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Content Flashback: Glass Games Masters 2019

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From The Lightbox

Recap: Las Vegas

Written by Kevin Dankman

Photos by Sly Vegas

Written by Malcolm MacKinnon

Next-Up: CHAMPS Atlantic City Written by Sky Daniels

ISSUE 13 MAY/JUNE 2019

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Contacts

ISSUE 13 MAY/JUNE 2019

Publisher

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Editorial Director Kevin Dankman

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Credits Writing:

Sky Daniels Kevin Dankman Malcolm MacKinnon

Photography: Kevin Dankman Malcolm MacKinnon Sly Vegas

On The Cover: Masters 2nd Place Piece by Karl Taylor Photo by Sly Vegas CHAMPS SHOW MAGAZINE

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Glass Games Masters 2019 FLASHBACK:

Written by Kevin Dankman | Photos by Sly Vegas

CHAMPS Trade Shows Glass Games Masters Competition is the most significant event of the year. Thirty-seven glassblowers from around the country came together to compete for the top prize of $10,000 cash and prizes including new torches from Bethlehem Burners. Our sponsors went all out this year as well to make the award bags as awesome as possible. Ryot, Goofy Grin, and a host of others really pulled through. These 37 stars of the glass art scene all won in one of our previous events throughout 2018. Thousands of great artists were narrowed down to just these 37 all-star competitors.

1st Place - Bonelord

Each year's Masters Finals is assigned a theme for the artists to derive their masterpiece from, This year's competition theme was, “Art Through Time: Styles Genres and Techniques.” Themed competitions can be hard for some glass blowers and easy for others. When I looked over the pieces and checked into the connection to the theme, I saw many interpretations and some outstanding backstories.

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The competitors are given leeway to bring anything that fits in a 5-inch square box; this helps them prep and enables them to make a much more complex piece. Some artists bring a lot of parts others a single large section. It is incredibly difficult to assemble these large scale pieces in the short period allocated. Artists can also bring extra equipment to do cold working such as cutting and grinding the glass.

The first day is usually fairly uneventful until the late afternoon as the pieces get bigger and bigger. Sometimes gravity is the culprit other times its poor execution, but it’s always something to overcome. The first day saw lot’s of artists complete a large amount of their work. Without many catastrophes, the first day came to an end, and the pieces were in the kiln.

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Paintings Made with the Winning Piece.

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2nd Place - GRIMM Karl Taylor

Day 2, “make or break it day” they call it. Many contestants made it, but a couple of our very talented artists fell into the, “break it” category. Unfortunately Aly from Mama’s glass and one of my favorites Michael G-check both had late catastrophic breaks, although Aly was able to salvage a little humor in the situation with her Dick Rider… symbolizing the ever-present art problem of artist riding other artists fame. At the end of day 2, some artists would finish over the allotted time. But most everyone put something in the kiln. Day 3… Judgement Day!

2nd Place

The most agonizingly anxious moment of the contest is opening the kiln in the morning to inspect and see if the pieces stayed together… unfortunately, not all of them survived. Dellaluna was another victim of the glass gods and opened her kiln to fragments of what was a great piece of art.

GRIMM Karl Taylor

This year we had a stellar crew of judges led by Judge Supreme Bob Snodgrass with Glass artists BFF and Nathan Belmont and online superstar Dabbin’ Granny. The mix of styles and knowledge was vast in this crew. Master of Ceremonies Matty White and the judges took over 4 hours to deliberate the massive amount of fantastic art laid before them. Every artist spoke to them about there piece individually to the judge's panel explaining their composition and what inspired them. The judging was amazingly close, but in the end, there can be only one first place Masters Champion. In this competition the top 8 Glass blowers received cash and prizes there are also awards given to Artists Choice as well as People’s Choice.

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8th Rob Morrison $1000 7th Anthony Lacorte, Lacorte Flameworking $1000 6th Fish, John Fishbach $1000 5th Dan Hoffman $2000 4th Shayla Behrman Windstar Glass (Artist and People‘s Choice $1000 each) $3000 3rd Zam $4000 2nd Grimm, Karl Taylor $5000 1st Bonelord, Eric Swartz $10,000 24

History was made this year, as one of the contestants won three awards in one Masters. Shayla from Windstar Glass placed 4th as well as winning Artists and Peoples Choice awards.

