Catch Up with Old Friends – Make New Friends
Aug 18, 2023
Issue 3681
It’s time to register! The annual Carder Steuben Glass Association Symposium is September 7-9, 2023. Make your plans to attend today! The best thing at Symposium is to catch up with our friends, meet new glass enthusiasts, and talk glass.
More snippets from the upcoming Symposium program follow…
DIG DEEPER
Dig Deeper: Discovering an Ancient Glass Workshop is an immersive and fun exploration of the world of ancient glass makers and those who study them. In the 1960s, archaeologists from the Corning Museum of Glass and University of Missouri, Columbia, excavated a glass workshop in Jalame, near Haifa in modern Israel, which was active between 350–400 CE. Among the discoveries from Jalame on view in the exhibition are chunks of raw glass, parts of the glass making furnace, debris from glass blowing, and fragments of utilitarian glass vessels. The exhibition is a sensory, intergenerational space with multiple hands-on activities, videos, sounds, and even a digital game. Additional highlights include 75 objects on loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority Department of National Treasures, many of which have never before left Israel, and contemporary artwork by Palestinian designer Dima Srouji. On this exclusive tour, Katherine Larson will provide a behind the scenes look at the development and dynamic results of the exhibition.
Katherine Larson is Curator of Ancient Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, where she is responsible for areas of the historical collection from the origins of glass until 1250 CE. She is the Curator of Dig Deeper: Discovering an Ancient Glass Workshop, along with the accompanying mini exhibition Get Stoked! Fueling Furnaces from Wood to Wind. Along with illustrator John Swogger, Katherine is also the author of the comic-style publication accompanying the exhibition. Katherine trained as an archaeologist before joining the Museum in 2016; she holds a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Classical Archaeology from Macalester College.
AUCTION TEASERS
The dinner auction has many great items to acquire including this beautiful Fry cocktail pitcher and a set of four unusual shape #6333 Steuben cocktail glasses! Spruce up your next dinner party with these striking black plus clear glass combinations, still looking so modern after nearly 100 years.
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