Glass art's been around for half a century now, and to mark this huge milestone, museums across America will roll out major exhibitions to celebrate the 50th anniversary of American studio glass.
Devoted to artistic expressions in glass all year, every year since 1959, is the Bergstrom-Mahler: Wisconsin's Glass Museum, 165 N. Park Ave., Neenah. The 1929 Tudor house also is informally known as the Paperweight Museum because it opened to the public with Evangeline Bergstrom's collection of 652 glass paperweights.Now about 3,500 items fill display cases; collections also include contemporary glass, Victorian glass baskets and Germanic glass drinking containers. Three-dimensional perspectives of insects, flowers, geometric patterns and much more are etched, cut or blended into an array of antique to contemporary paperweight designs.source: WDH
