Corning Museum of Glass selects Toots Zynsky for Specialty Glass Artist in Residency Program
February 10, 2016
Exciting new for Toots Zynsky
The Corning Museum of Glass and Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced today the selection of Toots Zynsky, known for her distinctive heat-formed filet de verre (glass thread) vessels, as the first of two Specialty Glass Artists-in-Residence for 2016.
The residency is a joint program of the Corning Museum of Glass and Corning Incorporated that supports artists in exploring the use of specialty glass materials to inform their body of work. Zynsky is the third specialty glass resident, following metal sculptor, Albert Paley from 2014-2015, and glass artist, Tom Patti in 2015.
Zynsky, who has worked with glass since her time at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the early 1970s, has gained widespread popularity and acclaim for her intricate filet de verre vessels. She was the 2015 recipient of the Smithsonian Institution’s Visionary Award.
Zynsky has always been inspired by music, which for her, translates to color. As such, her vessels are unique explorations of color that defy categorization and weave together traditions of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts.
Zynsky has spent her career focusing on the study and manipulation of colored glass through the vehicle of these distinctive, undulating forms. Continually evolving, her work is a formal exploration in color and composition that has no end.
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