Special Exhibitions
Upcoming Events
May 1 - 31, 2012
Enjoy an extra 10% off (for a total Member's discount of 25%!) all your purchases at the GlassMarket by showing your membership card in May!
May 17, 2012 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Swedish artist Ingalena Klenell has been working with glass since 1976. Her work explores the ideas of fragility and vulnerability, both in the material of glass and in life...
May 18, 2012 7:00pm to 9:30pm
This exhibition showcases the Museum’s innovative design program, GlassLab, in which designers are invited to work with the Museum’s artist-glassblowers to explore concepts and...
May 24 - 27, 2012
The 3rd Annual GlassFest is a four-day celebration of glass & the fire arts in the Crystal City, featuring live hot glass show, flameworking competition, illuminated sculpture...
May 24, 2012 5:30pm to 7:30pm
This special 2300° kicks off the Third Annual Corning, NY GlassFest.
Live Glassmaking
Watch as designer Paul Haigh works with our museum glass artists, on the outdoor stage,...
Designer Josh Owen works with Museum glassmakers to explore and prototype his design concepts in a public GlassLab session at the Museum’s Hot Glass Show on the Courtyard Stage.
Featured Articles
Like Dutch still-life painters of the 16th and 17th centuries, American artist Beth Lipman sees images of food as a metaphor for desire, consumption...
What is your first association with the term “bohemian”? Does it evoke a fine beer-brewing tradition, or connote unpronounceable town names? Germans...
Edouard Benedictus, a set and costume designer for a French theater, wanted to make glass safer. He was disturbed by reports of people being...
In 2005, the Museum presented three exhibitions of Czech and Bohemian glass. The exhibition, Design in an Age of Adversity, showcased a wide...