On June 10, Ito Laïla Le François (Class of 2012) was one of three Saxe Emerging Artist Presenters giving a lecture at the 2016 Glass Art Society (GAS) Conference held in Corning, New York. Juror Jim Zimmer, who qualified Ito’s work as carnal, said that her pieces “confront us with the beautiful horror of the transition between our bodies being our own, to their absorption back into the ecosystem.”