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Our guild has sponsored, in cooperation with cultural institutions in our area, this free one-day festival. It is the only one of its kind in the US and features demonstrations of a wide variety of art glass techniques used by our members, as well as activities for children. This event is held every other year and in the past the festival has been held at the Glen Echo Park, in Glenn Echo, MD with the cooperation of the Glen Echo Art Glass Consortium and the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture. In 2008 the festival was held at the Lorton Arts Center in Lorton, VA.
In the past many NCAGG members have donated various works of art at our shows with the proceeds benefiting S.O.M.E, a non-profit organization in Washington, DC that provides many valuable services for the area’s elderly and homeless. Services include meals, clothes, shelter, training, counseling, rehabilitation, and health care.
Several NCAGG members have participated in this event to demonstrate stained glass art and assist children with making fun plastic “stained glass” windows. Fairfax County holds this annual arts festival to support and encourage the awareness of cultural opportunities in the greater Fairfax community. The festival is considered one of Virginia's foremost arts festivals with music, dance, theater, visual arts etc.
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Glass Arts Festival
Our guild has demonstrated glass art at the Festival
of the Building Arts for several years. The Festival is held every year at the 
Our guild has been involved in exposing elementary
school students to the art of stained glass. Members of NCAGG have made and installed
stained glass windows in their school, and the children were intricately involved in all
construction aspects of the window, from the design to cutting glass to soldering.