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Corning Museum of Glass to Present GlassLab Design Performances on Governors Island in Summer 2012

May 21, 2012

Featuring Designers from Cooper-Hewitt’s Exhibition Graphic Design—Now In Production Corning, NY, May 18, 2012— The Corning Museum of Glass will bring its GlassLab design program to New York’s Governors Island this summer. On weekends, June 30-July 29, designers and graphic designers from...

New Exhibition Reflects on Community and Conservation Efforts after Damaging Flood of 1972

May 1, 2012

Corning, NY— On June 23, 1972, Corning and the surrounding communities were devastated by a major flood, as a result of tropical storm Agnes. At the Museum, hundreds of objects were broken, more than half of the Library’s materials were saturated with flood water, and the facility was covered with...

2012 Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Grant for Glass Research Supports Two Archaeological Glass Studies

April 23, 2012

Corning, NY – The 2012 Rakow Grant for Glass Research will support two studies by archaeologists in Beijing and Venice. Yi-Xian Lin, recently a Newton International Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology of University College London, will be completing a postdoctoral research project on the...