3rd Place - Zam

The pieces were pretty amazing, but the top three displayed something many of the others didn’t. In 3rd Place, Zam, she chose, “ Performance Arts” as her inspiration and knocked out one sick Belly Dancer with props and all. The overall piece was exceptional, and it had such flow and movement, all while standing still. Motion seemed to emanate from her! In a close second place was GRIMM - Karl Taylor. He found inspiration in Salvidor Dali. Karl's piece brought to life father of surrealism, Salvidor Dali’s most signature paintings with melted clocks and wild butterfly winged elephants. This piece was undoubtedly one of the best of his career. In First Place, frequent competitor, and fellow Floridian Eric Swartz aka Bonelord gave new meaning to the phrase, “Art through Time” Eric fashioned a very elegant rig with pointy spikes and skulls adorning it. Perspectively on its own, the piece of glass was impeccable and not only looked good strung up from its easel, but the piece also stunned in its lay down position. This piece had a secret, a hidden chamber that holds paints. Why would you want to store paint in your glass art pipe? Simple to make it make art! In a genuinely ingenious plan, Eric made art that makes art… Wrap your head around that one… Art was making Art. The motion of the pendulum added to time created stunning pieces of art. Swirls of colors in concentric shapes flew from it like the hand of a wild child with a spirography kit. Eric definitely brought the theme to life, and he truly deserved his win.

3rd Place

Zam

Spinach Award winner Dellaluna with Dabbin Granny

It was another great CHAMPS Glass Games by Matty White and his crew. They come through consistently show after show. Victoria and all the other important behind the scenes people work hard before and after each show to make it happen. Check in again at the Atlantic City Show, the first qualifying event for next years Glass Games Masters.

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4th Place and People’s Choice Shayla - Windstar Glass

5th Place - Dan Hoffman

6th Place - Fish

8th Place - Rob Morrison

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7th Place - Anthony LaCorte

Walk of Flame Inductions - Josh and Hendy

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1st Place - Bonelord

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4th Place and Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Artist Choice Shayla Windstar Glass

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RECAP: LAS VEGAS A REALLY BIG SHOW

Written by Malcolm MacKinnon | Photos by Malcolm MacKinnon

CHAMPS Celebrates its 20th Year with a Mammoth Las Vegas Event. I was reminded of what Ed Sullivan often said when I entered CHAMPS Trade Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center in late February. I stood in the first aisle and stared down a corridor of vendor booths that stretched on, seemingly for miles. “This is gonna be a really, really big show,” I said to myself in awe.

I know I’m dating myself, but The Ed Sullivan Show, which aired on CBS-TV from 1948 to 1971, was responsible for the catchphrase, “Tonight we have a really, really big show.” Ed had an odd delivery as host and the tag actually became a national joke that has also appeared in countless movies in the years since. So if you know, I hope you hear it ring in your head, in that signature voice of Eds.

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It was only fitting that CHAMPS celebrated its twentieth year of industry trade shows with this massive display of cannabis industry economic power. CHAMPS ‘s growth has coincided with the growing favorability that cannabis legalization is enjoying. More importantly, CHAMPS has maintained its unwavering support of the industry, weathering the destructive, arbitrary actions of anti-cannabis advocates as all of us have done. It’s been a journey. I attended the second CHAMPS trade show ever back in 1999, a quiet event, with no more than 70 booths. It took place Continues On Page 77 68

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in a small ballroom of the Palace Station Hotel in Las Vegas and nearly all of the vendors were glass artists or glass smokeware distributors. Two decades later, CHAMPS opened its doors to over 1,100 vendors who were visited by close to 5,000 retail buyers, from across the globe, who filled up the convention center for three straight days. To be sure, CHAMPS isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just about glass anymore. Fully half of the vendors represented other sectors of the ever-growing cannabis industry. And get these numbers: all those retail store buyers spent in excess of $185 million at wholesale. That translates into a half-billion dollars retail! From the moment attendees strolled through the convention hall doors, they knew they were in for an immersive industry experience. Greeting them at the Futurola booth was a continuously running, mesmerizing video, shown on a 20-foot high screen. The sexy, highly produced video highlighted the Futurola Original Shredder that shreds three pounds in two seconds for the perfect consistency to fill 100 pre-rolled cones in two minutes. And, just a few booths down at RAW Rolling Papers, a giant joint was suspended in the air periodically letting loose a blast of pseudo-smoke. The prominent presence of CBD products at the show reflected the current explosion in this marketplace. Everything from candies to coffee was represented, as well as a vast array of beauty products. CBD for pets, too. Continues On Page 80

