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:
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
Helen Lee
Director
helen@geex.glass
she/they
Emily Leach
Assistant Director
emily@geex.glass
she/her
Ben Orozco
Graphic Designer and Web Manager
ben@geex.glass
he/him
2024–2025 Facilitators
Abigail Akindude
BIPOC Community Table
she/her
Lydia Boss
Writing Center
she/her
Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie
Writing Center
she/they
Adeye Jean-Baptiste
BIPOC Community Table
she/her
Amy Lemaire
Flame Affinity Group
she/her
Madeline Rile Smith
Flame Affinity Group
she/her
Bre’Annah Stampley
BIPOC Community Table
they/them
Former Collaborators
Percy Echols II
Taming Lightning Podcast x GEEX: Intro to Plasma
he/him
Wu Hanyen
Move with Wu
she/they
Davin Ebanks
BIPOC Community Table
he/him
Board
Helen Lee
President and Treasurer
she/they
Kim Harty
Vice President
she/her
Anjali Srinivasan
Secretary
she/her
Davin Ebanks
he/him
Carmichael Jones
they/them
Jason McDonald
he/him
Susie Silbert
she/her
Bre’Annah Stampley
Co-learner Representative
they/them
Hilary Wei Wang
she/her
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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.
