The Corning Museum of Glass was presented with the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Award on 6 November 2004 for its Hot Glass Roadshow, a one-of-a-kind, fully equipped mobile glassmaking unit. The…
The Corning Museum of Glass was presented with the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Award on 6 November 2004 for its Hot Glass Roadshow, a one-of-a-kind, fully equipped mobile glassmaking unit. The unit has contributed significantly to the field of contemporary glass, bringing glassmaking demonstrations to places like the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Museum of the City of New York. Steve Gibbs, the Museum“s events marketing manager and manager of the Hot Glass Roadshow, accepted the award on the Museum“s behalf in a presentation at the Sculpture Objects Functional Art (SOFA) Expo in Chicago. During the same ceremony, Tina Oldknow, the Museum“s curator of modern glass, was honored by the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass for her outstanding accomplishments in the field of contemporary art in glass. Oldknow has been with The Corning Museum of Glass since 2000. She is a respected author and lecturer and has published numerous books and articles about contemporary glass. In addition, Dr. Robert Brill, research scientist at the Museum, received the William E.S. Turner Award during the opening ceremony of the 20th International Congress on Glass, held on 27 September 2004, in Kyoto, Japan. The Turner Award is an annual award sponsored by the International Commission on Glass (ICG), the world“s leading organization of glass scientists and technologists. The Turner Award recognizes outstanding contributions to ICG“s technical committees. Dr. Brill was the founding chairman of the Commission“s Technical Committee on the Archaeometry of Glass in 1982, the only committee in the world dedicated to the study of ancient archeological materials using scientific methods. He remained chairman of the committee until 2004. Dr. Brill joined The Corning Museum of Glass in 1960, and served as director from 1972 to 1975, leading the Museum“s recovery efforts after a major flood in 1972. He has authored more than 150 publications on the scientific investigation of early glasses and related materials, including “Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses,” a major work in glass research.