This week’s blog post comes to us from guest contributor Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, a Brooklyn-based author of fiction and non-fiction. Wolfgang-Smith’s debut novel, Glassworks, was published today, May 16, 2023, by Bloomsbury. Glassworks, nominated a Buzziest Debut Novel of 2023 by … Read more →
Early in the morning of Monday, March 14th, 2022, I left an Airbnb apartment near Piazza San Marco in Venice and walked through the quiet alleys to catch the Vaporetto (public transit boat) that would take me to the island … Read more →
It’s a very exciting time to be a flameworking artist! The process of flameworking involves the use of a focused flame to soften and shape glass, and this segment of the glass art world is seeing a massive surge in … Read more →
While it is typical for museum exhibitions to show beautiful and functional objects and provide compelling interpretive text to describe the objects and their use, The Corning Museum of Glass decided to throw in an extra treat this summer. In … Read more →