Exhibit Dates:  Dec 6, 2012 - Jan 25, 2013

A multimedia exhibit on the theme of baseball

Art glass was born in the mid 1800s, with artist designers and glass blowers cooperating to explore different colors, patterns, and textures. The subsequent melding of artistry and technique resulted in a wide variety of beautiful handmade objects such as vases, lampshades, bowls, bottles, paperweights and figural works.

This exhibit will explore the basket form.  From vasa murrhina to amberina, opaline to opalescent, satin to spattered and speckled, the exhibit provides a comprehensive look at the variety of surface treatments applied during the Victorian and Art Nouveau era by Bohemian, Czech, Italian, French, English and American artisans including:  Hosch, Seguso, Loetz, Fratelli Toso, Galle, Webb, Fenton, Stevens & Williams, Daum, Steuben and Moser.