Lecture | Reflect, Refract, Encounter, Smash: Glassy Ways to See and Know
Susie J. Silbert
Artists, designers, and craftspeople use glass as a medium for thinking about the surrounding world, our place in it, and our ability to effect change. In this talk, Susie J. Silbert discusses artists using the power of reflection to reanimate Indian craft traditions that have been lost to time, interpreting the movement of the hot shop as part of hip-hop, and using the collaborative nature of glassblowing as a way to build community, among other stories.
About the Speaker
Susie J. Silbert is the curator of postwar and contemporary glass at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. Her curatorial practice is expansive, seeking to broaden the definitions of what the material of glass is and can be, with the goal of making contemporary discourse on glass reflective of the breadth of artists, makers, and thinkers involved in the medium. Silbert has been described as “part performance artist, part curator” with a lecture style characterized as “half stand-up comedian and half evangelist.”
Plan Your Visit
Booker-Lowe Lectures are open to the public, and admission is free. This event takes place in Favrot Auditorium at the Glassell School of Art. Seating is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Booker-Lowe Lecture Series is made possible by generous support from Nana Booker and M. David Lowe / Booker-Lowe Gallery.