The 2010 Glass Escape - New Venue

[Wayne]

It seems they, most museums, decided years ago to dim the lights inside the shades.  Some of them have taken on a different look because of that and when they are photographed for the books, the lights are turned up!

You got to see a lot of stuff and I bet you and LA had a ball doing it!

Thanks for the show...!

[Rebecca]

We did see some Tiffany columns, but they had three other flowers, none were daffodils.

[Rebecca]

You see where the lady is standing above the columns?  We didn't get up there before they started herding us out at closing time.  There could have been daffodils up there that we didn't see.

Lou Ann and I saw the Tiffany lamp exhibit in Nashville last summer.  The Metropolitan Museum are from the trip that Judy and I took this summer.

[Wayne]

I don't think it was there then.  This is information about the expansion.  http://www.ask.com/bar?q=morse+museum&page=1&qsrc=0&ab=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.morsemuseum.org%2F

The Met has always had some of the Tiffany items for the public to see.  They had the American Wing once with tons of items as well.  There are two other places in NY which have many more lamps.  The largest collection of all Tiffany things (furniture, pottery, blown glass, windows, and lamps) is the Morse collection.  They are only able to show less than a third at one time and may rotate once a year.

[JoanFrances]

Oh Rebecca, thank you so much, what beautiful pictures you got.  Question about the fall scene one, is that plated and or painted, or both.  All I can say is WOW, amazing.  Thanks again, for sharing your pictures with us. 

[Wayne]

Oh Rebecca, thank you so much, what beautiful pictures you got.  Question about the fall scene one, is that plated and or painted, or both.  All I can say is WOW, amazing.  Thanks again, for sharing your pictures with us. 

Tiffany's purpose in forming his company was to paint with glass not paint on the glass.  The artists did paint faces and hands though but most of the non-figure windows were built by finding the right piece of glass for that purpose and plating.  Some of the plates were multiple in thickness and contain up to 6 layers.

[PiscesGlass]

I was lucky enough to see the daffodil columns at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY..I believe it was two summers ago.  Almost all of the items in that particular showing were items rescued from Tiffany's home on Long Island, Laurelton Hall.  They were magnificent! 

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[Vic Rothman]

Oh Rebecca, thank you so much, what beautiful pictures you got.  Question about the fall scene one, is that plated and or painted, or both.  All I can say is WOW, amazing.  Thanks again, for sharing your pictures with us. 

 

I got to go behind this window (in the light box) in June. As Wayne said it has multi layers of plating. It also has acid etching and silver staining in the sky area.

[JoanFrances]

Thanks Wayne and Vic.  , I just have to get to see some of this work in person.  That is truely breathtaking.  And considering the tools that they had to work with makes these items even more amazing.  The level realism in that window makes it look like a painting (or photo) instead of a glass window.

[Rebecca]

Joan, I have some close ups, but I think I have hijacked this thread enough.  I will go see if I can find the right place to put the pictures.

Rebecca

[Anne]

Wow - almost November already.  Di and I thought we should remind those of you that are going to Corning that we have to have payment to Corning in January to 'lock in the classes'.  Each class is $192.00. The classes will be May 4, 5 and 6th, Painting on Glass in the morning and Fusing/Sandblasting in the afternoon. Minimum numbers for each class is 6 people and we have that now for both of those classes.  If there is sufficient interest in any of the other classes we will book those for you as well. But, what this means for now is we need each of you to send a postdated cheque for $192. x the number of classes you want to take to Di by Dec. 15/09. Please postdate your cheques for Jan 3, 2010 and make them payable to Corning so we can just forward them on and you'll get your cancelled cheque back with a Corning deposit stamp on it if you can use it as a deduction on your taxes. If you don't have Di's mailing address please send her a pm and she'll get back to you sap.

Trust this makes sense.  If you have any questions regarding this please ask here or feel free to pm myself or Di.

[memaribeth]

I am so sad to say that I am unable to attend The Great Glass Escape of 2010.  I was hoping to be able to work it out to be able to join the party, but unfortunately, I can't.  I know everyone will have a marvelous time and learn lot.  I look forward to seeing lots and lots of pictures and hearing all the great tales!   

[Anne]

is there anyone else who can't make it next May?

[Kev]

I'm going...count me in.

[ct4mom]

Me too!!!

[Tom]

I wish I could go, but am not up to taking out a bank loan to do it, so I pass.

[Linde]

I'm definitely in and so is Pat.

[Judy K]

This looks like it is going to be an awesome trip. I wish I could go with all of you.

We spent Hours and hours waking through the corning museum, at a hurried pace. I can't imagine having the time to go slowly through it. How wonderful! Rebecca and I did not have time to take the glass blowing mini class we signed up for because our plans changed, but we did get to watch two glass blowing demonstrations. Awesome, totally awesome! The last blowing demo of the day turns out to be the most unique. Blowers get to do a little more experimenting because there is not another demo coming up after them to hurry the project.

On the detail end of things. It was about a 2 hour drive from Buffalo and you need to rent a car as there was no bus or train from there. There was a day trip tour bus from NYC but other than that Corning is only accessible  by car, from what I could find. 

Originally we were going to Corning first for 2 days then up to Syracuse. We reversed that and just drove down for the afternoon. But plan A included a stay at The Gate House Motel, 11409 Lpga Dr. Corning NY (607)936-4131. We did not go check it out, but the man on the phone was very nice. I think he said it had laundry and a small cafe for breakfast. He quoted me $59 + tax. Don't know if this is a budget trip or cush vacation, but I thought I would through out the idea. It is about a 5 to 10 mile drive to the museum and classes but if you are carpooling anyway to get from the airport you will have cars.

You could easily spend a week at Corning and not get board. There is also a big Western Art museum in town we did not get time to see.

You guys have to do this. Did you get any idea who the glass painting teacher will be? I can not imagine a better place to laern about fusing!!!!!!! Infact my fusing teacher showed us slides from Corning. I was absolutely tickled when I saw the little blue Eygyptian man that I had seen a slide of in 2005.

Oh my a week at Corning! You guys are soooooo lucky. Have a great time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anne]

Oh Judy, thank you this is great info, and will save tons of time in browsing the web!!

[ct4mom]

Thanks for all the info Judy. I have been there and we usually do day trips and there is too much to see in one day. I am so looking forward to this trip and be able to take time and enjoy. Thanks for the hotel info too.