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JRACRAFT WEEK: RENWICK GALLERY PREVIEW

10/21/2021

 
October 21 | time to be announced
caucus members and jracraft week patrons only
Be the first to see New Glass Now at the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery with curator Mary Savig and special guests from the Corning Museum of Glass. This unique opportunity will be a private one-hour preview of the exhibition for Renwick Alliance members only before the exhibition opens to the public. Masks and vaccination required.​
New Glass Now documents the innovation and dexterity of artists, designers, and architects from around the world working in the challenging material of glass.

This global survey is designed to highlight the breadth and depth of contemporary glass making. Its presentation at SAAM’s Renwick Gallery features objects, installations, videos, and performances made by fifty artists working in more than twenty-three countries. From technically masterful vessels to experiments in the chemistry of glass, these works challenge the very notion of what the material of glass is and what it can do. 

​New Glass Now, organized by The Corning Museum of Glass, was curated by a panel of thinkers, makers, and writers and is the result of their varied perspectives and experiences. The artworks were selected by Aric Chen, curatorial director at Design Miami, and professor and director, curatorial lab, Tongji University; Beth Lipman, artist, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin; Susanne Joker Johnsen, head of exhibitions at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Design, and Conservation; and Susie J. Silbert, curator of modern and contemporary glass at The Corning Museum of Glass. 

​New Glass Now is the third iteration of a groundbreaking exhibition series. The two prior exhibitions, Glass 1959 and New Glass: A Worldwide Survey in 1979, catalyzed major changes in the glass field. The Renwick Gallery hosted New Glass: A Worldwide Survey in 1980. Today, as the Renwick continues to keep with the pulse of contemporary glass in the United States, New Glass Now once again highlights the dynamic, global field as it is today.
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Tamas Abel, Colour Therapy: Washington D.C. + Budapest and 33" Rainbow, 2017, glass, mirror, adhesive, The Corning Museum of Glass. Photo courtesy of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.
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James Akers, The Wild One (B), 2018, neon sculpture, Overall H: 61 cm, W: 97 cm, D: 69 cm, The Corning Museum of Glass; Photo by The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.

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