The Corning Museum of Glass brings its innovative program, GlassLab, to Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, pairing master glassmakers from The Corning Museum of Glass with some of the most creative minds working in design today. GlassLab invites leading contemporary designers to work in a unique mobile hot glass studio, where they can explore new design concepts and push the boundaries of innovation and creativity.

The impact of alchemy on glass will be explored in Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750, opening at The Corning Museum of Glass on June 27, 2008. The exhibition highlights the newly understood role of these 17th-century "chymists" in laying the foundation for modern material science.

The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass will support five Artists-in-Residence in 2008. A leader in education, research and scholarship, the Museum offers a residency program to help train the next generation of artists working in glass.

Talk about a "hot spot": Celebrity Cruises' new Celebrity Solstice will introduce an industry first. Celebrity will collaborate with the world-renowned Corning Museum of Glass to bring the captivating art of glassblowing to sea when the Museum's "Hot Glass Showsm" debuts on Celebrity Solstice in December 2008.

The beauty of ancient Roman glass and its lasting impact on the modern glass industry will be explored in Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome, opening at The Corning Museum of Glass on February 15, 2008. The exhibition was co-organized with the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Over the next year, artists from The Corning Museum of Glass will bring the live glassmaking experience to the public, the design community, and museums worldwide through the innovative technology of the Hot Glass Roadshow.

Seattle-based artist Debora Moore is the recipient of the 2007 Rakow Commission of The Corning Museum of Glass. Each year the Museum awards the Commission to an up-and-coming artist working in glass. Inaugurated in 1986, the Rakow Commission supports the development of new works of art in glass. Each commissioned work is added to the Museum's collection and is displayed publicly for the first time during the Museum's annual Seminar.

The first in a new series of focus exhibitions celebrating the diverse work of contemporary studio glass artists, “Masters of Studio Glass: Joel Philip Myers and Steven I. Weinberg” opens at The Corning Museum of Glass on November 2, 2007. Inspired by an unprecedented gift of art in 2006 from Chicago collectors Ben W. and Natalie Heineman, the series provides a platform for in-depth surveys of individual artists represented in the Museum’s collection.

Fall in the Finger Lakes region of New York State means vibrant foliage, crisp temperatures, and fields and farms plump with grapes, pumpkins, and apples. At the center of it all is the colorful Corning Museum of Glass, where guests can step inside the world’s largest glass museum this fall to explore a bountiful glass harvest.