Beadmaking marathon
On Sunday, March 3, 2019, the energy in the flameshop at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass was buzzing as many experienced beadmakers gathered to participate in a beadmaking marathon in...
View ArticleAttention to detail: Tips for visitors from volunteers
April is a special time at The Corning Museum of Glass, and one of my favorites. Not just because the flowers are beginning to bloom and the leaves beginning to return, but because it is the...
View ArticleStonewall reflections (Part 1)
This June, The Corning Museum of Glass and I Love NY! celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Stonewall Uprising. This is part one of a two-part blog post that details the impact Stonewall has had on...
View ArticleStonewall reflections (Part 2): Glasss, Honey! The Corning Museum of Glass...
This June, The Corning Museum of Glass and I Love NY! celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Stonewall Uprising. This is part two of a two-part blog post that details the impact Stonewall has had on...
View ArticleDonor Profile: Dorothy Saxe
Since the early 1980s, Dorothy Saxe and her late husband, George, have been enthusiastic art collectors. Their comprehensive collection combines many different materials, compositions, and...
View ArticleBlown Away Launches on Netflix Today!
Glass is about to get its big break! Today Netflix launches Blown Away, the first-ever competition show featuring glass in the starring role. The groundbreaking 10-episode series will bring the art of...
View ArticleBlown Away Contestants Talk About Their Time on the Hot New Netflix Show
We’ve been binge watching Blown Away on Netflix, and we hope you have, too. Has the fiery cast of amazing glassblowers inspired you to see glass in a new light? We recently asked the contestants what...
View ArticleExpanding Horizons: Class of 2019
For the fifth year in a row, The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) is proud to have once again hosted the Expanding Horizons program. Each year, The Studio selects six students in at-risk glass art...
View ArticleRick Price, a legacy in print
Richard Price, the editor and head of publications for The Corning Museum of Glass announced his retirement earlier this month after serving for nearly three and a half decades with the Museum. As the...
View ArticleEmbracing Netflix Fame: What the Blown Away Contestants Are Up To Now
Four months after the release of Blown Away, we caught up with some of the contestants to find out how their lives have changed in the wake of the hit Netflix show, and to ask… what’s next? What has...
View ArticleNew Exhibition Announcement: Special Exhibition on Glass in 18th-Century...
The Museum’s spring exhibition, In Sparkling Company: Glass and Social Life in Britain During the 1700s, will open May 9, 2020. With exhibition design by Selldorf Architects, In Sparkling Company will...
View ArticleCelebrate the Season at The Studio!
From 9am-5pm on Saturday and Sunday, December 7-8, The Studio will host its annual Holiday Open House and Glass Sale. Now in its 24th year, this event is a festive weekend packed with special holiday...
View ArticleNew Glass Now in Review: the best of Instagram
Photos, top to bottom, left to right: @kriswetterlund, @jtsmythe, @pearldick, @theripleylife, @catpuccino_kate, @bethlandin, Chien-Ju Lin via Twitter, @pjakobso, and @jessgiles2 One of the joys of...
View ArticleDonor Profile: David Landau
David Landau On the small island of San Giorgio Maggiore just opposite St Mark’s Square sits Le Stanze del Vetro, ‘The Glass Rooms’. A joint initiative between The Cini Foundation and Swiss-based,...
View ArticleThe Studio announces 2020 Residencies
Today, The Studio announced the 2020 Artists-in-Residence recipients: twelve artists from around the world who will each spend one month at The Studio researching and experimenting with new techniques...
View ArticleNascent: A Collaborative Exhibition between The Studio and 171 Cedar Arts Center
On an early morning walk in Corning, New York, there is a warm, electric glow likely to catch your eye on the corner of East First and Cedar Street. The light comes from a neon installation by James...
View ArticleWhat’s That Noise?
Visitors to The Corning Museum of Glass are often greeted with a loud and mysterious noise. But it doesn’t take long to discover the source of all the strange clattering and chiming. At the entrance...
View ArticleThe Quest for Opal: Specialty Glass Resident Mark Peiser Finds Joy in the...
There is something fascinating about obsession. About searching for a form of perfection that proves so elusive, it’s the journey itself that becomes sustaining and gratifying, if maybe only to you....
View ArticleA Toast to 20: 2300° reaches a new milestone
February 17, 2000, was a cold, clear day in Corning, NY. It’s not likely that many people remember that particular fact, but Rob Cassetti does. Cassetti is the senior director of creative strategy and...
View ArticleThe Glass Pipe Community Flowers and Elevates
In my first blog about the acquisition of David Colton’s 2019 Rakow Commission piece “Corning: Untitled“, I touched on some of the genesis story of the glass pipe movement that has been torching...
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