Corning Museum of Glass (8/24/2019)

Saturday, August 24, 2019
We are taking two days to drive to Buffalo and making tourist stops along the way in NY.

Corning Museum of Glass (1951, by Wallace K Harrison, with a 1980
addition by Gunnar Birkerts, 2001 east and west additions by Smith-Miller +
Hawkinson, and 2012-2015 addition, seen at R above, by Thomas Phifer)

Fern Green Tower (1999, reconfigured 2013,
by Dale Chihuly)

Lynx After a Sketchbook Page by Albrecht Dürer
(2009, by Marta Klonowska, Poland)

13 Crows (2002, by Michael Rogers in Japan)

As a symbol of good news or bad, the
crows are covered in Japanese newsprint

Forest Glass (2009, by Katherine Gray) a play on the phrase
where you cannot see the forest for the trees,
here you cannot see the trees for the glassware (KSS)

Forest Glass detail

Koukanouzu (2019, by Chiemi Watanabe)

Incredible detail in Koukanouzu

Meat Chandelier (2018, by Deborah Czeresko) (KSS)

Cephaloproteus Riverhead (Four Hearts, Ten Brains,
Blue Blood Drained through an Alembic) (2019,
by Dustin Yellin) (KSS)

Cephaloproteus detail (KSS)

Virtue of Blue (2016, by Jeroen Verhoeven, Netherlands)

Butterflies made from industrial solar panels gather
the energy to power the Virtue of Blue chandelier

Familiar patterns in Never Twice the Same
(Tlingit Storage Box) (2003, by Preston Singletary)

Maestrale/North Wind (2005, by Toots Zynsky, Providence, RI) (KSS)

Toots Zynsky specialized in using fused, thermo-formed glass threads.

Continuous Mile (2006-2008, by Liza Lou)

Continuous Mile was made by a team of Zulu women in Durban,
South Africa, weaving 4.5 million tiny glass beads into a rope

The ventilator building of the former Steuben Glass factory
has been converted into a Hot Glass Demonstration amphitheater

TV cameras allow you to see the glass inside the furnace (KSS)

Endeavor (2004, by Lino Tagliapietra, Italy),
inspired by a fleet of gondolas in Venice (KSS)

Liquid Sunshine/I am a Pluviophile (2018,
by Rui Sasaki, Japan)

Window from Rochroane Castle, Irvington-on-Hudson
(1905, by Louis Comfort Tiffany)

Tiffany window detail of trumpet vine flowers (KSS)

Art Nouveau Centerpiece (1906,
by Harry Powell, England)

Cut glass plate in "Panel" pattern (1909-1918,
by T G Hawkes and Company, Corning)

Red Wall Hook (1997, by Mary Shaffer); difficult to
make as glass and metal cool at different rates

Queen Ida's Chair (1986, by KéKé Cribbs) (KSS)

Chess Set (1981, by Gianni Toso, Italy) that has the
Jewish Hasidim opening up a dialog with Roman Catholic Franciscans

Cadmium Yellow-Orange Venetian #398
(1990, by Dale Chihuly with Lino Tagliapietra)

Navajo Blanket Cylinder (1976, by
Dale Chihuly with Flora C Mace of Providence, RI),
uses assembled glass threads picked up while hot

Curlew (1994, by Karla Trinkley)

There is an extensive collection of historic glass presented in chronological order.
For an additional fee, one can make a glass object, or at least design one!

Sketch Your Idea ...

... and if your design is chosen, it will be created!

Next: Glenn H Curtiss Museum.