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 in celebration of national Youth Art Month. Among the 242 students from 16 area schools who participated are students of Brenda Mullard from Neenah High School. Ms. Mullard has been bringing […]
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 […]
For many of us, the holidays have been shaped by tradition. At the museum, we are fortunate to be a part of many of your family traditions, one of which is the early October release of annual holiday paperweight from The Museum Shop. For the past 26 years, fans of the museum from across the […]
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah will open a new exhibit, “Bending Brilliance: Neon and Plasma Sculpture” on Saturday, September 10th. The exhibition of more than 40 light sculptures done with neon or plasma will include works from 13 artists from across the nation. Wisconsin artists include Jed Schleisner of Greenville, Tom Galbraith of Milwaukee […]
At the June 29, 2016 board meeting, six objects were approved for acquisition. We are grateful to the donors, Myron Bud Stern, PhD, and Kari Russell-Pool and Marc Petrovic for these gifts to the museum collection. Keith Clayton (American, b.1964) and Deanna Clayton (American), Vessel, 2002. Pâte-de-verre cast glass with electroplated copper. 13 x 6 […]