Special Exhibitions
Upcoming Events
May 24 - September 2, 2013
The Museum is once again participating in the Blue Star Museums program, offering free Museum admission to all active military and their families through Labor Day. The Museum...
June 19, 2013 11:00am to 12:00pm
Watch Beccy Feather and Alex Rosenberg demonstrate for their class, Kill Your Darlings. This furnace working class will ask, "What is the difference between 'my process' and 'my...
June 20, 2013 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Hear from artist Michael Glancy, whose abstract vessels explore nature, science, and metaphysics. Glancy’s pieces begin as cell-like patterns and arcane notations jotted down on...
June 25, 2013 7:30pm to 9:00pm
This week features Davide Salvadore, Heike Brachlow, and Denise Stillwaggon Leone in the Studio Faculty Presentations series.
Hear from some of the best-known glassmakers in the...
June 26, 2013 11:00am to 12:00pm
Watch Davide Salvadore demonstrate for his furnace working class, Creating and Using Murrine, based on a Muranese technique called tociar piere—the roll-up...
June 26, 2013 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Have you ever been behind-the-scenes at the Rakow Library? Museum Members are invited to take a tour of the Library’s secured collections and see rare works such as works on paper...
Behind the Glass
This neoclassical glass vase was made in imitation of porphyry. The use of porphyry for carved and turned vases was known from Roman times, and was...
The Corning Museum of Glass has appointed Kelly Conway as its new curator of American glass. A specialist in nineteenth and early twentieth century...
Novy Bor, Czech Republic
I managed to arrive safely in Novy Bor at 12:30pm. As soon as I got my bearings at the bus station, I noticed two gentlemen...
G Brian Juk combines blown, kiln-cast, and hot-worked solid glass to create forms of beauty. First introduced to hot glass in his hometown of Detroit...