Contests2026-06-12T14:22:17-07:00

2025 Dichroic by Design  Winners

2025  1st Place Winner

Koji Yamami
“A small town on the red rocks”

2025 2nd Place Winner

Jeffrey Honsberger
“Opulencia”

2025 3rd Place Winner

Caroline Erb
“Secrets of the Enchanted Forest”

2026 Dichroic By Design Contest

Celebrating 30 Years of Creativity! Coatings By Sandberg, Inc. is excited to sponsor our 21st Annual Contest featuring the use of dichroic glass in artistic or functional creations. Submit photographs of your work for a chance to be featured on our website, where audiences worldwide can discover the remarkable pieces our talented customers create using our premium dichroic glass coatings.

Prizes
  • 1st place winner will receive a $500 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.
  • 2nd place winner will receive a $300 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.
  • 3rd place winner will receive a $200 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.
  • Honorable mention winners will receive a $100 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.
Categories

Professional, Emerging (Beginning) Artist, Dichroic Extract, Blown Glass, Lampworked Glass, Fused Glass, Glass Jewelry, Glass Sculpture, Glass Marbles, Architectural, and Miscellaneous.

Contest Rules

All artwork must contain at least 25% CBS Dichroic glass.
Maximum three entries total per artist! Maximum three photos for each entry!

All entries must be submitted in the following format:

  • Digital format, high quality 300 dpi resolution
  • Up to 5 x 7 in size
  • No MAC format, only PC is accepted
  • .png, jpg, tif, pdf only
Deadline to submit artwork: November 20, 2026
Winners announced: December 18, 2026

Entries must be accompanied by:

  • Title and description of artwork
  • Type of glass used, including COE 90, 96, Borosilicate, Moretti, Float, Extract, etc.
  • Artist full name
  • Artist mailing address
  • Artist telephone number & email address

For questions please contact Samantha Sandberg at samantha@cbs-dichroic.com

The judges of the contest are a panel of well-known glass artists who come from all areas of the industry. CBS, Inc. will make all final decisions.

All pictures of artwork become the property of CBS and will not be returned. Photographs will be used on the CBS website and for possible future marketing and/or sales purposes.

Submit your artwork for the contest

Make sure you have read the contest rules above and understand them, then fill out the form, attach your sample artwork and we’ll confirm receipt.   Thank you!

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