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Shellpinkbowl
Amber Cowan, Shell Pink Bowl, 2013. Flameworked and fused American pressed glass. D 17 1/2 in. copyright: amber cowan

Tuesday May 20, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Amber Cowan awarded 2015 Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Commission
FILED UNDER: Announcements, Museums, New Work
Artist Amber Cowan, who is also an adjunct professor in the glass program at the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, has been awarded The Corning Museum of Glass's 29th Rakow Commission. The program provides $25,000 to encourage artists working in glass to explore new types of work without concern for financial limits, and has been offered to select artists each year since 1986, when the late Dr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Rakow created it. The award goes to an artist not yet represented in the museum's collection, and who is identified by the curator of modern glass, currently Tina Oldknow. The Rakow Commission works become part of the Corning permanent collection.

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Woodallcameos
Thomas and George Woodall, The Intruders, ca. 1893, and The Attack, 1896 Blown, cased, acid-etched, and cameo-carved glass.

Saturday May 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

The Chrysler Museum of Art showcases new glass acquisitions as doors reopen to the public today
FILED UNDER: Museums, News, Opening
After an 18-month major expansion and renovation of its main building, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia opens to the public today with a 30-percent increase in the number of items in its glass collection on display, as well as greater connections to the activities of its glass studio. Proceeds from museum’s $45 million capital campaign—which included funding for the glass studio that opened in November 2011—financed this $24-million-project. An additional 10,000 square feet of exhibition space allows greater flexibiltiy for exhibiiton design as well as new paths for visitors to navigate the museum. Two new wings now flank the historic front entrance.

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Jolley
Richard Jolley at work in the studio.

Tuesday May 6, 2014 | by managingeditor@glassquarterly.com

Richard Jolley unveiling at Knoxville Museum of Art a festive occasion
FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Museums, New Work, Opening
This past weekend, the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, Tenessee, marked the unveiling of Richard Jolley’s permanent installation, Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and Wonder of Infinity, with a series of events that included a luncheon, a symposium, a street party, a gala evening and a family fun day. Commissioned in 2009, the monumental steel and glass sculpture, billed as one of the world's largest, makes a dramatic statement as you enter this regional museum dedicated to the work of East Tennessee artists. The unveiling of the massive installation on the wall and ceiling of the museum’s main hall coincided with the KMA’s 25th anniversary, and also included a related glass exhibit placing Jolley’s installation within the context of contemporary glass art.

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Tuesday April 29, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Dan Graham collaborates with landscape architect for Metropolitan Museum rooftop project
FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, Museums, New Work, Public Art
On a blustery spring day, the site-specific work "The Roof Garden Commission" by artist Dan Graham in collaboration with landscape architect Günther Vogt opened atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Architectural constructions of sensuously curving beams of steel supporting curved panels of lightly mirrored glass, the work is arranged on a grassy lawn that connects the rooftop to the adjacent green landscape of Central Park. The glass is carefully designed to both reflect and be permeable to light, offering complex and constantly-shifting perspectives for visitors walking in and out of the structure. The outdoor installation will be up through November 2, 2014, available to museum visitors when the weather permits.

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Jared Canterbury
Panel depicting Jared

Thursday March 27, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

Twelfth-century stained-glass windows from the Canterbury Cathedral on display at The Cloisters
FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, Museums, News
The Canterbury Cathedral, whose name many will recognize from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a famed pilgrimage destination, and one of the oldest Christian structures in England, has been the site of stained glass windows of staggering historical importance and beauty. For the first time, six of these priceless windows, have been temporarily removed from their home of nine centuries, and are on view for a limited time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cloisters Museum. Through May 18th, 2014, six life-sized stained glass panels depicting Christ’s ancestors and created in 1178-80 make up the "Radiant Light: Stained Glass from the Canterbury Cathedral" exhibition, which will be on display as part of the Upper Manhattan institution's 75th anniversary year.

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Thursday February 6, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

OPENING: Vermont museum exhibition to showcase a new generation of glass artists
FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Museums, New Work, Opening
Vermont’s Shelburne Museum, which houses over 150,000 diverse works of art ranging from Impressionist pieces (such as those by Monet, Manet, and Degas) to folk art, will be opening its newest exhibition entitled, “Supercool Glass" with a reception this evening, and the show will run through Sunday, June 8th, 2014 at its location in the Diana and John Colgate Gallery of the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education in Shelburne, Vermont. While the exhibition will bring together historic works dealing with glass from the museum's permanent collection, it perhaps more significantly represents one of the first museum exhibits that gathers cutting-edge work in glass by a new generation of artists.

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