Jane Dorner
Jane Dorner
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About Jane Dorner

Jane Dorner is a ‘mid-career-change artist’, coming to glass from very nearly 40 years in publishing. Jane began her career as an art editor for Longman and later migrated from picture researcher at Weidenfeld & Nicolson to fiction reader for Penguin. She has written extensively for the press on a wide variety of subjects from glass, poetry and music to computer software reviews. Jane designs websites for artists and small societies. She has was appointed Editor of Glass Circle News and elected as a Brother of the ArtWorkers’ Guild in January 2010.

An updated CV gives glass achievements

See also the article on personalities in publishing by Hazel Bell published in Journal of Scholarly Publishing - Volume 33, Number 2 January 2001.
http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=product/jsp/332/publishing5.html

 

Professional milestones and memberships

Chairman of the iceandfire company for the ‘theatre of reconciliation’ (2003-2006)

Former Chairman of the Copyright Licensing Agency (2001-2003) and Board member of the Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society (1991-2004)

Hawthornden Fellowship (2004)

Trustee of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation book prize for photography and the moving image (1994-2006)

Judge for the Grierson Trust Award for the best British documentary (1999)

Member of the Editorial Board of Logos: Professional Journal of the Book World and Trustee of the Logos Trust (1992-2004)  

Committee member of the British Computer Society Electronic Publishing Specialist Group (1989-2000)

 

Committee member for trAce ‘Incubation’ conferences on interactive new media (2001 and 2003).  

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2000-2003)

Member of the Society of Bookmen (2002-2007)

Member of the Society of Authors (ongoing)

Member of the Royal Society of Literature (ongoing)

Lay member of the Guild of Glass Engravers (ongoing)

Member of the Contemporary Glass Society and regular contributor to the Newsletter (ongoing)