[PA-NJ Glassblowers] NY Metro Glass Club: "The History of New Jersey Glassmaking"
Tony Patti
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Sun Nov 30 21:41:05 EST 2014
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Lily-pad pitcher, New Jersey, c. 1850
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Gay LeClaire Taylor
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Paul Stankard
The New York Metropolitan Glass Club
Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 6:30 PM
"The History of New Jersey Glassmaking"
Gay LeClaire Taylor
For over three hundred years, New Jersey has been home to some of the
country's most innovative glassmakers. The New York Metropolitan Glass Club
will conclude its 2014 season with a lecture devoted to the glass of New
Jersey. Gay LeClaire Taylor, one of the founders of the Museum of American
Glass at Wheaton Village, will trace the evolution of New Jersey glassmaking
from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century..
Although glass manufacture had been attempted in Jamestown VA in the 1600's,
it was not until Caspar Wistar established his factory in Alloway in
southwest New Jersey in 1739 that glassmaking in the colonies became viable.
Ms. Taylor will relate how New Jersey ultimately became home to more than
225 glass factories, more than any other state. She will talk about recent
glassmaking by small shops set up by independent glass workers to the major
glass factories currently in operation.
Ms. Taylor spent 35 years at the Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Arts
and Cultural center (formerly Wheaton Village) in Millville, NJ where she
mounted over 30 exhibitions. She has taught glass conservation at the
Winterthur Museum, the University of Delaware and Rowan University in
Glassboro, NJ. Gay has also lectured extensively on South Jersey glass,
American paperweights, pressed glass, art glass and glassmaking molds.
St. Michael's Church, 225 West 99th Street, New York, NY 10025, is an ideal
setting for the NY Metropolitan Glass Club's meetings. The Church was
decorated by Louis C. Tiffany between 1895 and 1925 and is one of the only
extant Tiffany interiors in the New York Metropolitan area. Though we meet
in one of the meeting rooms, we regularly arrange tours of the sanctuary to
view the wonderful windows, lamps and mosaics by Tiffany Studios.
http://nycglassclub.org/
Enjoy,
Tony Patti
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