William Morris, Raven with Skull, 1998. Hand-blown and sculpted glass, steel base. H 17 7/8, W 16 1/2, D 8 in. courtesy: rago arts

Thursday May 15, 2025 | by Andrew Page

Notable works by William Morris, Preston Singletary, Lino Tagliapietra, Yoichi Ohira, and Toots Zynsky coming up for auction

Artwork is something a collector never completely owns. Instead, they are all temporary stewards, that is, until time or circumstance necessitate a changing of the guard, so to speak, and it gets passed on to a new owner. On Friday, May 16th, a number of important works will be moving from carefully assembled glass collections displayed for years in Utah, North Carolina, and Connecticut, to new homes, which will be determined in Lambertville, New Jersey. There, on Friday, May 16th, at the Main Street location of Rago Auctions, over 100 works will go up for auction, among them a number of rare examples from some of the most important artists working in glass from names like Morris, Tagliapietra, Vallien, Ohira, Zynsky,and Chihuly.

Swan wine glass. Charlie Larouche-Potvin. Blown glass. H 9.5, D 2.5 in.

Wednesday April 30, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Applications now open for the 2025 RBC Award for Glass, which recognizes emerging talent in Canada

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 RBC Award, presented annually by the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery to an emerging glass artist in Canada. The criteria allows for any province and for a variety of disciplines, from blown to stained glass, but an emphasis is placed on the winner's status as an emerging artist and not as an established creator. The RBC Foundation, which supports the CC&GG in bestowing this award, donates large sums of money each year to not only craft art endeavors but a number of artistic fields including literature and theater.

Thursday April 17, 2025 | by Sponsored Content

The UrbanGlass Spring Gala on May 5th honors artist Layo Bright, auctioneers David Rago and Suzanne Perrault

At 6 PM on Monday, May 5, 2025, guests will begin arriving at the first-floor Agnes Varis Art Center at UrbanGlass in Downtown Brooklyn. This nonprofit arts center sits at the epicenter of a major arts hub of New York, with gleaming new high-rise residential buildings springing up in all directions as the neighborhood attracts legions of new residents drawn by all the buzz, but UrbanGlass has been at this location since the early 1990s as an outpost for glass art in the cultural capital of the U.S.

Exterior of recently expanded Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Thursday April 10, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

HELP WANTED: Corning Studio seeks Programs Manager

The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York is seeking a new programs manager for the recently renovated and expanded art-making space. The former programs director, Megan Mathie Jack, is leaving to pursue another opportunity after 7 years in the position, according to the Studio’s director Amy Schwartz.

Karol Wight, president and executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass, plans to retire once her successor has been found. courtesy: corning museum of glass

Thursday April 3, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

Corning Museum of Glass executive director and president Karol Wight announces plan to retire when successor found

Karol Wight, the president and executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass since 2011, announced on April 2nd that she is planning to retire once a successor has been found. The Corning Board of Trustees is undertaking an international search, according to the museum's official announcement of imminent changes at the top of the museum acknowledged to hold the largest collection of glass in the world.

Wednesday April 2, 2025 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions for … David Schnuckel

Artist, educator, and associate professor of glass at the Rochester Institute of Technology, David Schnuckel brings a unique work ethic, upbeat energy, and dedicated fastidiousness to most of the things he does. Be it a slide deck at a conference or an art project, there’s usually more time, energy, and work invested than what might have been required (and you might have expected). His solo exhibition at the Museum of American Glass at WheatonArts, set to open tomorrow, April 3, seems to be no exception. To find out more about this still event that seems to be still taking shape (the opening reception is planned for sometime in June, and the exhibition is running until the end of 2025), the Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet reached to Schnuckel with three questions to help shed more light on this project.

Formose (Formosa) Vase, designed by René Lalique (French, 1860–1945), made by Lalique et Cie, in France, designed in 1924. Gift of Elaine and Stanford Steppa. 2011.3.430.

Friday March 28, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

EXHIBITION: Tracing the evolution of glass color chemistry across the centuries

When Corning Museum of Glass curator Amy McHugh first walked through the Museum’s ongoing exhibition "35 Centuries of Glass," she expected to see changes in what colors could be achieved in glass as technology and knowledge expanded. As the years progressed, aesthetics and designs varied, as did coloring, but a pronounced shift in color around the late 19th century was enough to give her pause. Why were the colors suddenly so vivid? Why did they look so different from what had preceded them? A deep dive into Corning’s collections resulted in the upcoming exhibition, "Brilliant Color," an attempt to showcase the creative techniques of the golden age of glassmaking. Four curatorial groupings, ranging from “Spectrum of Color” to “Color Today,” invite visitors to view wall displays and interact with a variety of color techniques as they gain a new appreciation for the historical experimentation that brought us the vibrant hues we come to expect today.

Thursday March 27, 2025 | by Andrew Page

CONVERSATION: Sarah Traver on leaving Downtown Seattle for Traver Gallery's new waterfront location

If these walls could talk, they'd speak of the buzz of some of Lino Tagliapietra's biggest exhibition openings here, as well as the anxious anticipation at some of the Northwest Coast debuts of artists such as Martin Blank, Sonja Blomdahl, Dante Marioni, and Preston Singletary. After 32 years and hosting over 100 exhibition openings, the second-floor space overlooking Union and First Avenue stands eerily empty. At an intimate farewell party, the Traver Gallery's founder William Traver poured champagne while the staff gathered to toast this Downtown Seattle location where glass art had been elevated (literally and figuratively) for more than three decades.

Rock, 2023. Designed for Glasstastic by Sylvan Koicuba, age 11. Created in glass by Zak Grace. Photo by Joshua Farr.

Thursday March 20, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

Taking a page from The Museum of Glass, Vermont art center celebrates children's imaginations in colorful glass designs

Some 15 years ago, Danny Lichtenfeld, the director at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, was browsing the bookstore at the Seattle Art Museum when a small green creature with blue wings and googly eyes caught his eye. The charming creature adorned the cover of Kids Design Glass (University of Washington Press, 2009), which told the story of a unique program at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, with photographs of fantastical glass creatures and essays by Ben Cobb, the hot shop director, as well as Dale Chihuly and a Harvard child psychologist who consulted on the program. Lichtenfeld was so intrigued he not only brought the book back with him to Brattleboro, but borrowed heavily from it to set up a similar program at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, where it debuted in 2010 under the name "Kids Design Glass Vermont" (though it was later changed to "Glasstastic," as it is known today).

2024 Tom Malone Glass Art Prize winner Gabriella Bisetto.

Friday March 14, 2025 | by Sophie Faber

Australian artist Gabriella Bisetto wins 2024 Tom Malone Glass Art Prize for meditations on skin

Gabriella Bisetto has been awarded the 2024 Tom Malone Glass Art Prize, which for 22 years has recognized the most important work in glass by Australian or New Zealand artists. As part of the prize, Bisetto's work is on exhibit through March 30, 2025, at Linton & Kay Galleries location in Cottesloe, Australia, along with the 17 short-listed artists. The Australian art prize provides $20,000 (roughly $12,560 in USD) as well as displaying the winning artwork first at Linton & Kay before moving into its final home at a state art institution. The artwork in question, This Skin I'm In #2, is a kiln-formed and carefully textured glass sheet doing its own striking impression of skin, undulating and catching the display room's light and shadow.

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