
they/them

Former Collaborators

Photo by Matthew Cylinder

Wu Hanyen
Move with Wu
she/they

Board

Helen Lee
Chair/Treasurer
she/they

Kim Harty
Co-chair
she/her

Anjali Srinivasan
Secretary
she/her

Davin Ebanks
he/him

Carmichael Jones
they/them

Susie Silbert
she/her

Bre’Annah Stampley
Co-learner Representative
they/them

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Chloë Browne for helping GEEX develop our Organizational Identity during our pilot year. We appreciate this act of generosity in helping us craft language to establish a new and needed voice in the field.