The artworks on view in this exhibition demonstrate how artisans and artists across time and around the world have adapted or manipulated colorless glass. An impressive array of forming and decorating techniques have been used, including blowing, molding, casting, pressing, cutting, carving, laminating, engraving, etching, and polishing. The exhibition includes works by artists and designers like Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, Christopher Reis, Karen LaMonte, Luke Jerram, Simon Gate, Edvard Hald, and Steven Weinberg as well as significant glass manufacturers like Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., New England Glass Co., T.G. Hawkes & Co., Steuben, Libbey, Tiffany, Lalique, Gallé, Baccarat, Orrefors, and Barovier & Toso.

An accompanying exhibition brochure (linked below) explores the science of glass through an investigation of the chemical properties and physical behaviors of colorless glass. Several examples of colorless rock crystal quartz have been generously loaned by Hardy’s The Art of Jewelry in Virginia Beach, including both natural crystal clusters and sculpture by the renowned German gem-cutter Tom Munsteiner.