Museum of Glass

Ongoing Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature references the practice of natural historians to record observations encountered while actually being in nature. The works on display show how the innately curious exhibiting artists have trained their prodigious skills in glass to honor the natural world. Their creations remind the viewer of the marvelous phenomena outside of the studio walls. Walter Lieberman: Are you the guy who does the chalk drawings in the Hot Shop? The chalk drawings of world-renowned illustrator Walter Lieberman are paired with the glass works whose process they once recorded. Now, the glass objects illustrate Lieberman’s works, showcasing them as art pieces and lasting evidence of the craft they served to explain.