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GST BOCES Congratulates Corning
Museum
Cage Cup, colorless, cast or blown attachments. Roman Empire, about A.D. 300. D. 12.2 cm. Gift of Arthur Rubloff bequest.
Comment: Ruby glass was often used to encase Chinese objects that were subsequently cameo-carved. Although it is commonly found on snuff bottles of the 18th and 19th centuries, it can also be seen on such uncommonly large objects as the Warrior Vase. This vase was wheel-cut through the ruby overlay to reveal an inner layer of “frosted” colorless glass. The ruby layer was carefully worked to produce a three-dimensional scene of considerable depth. The elaborate scene depicts warriors.
Comment: Like the bowl described on the facing page, this dish was made by sagging a disk of molten glass over a decorated mold and, after annealing, by cutting it on the wheel. The style of the cutting is unusual. The figures stand in relief of uniform thickness, without raised borders. The decoration shows a mule and rider surrounded by four animals: two ibexes, a lion with a prominent mane, and a snake. This scene is similar to those found on Sasanian-period metal dishes decorated with riders. The riders on the metal dishes are usually kings (identifiable by their distinctive crowns), armed and mounted on horses with rich trappings. They are shown hunting lions, boars, or other animals. Here, by contrast, the rider has no weapons, rides a mule, and pays no attention to the four animals surrounding him. This indicates that the dish is not Sasanian, and scholars conclude that it was made in the early Islamic period.
Diorama with Diana and Actaeon
"Les Pins"
(Pines) Marquetry Vase
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Ann Hazlitt, Head of Education at Corning Museum of Glass, and Marty Evans, Cultural Arts Coordinator for Watkins Glen are shown above at the museum. CMOG and the Watkins Glen Central School District have worked very closely together on curricula and integrating arts into virtually every program in the school. Read more about Marty's involvement in this endeavor and about the involvement of three other teachers in the Watkins Glen Middle School on the Arts Teachers in the News page. Corning Museum
of Glass in Corning, NY, offers
students in the SCT BOCES region a diverse array of multidisciplinary
activities designed to appeal to students in all areas. There are many
staff members in the Education Department available to help plan your
event to ensure that it is stimulating, educational and FUN for all.
Frank Starr, Education Dept. The Education Department offers guided tours and special programs for students and teachers. For educators, Evenings for Educators are offered throughout the year to familiarize you with the Museum, its collection, and educational offerings. The Museum offers educational memberships at the district, school, and individual educator levels which provide discounts for Museum experiences. On tours, volunteer Museum guides and Education staff members engage your students in active looking and discussion as they tour the Museum's collection. Each tour is unique, with the selection of works always changing, but appropriate for both first-time and prior guests. Customized tours are a resource for
visiting teachers and students. This program is our response to two very
important teacher requests: The Corning Museum of Glass features an Art
First Self-Guided Tour and a Science First Self-Guided Tour. Museum guests
begin the Art First Tour in the Sculpture Gallery and continue through the
Art and History Galleries before entering the Glass Innovation Center. For
those most interested in the science and technology of glass, the Science
First Tour begins in the Glass Innovation Center. Both tours include trips
to the Hot Glass Show, a live narrated demonstration of hot glassblowing
offered all day, everyday, and time for Glass into Dreams, an
award-winning film that explores the mysteries of glass. These showcase the most comprehensive and celebrated glass collection in the world. The galleries explore Near Eastern, Asian, European, and American glass and glassmaking from antiquity through present day. They tell the story of glass creation, from a full-scale model of an Egyptian furnace to the grand factories of Europe, and, then America, and finally, to the small-scale furnaces that fueled the Studio Glass movement that began in America in 1962. The story of glass began more than 3,500 years ago and the galleries document the triumphs of glassmaking history. Several galleries feature a tableau that further illustrates how the objects were found, created, or sold. The first tableau shows how we learned about ancient glassmaking. It includes a photomural illustrating the reconstruction of an ancient Egyptian furnace and a brief film on underwater archeological exploration. The Roman glassmaking tableau features a model a Roman glassblower. In the gallery of Venetian glass, the tableau, Facon de Venise, includes a film demonstrating a Venetian-style glassmaking technique. The tableau for 19th-century European glass includes objects from various World's Fairs, while the one for American glass shows how the press and molds were used to speed up glassmaking and make glass less expensive. Glass Innovation Center A 300-foot
bridge connects three floating pavilions. A huge glass egg suspended from
the ceiling is a bulb-like theater where the development of electric light
and the TV picture tube radiates from the "filament." Casserole
dishes are the building blocks of a tower that encloses the story of the
lucky accident that made casserole dishes possible. A glass
floor, two stories in the air, is a vantage point from which to watch the
story of strengthened glass. Overhead, hanging windshields form a glassy
sculpture. The famous 200-inch disk stands as the symbol for The Corning
Museum of Glass. Welcome to the new Glass Innovation Center. Sculpture Gallery The primary function of the Sculpture
Gallery at The Corning Museum of Glass is to present large works of
contemporary art in glass, yet this space is not restricted to sculpture
and installations. The Gallery also contains smaller objects and
nonfunctional vessels in a variety of glassworking techniques, such as
blowing, casting, kiln-forming, flameworking, laminating, beading, and
assemblage.
Live, narrated demonstrations of glassblowing are presented throughout the day on a stage that overlooks the world famous Steuben factory. Watch the master glassblower gather, shape, blow, and transform molten glass into a sparkling vase or fanciful fish. Listen as each step is described. And get a close-up view -- even inside the 2350° Fahrenheit glory hole -- on the overhead monitors. The Hot Glass Show, a 15-20 minute performance, is presented at The Corning Museum of Glass seven days a week at posted intervals. It is wheelchair accessible. At The Corning Museum of Glass every guest can join the fun. After you’ve watched glass being made on the Hot Glass Stage and browsed the galleries to see what the world’s finest glass artists have created, roll up your sleeves, pick up a tool, and make your own masterpiece. At the Walk-in Workshop, individuals can try making glass themselves. For a fee, guests can try their hand at hot glassworking, flameworking, fusing, and sandblasting. Make a glass flower, a glass bead, or create an original design on a drinking glass. Fun with Glass is a similar experience intended for groups of ten or more. Following an introduction to The Studio, participants may sample a variety of glassworking techniques and create their own glass object.
Kevin B. stands in the Innovation Center (in front of the touch screens.
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Frank Starr of the Education Department,
displays one of the few items in the Art and History Gallery that is not
made of glass!