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Notably, one of the busier companies in the convention hall was Hillside Glass. Not only did they display an impressive lineup of smokeware, their bold foray into CBD products, via their new brand Just CBD, made their booth a destination, especially with rap stars like Flo Rida and Flavor Flav dropping by.

The Epic Futurola Booth

The folks at Magic Butter hosted a CBD cooking demo. At CBD Cure, you could have a drink of CBD-infused water and at Heavenly-Candy, a banquet-like spread of gummies, pet treats, tinctures, oils was laid out for browsing retailers. CHAMPSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new Dispensary+ division of its show welcomed the companies that provide support to the dispensaries, both medical and recreational. Greenlane, which specializes in dispensary Continues On Page 82

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services, saw a nonstop flow of visitors, while Cova’s POS and digital solutions, built to make complex operations simple and streamline workflows, demonstrated the evolution of cannabis retailing. Kratom also had a more significant presence. For those who may not know, natural kratom is derived from a tropical evergreen tree in the coffee family native to Southeast Asia. Its leaves have been used for centuries as an herbal supplement in traditional medicines for pain management and relaxation. It’s undergoing some of the same legal pushback that cannabis has historically encountered. The American Kratom Association provided a lecture to inform and educate retailers and consumers on its value. Natalie Darves, Dean of Faculty at Oaksterdam University, also provided a presentation detailing important facts for retailers, distributors and

wholesalers who sell cannabinoid products, with an emphasis on understanding terpenes. As the industry matures and information about strains becomes more complex, it’s important that entrepreneurs have a knowledge base. At the center of the convention floor, the Glass Games Masters Final was the prime attraction. It’s a spellbinding affair featuring the up and comers as well as top figures of the glass artist community, who compete for cash prizes in an on-site display of skill and inventiveness. The competing artists were winners in the Glass Games events of the past year. The competition was staged in two 50’x50’ corrals. The glassblowers fashioned their pieces facing outward, allowing spectators to view their ongoing workmanship in detail which, in turn, spawned thousands of cell phone shots that were shared on media platforms worldwide.

Thirty-seven artists started the competition, but three were non-finishers due to breakage or imperfections in their final pieces. Bonelord won the overall prize, judged by a panel that included legendary Bob Snodgrass. But Shayla Behrman of Windstar Glass, who finished fourth, took both the Artist’s Choice Award and the People’s Choice Award, the first instance in the Glass Games wherein an artist has taken home three winning checks. (Read more about the Glass Games Masters Final in Kevin Dankman’s TKTK on p. TKTK.) As CHAMPS kicks off this twentieth year, expanding its schedule from five trade shows to six, with the addition of a show in Chicago in Late October, we want to thank everyone in the industry for working diligently to make the current status quo a reality, one that many of us never thought we’d see. Now let’s step forward and make it even better and more profitable. Forward! Kaniesha in the Medicali Booth

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NEXT-UP: CHAMPS Written by Sky Daniels

ATLANTIC CITY

We Return for the Ninth Straight Year!

The year was 2011 when CHAMPS Trade Shows began exploring the possibility of staging its massive trade show in a host city other than Las Vegas. Since 1999, CHAMPS had been holding two shows yearly in Vegas. But the cannabis industry was growing, and there were vast segments of the cannabis economy that hadn’t benefitted from the CHAMPS experience.

Jeff Hirschfeld, the president of CHAMPS Trade Shows, looked eastward and chose Atlantic City as the next venue for the ever-growing B2B trade show. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Jeff explains: “It was an easy choice. I wanted a city that our people would enjoy: nightlife, casinos, the beach. I grew up on the East Coast and loved the beach experience. And I always loved Atlantic City.”

