Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of GlassCurrent & Coming Exhibits

Teen Voices in Glass: 2025 Area High School Glass Exhibition

February 28 – April 18, 2025

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass provides extraordinary glass experiences to ignite creativity, spark fun, and cultivate learning for all. We are pleased to exhibit glass art made by area high school students in Teen Voices in Glass: 2025 Area High School Glass Exhibition. After creating glass art in the Museum’s Glass Studio, students from over sixteen area high schools have the opportunity to share their work in this public setting. Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass strives to encourage the creativity of talented young artists in the area with this annual exhibit.

Teen Voices in Glass: 2025 Area High School Glass Exhibition and Glass Experience Days are presented by Jewelers Mutual.

Awards presented by Jewelers Mutual and also supported in part by Jack Richeson & Co., the Lilian Noble Memorial Fund, and Oshkosh Fine Arts Association.

Victorian GLass Baskets

February 7 – October 26, 2025

Did you know that in addition to antique glass paperweights, Evangeline Bergstrom also collected decorative glass tableware, vases and baskets? These baskets reached the height of their popularity around 1885. English and American glass factories responded to the rise of consumerism and the increasing desire for highly-embellished items by creating and marketing fanciful glass table decorations for middle and upper-class households. Come see a selection of Mrs. Bergstrom’s Victorian Art Glass Baskets, on exhibit in the Mabel R. McClanahan Memorial Study Gallery.

Primer: Leo Tecosky

March 7 – July 27, 2025

Born in Albuquerque, NM and raised in Miami, FL, Leo Tecosky works at the intersection of cultural and craft traditions in the pursuit of knowledge and self. With a BA in Fine Arts from Alfred University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, Tecosky’s site specific installation Primer mixes deconstructed elements of hip hop with technical glass making processes. Tecosky is the recipient of the 36th annual Corning Museum Rakow Commission as well as the 2023 Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft. Recent exhibitions include TECO037 at Alma’s RVA and collections by the Chrysler Museum and the Corning Museum of Glass. Tecosky lives and blows in Brooklyn, NY. His work will transform the museum’s Blue Gallery from March 7 to July 27, 2025.

Funded in part by a grant from the Green Bay Packer Foundation.

Through a Window Darkly:
the artwork of Jen blazina

April 25 – October 5, 2025

Artist Jen Blazina is a Philadelphia sculptor and printmaker who uses glass as her primary medium. She received her MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art; her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York at Purchase College in Purchase, NY. Through a Window Darkly: The Artwork of Jen Blazina pays homage to Evangeline Bergstrom, one of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass founders. Blazina’s work is influenced by commonplace possessions, familial vignettes and photographs. These evoke an ephemeral sense of past memories. Through the process of re-creating and casting mementos in glass and metal, she seeks to transform their history in her own voice. On exhibit in the museum’s Wisconsin Gallery from April 25 to October 5, 2025.

Funding provided in part by grants from the Green Bay Packer Foundation and from the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (AACG).

New Art on the Block: Selections from the Permanent Collection

October 31, 2024 – April 6, 2025

At Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, our mission is to provide extraordinary glass experiences to spark fun, kindle creativity and illuminate learning for all. This exhibition celebrates the generosity of our museum benefactors, and highlights gifts of artwork to the museum during the past two years. These acquisitions serve to broaden the interpretive scope of our permanent collection holdings – now totaling 4,940 artworks – while simultaneously increasing artist representation. New Art on the Block showcases recently acquired artwork by Jen Blazina, Dale Chihuly, Wes Hunting, William Morris, Colin Reid, Cathy Richardson, Richard Royal, Ginny Ruffner, and Preston Singletary.

As an American Alliance of Museum’s accredited institution, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass strategically acquires artwork that enhances our mission as a leading glass museum through exhibition, interpretation, and research. Through these gifts, we are able to continue engaging our audiences with the exciting world of glass art.