CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS
Tami Landis, named Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass
She has held curatorial and educational appointments at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio and the Western Gallery & Outdoor Sculpture Collection at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, near Seattle. At the TMA, Landis held the role of curatorial assistant in the Modern and Contemporary department and then served as the inaugural Hirsch Fellow where she assisted Diane C. Wright, Senior Curator of Glass and Contemporary Craft, in the acquisition, management, interpretation, and display of the TMA’s encyclopedic glass collection, encompassing around 6,000 objects, and the contemporary glass collection. During this year-long fellowship, she contributed to the exhibitions Now & Then: Moments in Glass History, a major re-installation of the historical and contemporary glass collection; and Katherine Gray: (Being) In a Hot Shop, a multi-sensory exhibition of contemporary glass. Landis holds a Master’s in Art History/Museum Studies from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a Bachelor’s in Art Education from the University of Toledo.
As Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass, Landis will oversee the vision, strategic direction, and management of the Corning Museum’s respected Postwar and Contemporary Glass collection, which includes 13,000 works made nationally and internationally dating from 1945 to the present. Additionally, she will serve as the editor of New Glass Review, an annual “exhibition in print” featuring the most timely, innovative glass art projects produced during the year, and will oversee the Museum’s prestigious Rakow Commission, awarded annually to a rising contemporary glass artist.