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  • February 21, 2023
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Explore the Secret Life of Glass with Spencer Finch

Where will you be at 4:30 pm this Friday (February 24, 2023)? Join us for the Spencer Solstice*! Visit the Museum and see Spencer Finch’s incredible glass window, The Secret Life of Glass, as it relives the very moment that … Read more →

  • Posted in: Artists, New Contemporary Art + Design Wing, Recent Acquisitions
  • June 22, 2021
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Vanessa German and the Gift, the Glory, and the Power of Blue

Artworks at The Corning Museum of Glass come in all shapes and sizes, from the tiniest fragments to installations that take up entire rooms. One new acquisition, Vanessa German’s The Walker; for how to honor the price of compassion—how not … Read more →

  • Posted in: Artists, From the Collections, New Contemporary Art + Design Wing, Recent Acquisitions
  • June 8, 2021
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Finding Significance in Surprising Places: Dustin Yellin, Glass, and an Onscreen Love Affair

In a renovated ironworks factory on Pioneer St. in Red Hook, Brooklyn, you might stumble on the glass studio of California-born artist Dustin Yellin. That’s the premise at least, for a scene I saw in a movie recently where actress … Read more →

  • Posted in: Artists, From the Collections, Recent Acquisitions
  • June 30, 2020
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An Unusual Charge: Conserving a Volta’s Straw Electroscope

As a conservator at a glass museum, most of the conservation treatments I do are on glass, but sometimes we are faced with other, less expected materials. One of the more unusual treatments I’ve done recently was repairing the straws … Read more →

  • Posted in: Conservation, From the Collections, Recent Acquisitions
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