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  • September 26, 2017
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Research librarian retires after 40 years at the Rakow Library

Imagine you are a passionate collector of glass bells. You venture out to your mailbox one autumn afternoon, gather up your pile of junk mail, flyers, invoices, and magazines and spot a thick, white envelope, return address Corning Museum of … Read more →

  • Posted in: News & Events, Rakow Library
  • August 23, 2016
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Bird-brained in the summer

This time of year, bird lovers are still enjoying the sight of tiny, brilliantly-colored birds racing by their windows in a blur of beating wings. Have you ever thought about the original feeders developed for these minuscule flyers? Unlike bird … Read more →

  • Posted in: Rakow Library
  • March 23, 2016
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The Littletons

When Jesse and Bessie (Becky) Littleton moved to Corning, New York from Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1913, I’m fairly sure they had no idea their names would be tied to a revolution in bakeware that would span the century. Jesse … Read more →

  • Posted in: Rakow Library, Research
  • December 23, 2015
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A JSB Christmas

Last week, in a quest for information on German-made Christmas ornaments for a patron, I turned to the J. Stanley Brothers Collection, or JSB as we call it, for the man responsible for building the collection. JSB was one of … Read more →

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To celebrate new Icelandic legislation around organ donation, designer Sigga Heimis created a one-of-a-kind exhibition using the larger-than-life glass organs she designed with the Museum’s Hot Glass Team. Check out these photos from when Steve Gibbs, senior manager of hot glass business/technology development, visited this exhibition.To celebrate new Icelandic legislation around organ donation, designer Sigga Heimis created a one-of-a-kind exhibition using the larger-than-life glass organs she designed with the Museum’s Hot Glass Team. Check out these photos from when Steve Gibbs, senior manager of hot glass business/technology development, visited this exhibition.To celebrate new Icelandic legislation around organ donation, designer Sigga Heimis created a one-of-a-kind exhibition using the larger-than-life glass organs she designed with the Museum’s Hot Glass Team. Check out these photos from when Steve Gibbs, senior manager of hot glass business/technology development, visited this exhibition.Happy Valentine’s Day from The Corning Museum of Glass! What better way to celebrate than with this heart-shaped cast glass sculpture by Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova? Heart/Red Flower, Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova (makers), Zeleznobrodske sklo (studio), Zelezny Brod, Czech Republic, designed in 1973, made in 1976. Gift of the artists. 81.3.38.Object of the Week: Red Thread of Life, Barry Sautner, New Jersey, United States, 1991. Gift of Richard Moiel and Katherine Poeppel. 2017.4.15. Glass artist Barry Sautner drew much of his inspiration from nature. A cameo-carved cage cup, “Red Thread of Life” combines a frosted colorless cage carved in the shape of a trellis with a cameo-carved layer of red ornament depicting two cardinals among a red trumpet vine incorporating flowers and leaves. In a list of notes that accompanied the piece, Sautner wrote, “As in ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, this piece symbolizes the fragile interdependence of all living things and the delicate balance that must be maintained between mankind and nature if all living things, including Man, are to survive.”

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