Ep. 301 - Get a close-up look at glass blowing and art as we do a walk through tour of the Corning Museum of Glass! Corning Museum of Glass in the Finger Lakes region of New York is dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass. It was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works and currently has a collection of more than 50,000 glass objects, some over 3,500 years old. It also offers live glassblowing demonstrations, hands-on glassmaking classes, and unique collections of art. We headed there for the day with family to spend some last moments together before we started our trek south.
The Hot Glass Demo is a live, narrated glassblowing demonstration, where you can see a master glassmaker take a glowing gob of molten glass on the end of a pipe and skillfully shape it into a vase, bowl, or sculpture. Cameras inside the 2100°F furnace also provide a neat angle so we could see the whole process. It was fascinating to see the artists’ talent and precision in action. We also enjoyed flameworking demos of the glassmaking technique of forming objects from rods and tubes of glass with a 5,000 degree Fahrenheit gas- and oxygen-powered torch.
The art and glass displays in the museum are a real feast for the eyes with all the different shapes and sizes, colors, and uses from different time periods and places. But what is art? Art is always interesting and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? Throughout our whole time at the museum, we saw items that we found beautiful, interesting, and odd, and some that also caused us to scratch our heads.
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