Of course, there’s another big reason CHAMPS has found a home on the East Coast. For over 70 million people, Atlantic City, located on the coast of southern New Jersey, is only a two-hour drive away. Furthermore, New Jersey is on the brink of legalization. Over 60 percent of state residents support legal adult use of cannabis and Governor Phil Murphy vigorously campaigned on the issue. On March 25, the state legislature was scheduled to vote on a legalization bill. But the vote was canceled at the last minute when it appeared there were insufficient votes for passage. A new vote has been promised but remains unscheduled at this time. Continues On Page 104

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The undeniable fact is that, in the near future, all of the northeastern States will legalize and become the largest market of cannabis consumers. Let’s add up the total (approximate) Populations for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states: New York (20 million), New Jersey (10 million), Massachusetts (7 million), Connecticut (3.5 million), Maryland (6 million), New Hampshire and Maine (1.3 million each), Delaware and Rhode Island (1 million each), and Vermont and Washington D.C. (700,000 each). That’s well over 50 million residents in a far smaller area than California. And if one adds Pennsylvania to the mix, with 13million residents, the potential legal marijuana market will, without a doubt, dwarf the West Coast market. As the cannabis economy widens on the East Coast, CHAMPS expansion in Atlantic City has been impressive—a robust 10-15 percent increase in vendors and attendees each year. At this year’s show, well over 300 vendors will set up shop at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Retailers from up and down the East Coast and beyond will travel here to survey the newest products and innovations of the flourishing cannabis industry.

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The breadth of CHAMPS reach has broadened. While its roots have always been in the functional glass art community, with each show the representation of other products and companies grow. Now a wide array of CBD merchandise exhibitors exhibit at CHAMPS, the most comprehensive display available at any trade show to date. The emergence of CBD products in the mainstream marketplace represents a significant breakthrough, not just for entrepreneurs, but for the simple truth, it advances. As all advocates for cannabis know, fighting myths and misinformation about the plant is a daunting task. But a wealth of evidence now proves that CBD has an untapped reservoir of uses in medicine, nutrition, and the beauty industry, causing an explosion of new companies and new Brands. For consumers who may have had reservations about cannabis, knowing that the oil, tincture or lotion they personally use is derived from that very same often-demonized plant is a revelation and motivates them to reconsider their past views. Continues On Page 108

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This year, CHAMPS launched a new division of the tradeshow dedicated to addressing the needs of dispensaries. As legalization sweeps the nation, and consumers require outlets to access cannabisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;medical and recreational. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see a variety of companies in Atlantic City that offer dispensary owners and operators support: insurance companies, financial advisors, IT and POS systems designed for the Industry. Also prominently featured among the vendors at CHAMPS are kratom wholesalers and distributors. For those who may not know, natural kratom is derived from a tropical evergreen tree in the coffee family native to Southeast Asia. Its leaves have been used for centuries as an herbal supplement in traditional medicines for pain management and relaxation. Since 2010, CHAMPS has hosted the Glass Games, a live, on-site competition of elite artists who square off against one another for cash prizes. In February, the Masters Final took place in Las Vegas, the culmination of a year-long season of contests that take place at all CHAMPS shows.

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The Atlantic City Glass Games will kick off a new season for the competitors. Forty-eight top glassblowers will light their torches and create unique pieces in five so-called “Mini-Games,” wherein artists compete in timed competitions. The Games are always a major attraction drawing awed spectators who snap hundreds of shots of the spectacle, which, in turn, become a social media phenomenon. Situated next to the sea, Atlantic City has always held a special place in the world’s imagination. Miss America is crowned there each year. Casinos, beaches, and boardwalks have long lured vacationers, gamblers and nightclubbers. A century ago, someone dubbed it “The World’s Famous Playground”—and it still is. For decades, it’s where East Coasters have come to cavort in ocean waves and enjoy a luxury vacation in classic hotels. Now it’s a second home to CHAMPS. As the midpoint of CHAMPS’ twentieth year approaches, Atlantic City stands as an essential destination in the cannabis world, proof that the industry indeed stretches from coast to coast.

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