Artists of the Conference “Around the Fire” – Agnieszka Bar

This year Agnieszka Bar was a coordinator of the conference "Around the Fire". She also gave a lecture entitled: "Polish-Turkish impressions on Çeşm-i Bülbül technique"

Designer of experimental and short series collections of functional glass. She is involved in the processes of industrial designs implementation. In 2007 she graduated from the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass in the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. She also studied applied arts in Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and Technic University in Liberec. Cofounder of Wzorowo Design Group, where in 2009-2014 together with Karina Marusińska and Agnieszka Kajper she created ceramic and glass works, projects in urban space and ran design workshops. She is also a coach and mentor in the field of design and designing functional glass, since 2011 she has been employed in the Studio of Functional Glass at the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. Awarded and nominated in competitions e.g. Make me!, Art of Packaging, Vorsicht Glas! or Good Design. She has presented her glass projects during numerous exhibitions and festivals around the world: in Salone del Mobile in Milan, Paris Design Week, London Design Festival, Dutch Design Week, Istanbul Design Biennal, Łódź Design Festival, São Paulo Design Weekend, Biennale du Design in Saint-Etienne, The Nordic Design Fair in the Copenhagen, Design Museum Holon in Israel, Murano Glass Museum, Finnish Glass Museum.  website: www.agnieszkabar.pl

During the Conference she presented: "Polish-Turkish impressions on Çeşm-i Bülbül technique"
With a great enthusiasm I got involved in the project of the Cieszyn Castle and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, which was initiated in 2014 on the occasion of 600 years of Turkish – Polish international relationships. It was supposed to link designers and craftsmen from the two countries and to create conditions for sharing experience in the field of three materials: glass, wood and wool. As a result projects and prototypes emerged which are a kind of note about the new cultural relations and at the same time a kind of bridge. I have twice visited the studio in the Turkish Glass Centre Cam Ocagi in Beykoz and I had a chance to plumb the mysteries of the traditional Turkish technique of shaping glass in high temperatures intriguingly called Çeşm-i Bülbül. I will talk about this multicultural dialogue with glass.