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Juneteenth 2020

Posted on Jun 18, 2020, by

We celebrated Juneteenth last year in City Park with African Heritage, Inc. and hundreds of our friends. This year we are distanced but we need to come together. Art unites us. At this time last year our exhibition at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass was Reflecting Perspectives, artists confront issues of diversity and inclusion. Today, on […]

A Message from Jan Mirenda Smith

Posted on Mar 27, 2020, by

At Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass we share the concerns of our colleagues and smaller arts organizations who are currently making the difficult decisions to meet the immediate challenges of COVID-19. The wrenching discussion to retain seasoned staff or succumb to the difficult immediate budget decisions to furlough or lay off some staff is weighing heavily […]

Kristin Thielking and Lisa Beth Robinson

Posted on Jan 8, 2019, by

Our next featured artists from the Sharper Edges exhibit are Kristin Thielking. and Lisa Beth Robinson. Thielking is a professor at the University of Wisconsin –Stevens Point teaching sculpture, drawing, design, and printmaking. Originally from Long Island, New York, she received her BA in Fine Arts and Comparative Literature from Brown University. Her MFA is from the University of Wisconsin–Madison […]