The Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass will open on Saturday, March 4th to showcase talented young area artists in celebration of national Youth Art Month. On January 23rd , 16 students from St. Mary Catholic High School visited the museum with their instructor, Jessica Ott. The groups split between the flameworking studio […]
The Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass will open on Saturday, March 4th to showcase talented young area artists in celebration of national Youth Art Month. Among the 242 students from 16 area schools who participated are 18 students of Maggie Weyenberg from New London High School This is the first year Maggie […]
The Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass will open on Saturday, March 4th to showcase talented young area artists in celebration of national Youth Art Month. Among the 242 students from 16 area schools who participated are 13 students of Erin Culligan from Menasha High School. Students worked with Appleton artist, Sara Rezin […]
The Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass will open on Saturday, March 4th to showcase talented young area artists in celebration of national Youth Art Month. Among the 242 students from 16 area schools who participated are students of Tim Brunn at Freedom High School. The students learned to work over a torch […]
The Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass will open on Saturday, March 4th to showcase talented young area artists in celebration of national Youth Art Month. Among the 242 students from 16 area schools who participated are 19 students of Jane Schmitz from Chilton High School. For the first time, students from Chilton […]
The Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass will open on Saturday, March 4th to showcase talented young area artists and celebrate national Youth Art Month. An opening reception and award ceremony will be held Saturday, March 4 from 2-4pm, with awards and remarks at 3pm. The museum offered schools […]
Former Neenah High School student and UW-Madison graduate Christiaan Smith will return home to perform a special classic vocal recital “Songs We Know – When Hits Become Art” at UW-Fox Valley James W. Perry Hall on Saturday, March 4th at 7:00 p.m. “Songs We Know- When Hits Become Art” is a very accessible recital of […]
We don’t often like to use the word “smash” to describe happenings at the glass museum, but we will. Thanks to an amazing group of year-end fund drive donors, we smashed our fundraising goal. The museum staff was challenged by Gary and Marge McClanahan to raise $25,000 by the end of 2016. If we met […]
As we’re in the thick of giving season and thanks to several generous donors, we announce six new acquisitions to the museum’s collection. These acquisitions were approved by our board of directors at their December 6, 2016 meeting: Harvey Littleton (American, 1922-2013) Optic Wave, 1978. Hot worked and polished optical glass. Gift of the Littleton […]
In Memoriam Geraldine (Gerrie) Casper September 11, 1917-October 8, 2016 Former curator of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Geraldine (Gerrie) Casper, who had a long productive career with the museum from 1968 to 1989, passed away on October 8, 2016. Gerrie began her work under the direction of curator Evelyn Campbell Cloak to assist with publishing […]